Piano

Lekko





The acoustic piano is only half of the story, though. What you’ll also find is a collection of sound design Afterglow patches, created by processing the piano using a variety of techniques and tools, including tape echoes, BBD delay and BBD reverb, lo-fi-ish early digital reverb, cassettes and tape. Inspired by modern sound design of soundtracks like Hildur Guðnadóttir‘s ‘Chernobyl’ and Geoff Barrow’s and Ben Salisbury’s work on ‘Annihilation’, the result is a collection of bespoke patches that evoke that dusty, analogue vibe, ranging from fragile and soft to dirty remains of the original signal. Think of them as an ultimate inspiration pallette that you can shape and perform using the interface or your favourite MIDI controller.

This is not your standard, polished piano. Sampled humanly from a small Scandinavian upright (missing the bottom octave) that has a wery warm and intimate tone. Inspired by ‘Felt’, the seminal album by Nils Frahm, it’s got that a imperfect sound I truly love. And I hope you will, too.Besides the soft sustains, you’ll also get characterful shorts (going from a hand-muted sound to full ringing) and irregular, unsynced tremolos allowing you to create organic swirl of notes based on the chords you play.Both sustains and shorts have 5 repetition samples per every sampled note so every time you hit a key, the sound changes subtly. This adds a lot to the realism of the instrument, not only when playing repeating patterns.

‘My go-to piano. It sounds exactly as my own upright piano I use in my studio, but I never succeeded in recording it as nice.’ - Trentemøller

What makes it different?

While there are a lot of intimate upright pianos on the market, they often feel quite sterile.



Lekko takes a different approach. It’s sampled in a way that embraces little imperfections that makes the performance sound human. The notes are not perfectly consistent and noiseless. The best way to describe it is: it’s me, playing the piano with your ear as close to the strings as possible.



The fact that it was recorded with a beautiful signal chain full of warmth and character doesn’t hurt either.







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