The Grand Mechaniano was based on the sound of a grand piano recorded at a local school of music.
The idea was to effect and alter the samples to expose and emphasize all the "ugliness" the piano would be capable of under certain circumstances (a simulation of bad weather conditions, aging, bad care, various forms of damaging the thing...) The goal was to obtain the sounds with a "different" aesthetic - raw, unpolished, detuned, squeaky, creaky, noisy, gritty, dusty, cracky, lo-fi, warped, overdriven or otherwise sound-designed samples.
These sounds could be mangled together with many other sounds, mostly of a metallic and mechanical nature (hence the name Mechaniano). In pursuit of this plan, a lot of places spanning several years were visited and a lot of various sound sources were recorded and used. For example – fences around the blocks of flats under reconstruction, agricultural machines put away standing in the fields, an abandoned junkyard with construction material after building the highway, steel sculptures in a town park, a circular saw reel, container springs, trash bins, roadblocks, a fridge, rain water rustling in the drainpipes during winter, a little hand bell, an old hand-lever pump, cans, barrels, gears, cups, an elevator, a rusty garden gate but also many weird sounds created in a synthesizer.
Please note: The FULL version of Kontakt 5.8.1 or above is required. Not for Kontakt Player
