Tapsa Kuusniemi

Snagged it, love it. Does a few things other reverbs don't do.

Another 5 star review for The Lobby Piano:

https://www.samplesoundreview.com/2019/03/review-lobby-piano-for-omnisphere-25-by.html#more

There is still time to get The Lobby Piano for the intro price: 

https://www.manmakesnoise.com/the-lobby-piano

StrongMocha gave The Lobby Piano a 5/5 star review!
https://www.strongmocha.com/2019/03/04/the-lobby-piano-a-creative-sound-design-library-for-omnisphere-2-5-by-man-makes-noise-review/

Get The Lobby Piano for the intro price until 10th of March here: https://www.manmakesnoise.com/the-lobby-piano

Have to say that I do not like the sound of these from the demos. I understand that it's a different kind of playing style and scales but the sound of the strings is off to me. Comparing the sound to that of Sonokinetic's Sultan Strings I feel that this is very synthi.... my two cents.

In honor of getting the Top Pick from Sample Library Review the intro offer of 35€ (excluding VAT) will be continue for 10 days until the 10th of March! After that the full price will be 49€ (excluding VAT).

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There is also still this...

You have some nice ideas here and the low brass sound you are using is very visceral.

What troubles me is that the instruments do not mix coherently. I don't feel that they are in the same space. Maybe check the spatialization and levels of everything. And check your reverb, a good reverb is essential to a coherent orchestal mix. I would also add low end, now everything feels very thin, even the visceral low brass.

I would also pay attention to the dynamics of the piece. When the harp comes it is clearly a place to have a somewhat mellower sounds, but the harp plucks at full tilt all the time. Dynamics is what makes the louder parts of the track stand out. As they are now only the final 15 seconds feel to be any other dynamic than full.

I again bring nothing of real value to this conversation, but my flu ridden head read the title:

"First Guitar I Heard In PRISON".

So sorry.

"The Lobby Piano" received Top Pick from Sample Library Review!

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The library is still on intro sale for two days. Get it here:

https://www.manmakesnoise.com/the-lobby-piano

3 hours ago, Piotr said:

They cannot do it It is about psychology We need to have impression how much we can 'save' buying their plugins 'occasionally'

They are managing our motivation...

They should just go overboard with the reason and do sales for reasons like "we had damn good coffey today so 30% off!"

Oh come on... Waves should just lower all their prices down permanently since that's what's happening right now.

And yet another demo. This time something calm and beautiful by Henri Vartio:
https://soundcloud.com/manmakesnoise/the-lobby-piano-lost-and-found-by-henri-vartio

The final week of the introduction sale has started!

This is the one I mostly use (I have RX, Acon Digital's Restoration Suite and Accusonus' ERA plugins, though not their full ERA-D). Still Brusfri gets most use. The result are always good and it's easy to use.

I like this new approach by Sample Logic. No more 1000+ use-one-time-sounddesign-patches but a properly sampled percussion library. Picked it up and I do like the sound. It feels organic and is the same vain as SAGA from Red Room Audio. Will work perfectly with other libraries.

Yet another demo, this time a simple piano by Brian Brylow:

https://soundcloud.com/manmakesnoise/the-lobby-piano-the-old-88-in-the-corner-by-brian-brylow

Only 10 day left to get The Lobby Piano for the intro price!

I'm just wondering how does this differ from the ever ongoing sale boom of Waves' plugins... Has anyone bought anything from them at normal price since forever...? 

Another demo, this time some scifi cinematic scoring from Pauli Hausmann:

Walkthrough added:

Just got a new demo from Brian Brylow. This is some ambient / prog rock floating in the style of Eloy and Pink Floyd:

48 minutes ago, Royal Yaksman said:

Okay cool. What about Reaktor? Or would that require breaking the bits apart too much and creating a sort of revealing the wizard behind the curtain scenario?

Reaktor doesn't quite cut it. It's not really meant for this sort of thing, Reaktor isn't at it's best when dealing with samples.

