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Old Busted Granny Piano is a Soundiron Kontakt instrument built from a worn, rickety upright, and its Black Friday deal is 50% off, which brings it to $14.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
The piano has been in Soundiron co-founder Chris Marshall's family for years and passed through several homes. Soundiron recorded it in 2006, and Tonehammer released the library in 2008.
It was also one of the first instruments Mike Peaslee deep-sampled.
The Kontakt side covers all 88 keys, including the broken strings, with notes and releases for each one. Pedal SFX are included too.
The maker lists these Kontakt features:
The download holds 721 samples and 13.nki presets, 1.55 GB installed. Source files are 24 bit / 44.1 kHz uncompressed wav.
Soundiron captured 3 to 4 velocity layers on every key. The two middle octaves in the mf range add round-robin variation.
Every note has two independent release triggers: one for the strings and one for the keys. The key release is the soft, distant wooden thud you hear whenever a key lifts, even after the resonance has died away.
The piano was so old that lifting the sustain pedal too fast let the hammers crash back onto the strings, and sometimes they stuck there.
Soundiron reworked the mapping and layering for a more responsive feel. The Tuned and Untuned versions now share one preset, with a Tuning mode switch.
Their voice management tech is built in to limit noise-floor build-up without hurting performance. A full set of user controls handles sound shaping.
The new atmospheric sustain presets hold 12 custom ambiences you can blend and shape freely.
The download includes the Kontakt open-format presets and a ReFill version for Reason. The ReFill has 22 Combinator patches and 22 NN-XT patches with custom front panel controls, and adds a Vocoded Filter Sweeper and a "Grammy-phone" record effect mode.
Kontakt presets need the full retail Kontakt 5.1 or later. The free Kontakt Player only runs this library in demo mode. The ReFill needs the full retail Reason 6.0.2 or later.
System requirements are Windows XP or higher, or Mac OSX 10.6 or higher. Soundiron recommends a dual-core CPU, 2 GB RAM and a SATA or SSD drive.
The presets and wav samples are unlocked, so you can import them into other wav-compatible samplers.
Yes. The Old Busted Granny Piano Black Friday deal takes 50% off this Soundiron Kontakt library, so it costs $14.50 until Dec 6, 2026.
You get 13 Kontakt.nki presets and 721 samples, plus a Reason ReFill with 22 Combinator and 22 NN-XT patches. Notes and releases cover all 88 keys, with pedal SFX and the atmospheric Geriatrocity pads and drones.
No. It is an open-format library that needs the full retail Kontakt, version 5.1 or later for the presets. In the free Kontakt Player it only runs in demo mode.
Every note has two independent release triggers, one for the strings and one for the keys. The key release is the soft, distant wooden thud heard whenever a key lifts, even after the resonance has faded.
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