Waverunner Audio Alium [KONTAKT]

Can experiments become instruments?
Alium began with a search for the perfect grand piano to sample. After a session at Nottingham's Albert Hall, I captured test recordings of the Steinway - plucking, pen-tapping, and striking strings. While not suited for a full-scale sampling project, these samples were too unique to gather digital dust.

So began a journey of discovery. The test recordings were reshaped and reimagined through analogue effects, taking the familiar into new sonic territories and celebrating the sounds of the unpolished and the unplanned. Alongside the Steinway samples, Alium now includes the rare, resonant tones of the Dulcitone, with plans to continue adding organic, expressive keyboard instruments.

Alium invites you to create music from the curious and the imperfect. Raw, organic, and full of character. Alium is for the explorers.

Steinway Grand Piano
A distilled flavour of the Hamburg Steinway C captured at Nottingham Albert Hall.

Sampled 3 ways: normalé – plucked – struck.

Dulcitone
Recorded in remarkable detail with legendary microphones through world-class analogue desks and hardware.

Retains the subtle clunks and mechanical quirks of the aged action. Perfectly imperfect and unapologetically unpolished to capture its beautiful character.



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