This warm and luscious upright piano combines high technical detail with the essence of the living and breathing woodlands.

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Inspired by Icelandic and Scandinavian natural beauty, the Woodland Piano was carefully recorded ensuring that the natural wooden tones and resonances of each moving part of the piano were captured. The Woodland Piano is not your everyday piano: it will never fail to transport you to the wilderness.

7 microphones split into 3 signals

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Four articulations + Releases and Pedal sounds

Compatible with Kontakt 6.2.2 and up

Combine 3 mic signals to better fit your mix

Mix different articulations to craft your unique sound

Bring back some life into your sound using the Noise slider

€49

What people are saying:

I have not learned a song on Piano for many years. I guess I've been more focused on learning programming, graphic design, and bar-tending.

A week ago, I had a rare desire to learn a new song on Piano. I immediately thought to re-download Woodland Piano. I have now played this instrument for about 15 hours.

It is absolutely incredible and provides many tones that collectively provide a beautifully complex sound.

- Owen Bolig

I personally find this piano library simply wonderful.

Mix a bit of the felt sound in, set you mic levels and stereo width and throw in some reverb and you got yourself a truly good sounding piano you will enjoy!

It has become one of my favourite piano so far.

- Matteo Sacchetto

Maybe an actual masterpiece? I don't know how else to describe it. This thing is a genuine achievement.

Most 'soft pianos' tend to just sound muddy to me, but to absolutely nail the 'soft piano' character AND maintain clarity in spades — it's a marvel. It's a pleasure to play, and endlessly inspiring.

I don't know if anyone can top this.

- _amrnthne

I recorded the Woodland Piano with seven microphones (three stereo set-ups shown in the walkthrough video) up close and with multiple articulations – normal, felt, muted, and plucked + release triggers and pedal sounds.

Normal and Felt feature four velocity layers, and along with muted notes feature samples in pedal up and down.

These different mic positions and articulations are important not only because they add a good degree of flexibility within the same instrument, but also because they allow you to explore a wide array of different sounds that you can get from the piano.

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- Tech Info -

The Woodland Piano is a Yamaha upright recorded at 96k 24bit and presented at 48k, using seven microphones for three different close mic positions

- Microphones used -

Three Neumann KM184 over the hammers on the top of the piano in a wide AB stereo configuration featuring a center channel

Two Schoeps MK4 just above the center of the instrument, pointing at the hammers in a slightly narrower AB

Two AKG C414 XL II just below the MK4s, again pointing at the hammers in the same AB spread as the MK4s

- Patch Info -

As of 22.06.24, the Woodland Piano is on version 1.3.0

2.40GB download size

For my workaround to trigger Release Triggers during sustain pedal press, please refer to the video walkthrough above at 3:46

  • – Switching velocity layers no longer creates a noticeable jump in volume

    – New Noise slider

    – New slider behavior:

    • Sliders' scale is now linear

    • Slider labels dynamically change into numbers

    • Every slider can be Ctrl-Clicked to go back to the default value

    – UI Improvements

    – Komplete Kontrol compatibility

  • – Overhauled the UI, designed to match the brand new Woodland Grand Piano UI

  • – Corrected some pedal sounds not being affected by the group’s purge or volume UI

    – Improved visibility and usability of certain UI elements

    – Tracked noise issue caused by Kontakt’s downsampling aliasing issues when using at 48k

    – 48k version is now the main download

    – Restored samples of the quietest layer of the normal articulation

    – Replaced all the samples with 48k versions

    – Tightened up ADSR