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From Our Research Team:

Get the Piano Alicia Keys Trusts!

There are a lot of instruments and sound libraries named for the artists that inspired them, but there's never been a sound set quite like Alicia's Keys. Alicia's Keys gives you the soulful sound of Alicia's own Yamaha C3 Neo grand piano (the one she's played on multiple Grammy-winning recordings and chart toppers), but that's only the beginning. Each of the nearly 3,000 samples in this library was recorded in her own Oven Studio — with Alicia Keys, herself, at the piano — for the most authentic sound possible.





You have to hear these details! Under the direction of the artist's own Grammy-award winning engineer, Ann Mincieli, the all-star team of engineers behind Alicia's Keys captured all of the nuances of Keys's playing style. Native Instruments brought in the expertise of Thomas Skarbee (the mastermind behind Danish sample production company Scarbee) to ensure that each key's 12 discrete velocity layers provide you with an incredible range of expression. And to provide Alicia's Keys with an unprecedented level of detail, impulse-response expert Ernest Cholakis developed a new ultra-realistic convolution-based system that adds accurate sympathetic resonance between the C3 Neo's strings.

Thanks to the sample wizardry of Kontakt script wizard Nils Liberg, Alicia's Keys also gives you additional expertly recorded details. These details include an engaging and disengaging damper pedal as well as mechanical release noises. Also included are optional sounds, such as the artist's fingers striking the keys and vintage microphone noise. The result is a piano library that's so true to the original that Alicia Keys used it heavily on her album, The Element of Freedom, and even decided to take it on tour. So, if you're looking for a soulful piano to inspire your music, turn to the Grammy-winning sound of Alicia's Keys.

Native Instruments Alicia's Keys Piano Sample Library Features at a Glance:

• The sound of Alicia Keys's own personal Yamaha C3 Neo piano
  
• Almost 3,000 individual samples on 12 discrete velocity layers, with and without pedal
  
• Equivalent to 17GB of uncompressed WAV files
  
• Sampled from Alicia Keys's own playing, recorded in her studio with her own engineer
  
• Developed with the artist and tailor-made for her recording and performance needs
  
• Meticulous sampling technique, including the noise of the finger hitting the keys (optional)
  
• Sampled sustain and release phases with authentic implementation of the sustain pedal
  
• All-new sympathetic resonance system for harmonics in undampened strings
  
• Exceptionally clean quality, yet featuring adjustable microphone noise for old-school sound
  
• Natural mechanical release noises for each of the 88 keys, plus pedal noises
  
• Integrated convolution reverb for tweaking the sound directly in the instrument
  
• Easy user interface that provides integrated documentation of all settings
  
• Uses the free Kontakt 4 player or Kontakt 4 (both in version 4.0.5 Or higher)
  
• Standalone, VST, AU, RTAS (Pro Tools 7 or higher)

Get the sound of an R&B and pop legend's piano, with Alicia's Keys from Native Instruments!

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