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The ASCEND: Modern Grand Black Friday deal takes 67% off Heavyocity's cinematic piano for Kontakt and Kontakt Player, bringing it to $49 until Dec 18, 2026.
It is built around a nine-foot Concert D grand, recorded in a historic NYC studio. The Heavyocity team picked this specific piano for its warmth, depth and detail.
Film score mixer Satoshi Noguchi worked on the recording again, using a selection of vintage and modern microphones.
It is a grand-piano virtual instrument that goes beyond a straight concert sample set. Heavyocity first captured several prepared performances in close detail, then built a new engine to play them back.
The maker says it wants you to play one of the finest cinematic pianos the team has heard.
The core is the Concert D grand, along with a soft ppp performance captured for emotional scoring. The prepared piano sounds come from four sources:
Hammers are also named among the prepared performances Heavyocity recorded.
Inside the engine you get a set of rhythmic convolution impulses, along with many sound sources and effects that can be stacked together. The Three Point Mixer blends sources in real time, so you can shape a patch while you play.
Echoes is Heavyocity's own feature that accompanies your playing with a musical randomness, and an ARP builds complex, rhythmic arpeggios.
It runs on the Kontakt Player 6.1 engine and needs Kontakt 6 (Player) or later. It is integrated with Komplete Kontrol and NKS-ready.
On Mac, the maker lists macOS 10.12, 10.13 or 10.14 and an i5 processor. On PC, it lists Windows 7, 8 or 10 with the latest Service Pack, an Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU and 2 GB of RAM.
Yes. The Black Friday deal takes 67% off Heavyocity's ASCEND: Modern Grand, bringing it to $49, and it runs until Dec 18, 2026. It is a Kontakt instrument built around a nine-foot Concert D grand piano.
You get the Concert D grand, prepared piano articulations (Twine, Ebows, Brushes and Chains), a ppp performance and the ASCEND engine. There are 110 snapshot presets in one NKI and 16 sound sources.
It is a Kontakt and Kontakt Player instrument, powered by the Kontakt Player 6.1 engine, so Kontakt 6 (Player) or later is required. Formats are stand-alone, VST, AU and AAX, and it is NKS-ready with Komplete Kontrol.
The library is 47.8 GB uncompressed, or 23.3 GB on disk with NI lossless compression. The maker lists 2 GB of RAM and an Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU on PC, and an i5 processor on Mac.
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