KONTAKT PIANO library

Mule Piano is a Cutting-Edge Quirky Piano Library for Unconventional Music, sampled for Kontakt. The strings in a Bechstein Grand Piano treated with different objects to make these very special piano sounds.

The library includes 15 niche piano instruments. It offers a palette of sounds from prepared pianos and custom articulations, with optional additional sound-shaping tools that allow you to explore hybrid piano sounds.

According to Wrongtools (us), it is the best sample piano library on the market.  Because of its how enjoyable and easy the pianos are to play. 

This piano sample library offers piano sounds sculpted with cork, paper, rubber mallets and chains etc. 

Yes, it needed one more! This one. 

This a radical reimagining of what a piano can be. With an array of extended techniques, mechanical preparations, and custom articulations, this Kontakt instrument dismantles traditional expectations.

A prepared piano is a piano that has had its sound altered by placing various objects on or between the strings, hammers, or dampers. 

Unlike some prepared piano libraries, the Mule Piano’s patches are designed to be coherent and playable across the entire keyboard, providing a consistent type of piano sound.

The Mule Pianos use the same kind of preparation on all the strings, instead of a wide range of sounds (ala. the John Cage techniques) in each patch.  Making them more coherent and playable.

Each patch is imbued with a character, richness, and unique authenticity. 

To start off with a library like Mule-piano would definitively help!  it offers clunky thuds, metallic pings, droning resonance, and all the unpredictable nuance of physical preparation. Load it in Kontakt and sculpt beauty from entropy.  

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You download Native Instruments’ Kontakt software through their Native Access application. Info here

These are prepared pianos, but prepared in a way that you can play with the same kind of sound over the whole piano keyboard. 

Built for those who defy norms, this experimental piano library transforms the acoustic grand piano into a playground of unusual piano sounds. Perfect for free thinking, genre defying composers looking to inject their work with organic sounds in the cross section between weirdly tuned-percussion and piano.

Composers embarking on this sophisticated journey are met with an exquisite raw palette of piano sounds and experimental piano timbres, resonating with unparalleled uniqueness.