Native Instruments - Alicia's Keys

Multiple Grammy-winning artist Alicia Keys is one of the most compelling figures in popular music today. A musical prodigy gone professional at 15 years old, Keys has evolved from piano wunderkind to soul-pop superstar, releasing four multi-platinum records to date. She's become a truly multidimensional force in pop culture as a musician, performer, producer and humanitarian, with her Keep A Child Alive foundation.

As an artist, Keys is soulful, prolific, and above all, authentic. Her innovative past-meets-future sound and approach to music production has been crafted and honed over years in the studio. Not only is Keys one of the most celebrated musicians and songwriters of her time, but she’s also a highly skilled producer and studio guru. Her own private studio, The Oven, is her workshop, playground and universe of evolving sound.

At the Oven, Alicia has revived a lost art in the way she produces records. Inspired by Motown, Alicia’s productions start and finish under one roof, and she works hands-on through every step of the process all the way to mastering. The Oven is abundantly equipped with vintage and modern keyboards, samplers, guitars, amps and state-of-the-art recording and production equipment. Experimenting with sound is an essential piece of Keys’ pre-production process, where her vision for a record begins to crystallize. She and engineer Ann Mincieli dig deep to sample, warp and reinvent the sounds they cull and create from scratch, developing a completely unique sonic palette to suit her vision. At the center of The Oven’s live room, and often of Keys’ sound, is the Yamaha C3 Neo grand piano. Alicia’s Keys.

Developing a virtual piano, sampled from her own playing on the Yamaha C3 Neo inside The Oven, Keys again expands her influence. Now people all over the world will be able to create new music with Keys’ authentic sounds. Another amazing and innovative product created at The Oven, and another dimension of the amazing Alicia Keys.

Native Instruments Alicia Keys features include:

The sound of Alicia Keys own personal Yamaha C3 Neo piano
Almost 3,000 individual samples on 12 discrete velocity layers with and without pedal equivalent to 17GB of uncompressed WAV files!
Sampled from Alicia Keys own playing, recorded in her studio with her own engineer
Developed with the artist and tailor-made for her recording and performance needs
Meticulous sampling technique including the noise of the finger hitting the keys (optional)
Sampled sustain and release phases with authentic implementation of the sustain pedal
All-new sympathetic resonance system for harmonics in undampened strings
Exceptionally clean quality, yet featuring adjustable microphone noise for old-school sound
Natural mechanical release noises for each of the 88 keys and pedal noises
Integrated convolution reverb for tweaking the sound directly in the instrument
Easy user interface providing integrated documentation of all settings
You need the FREE KONTAKT 4 PLAYER or KONTAKT 4 (both in version 4.0.5 or higher) to run this product
Mac: OS X 10.5 or higher, Intel Core Duo 1.66 GHz, 1 GB RAM
Windows: XP (SP2, 32bit) / VistaÂ® (32/64 Bit), Windows 7 (32/64 Bit), Pentium or Athlon XP 1.4 GHz, 1 GB RAM
Stand-alone, VST, Audio Units, RTAS (Pro Tools 7 or higher)
7 GB free disk space is required for complete installation