City Piano - Ableton Live Pack

The City Piano is a Baldwin baby grand (originally released by bigcat instruments for Kontakt and SFV) that's been multi-sampled for Ableton Live, with four velocity layers and release samples! All samples are in 44.1/16 stereo WAV format. We ran all the original files through a de-noise filter to clean them up…but even though these aren’t “perfect” samples, they’re expressive and have a lot of character.

This version for Ableton has a bunch of parameters mapped to macro knobs, so you can dial in a wide variety of tones and timbres, from a warm mellow tone to crisp and bright, a nice detuned honky-tonk sound, and even koto and organ-ish tones with some of the more extreme settings.

Check the demo tracks below, then download the City Piano and let us know what you think!

P.S. – If you’re looking for more cool free pianos, make sure to visit bigcat instruments and check out their Free Piano Collection for Kontakt, which includes the original City Piano as well as a Yamaha C5 and Steinway Model B.

Compatible with Ableton Live 9.7.2 and up

Demo tracks: