The Drinking Piano: Worn Upright Piano Instrument for Kontakt

The instrument offers Tuned and Untuned Piano in Sober and Drunk modes, so you can move between a cleaner tone and a more battered one. The developer describes the piano as an original Ivors and Pond upright from the early 20th century, and the recordings capture its mechanical noises alongside the notes. The strings were too corroded to tune safely, so the piano sits a little over a half-step flat. That detuning is part of the sound and is useful if you want a vintage, lo-fi keyboard for period or roots-style material.

The library also includes 34 Ambience patches built from the source content, which can be layered under the piano or used alone for atmospheric beds.

The Kontakt interface gives you multi-layer controls with LFO, filter, glide and arpeggiator sections. The LFO offers selectable shapes, modulation targets, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time. The arpeggiator has a velocity table and controls for direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. A key and scale lock keeps notes within chosen scales.

The full FX rack includes convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers and FX environments. The library also includes 20 sound-designed FX and ambient presets for quick starting points.