Wavesfactory has released The Tack, a recreation of the “Mrs Mills”, a tack piano from
Abbey Road Studios with which The Beatles, Elliot Smith and many others recorded some
of their tracks.

A tack piano (sometimes referred to as jangle piano, junk piano, honky-tonk piano or
harpsipiano) is a permanently altered version of an ordinary piano, in which tacks or
nails are placed on the felt-padded hammers of the instrument at the point where the
hammers hit the strings, giving the instrument a tinny, more percussive sound.

What’s nice about the library is that it relies on an ordinary upright piano and you can
add the amount of “tack” sound you want.

Recorded with 3 velocity layers, 3 round robin, time-based multi-release samples,
pedal noise, sustain resonance, velocity remapping, EQ, reverb, chorus and compressor
effects, all controllable from the brand new interface. State of the art scripting
for perfect response of the instrument.

- Stereo WAV files, 44.1KHz 24bit (NCW compressed)
- Sampled chromatically
- Velocity remapping
- New GUI and script
- 1GB installed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnkqRA_EY08

http://soundcloud.com/wavesfactory/the-tack-maple-leaf-drag?in=wavesfactory/sets/the-tack

http://soundcloud.com/wavesfactory/the-tack-dont-forget-me-by-tapsa-kuusniemi?in=wavesfactory/sets/the-tack

http://soundcloud.com/wavesfactory/the-tack-quality-piano-only?in=wavesfactory/sets/the-tack

http://soundcloud.com/wavesfactory/the-tack-slow-drag?in=wavesfactory/sets/the-tack

The Tack is available for the intro price of 9.95 EUR until March 1st, 2015 (regular 19.95 EUR)
This library is free for current W-Honky users. Requires full version of Kontakt 4.2.4 and above.

More INFO: Wavesfactory | The Tack