There's no real magic involved, everything I've done can be seen in the patches (well except the 5 synth patches). The biggest thing is what I've recorded and what I've chosen to use as soundsources.

2 minutes ago, Royal Yaksman said:

Any plans to make this for Halion or Kontakt?

At currently no. I do not own Halion and quite a bit of the patches run heavily on the granular synthesis in Omnisphere so Kontakt is not a very good host for them. I did not want to hinder the usage of the sounds by making them into long WAVs that would be run inside a Kontakt interface. I wanted the patches to have a more room for change.

But I have plans for other libraries that will utilize Kontakt. Actually my next one will be made for Kontakt and Battery (and it will have uncompressed WAVs as well).  But that is another story...

The release date is here! 

https://www.manmakesnoise.com/the-lobby-piano

The Lobby Piano is now available for purchase at the intro price of 35€ (excluding VAT). The intro price will run until the end of February 2019 when the price will be 49€ (excluding VAT). 

Two new demos (one with a dressed and naked version) are up as well:

Also more details:

In addition to the Omnisphere 2.5 patches The Lobby Piano includes 20 Roomshaker sub booms in WAV format.

Added new demos and more information to the original post!

Well Red Room Audio just released a set: https://redroomaudio.com/product/traveler-series-bodhrans-bones/

In honor of getting the Top Pick from Sample Library Review the intro offer of 35€ (excluding VAT) will be continue for 10 days until the 10th of March! After that the full price will be 49€ (excluding VAT).

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I’m proud to announce my first official release with Man Makes Noise's The Lobby Piano. As this will be the first thing I release I kept pondering what should it be. And so I had a thought no sample library developer has ever had: let’s make a piano library.

I know, I know. The world really frigging doesn’t need another deep sampled piano library with a hundred microphones to choose from. So I didn’t make one. Instead I made you something very different.

The Lobby Piano is an exploration into what a piano can be. A collection of sound design piano tones ranging from experimental playing styles to completely recharged sound explorations. The Lobby Piano is at home in pretty much everything you do. It’s not really a piano anymore. Really it isn’t.

I recorded sounds from a single piano (located in a lobby, duh) with an assortment of orthodox and unorthodox methods and tools (a hammer and a keychain were involved among other items). Still this is not an effects piano nor a prepared piano. It’s a designed piano.

The Lobby Piano contains 200 patches with 296 original soundsources. The patches are divided into 13 categories that are easily identifiable within Omnisphere.

Today I tease you with the first official demo for the product composed by Stephan Baer using only sounds from the library:

The second demo to tease the library is some post rock goodness from Posthouse Tuomi. Dressed and Naked version to show The Lobby Piano in context and the sounds as they are:

Also more details about the contents on the The Lobby Piano:

ALARMS - 7 -Scream type of sounds.

ARPS - 22 - Tonal and rhythmic movements.

ATMOSPHERES - 16 - Tonal long ambient sounds.

BASIC PIANO SOUNDS - 10 - Single soundsource instruments displaying the variety of recorded sounds.

BASSES - 10 - Low end stuff.

DESIGNED - 8 - Piano + another sound combined into designed instruments.

FX - 10 - Non tonal sounds go here. Most of the riser sounds are controlled by modwheel to allow you to create the length of riser as it suits you!

HITS - 8 - Big hits.

KEYS - 43 - Layered keyboard sounds.

PADS - 35 - Long tonal pads.

PERCUSSIONS - 20 - Percussive loops and instruments.

PULSES - 6 -Rhythmic pulsing elements.

SYNTHS - 5 - Here are sounds that started as a piano, but were transformed into synth sounds outside of Omnisphere and then brought back for further mangling.

The Lobby Piano requires Omnisphere 2.5. The library will be released on Wednesday the 30th of January 2019.

I have a free set of 10 patches available at: https://www.manmakesnoise.com/freebies