SampleScience has released Cozy Piano, a free, softly recorded upright designed for quiet inspiration and emotional cues. Warm, slightly worn, and mix‑friendly, it puts a lived‑in piano tone under your hands without getting in the way of vocals or strings.
Captured in Thuir, France on March 17, 2025, Cozy Piano was multi‑sampled from a Remeau upright in a roomy living space near a staircase, then recorded in XY stereo (RØDE NT5 pair into a Tascam FR‑AV2). The result is intimate detail with a natural ambience, great for late‑night sketches, cinematic underscore, or mellow lo‑fi beats.
Lo‑Fi Feel, Real Room
This isn’t a hyped stage piano; it’s the sound of a real instrument in a real room. Soft transients, gentle pedal/mechanicals, and a modest stereo field make it easy to layer under guitars, pads, or strings. It sits where you place it, no wrestling with EQ.
Features
- Lo‑fi upright piano sampled from a Remeau upright (stereo XY)
- Intimate, mix‑ready tone with subtle room ambience
- Multiple formats:
- Plugin: VST2/VST3/AU for Windows & macOS (Apple Silicon, 64‑bit)
- Kontakt: Full version of Kontakt 5+ required (not Kontakt Player)
- Decent Sampler library
- Soundbox sound pack
- Reason ReFill
- SFZ
- Suggested use: cinematic cues, lo‑fi/ambient keys, delicate pop ballads
- Donations welcomed; free to download
System requirements (plugin version): Windows 8.1/10/11 or macOS 10.12+, ~180 MB disk space, quad‑core CPU or better, 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended), 64‑bit host.
Free Download
Cozy Piano lofi upright piano plugin is available as a free download from SampleScience Gumroad in all formats listed above. The Kontakt version requires the full version of Kontakt 5 or later.
