🎹 The Upright by Audio Brewers – Immersive Upright Piano for Kontakt

🎼 Experience Piano Sound in a Whole New Dimension

Bring warmth, character, and immersive depth to your compositions with The Upright by Audio Brewers, a unique virtual piano instrument featuring a beautifully recorded upright piano from the late 1980s. Designed for composers, producers, and sound designers, this innovative instrument combines authentic piano character with advanced Ambisonics recording and mixing technology to create an exceptionally realistic and three-dimensional listening experience.

More than a traditional piano library, The Upright allows you to shape how your music is experienced. From intimate, emotional piano passages to experimental sound design, it brings you closer to the feeling behind every note. 🎧

✨ Key Features

• 🎹 Vintage Upright Piano: Captures the distinctive warmth and character of a beautiful late-eighties upright piano.
• 🌐 Full Ambisonics Recording: Experience a pioneering virtual instrument recorded, mixed, and delivered entirely in Ambisonics.
• 🎧 Immersive 3D Sound: Explore spatial depth and realistic microphone positioning to create a more natural and engaging sonic environment.
• 🎼 Multiple Piano Articulations: Choose from Clean Sustains, Felt, Una Corda, and Eternal sound variations.
• 🔊 Seamless Microphone Mixing: Blend complementary microphone perspectives for a cohesive, detailed, and natural piano sound.
• 🎨 Creative Prepared Piano Sounds: Transform the piano into an expressive sound-design instrument using unconventional playing techniques and physical preparations.
• 🔁 Experimental Looped Textures: Create evolving atmospheres, cinematic effects, and distinctive rhythmic textures using looped and processed string sounds.
• 🎬 Versatile Musical Applications: Ideal for cinematic scoring, ambient music, contemporary composition, emotional soundtracks, and experimental production.

🎹 Piano Sound Sets & Articulations

The Upright includes four expressive piano sound sets, each featuring a comprehensive collection of essential performance sounds.

Clean Sustains, Felt, Una Corda & Eternal

Each sound set includes:

• 🎹 Keystrokes
• 🎼 Sustains
• 🔊 Pedal Down Resonance
• 🎧 Pedal Artifacts

These variations provide the flexibility to move between clean, intimate piano tones and softer, more atmospheric textures.

🧪 Prepared Piano – Unconventional Sound Design

Push beyond traditional piano performance with an extensive collection of prepared piano articulations. By exploring alternative ways of interacting with the strings, The Upright transforms an acoustic instrument into a powerful creative sound-design tool.

Included prepared piano sounds:

• Finger Pluck
• Picked Strings
• Picked Strings (Una Corda)
• Plastic Bag
• Magnets
• Slapped Strings
• First Harmonic
• Second Harmonic
• Nails on Strings
• Muted
• Sound Effects

These distinctive articulations are perfect for creating unusual textures, percussive accents, experimental musical passages, and original cinematic sound effects. ⚡

🔁 Prepared Piano – Looped Textures

Explore evolving sonic landscapes with a collection of looped, bowed, and manipulated string performances. These sounds are particularly useful for ambient composition, suspenseful scoring, textural layering, and experimental music production.

Included looped and experimental sounds:

• Ebow 1
• Ebow 2 (Harmonic)
• Scratching Strings
• Bowed
• Shakers on Strings
• Fishing Line Bow
• Fishing Line Bow (with Motion)
• Looped Sustains
• Looped Sustains with Pedal Down
• LFE Sympathetic Frequencies
• Sound Effects

From subtle harmonic movement to unusual string vibrations, these sounds help you develop immersive atmospheres and distinctive sonic identities. 🌌

🎬 Who Is The Upright For?

The Upright by Audio Brewers is an excellent creative instrument for:

• 🎥 Film & TV Composers: Build emotional piano passages, atmospheric backgrounds, and distinctive cinematic textures.
• 🎮 Game Audio Designers: Create immersive sonic environments and unconventional sound effects.
• 🎹 Music Producers: Add authentic upright piano character and experimental layers to your productions.
• 🌫️ Ambient & Experimental Artists: Explore evolving textures, prepared strings, and atmospheric soundscapes.
• 🎼 Contemporary Composers: Combine expressive piano performances with innovative spatial audio techniques.

Whether you prefer traditional stereo production or immersive three-dimensional audio, The Upright offers a distinctive approach to piano sampling and sound creation.

🚀 Bring Your Compositions to Life

Discover a different side of the piano with The Upright by Audio Brewers. Combining vintage acoustic character, carefully designed microphone perspectives, expressive articulations, and experimental sound-design possibilities, this instrument gives you the tools to create music that goes beyond simply being heard.

🎹 Add depth, emotion, and immersive character to your next composition with The Upright.