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Cassette Toy Piano for Ableton: Lo-Fi Toy Piano Instrument Racks

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Cassette Toy Piano for Ableton is an Ableton Live preset collection of five instruments based on a children's toy piano, recorded on cassette decks and built as instrument racks.

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01Overview

Cassette Toy Piano for Ableton comes from THEPHONOLOOP and is built around a children's toy piano captured on cassette. The collection includes five instruments, each recorded with three dynamic layers on two cassette decks, one with a more neutral sound and one with a more degraded, lo-fi character. The developer describes the aim as keeping the raw toy piano sound, with its imperfections and at times unsettling tone, while adding variations that can be used in music production.

Best for

Lo-fi keys
Vintage toy piano textures
Creepy ambient pads
Cassette-style chords
Experimental sound design

Developer: THEPHONOLOOP
Category: Ableton Racks
Requires: Ableton Live
Store: Plugin Boutique

02Key features

What you get

Five toy piano instruments recorded on cassette
Samples recorded on two different cassette decks
Three dynamic layers per instrument
1,112 uncompressed 24-bit WAV samples, 1.71 GB total
Two two-minute noise samples for adjustable cassette hiss
55 Ableton Live instrument racks with mapped macros
Custom effect racks included
Available in Kontakt 5, Ableton Live 9, Logic, SFZ and Multiformat

03In depth

Sound and Character of the Toy Piano Samples

The base instrument is a raw toy piano recording on cassette. The developer built additional variations on top of that sound, using effects such as spring reverb and granular synthesis, while aiming to keep the original character intact.

Each note was denoised with a high-quality algorithm so that playing several notes together does not stack noise. Some noise is intentionally left in the samples to avoid denoising artifacts. A separate noise knob lets you add cassette noise back in, adjust its volume independently and apply filtering to it. When you play a chord, only one noise sample is heard rather than one per voice, which the developer says makes the result more realistic.

Ableton Live Racks and Sample Library

For Ableton Live, the collection includes 55 instrument racks: 20 basic racks and 35 additional presets, all with mapped macros. Custom effect racks are also included. Ableton Live 9.7 or higher is required.

The library contains 1,112 uncompressed 24-bit WAV samples, totaling 1.71 GB, plus two two-minute noise samples. Formats include Kontakt 5, Ableton Live 9, Logic, SFZ and Multiformat, so the samples can be used outside Ableton as well.

04Specs