Cassette Piano.02 Ableton: Lo-Fi Piano Instrument Racks by THEPHONOLOOP

The samples were processed through four different decks. Deck A Stereo is the highest quality of the set, with very low pitch instability and a stereo recording. Deck A Mono offers the same quality in mono. Deck B Mono has a slightly loose drive belt that introduces noticeable pitch instability, which the developer notes sounds especially good when transposed down. Deck C Mono is the noisiest of the group with a medium amount of pitch instability, and Deck D Mono is similar to Deck A with more instability in both pitch and overall sound.

Each note has been denoised with a high quality algorithm to prevent noise stacking when several notes play together. Some noise remains in the samples to avoid denoising artifacts. A separate noise knob adds noise back in with its own volume and filtering, so a five-voice chord carries one noise sample rather than five layered on top of each other.

The sample start knob, controllable from the GUI or the Mod Wheel, lets you shape the initial transients of a sound. An octave down switch sits in the GUI, since the developer says the instrument sounds especially lofi when transposed down. A simple two-band equaliser called Instrument Tone is located at the bottom of the interface.

The set also includes a simulated round robin, which the developer says makes faster note passages sound more realistic and adds to the instrument's nonlinear character.