The Original Old Time Upright, Busted Up With Soul
Welcome to The Ol’ Busted Granny Piano! This instrument is pretty special to
us, though it doesn’t sound all that fancy. Actually, it sounds pretty damn
rough around the edges, but that’s just the way we like her. Sure, there are
plenty of other great piano libraries out there, with their gleaming chrome
and pristine strings, but none of them ever captured the authentic beauty of a
cheap, dusty, beat up, rusting, long untuned upright piano. This is the kind
of old heap your grandma had in her living room. This particular instrument
has been in Soundiron co-founder’s family for many years, before being passed
on from one new home to the next. We don’t know the brand or model off hand,
but she looked to be about 60 or 70 years old and quite beat up the last time
we saw her.
Her tone is watery and faded. There are a number of broken and dissonant
strings, especially in the upper register. The wood is pitted, faded and
banged up and the ivory is missing from a number of keys. Every key lands with
a loud, wobbly, wooden thud and lifts with a hollow rattle as soon as you lift
your finger again. Sometimes, she seems creak and groan in the middle of the
night, for no reason at all really. Clearly, the years have not been kind to
her looks or her voice, but her soul truly has aged like a fine wine.
What’s Inside?
- 22 Combinator Patches
- 22 NN-XT Patches
- Combinator control interface: Adjustable Note Attack, Release, Release- and Pedal Volume, Grahammy Mode, Reverb Effects
- 261 Samples
- 163 MB ReFill content
- 500 MB Sample content
- 16bit/44.1kHz stereo PCM wav samples (non-encrypted)