1959

Hidden Electro-Acoustic Piano

1959 by Sampleson is based on the electro-acoustic piano patent registered in 1959. Sampleson brought it to life using spectral modelling. It's sound can be described as CP80-like but a bit more tuned due to the fewer number of strings.

The Experience of Recreating a Forgotten Electro-Acoustic Piano Patent

Does it sound like the original one? Sampleson don't know, because it has never been built. And they won't build it (for the moment). But the experience of bringing to life an instrument that never existed, was super-exciting.

The resulting sound of this virtual instrument is warm, clean and bright. The expressiveness of the piano action Sampleson emulated gives it a nice and wide range of timbres. From warm lows to metallic shines on higher velocities.

Features

• 88 notes electro-acoustic piano.
• Spectral modelled (no samples at all).
• Resonance amount.
• Hammer noise amount.
• Release sound amount.
• Static noise emulator.
• Just 35 MB.
• Scalable HD interface.
• MacOS Catalina Ready
• Easy install.
• No extra purchases needed (like Kontakt, UVI, etc) or any other 3rd party player.
• Ready to be loaded into major DAWs (Cubase, Logic Pro, GarageBand, Cakewalk, Reaper, BitWig, Nuendo, FLstudio, etc)
• Win 32/64 bits and Mac VST/AU/Standalone versions included
• About ~65MB installed.

System Requirements

macOS

• OSX 10.7 or later (Monterey compatible)
• Host must support VSTi or AU plugins.
• 70 MB HDD
• 4GB RAM

Windows

• Windows 7 or later
• Host must support VSTi plugins.
• 70 MB HDD
• 4GB RAM

Important Note: Pro Tools is not supported.