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by Heavyocity
5/10 Foundations Piano is what happens when a company known for expensive cinematic libraries makes a free piano instrument. Heavyocity paired a deeply sampled soft Kawai grand with a creative texture layer of processed, atmospheric sounds that sit alongside the piano. That second layer is what impressed me most. Blend in a texture with the two-channel mixer, and a plain piano cue instantly becomes a modern hybrid scoring sound, with no extra processing needed.
You also get 10 custom presets, an arpeggiator, a gate, an ADSR envelope, and built-in delay and reverb. It is surprisingly flexible for a freebie and works especially well next to other scoring tools, like the ones on our free orchestral plugins page. My main complaint is the installation chain. 1 or later). Set aside ten minutes, and it goes smoothly, but it is a lot of steps for one instrument. Verdict: The best free piano for film, TV, and game scoring, hidden behind the most tedious installer.
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