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Samples » Kontakt
Strix Instruments PRIPYAT Pianos v1.0.1 KONTAKT-DECiBEL screenshot
Team DECiBEL | 06 Sep 2019 | 3.63GB
THEY WERE SILENT FOR 33 YEARS
33 years of harsh weather conditions and radiation, 33 years of silence, 33 years of hopeless expectation of human touch. PRIPYAT Pianos is a sound museum, created 33 years after a massive man-made disaster that has affected hundreds of thousands of lives. This is the mark of the elapsed time.



RADIOACTIVE PIANOS FROM THE CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE
For seven years our team has made more than 25 trips to the city of Pripyat for detailed collection of audio materials. We’ve found and recorded 20 instruments in various parts of Pripyat that are of different levels of preservation and functionality. This amount of instruments was necessary to create a tool suitable not only for sound design, but also for writing compositions. Our goal was to create a virtual instrument which will show the nature of the degradation of instruments under the effects of harsh weather conditions and radiation, yet which also would have the most pure sound. All the pianos we could find participated in the creation of the final sound.

AN APARTMENT IN PRIPYAT OR A NUCLEAR REACTOR CHAMBER?
One of the important features of PRIPYAT Pianos is the Impulse Responses collection for Convolution Reverb, recorded in well-known and not-so-known Pripyat sites, including the territory of the tragically known Chernobyl NPP. A series of rooms and open spaces from Pripyat are at your disposal. Some presets are more invisible and will give a light shade to the sound of the instrument, and others will convey the scale of city structures or internal structures of the 5th power unit of the ChNPP.

FROM 1986 TO 2019
Age Knob – a slider that changes the instrument’s behavior depending on the years of degradation from 1986 to 2019. The regulator allows you to hear almost untouched sound of notes from 1986. You can add special, lively notes, creating a unique sound with small age changes from 1986 and up, or a radical change installing 2019, which represents the current sound of the instruments at the moment. The sound of 1986 was created using the most suitable pianos and their keys. However, even they have string artifacts that we decided to leave to preserve authenticity.

BEAUTIFUL AND SIMPLE INTERFACE
Each of the 23 presets is supplemented with a photo of the place where the Impulse-Response was recorded, a brief description and the current level of gamma radiation in that particular location. Simply select the place you like from the drop-down list, touch the keys and feel the atmosphere of the Dead City. The main elements of control are the distance to the instrument, the ability to shorten the start of samples, adjusting the opening of the instrument lid, the convolution reverb control, as well as more detailed elements in the form of overtones, keystrokes, sustain pedal mechanism, dampers and the layer of sympathetic resonance, which was collected from 20 recorded pianos.

WE SHORTENED OUR LIVES
At the end of each trip, shoes and clothes were thrown away or thoroughly washed out taking into account the radiation contamination of the soil, asphalt and dust particles in the air. Unfortunately, as you know, radiation accumulates in the human body, summing up to the dose that has already been received and will not be removed from the body throughout life, some isotopes will be active for thousands of years, i.e. much later than our death. We shortened our lives to create a truly unique instrument.



KONTAKT 5.8.1 FULL and higher
PRIPYAT Pianos / 1 instrument/ 14 snapshots
Zip 2.69 GB (3.63 GB uncompressed / lossless / .wav equivalent 11 GB)
2900+ unique samples / 4 to 16 round robins/ 9 velocity layers / 48 kHz 24 bits
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comments

  Member 10.06.2014 1 24
+14
i thought it was describing my life
  Resident 30.12.2017 1 1735
+794
The only library where EXPOSURE is guaranteed.
  Member 6.01.2015 490
+120
guy in the walkthrough demo looks like steve austin from the side. gimme a hell yeah!
  Resident 19.10.2014 176
+27
*hums theme song*
  Member 5.01.2016 200
+93
First, thanks a lot Decibelle as always!
But as for Strix Instruments : Wow, so now Tchernobyl can be a marketing argument for a kontakt lib?!?!?!
And then: "we shortened our live", so people can buy the kontakt instrument??? Obviously not the only clue, but man, world is definitly becoming a sad and mad place... The all thing is just too disturbing for me.

PS : i know, maybe piano with ionizing radiation sounds sooo good...
  Resident 31.01.2017 598
+179
So, anyone has wondered why I got mad of SF Audio's practices, that insanity of this library developer must have been influenced by them. The difference is we don't know if this company actually recorded the samples (or just "borrowed" from someone else) and if so, where. In case of SF at least you can easily bet whenever comes out e. g. a new strings library, that it's just a new mix of the good ol' Albion samples, imitating different mic positions, section size etc.

What's next? Tsunami pianos, Katrina pianos, or Dorina from Barbados?
Let's threaten Talula if he doesn't release the Flat Earth Pianos, as well.
  Resident 30.12.2017 1 1735
+794
Cymatics Titanic Piano, limited to 100 buyers, for only 9.999$, but only for a limited time!
  Resident 30.01.2014 7 2163
+364
Just 10k? Sound awefully cheap. I'll pass on that one...
  Resident 25.11.2015 1222
+465
the good news is - for those libs reusing sounds from other libs or just running samples through algo reverbs for bloat/extra mic positions: we don't have to pay for any of that nonsense here .

so bring on the flat earth pianos and if the conspiracy makes a sound, sample it!
make music, not walls.
  Resident 25.11.2015 1222
+465
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make music, not walls.
  Resident 22.09.2015 541
+91
It's like the actual direct victims of the 1986 Tchernobyl catastrophe haven't actually shortened their lives...

They're all dead, and not easily. Those who survived are very ill. There's also indirect and long-term victims, whom are difficult to number accurately. "Strix" employees are still well and alive, they should not even start to think to begin to complain.

https://www.theclever.com/20-chilling-photos-of-the-chernobyl-disaster/
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