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Montclarion Hall Black Friday pricing is 50% off, which puts this Soundiron Steinway grand piano library for Kontakt at $24.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
The Montclarion Hall Grand Piano is a Steinway parlour grand from 1926, sampled in a long A-framed hall in the hills above Oakland, CA. Soundiron originally released it in 2010.
The maker describes the tone as crisp and solid, suited to classical composing but also at home in soul, jazz, rock and pop.
The core is the grand itself, captured in wide stereo from three microphone distances. That gives you three ways to place it in a mix without reaching for a reverb plugin.
The three perspectives are there for custom and surround mixing, so you can blend them on a bus or keep one on its own.
On top of the sustains and releases, the library has pedal sound effects recorded at several velocities, plus bench, lid and sheet music noises.
This is more than a straight concert grand. Soundiron opened the lid and recorded sweeps, scrapes, glisses, rumbles, percussive pounds, slams, plucks and steel guitar slides.
There are also 3 tuned prepared piano sets, which the maker describes as buzzy, resonant and raw string percussion. A 3-man bare-handed ensemble percussion set was recorded at the piano as well.
For atmosphere, the library ships with 10 ambient room tones taken from the hall and other locations, along with abstract atmospheres and evolving soundscapes you can run alongside the piano.
The interface has LFO, filter, glide and arpeggiator controls, all automation-ready in your host or in Kontakt's stand-alone mode. Presets and WAV samples are unlocked for your own customisation.
You need the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5.2 or later. The free Kontakt Player and its Add Library import do not support this open-format library, and it will sit in demo mode there.
The maker lists Windows XP or higher and Mac OS X 10.6 or higher, with a dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM. A SATA or SSD drive is recommended.
Yes. The Montclarion Hall Black Friday deal takes 50% off this Soundiron Kontakt library, so it comes to $24.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
A 1926 Steinway grand at three mic distances, sustain and release samples, pedal sfx, prepared piano sets, glisses, scrapes and sweeps, 10 ambient room tones, 20 FX presets, 34 convolution reverb impulses and a multi-effects rack.
No. It needs the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5.2 or later. The free Kontakt Player and its Add Library import do not support it, and the instrument stays in demo mode there.
Three stereo positions: close (player perspective), mid at 6m and far at 30m. They were recorded for custom and surround mixing, and the far mic adds a hall ambience that the maker describes as dreamy.
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