Grand El Campanil Piano Black Friday Deal 2026: $49.50, 50% off

The Grand El campanil Black Friday deal puts Soundiron's sampled 1930s Baldwin grand at $49.50, 50% off, until Dec 6, 2026.

The Grand El Campanil Piano is a Kontakt instrument built from a full-sized vintage Baldwin grand. Soundiron recorded it at its home in the El Campanil Theatre, a vaudeville hall from the late 1920s.

The maker says the piano has a bombastic flair at its loudest, one that punches through a mix.

What mic positions does the Grand El Campanil Piano use?

The hall has distinct reflective zones at midstage, front of house and back of house, so Soundiron recorded from several distances. Four mic positions come out of that:

• Hammer: a pair of Neumann TLM 107 large-diaphragm mics up close for detail and presence
• Overhead: Neumann KM 183 omni small-diaphragm mics at 8 feet, with a broad stereo field and a hint of hall reverb
• Hall: Neumann TLM103 mics in a wide AB array, about 60 feet away at the midpoint of the theater
• Ghosts: a sound-designed mix from TLM103 mics nearly 120 feet back, which the maker pitches at long, slow, melancholic passages

What can you do with the Kontakt interface?

The interface carries automation-ready controls for swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading and layering.

An LFO section lets you pick the shape, modulation target, speed, intensity and fade-in time, with tempo sync. The filter section offers 12 low-pass, high-pass and FX filters. Controls you can assign include how hard you play, the mod wheel, expression, aftertouch, where on the keyboard a note sits, and a table that drives the step sequencer.

The arpeggiator has a velocity table and settings for direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. A key and scale lock keeps notes inside common scales and keys.

What is in the FX rack?

The modular rack holds 27 DSP effect modules, which you can assign to any of 8 slots in any order. They include phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and rotator.

The reverb runs on convolution impulse responses: 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses for more extreme sound design. Factory FX rack chain presets are included as starting points.

What is included, and what do you need to run it?

• The sampled Baldwin grand, captured at four mic positions
• 20 ambient pads and evolving drones made from the source recordings
• 21 Kontakt.nki instrument presets
• 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples, 7513 stereo samples in all
• 20.1 GB installed

It needs Windows 7 or higher, or OSX 10.12 or higher, and a dual core CPU. The maker recommends 3GB of RAM and a SATA or SSD drive.

The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 6.2.2 or newer is required for the.nki presets. The free Kontakt Player and the Add Library import process do not support it, and the instrument stays in demo mode there.