REQ: Pssst! Instruments Avant-Gardist Kontakt Library

Yes, this is a VERY special instrument.

No, it is not just another prepared piano. It is literally a new, unique set of tonal cinematic acoustic instruments which you can play like a piano but… they don’t sound like a standard or prepared piano. Avant-Gardist has the most original, yet natural and beautifully organic sound you can imagine. It can be dark, it can be subtle, it can be unpredictable or warm, intimate (and simultaneously extraordinary and cinematic!). Recorded and sampled with techniques which aren’t used in piano libraries (explained below). And yes, it’s dirty, sometimes out of tune and full of artifacts. You can hear and feel the pianist sitting at the keyboard.



unique – inspiring – playable

Why does it sound so unique? Imagine a group of pianists. Each of them plays only on one upright piano string with their fingers, horsehairs, chains, ebows, sticks, patafix, magnets, etc. And what’s the most important: they play tonally. Even more: each string has it’s own close stereo microphones (instead of standard mics positioned farther to record a whole piano) which means that every note sounds extremely close, centered, „in your face”. And finally: patches use creative sampling techniques (which keep samples acoustic and almost unprocessed) and creative tuning (it’s slightly out of tune but in a very natural and variable way, which is unusual for pianos! It reminds strings hand-adjusted tuning on strings). This is how Avant-Gardist sounds.

In other words: it allows you to achieve tonal articulations that aren’t possible to be played by one pianist and a sound which does not exist in a standard instrumental library. Including highly playable unique melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic multi-articulation instruments, tonal and non-tonal playable textures, loops and creative menus, even piano noise & ASMR.

Avant-Gardist is made for cinematic composers not only as one-of-a-kind virtual instrument but also as an inspiring sonic palette. Just play a few notes of random patch and it will instantly inspire you with fresh musical ideas. Especially if you’re looking for a set of instruments ranging from thriller, dark, horror, through unique signature sound to intimate, subtle and mellow tone.

Instruments structure:
56 INSPIRATIONS:
– playable preparations (round robin)
– tonal one-shots
– playable tonal textures

23 ONE PLAYER ENSEMBLES:
– multi-layer round robin instruments

8 NOISE & ASMR:
– keys mechanism
– piano noises (e.g. creaks)
– piano ASMR & room ambience
– player foleys
– all patches are round robin

9 CREATIVE MENUS:
– Motion Textures
– Rhythmic Textures
– Noise & ASMR Textures
– Hits & Pings
– Fills & Swells
– Reversed
– Mix of Textures
– Loops in 120bpm and 90bpm

Built-in effects:
– Reverb & Delay
– Lo/Hi filters
– Tone
– Attack/Release
– Pitch
– Stereo
– Compressor, Distortion, Lofi, BitCrusher, Decimator

To run Avant-Gardist, you need FULL Kontakt 6.8 plugin or newer. Free Kontakt Player vst will run the library in the DEMO mode.