TANGENT is a free sampled cinematic piano library for Native Instruments Kontakt. With a sound gently swept in a long tape echo and smeared with our favourite H8000 reverb.

No.

Its softness comes primarily from the recording and processing rather than simply placing felt between the hammers and strings. TANGENT is better described as a processed, tape-smeared or smudged piano.

Yes. TANGENT is free to download from this page. Click the green button above.  

It can sit underneath strings and synths, carry a sparse cue on its own, or simply add a blurred harmonic background behind another piano.

It is our name for a piano where the edges of the original sound have been deliberately softened.

Tape echo, reverb and overlapping decay turn individual notes into something closer to a moving texture. The piano remains playable, but its surroundings are less precise.

Yes, Tangent requires the full version of Full Retail Version of Kontakt 6.4.2 [or later]. It will not run in the free Kontakt Player. If you’re unsure about compatibility, see our general Kontakt compatibility guide.

It will take up 520 MB of your disk