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The PRIPYAT Pianos Black Friday deal puts Strix Instruments' Kontakt piano library at $11.99, 93% off, with the offer ending Jan 30, 2027.
It is a sampled instrument built from 20 real pianos found in and around the abandoned city of Pripyat. The maker calls it a sound museum, made 33 years after the Chernobyl disaster.
Strix Instruments says its team made more than 25 trips over seven years to collect the audio. The pianos sit at different levels of preservation and playability.
The maker wanted a piano that shows how instruments degrade under harsh weather and radiation, while still delivering a clean sound. It says all 20 pianos feed into the final sound, and the number was chosen so the library works for composing as well as sound design.
So it covers two jobs: a playable piano for writing, and a texture source for scoring and design.
The Age Knob is a slider that changes how the instrument behaves across the years of degradation, from 1986 to 2019. At 1986 you hear nearly untouched notes. The pianos are captured in their present condition, with the character they have now.
Small moves up from 1986 add lively, uneven notes. The 1986 sound uses the best pianos and keys, and the maker kept the string artefacts on purpose to preserve authenticity.
The library ships with 23 impulse responses for convolution reverb, recorded at well-known and lesser-known Pripyat sites, including the Chernobyl NPP territory. Some are light and barely colour the tail. Others convey the scale of city buildings or the inside of the ChNPP's 5th power unit.
Each preset comes with a photo of the recording location, a short description and the gamma radiation level measured there.
The sympathetic resonance layer was collected from all 20 recorded pianos.
PRIPYAT Pianos needs Kontakt 5.8.1 Full or higher. The free Kontakt Player is not supported.
The download is 2.62 GB and unpacks to 3.62 GB, which is the Kontakt Lossless Sample Compression format. The.wav equivalent would be 11 GB.
Yes. The PRIPYAT Pianos Black Friday deal is 93% off, bringing the Strix Instruments Kontakt library to $11.99. The offer ends Jan 30, 2027.
You get 20 Pripyat pianos in one Kontakt instrument, 23 impulse responses for convolution reverb, 14 Snapshots, 3 mic positions and 2900+ samples. Separate sliders cover release, keystrokes, pedal, dampers and sympathetic resonance.
It is a slider that sets how degraded the pianos sound, from 1986 to 2019. At 1986 you hear nearly untouched notes. At 2019 you hear the instruments as they sound now, with small steps in between.
It needs Kontakt 5.8.1 Full or higher. The free Kontakt Player is not supported. Plan for 2.62 GB of download, with 3.62 GB of free storage once the compressed samples are unpacked.
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