This demo of the free City Piano based on a MIDI file from Jordan Rudess with the kind permission of his staff. This should in no way be considered an endorsement.
The free, public domain piano can be found at http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2015/09/all-keyboard-instruments.html
The piano is available in Kontakt 5, SFZ, VSTi and Sampletank 2.5 formats.

Grand Illusion - City Piano

Kontakt version is available for free at...
http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2015/09/all-keyboard-instruments.html

A Prepared Piano

Demo of the Kontakt 5 version of the Salamander Piano.

Poor Butterfly - Salamander Piano

Poor Butterfly - Iowa Piano

Poor Butterfly - The Whisper

Poor Butterfly - Shoot The Piano

The Digital Piano Exploration Project.
Being enamored with pianos and the digital world, I've combined the two with an exploration of all the digital pianos cluttering my hard drive. Being poor this generally includes the less expensive or free pianos.
Our demo is The Poor Butterfly Medley of three pop tunes written a bit after the turn of the last century.
From the Musyng Kite Soundfont, Acoustic Grand Piano
http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2014/07/musyng-kite-for-kontakt.html

DPE - MK Acoustic Grand Piano

Messing about with making yet another piano from Creative Commons samples. This time its the OLPC Piano. Trying to figure out how to get sustain to sound good at the moment. The nice thing is that this actually has sustain samples included which is very rare in public domain or creative commons samples.
The standard piano demo thanks to some talented and anonymous midi creator. Thanks whoever you are.
If you want to try it out you can download it here.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/6ryd7cbqriei4p6/Summer_Piano.nki
Creative Commons License. Samples - OLPC samples, release samples - Alexander HolmFeel


Poor Butterfly Medley - Summer Piano

KungKrille recorded his parent's Skerratt London Upright Piano.
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=351332
While lightly sampled and in one velocity layer it still has a fun and different sound. Also I've started using the NI Factory Piano Pedal Script to make sustain work better.
This is the standard midi I use for all pianos.

Poor Butterfly - Skerratt London Piano

Thanks to Greg Sullivan, http://www.sullivang.net/home, the Y, H and W Pianos join Sarcyan's R Piano for a quartet of classic Electric Pianos available for Kontakt and for free from bigcat Instruments. http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/
See if you can guess which piano is which, hint think of the first letter of the manufacturer's name.

Poor Butterfly - W Piano

Poor Butterfly - H Piano

Poor Butterfly - R Piano

Poor Butterfly - Y Piano

Remember that upright piano you grew up playing? Well not those of you who went to Julliard at age 8, but the rest of us. Well Beskhu went and found that piano and sampled it.
You can have it free for Kontakt
http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-beskhu-collection.html

The song is based on an orphan midi floating on the net.

Poor Butterfly - Beskhu Upright

The Iowa Alto Flute, Flute and Bass Flute VSTis. 3 velocity layers, most every note sampled (less on the softer bass layers) and digital tuned. Also free. Thank you University of Iowa.
From an orphan midi floating on the net. Thanks however did it!

http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2014/09/bigcat-maize-vstis.html

Flute Vol - Iowa Flutes Maize

A mangled Mozart demo of some new free Kontakt synth presets. Richard Taylor sampled many analog synths and Freesound.org is hosting them. Being me I've been Kontakting them.
Axis 80 is the first one.
http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2015/11/thanksgiving.html

Creative Commons Picture by Patrick Emerson, it has nothing to do with anything but I like it.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/8554856@N08/3941153972/

Poor Mozart - Axis 80 Synth

A little demo of the free Iowa Trumpet VST.
http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2015/11/thanksgiving.html

Bugle - Iowa Trumpet

Take 5 pianos and let Kontakt randomize them, shake well...
http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2016/07/suprise-piano.html
From an orphan midi with no attribution that I quite like, thanks whoever did the performance.

