Pssst! Instruments has introduced a new, unique set of tonal cinematic acoustic instruments which you can play like a piano without sounding like a standard or prepared piano.
Created to offer an inspiring sonic palette to cinematic composers, Avant-Gardist has an original, natural and beautifully organic sound that can be dark, subtle, unpredictable or warm, intimate, and simultaneously extraordinary and cinematic.
Recorded and sampled with techniques which aren’t used in piano libraries (explained below). And yes, it’s dirty, sometimes out of tune and full of artifacts. You can hear and feel the pianist sitting at the keyboard.
Why does it sound so unique? Imagine a group of pianists. Each of them plays only on one upright piano string with their fingers, horsehair, chains, ebows, sticks, patafix, magnets, etc. And what’s the most important: they play tonally. Even more: each string has it’s own close stereo microphones (instead of standard mics positioned farther to record a whole piano) which means that every note sounds extremely close, centered, „in your face”. And finally: patches use creative sampling techniques (which keep samples acoustic and almost unprocessed) and creative tuning (it’s slightly out of tune but in a very natural and variable way, which is unusual for pianos! It reminds the cellist’s hand-andjusted tuning on strings). This is how Avant-Gardist sounds.
Avant-Gardist features
- Playable preparations (round robin).
- Multilayer mixed preparations (round robin).
- Tonal one shots.
- Playable tonal textures.
- Noise & ASMR (round robin).
- Sfx menus.
- Loops.
- Built-in effects.
Available for the full version of Kontakt 6.8 or higher, Avant-Gardist is on sale for the intro price of $69 USD until April 30th, 2025 (regular $119 USD). Prices ex. VAT where applicable.
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