Pssst Instruments Avant-Gardist: Tonally Prepared Cinematic Piano [KONTAKT]

Yes, this is a VERY special instrument. No, it is not just another prepared piano library. It is literally a new, unique set of tonal cinematic acoustic instruments which you can play like a piano but... they don't sound like a standard or prepared piano. Avant-Gardist has the most original, yet natural and beautifully organic sound you can imagine. It can be dark, it can be subtle, it can be 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.

UNIQUE - INSPIRING - PLAYABLE
Why does it sound so unique? Imagine a group of pianists. Each of them plays only on one upright piano string with their fingers, horsehairs, 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 strings hand-andjusted tuning on strings). This is how Avant-Gardist sounds.

In other words: it allows you to achieve tonal articulations that aren't possible to be played by one pianist and a sound which does not exist in a standard instrumental library. Including highly playable unique melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic multi-articulation instruments, tonal and non-tonal playable textures, loops and creative menus, even piano noise & ASMR.

Avant-Gardist is made for cinematic composers not only as one-of-a-kind virtual instrument but also as an inspiring sonic palette. Just play a few notes of random patch and it will instantly inspire you with fresh musical ideas. Especially if you're looking for a set of instruments ranging from thriller, dark, horror, through unique signature sound to intimate, subtle and mellow tone.

THE SOUND
You can play Avant-Gardist like a piano because it sounds genuinely rich and full when played solo. It has so many colors that you can even create a whole soundtrack using only this library. Besides that, don't forget about the big catalog of playable textures and SFXs which help in keeping the consistent sound without frustrating repetition of samples.

Everything was recorded as closely as possible with such a beautiful sound, that almost all instruments remained acoustic and unprocessed (besides standard eq, compression and pitching). This means you really do not have to mix them, they already sound great.

And what if you need a distant cinematic sound? Simply move one knob of the in-built reverb. Need a close and intimate tone? Remove the reverb. The whole interface is easy and very user-friendly. You will find there one-knob filters, tone, attack/release, stereo, pitch, compressor, lofi, distortion, bit crusher, decimator, rotary, delay and reverb.

Inspirations? John Cage, George Crumb, avant-gardists and minimialists. Partly Krzysztof Penderecki and sonorists.

Instruments structure:
56 INSPIRATIONS:

- playable preparations (round robin)
- tonal one-shots
- playable tonal textures

23 ONE PLAYER ENSEMBLES:

- multi-layer round robin instruments

8 NOISE & ASMR:

- keys mechanism
- piano noises (e.g. creaks)
- piano ASMR & room ambience
- player foleys
- all patches are round robin

9 CREATIVE MENUS:

- Motion Textures
- Rhythmic Textures
- Noise & ASMR Textures
- Hits & Pings
- Fills & Swells
- Reversed
- Mix of Textures
- Loops in 120bpm and 90bpm

Built-in effects:

- Reverb & Delay
- Lo/Hi filters
- Tone
- Attack/Release
- Pitch
- Stereo
- Compressor, Distortion, Lofi, BitCrusher, Decimator

Size: 2,8 GB

To run Avant-Gardist prepared piano library, you need FULL Kontakt 6.8 plugin or newer. Free Kontakt Player vst will run the library in the DEMO mode.



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