Pssst Instruments Avant-Gardist: Tonally Prepared Cinematic Piano KONTAKT-DECiBEL

**Pssst Instruments 推出 Avant-Gardist：一款别具一格的调性准备钢琴音源，不是简单的“prepared piano”，而是一整套充满电影感、富有表现力的原声调性乐器合集。**该音源由多位演奏者用弓毛、铁链、磁铁、木棍等工具直接对琴弦进行演奏，并使用近距离麦克风分别捕捉每根琴弦的声音，呈现出极其近景、富有质感且略带“脏感”的音色效果。它不拘于标准调音，而是保留自然微妙的不和谐与人味，为影视配乐创作者提供了一种近乎独特的创作体验。

Avant-Gardist 包含 56 种“灵感乐器”（可演奏预备技法、调性 One-shot、可演奏纹理）、23 个“独奏合奏乐器”、8 个钢琴噪音 & ASMR 补丁、以及 9 个“创意菜单”素材模块（涵盖运动纹理、节奏音效、反转元素、填充/鼓动等），全面覆盖旋律、打击、背景氛围与声音设计。每一个音色都带有 Round Robin 和有机的自然触感，既可独奏，也可用于构建完整配乐场景。

借助内置音效（Reverb、Delay、滤波、压缩、Lo-Fi、Bitcrusher、调音等），用户可轻松调整音色的空间感与情绪张力，从亲密呢喃到电影远景，灵活适配各种氛围需求。这款音源不仅适合用于惊悚、悬疑、艺术实验等电影场景，也适合希望打破传统和声框架的先锋作曲人与声音艺术家。需要完整版本的 Kontakt 6.8 或以上版本运行。

Pssst Instruments Avant-Gardist: Tonally Prepared Cinematic Piano KONTAKT-DECiBEL

Team DECiBEL | 11 Nov 2025 | 1.82GB

Yes, this is a VERY special instrument. No, it is not just another prepared piano library. 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-andjusted 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.

THE SOUND
You can play Avant-Gardist like a piano because it sounds genuinely rich and full when played solo. It has so many colors that you can even create a whole soundtrack using only this library. Besides that, don’t forget about the big catalog of playable textures and SFXs which help in keeping the consistent sound without frustrating repetition of samples.

Everything was recorded as closely as possible with such a beautiful sound, that almost all instruments remained acoustic and unprocessed (besides standard eq, compression and pitching). This means you really do not have to mix them, they already sound great.

And what if you need a distant cinematic sound? Simply move one knob of the in-built reverb. Need a close and intimate tone? Remove the reverb. The whole interface is easy and very user-friendly. You will find there one-knob filters, tone, attack/release, stereo, pitch, compressor, lofi, distortion, bit crusher, decimator, rotary, delay and reverb.

Inspirations? John Cage, George Crumb, avant-gardists and minimialists. Partly Krzysztof Penderecki and sonorists.

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

Size: 2,8 GB

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