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Couple reworked freebie pianos
In an effort to improve some instruments, I redid the lightly sampled, but quite fun Upright Skerratt London Piano to have less latency and tried to improve the Steinway Iowa Piano to be a bit less wonky. Yes I am a hopeless tinker. They are available for Kontakt or stand alone Maize VSTs.
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Re: Couple reworked freebie pianos
2016/02/22 22:43:11
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Re: Couple reworked freebie pianos
2016/02/22 22:43:11
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Edith loves ya too!
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Re: Couple reworked freebie pianos
2016/02/22 22:47:33
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Re: Couple reworked freebie pianos
2016/02/23 07:37:22
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I am amazed at the extent to which you go to make these instruments,
and ALL out the kindness of your heart. THAT says a lot BC...and we
THANK YOU EXCEEDINGLY!
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Re: Couple reworked freebie pianos
2016/02/23 09:22:24
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Thanks bigcat. I'm still saving up for my first real keyboard, but when I finally get it I'll have these to play on it.
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Re: Couple reworked freebie pianos
2016/02/23 09:30:38
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Thanks guys. You all are very kind. I just wish I could make better instruments especially on orchestral stuff, but it is fun to create things.
If like me you love pianos and haven't already, google up the estate grand le. Its a nice freebie for sforzando. I bet Larry already mentioned it somewhere.
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Re: Couple reworked freebie pianos
2016/02/23 12:34:10
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bigcatt
If like me you love pianos and haven't already, google up the estate grand le. Its a nice freebie for sforzando.
This has been a piano day for me. Thanks again. All these pianos have one thing in common, they all sound much better than the real wooden one I have standing a few feet behind me...
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Re: Couple reworked freebie pianos
2016/02/23 14:04:40
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BC this is VERY cool!! thanks!!
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Re: Couple reworked freebie pianos
2016/02/23 18:49:58
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Both of these pianos sound very good. Thank you for posting them.
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2016/02/23 18:51:30
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Paul P
This has been a piano day for me. Thanks again. All these pianos have one thing in common, they all sound much better than the real wooden one I have standing a few feet behind me...
My wife's 3/4 size upright that is right behind me sounds the best but these two are much easier to move around!
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Re: Couple reworked freebie pianos
2016/02/23 22:36:14
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Thanks guys. I remember as a kid we had an ancient upright that had a couple hammers missing. This may explain why I am a one finger keyboardist.
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Re: Couple reworked freebie pianos
2016/02/24 09:59:42
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☄ Helpfulby Fleer 2016/02/24 22:06:39
I have just made Komplete Kontrol presets for these pianos and I think I have worked out how others can install them on computers with a different drive and folder structure. I have emailed them to Bigcatt and hopefully they will be available for the brave to test soon.Bigcatt has added them to his blog http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/recut-pianos.html#!/2016/02/recut-pianos.html Treat this as a beta people! and. On no account rename the new NKI or the pre-set file will not be able to find it. If Komplete Kontrol cannot see the NKSN file check the folder is in the scan path.
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Re: Couple reworked freebie pianos
2016/02/24 16:03:04
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Thanks for doing this Glyn. I'm clueless in this area so it is nice to have someone in the know about it making some cool stuff.
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Re: Couple reworked freebie pianos
2016/02/24 21:53:06
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Yeah, this is amazing what you're doing there, Glyn. Way to go!
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Re: Couple reworked freebie pianos
2016/02/25 05:25:30
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Fleer
Yeah, this is amazing what you're doing there, Glyn. Way to go!
Have you tried it, Fleer? It would be good to get some confirmation that my method works when transfered to a different computer. I don't see why not but it is Native Instruments........
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Re: Couple reworked freebie pianos
2016/02/25 06:51:41
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Something for next weekend. All work and no play ...
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2016/02/25 10:06:05
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I downloaded the piano's/vst's/KK presets last night, but haven't installed yet. Any specific tips on installation?
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2016/02/25 11:21:23
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Mesh
I downloaded the piano's/vst's/KK presets last night, but haven't installed yet. Any specific tips on installation?
Not much over and above the instructions on Bigcatt's blog and don't improvise! I can't recall if you have to get Kontakt to display in edit view manually to save the NKI once the missing files have been found. If you cant see the full Kontakt interface in Komplete Kontrol go to the view menu and select "Edit View" (or cntl + 3). To return to default view edit menu "Default View" or cntl +1
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Re: Couple reworked freebie pianos
2016/02/25 14:43:53
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I have added a blow by blow account of transfering the preset between computers here
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