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The Drinking Piano Black Friday deal takes Soundiron's beer hall upright for Kontakt to $24.50, 50% off, until Dec 6, 2026.
It's a Kontakt instrument built from a hundred-year-old upright that has been played hard for decades. The maker describes a fat, wide, close sound, with the cracked yellow ivories right under your fingers.
Microphones sat very near the strings inside a compact hall with a touch of natural reverb. The maker says that gives it the presence of a dry studio recording with a hint of live ambiance.
The wear is part of the sound. According to Soundiron, this instrument carries decades of dust and visible wear, including shaky keys, dampers that don't always hold, slack pedals, worn-in felts and now and then a hammer that sits slightly off.
The strings were too corroded to tune without risking breakage, so the whole instrument sits a little over a half-step flat.
Under the grime it's an original Ivors and Pond upright from the dawn of the 20th century, solid mahogany, with hand-craftsmanship the maker calls rare in modern uprights.
The samples cover more than notes. The creaks, pedal noises and Drunk mode are in there alongside the tuned piano.
The interface has automation-ready controls for swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading and layering.
The LFO system lets you pick the shape, target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-sync and fade-in time. There are 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, and modulation can come from velocity, modwheel, expression, after-touch, key position or the step-sequencer table.
The arpeggiator has a velocity table and controls for direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. A key and scale lock constrains your notes to common scales and keys.
The FX rack offers 18 DSP modules across 10 slots, in any order. Modules include phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and rotator.
The convolution reverb carries 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses. Factory rack chain presets are included.
The library needs the full retail version of Kontakt. The maker says it is licensed for Kontakt Player or full Kontakt 6.1 or later, in VST, AU or AAX plugin formats, and it registers through Native Access. It is also compatible with Komplete Kontrol and NKS hardware and software.
The maker's system requirements are Windows 7 or higher, or Mac OSX 10.7 or higher, with a dual-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM. A SATA or SSD drive is recommended. Delivery is a download over a broadband connection.
Yes. The Black Friday deal puts The Drinking Piano at $24.50, 50% off, until Dec 6, 2026. It's Soundiron's Kontakt library built around a century-old Ivors and Pond upright.
One master NKI instrument bank holding tuned and untuned piano in Sober and Drunk modes, bench creaks, plucks, pedal noises, releases and SFX. It also has 34 ambience patches, 20 custom FX presets and 1,818 stereo samples at 24 bit / 48 kHz.
The maker's notes disagree on this point. It is licensed for Kontakt Player or full Kontakt 6.1 or later, but the.nki presets need the full retail Kontakt, and the free Player's Add Library import leaves it stuck in demo mode. Registration runs through Native Access.
There's an LFO system, 12 filters, an arpeggiator and a key and scale lock. The FX rack has 18 DSP modules across 10 slots. The convolution reverb has 99 spaces plus 40 custom FX impulses.
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