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Sonicsmiths

Piano In Blue

Piano In Blue

$99.00 USD
$99.00 USD $99.00 USD
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Piano In Blue captures the historic sound of the very same Steinway D Concert Grand Piano recorded at Columbia Records for Miles Davis' "Kind Of Blue," and Glenn Gould's "Goldberg Variations." Experience a beautifully playable grand piano, now encoded for the free Native Instruments Kontakt Player 6.7.1 and Komplete Kontrol. We were fortunate to have the opportunity to preserve this iconic combination of this piano in this space, and are proud to make it available for music creators everywhere.

Note: This product we previously offered on Cinesamples.com, you may have been redirected from there. Sonicsmiths is now the distributor and customer support for this product. *IF YOU ARE UNSURE IF YOU HAVE A PLAYER/SERIALIZED VERSION, check your Native Access for version 3.

If you purchased the unencoded (Kontakt FULL) version of Piano in Blue (prior to October 2021), and would like the latest updates via Native Access, simply login with the email you originally used to purchase Piano in Blue, click CHECKOUT, and we will automatically apply the serial update price of $15 USD.


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Version 3.0

VERSION 3 is releasing 4/29/2026:We are proud to present our NEWEST version update to Piano in Blue. This update features an all NEW Graphical User Interface (GUI), a new release volume knob, minor sample tweaks, and some updates to our release algorithm. We also added two new reverb plate models. - Free to anyone that has the encoded version. Please contact us directly if you have not upgraded to the Serialized Version. You will know if you have updated to this, if Piano in Blue is available in Native Access - from here you can download this latest update. We have included the legacy version as well, but please backup your NKI files before updating to be safe, as this is a major update. 

Recording Specs

  • 1949 Steinway D
  • Neve 8078 Console
  • 8 Velocity Layers Sampled Chromatically
  • 9300 Samples
  • 3 Microphone Positions
  • Close/Vintage – 2x Neumann M49 near the lid
  • Mid – 2x B&K 4007 at the tail of the piano
  • Far – 2x Sennheiser MKH20′s in the hall
  • 2 Processing Paths (Tape; Direct in)
  • Studer A800MKIII  24 Track Analog Tape Machine

Tech Specs

Tech specs:

Kontakt 6.7.1+ (Player and Full supported)https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/articles/12994379591453-Compatibility-of-Native-Instruments-Products

Recommended:

RAM: 8gb (500-800mb is standard memory load on all mics)

HDD: 7200RPM (preferred: SSD) with 22gb available (11gb is final library size)