Surprise Piano

Just a quick hit many of the keys on the keyboard soundcheck of what the VSCO 2 Percussion sounds like.
Free for Kontakt
http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2016/07/vsco-2-kontakt.html

 Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal : Versilian Studios / Sam Gossner 

VSCO 2 Perc

Some break I once heard with kicks, toms and snares to show what some of the Drummer's Paradise Drums sound like. Sampled by Nathan Sheeran these 8 drum kits are available for from for Kontakt or SFZ.

Kontakt - http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2016/08/drummers-paradise.html

SFZ - http://www.karoryfer.com/karoryfer-samples/wydawnictwa/drummers-paradise

Oh Man - Drummers Paradise

From a portion of a midi by the great Gary Rogers.
Showing what the new Sonatina Orchestra Module sounds like and why you really shouldn't use the sustains on things that clearly need shorter articulations. But you all are used to me and you will get the general idea. Pretty good for sketching and 20 orchestral instruments and over 50 articulations all in one VST and one gig.

http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2016/10/sound-modules.html

Creative Commons Attribution: Mattias Westlund

Alone Stranger - Sonatina Module

Here's a standalone VST of the Salamander Piano. Sampled from a Yamaha C5 it has 16 velocity layers and weighs in at one and a quarter gigs, however it has disk streaming.
http://bcvsts.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-piano.html

From an orphan midi by some who can really tickle the ivories.
Salamander Piano: Creative Commons Attribution License: Alexander HolmFeel

Bumble

Be the first on your block (or continent) to own a legato, vibrato piano.
Requires Kontakt 5.6.6
http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2017/04/legato-vibrato-piano.html

Legato Piano

From fragments of a random midi found floating on the net...

Free Kontakt and SFZ instruments at...
http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2017/05/mihai-sorohan-choir.html

Samples by Mihai Sorohan.

Choir Demo

This might be growlier?
Club Tenor Sex Growl
http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2014/03/bigcat-saxophone-collection.html

Growl

Last one I promise! Playing with the pitchbend and running through the NI RC 24 reverb.

Club tenor Growl
http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2014/03/bigcat-saxophone-collection.html

Shoot Growl Sax

A free funky piano that sounds like an old time rock and roll piano to me. Free Kontakt instrument at...
http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2017/06/nsi-instruments.html

A fragment from a midi by the great Don Carroll.

Samples CCA 4 International: Google Inc.

NSI AP 04

From a random midi found on the net and speeded up massively.
Staccato strings.
These are VST instruments that should work on most computer programs / DAWs that can read VSTs. Though I can't promise

http://bcvsts.blogspot.com/2017/07/nsi-instruments.html

Quartet Something In Something NSI Strings 1

Demo of Nouveau Sound Tracker Flute Samples for Kontakt
From a midi file found on the interwebs.
Free Kontakt instruments at...
http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2018/02/nouveau-sound-tracker-samples.html

Flutie

Part of Poor Butterfly Medley from an internet midi
Shows off more or less the Kontakt NST Acoustic Keyboards. There is a now keyboard every 4 bars or so. There are 21 keyboards total.
http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2018/02/nouveau-sound-tracker-samples.html

PB - NST Pianos

Free Kontakt version of the piano is here...

http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2018/03/vcsl-instruments-for-kontakt.html

JH Piano Butterfly

This is from a fragment of a midi by the late, great midi arranger Dick Anderson. 

Recorders and piano for Kontakt for free...
http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2018/03/vcsl-instruments-for-kontakt.html

Grey Is Sighing

VSCO2 String Section using Ensemble X 5 patch.
From a fragment of a midi found floating on the net.
http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2017/10/sketching-chamber-orchestra.html

VSCO2 String Section Ensemble Stac

No cats were harmed in the making of this piano.

The Kontakt instrument...
http://www.mediafire.com/file/6vmi75ubrlm6571/Cat_Piano.zip/file

Cats Piano

Sorry if you came here looking for a track to that no longer exists. I had to cut expenses, so the unlimited account had to go.
A free instrument addict who likes to make them and search for ones that others have made.
http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/
http://bigcatlists.blogspot.com/

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