SampleScience has just released Toy Keyboard v3, an update to their older v2 release, with a refreshed GUI and more effects included.
Toy Keyboard is a free VST ROMpler instrument featuring the sounds of the Yamaha PSR-78 home keyboard. It comprises 72 patches, including one drum kit.
Each patch contains only one sample stretched over the whole keyboard to keep the plugin light on the disk space.
But this is also an artistic choice; by avoiding the multi-sampling approach, the resulting sound has a lo-fi character, which may appeal to some of you.
Sustained, long sounds like leads and pads have been appropriately looped to enable infinite sustain during the note-on stage.
The new updated version of Toy Keyboard also comes with Distortion, Delay, Chorus, and Reverb effects for further shaping the sound and the vibe coming from the raw sample sources.
Those can be found at the bottom of the interface, arranged in a single row for tidiness.
Over the top, you can find the preset browser and a set of other global controls. These let you choose the Voice Mode, the LFO waveform, and the type of Filter between Highpass and Lowpass.
Below them, from left to right, there are the usual suspects of Amplitude ADSR controls, a Modulation section with a multi-mode LFO, a Main section for changing the global Tune and Volume, and other quite self-explanatory simple sets of parameters.
At the very bottom of the interface, you can find a 2-octaves virtual keyboard, as in other SampleScience releases.
This is useful for quickly previewing the sounds without connecting a MIDI keyboard to your DAW.
Toy Keyboard can operate in 3 playing modes: polyphonic, monophonic, and legato. It is available for both Mac and PC running on 64-bit platforms with VST2, VST3, and AU formats.
It requires just 45 MB of HD space, and it’s natively compatible with M1 chips for those using macOS.
The release comes with a free sample pack, too, in case you want to play the included samples in your sampler of choice.
The samples are all mono at 16-bit 44.1 Khz, keeping the same vintage character of the plugin.
You can download both the instrument and the sample pack on SampleScience’s Gumroad page, with optional donations.
Download: SampleScience Toy Keyboard
More:
- Creative ToolboX: Steinway Grand Piano Is A FREE Piano Sample Library
- Best FREE Audio Recording Software
Last Updated on June 9, 2023 by Tomislav Zlatic.
