Toy Piano Released Fracture Sounds 

The sound of the Toy Piano is produced by hammers striking metal rods (tines), resulting in a unique bell-like tone. The instrument was close mic’d in stereo, in a dry studio, giving you the flexibility to add as much or little reverb as you like.

The original instrument has some natural tuning deviations due to its age. Although this adds a certain charm and authenticity, Fracture Sounds know everyone’s tastes is different. After sampling the instrument Fracture Sounds painstakingly optimized the tuning note-by-note. To restore some of these natural tuning deviations, they added the ‘broken tuning’ dial, which allows you to choose how in-tune the instrument sounds. Set it to 0 for a modern/pristine sound for upbeat children’s music, or all the way up to 100 for your creepy Halloween scores.

Toy Piano Features

• Traditional upright Toy Piano
• Deep sampled with up to 8 round-robins and release samples
• 3-octave playable range (extended from the 2-octave range of the original instrument).
• Adjustable ‘atmosphere’ sound design layer.
• Simple and user-friendly interface.
• 150MB download size (NCW compressed from a 300MB sample pool).
• Requires the full version of Kontakt 5.3 or above.

The newest extension to Fracture Sounds range of affordable and lightweight instruments, ready to play straight out of the box and easily tweakable with the familiar easy-to-use GUI design you’ve come to expect from Fracture Sounds products. This product requires the full version of Kontakt 5.3 or above. It will NOT work in the free Kontakt Player.

Atmosphere Layer

Fracture Sounds added an ‘atmosphere layer’, specially designed for this instrument, which can be blended with the raw Toy Piano to create an eerie ambiance. The mod wheel gives you control over the intensity of the layer, allowing you to ride the dynamics and add additional expression. Fracture Sounds has added the option to solo the atmosphere layer, so you can use it as a pad in isolation, or blend it with other instruments.

Availability and Pricing

The Kontakt library is available now at and reduced Intro price of €11.99 (ex. VAT). The Toy Piano Intro sale ends on October 31st.

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Nordic an Omnisphere soundset is now available

Nordic is a new soundset for Omnisphere 2 with an ambient character, perfect for use in underscoring and use in film, game, and library music productions and contains 128 presets and 25 multis. The soundset has found its inspiration in the beautiful nature and landscapes from Scandinavia. Originally this soundset had the working title Hardangervidda, named after a beautiful region in Norway. In this soundset, you will find a lot of nature recordings and sounds that Jaap Visser have recorded during his travels in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.

Nordic will contain the following kind of presets: APR + BPM, Bells, and Vibes Bowed Colors, Ethnic World, Guitars, Pads, Textures Playable, and Textures Soundscapes. In the presets there is extensive use of the mod wheel, aftertouch, pitch wheel and sometimes
CC2 to enhance the sounds. The soundset Nordic comes with 128 presets, 25 multis. Created from 139 sound sources and is 514mb in size.

Pricing and Availability

Nordic can be purchased here, there is a time-limited introduction price available (until August, 1st 2019). The soundset is also part of Triple Spiral Audio’s (highly recommended) season pass. There is s Free Version available to get your feet wet as well here.