Straight Ahead Samples The Real Piano - FREE!

[cclarry]

Our brand new piano library is available now, for free!

1903 Chickering grand piano

6 microphone positions

Tape samples

All the vibe and character of classic vintage recordings

Made for the free Kontakt Player

https://www.straightaheadsamples.com/the-real-piano

[chris.r]

Interesting one, thanks! Spending couple years on the forum here I became a piano sucker (I blame Fleer).

[EC]

It activates in Native Access

[Last Call]

Thank you for purchasing The Real Piano. To download your products, please follow these steps:

Download Pulse from www.pulsedownloader.com

 

I hate making another account on another site just to download something. Too many steps.

Ok, it's free, why do you whine!! ?

[Scott H]

I like how the piano’s graphics pay homage to the Real Book and Straght Ahead Samples’ jazz roots.

[PavlovsCat]

Their demos -- every instrument on the tracks -- for the "Brushes and Mallets" library sound absolutely gorgeous. I was subscribed to their email, but, candidly, I had forgotten about this dev. Thanks for reminding me with this freebie, Larry. 
https://www.straightaheadsamples.com/sa-brushes-mallets

[jude77]

2 hours ago, chris.r said:

Interesting one, thanks! Spending couple years on the forum here I became a piano sucker (I blame Fleer).

I've been here about 15 years.  I can promise it will only get worse.  

[Fleer]

Oh yeah

[daveiv]

Why do sample library companies use Pulse Downloader?

Pulse watermarks the samples to stop piracy?

[simon]

14 minutes ago, daveiv said:

Why do sample library companies use Pulse Downloader?

Pulse watermarks the samples to stop piracy?

annoying isn't it - I just open a sandboxed windows install and download from there.

FWIW it's 'meh' and a bit of CPU hog trying to play in realtime cubase/win10

EDIT - and there are some bugs - such as the mic channel output select doesn't work

Edited October 20, 2022 by simon

[Last Call]

47 minutes ago, jude77 said:

I've been here about 15 years.  I can promise it will only get worse.  

That's a lifetime, mate. Wow.

[Fleer]

I’m a noob at 8 years. 

[Scott Kral]

Sounds nice, and I appreciate the various presets.

Note: you need to both download via Pulse and THEN register it within Native Access.  This second step tripped me up.  

[antler]

3 hours ago, daveiv said:

Why do sample library companies use Pulse Downloader?

Pulse watermarks the samples to stop piracy?

I suspect convenience - they don't have to buy server space/bandwidth, or mess around with user authentication to ship their libraries. The only other main contender I can think of is Continuata. It's quite convenient from a user's perspective too if you buy multiple libraries over time - they're all listed there for (re-)download.

Hypothetically speaking, if I could choose between using Pulse and having my IK downloads timeout every 180 days, I'd choose Pulse; but that just my preference, and purely hypothetical as I'm sure IK are perfectly happy hosting their own downloads.

Pulse isn't particularly intrusive - like Native Access, you can tell it not to start up with your computer. You only load it up when you need to download something.

P.S. It's not just audio libraries that Pulse can distribute - Audio Brewers (and I'm sure other) plugins, and some ISW presets packs are downloaded from there too.

[Craig Fowler]

Pulse has always worked really smoothly for me. It's one of the better downloaders/installers...and pretty much everything StraightAheadSamples make is gold, so well worth it!

[Fleer]

True. Pulse works well. Only problem is that it always automatically installs. Not good for back ups.