HAVE Audio are releasing the CATTANEO Pianos. A bundle of 3 unique kontakt instruments from Paolo Cattaneo made ready for immediate playing.

►CATTANEO Upright Piano

CATTANEO Upright Piano is an intimate, unique-sounding piano which is simply perfect for songwriting, indie/pop and introspective scoring.

With its HUMAN layer, real samples of pedal-sustained notes that get engaged whenever you use your midi sustain pedal (together with press/release noises responding to it when activated), you’ll feel like you were playing the real instrument. Additionally you can engage 2 sound design layers to add swells and analog distortion, and one extra color layer, created by sampling a vintage claviharp.

Use them combined or solo to achieve unique, surprising results. Engage the cassette tape noises and wobble FX to enter a lo-fi world, add rhythm and movement with the arpeggiator, top-class reverb algorithms, delay, and 3 built-in pedal FX with 6 different FX types to choose. All you need to create beautiful piano music and beyond.

• PIANO: main sound
• HUMAN: human performance noises 
• SWELL: swells 
• RUST: distortion
• COLOR: claviharp 

• ATTACK: customize the attack to your taste
• REVERB: choose between 6 top-class algorithms
• DELAY chose your delay type (Normal/Ping-Pong), time subdivision menu and level. 
• SUSTAIN PEDAL Volume: if you engage it, it reacts to your midi sustain pedal sounding like a real one. 
• TAPE SECTION: turn your electric piano into a lo-fi gem
  • Tape Noises: choose between 6 samples cassette tape hiss types
  • Wobble: add wobbling to get those typical, random detuning effects 
• ARPEGGIATOR
• 3 FX PEDALS with 6 FX types each to choose between Eq, Compression, Saturation, Chorus, Phaser and Leslie
• *Yellow keys are percussive piano sounds. 

►CATTANEO Electric Piano

CATTANEO Electric Piano is an authentic dreamlike experience.

Sampled directly from Cattaneo’s custom-modified and “augmented” Rhodes-type piano, it is nothing like any other electric piano you may have heard. With its HUMAN layer and press/release noises of the sustain pedal responding to your midi pedal, you’ll feel like you were playing the real instrument.

Additionally you can engage 2 sound design layers to add swells, granular polyphony and an extra color layer, created by sampling tuned crystal glasses. Use them combined or solo to achieve unique, surprising results. Engage the cassette tape noises and wobble FX to enter a lo-fi world, add rhythm and movement with the arpeggiator, top-class reverb algorithms, delay, and 3 built-in pedal FX with 6 different FX types to choose. All you need to create beautiful piano music and beyond.

Tech Specs

• PIANO: main sound 
• HUMAN: it captures the sound of the hands while hitting the keys
• SWELL: sound designed swells 
• GRAINS: granular sound design layer
• COLOR: tuned crystal glasses

• ATTACK: customize the attack to your taste
• REVERB: choose between 6 top-class algorithms
• DELAY chose your delay type (Normal/Ping-Pong), time subdivision menu and level. 
• SUSTAIN PEDAL Volume: if you engage it, it reacts to your midi sustain pedal sounding like a real one. 
• TAPE SECTION: turn your electric piano into a lo-fi gem
• – Tape Noises: choose between 6 samples cassette tape hiss types
• – Wobble: add wobbling to get those typical, random detuning effects 
• ARPEGGIATOR
• 3 FX PEDALS with 6 FX types each to choose between Eq, Compression, Saturation, Chorus, Phaser and Leslie

►CATTANEO Cassette

A bonus instrument, available only in the Complete version, CATTANEO Pianos.

Mechanical noises and selected loops from the artist’s own cassette collection, with adjustable speed, reverb and delay, arpeggiator and 3 built-in pedal FX with 6 different FX types to choose. A tasty additional color to add to your upright and electric piano.

Tech Specs

• REVERB: choose between 6 top-class algorithms
• DELAY chose your delay type (Normal/Ping-Pong), time subdivision menu and level.
• TAPE SPEED
• STEREO ENHANCER
• ARPEGGIATOR
• 3 FX PEDALS with 6 FX types each to choose between Eq, Compression, Saturation, Chorus, Phaser and Leslie

The Artist

All around Cattaneo is about space, minimalism, elegance and gesture. No matter if it’s music, sound experimentation, filmmaking or decorative art, style and attention for details are his motto.

Paolo Cattaneo is an Italian musician, songwriter, electronic performer and instrument collector and builder. He published 5 acclaimed albums and EPs, one of which produced by Hugo Race, legendary guitarist of Nick Cave. He’s also a member of electronic duo Jay Perkins. We joint-ventured with this wonderful artist to create a new signature series and capture some of the sounds that captured us in the first place: we spent days in his beautiful studio in Italy to sample his unique upright piano, his modified and “augmented” electric piano and lots of little instruments, like a vintage claviharp and other gems for future releases.