Small Developers With Big Ideas!
Introducing Ghost Piano
Piano Deconstructed
Cinematic FX for Modern Scoring
Hey friends,
Kevin here – founder of Triumph Audio – and today I finally get to share something I am super excited about. We just added a brand-new library to our Ghost Series, and I could not be happier to bring it to you. Please meet Ghost Piano.
If you have followed along with our Ghost Series, you already know the concept. We take an instrument and reimagine it. We dig into it, flip it around, push it into places it was never designed to go, and then bring back sounds that feel both familiar and alien at the same time. Ghost Piano is no exception. In fact, the piano was the perfect candidate for this treatment.
Most of us know the piano as a foundation instrument. It is beautiful, versatile, and a staple in almost every composer’s toolkit. But what happens when you go inside? What happens when you stop thinking about keys and hammers and start thinking about strings, wood, and resonance? That is what Ghost Piano is all about. It is the piano deconstructed and rebuilt as a cinematic sound design machine.
Going Inside the Piano
For Ghost Piano we went straight into the guts of the instrument. We recorded a baby grand and an upright, and captured bot in ways you will almost never hear in a traditional performance. Instead of playing the keys in the usual sense, we went at the strings with all sorts of tools and techniques. We struck them, plucked them, bowed them, scraped them, muted them, and even buzzed them.
The result is a raw library of sounds that already feel unusual and inspiring before any processing. From there, we shaped those recordings into playable patches, drones, pads, pulses, loops, and textures that can carry a score or layer perfectly under your cues.
Here are a few highlights from the sessions:
Finger plucks and scrapes give you delicate, intimate textures that feel fragile and close.
A back massager (yes, really) became a mechanical tremolo engine, creating shimmering movement across the strings.
Super Ball mallets dragged across the strings produced deep groans and resonant effects that feel like something alive is trapped inside the piano.
Glass bottles created ringing harmonics and percussive overtones that slice right through a mix.
Guitar picks gave us sharp, precise attacks perfect for tension and stingers.
Rubber and soft mallets allowed us to mute the strings and bring out darker, rounder timbres.
Drum sticks gave us crisp, rhythmic textures with a bit more bite.
An electric shaver buzzing on the strings created metallic, unnerving drones that are perfect for horror and sci-fi.
An Ebow produced ghostly sustains and textures that bloom in unexpected ways.
Each of these raw ideas was captured with care, and then we went even deeper by designing them into new patches inside our engine.
What You Get Inside Ghost Piano
This is not just a handful of quirky sounds. It is a fully realized instrument library designed to fit into your scoring toolkit. We built Ghost Piano to be both exploratory and highly usable.
Here is the breakdown:
Over 20 tonal and percussion patches covering playable instruments with velocity layers across all 88 keys.
Over 20 events and FX menus that deliver scrapes, hits, and one-shot textures.
Over 30 drones and evolving textures that stretch and morph into eerie beds of sound.
Over 30 pads designed for rich atmospheres and wide scoring moments.
Over 40 processed patches inside the Triumph Engine, with artist-made sound design baked right in.
9 loop sets tempo-synced to your project, featuring multiple patterns and rhythms.
Over 20 pulses to add rhythmic motion and depth to your score.
That adds up to 167 patches (343 including TMP versions), all carefully organized into subfolders like Tonal and Percussion, Events and Menus, Drones, Pads, Processed, Loops, and Pulses. Whether you are looking for something instantly playable or you want to dig through layers of sound design, it is all here and easy to navigate.
Ghost Piano requires the full version of Kontakt and the download comes in at 6.77 GB.
Performance Details
We built Ghost Piano with composers in mind. That means it is not just a collection of static sounds. It is dynamic, expressive, and flexible.
The MOD wheel is your best friend here. In MOD FX patches, the wheel lets you morph between a clean, unaffected version of the sound and an effects-heavy version. It is like having two instruments in one, and you can ride that control live to add drama and shape to your performance. For non-MOD FX patches, the MOD wheel controls the filter cutoff, letting you open up or darken the tone on the fly.
This level of detail makes Ghost Piano feel alive under your hands and gives you a ton of creative control without needing to dive into menus.
Cinematic Versatility
Ghost Piano was made for modern scoring. If you are working in horror, sci-fi, drama, tension, or even ambient and experimental music, this library will fit right in. You can build entire cues around its drones and pads, add pulses for movement, and sprinkle in FX events for moments of impact. Or you can just layer its textures under more traditional instruments to instantly make your score feel less predictable.
That is the beauty of the Ghost Series. It always gives you a balance of authentic, organic recordings and more experimental, processed material. You get the grit and realism of real instruments plus the depth and edge of modern sound design.
The Ghost Bundle
If you are new to Triumph Audio or just discovering the Ghost Series, there is an even better way to experience it. The Ghost Bundle pulls together four of our most powerful libraries in one package. With the bundle you get:
Ghost Piano
Ghost Cello 2: The Dark Side
Ghost Cello
Ghost Ukelin
Each one takes a different instrument and pushes it to its limits. Together they form a toolkit for eerie, cinematic, and modern scoring that covers strings, hybrid sounds, and now piano.
Final Thoughts
At Triumph Audio we live by the idea of being a small developer with big ideas. That means every library is made with passion, curiosity, and a lot of experimentation. We are not just recreating what is out there already. We are trying to give you something you have never heard before but will want to use every day in your music.
Ghost Piano is born from the piano, but it is unlike anything you have played before. It is part instrument, part sound design toolkit, and completely in line with the Ghost Series DNA.
Thank you for your support and for standing with small developers who dream big. We cannot wait to hear what you create with Ghost Piano.
Stay inspired,
Kevin Manthei
Founder & Lead Creator of Triumph Audio
