Fracture Sounds – Homestead Piano

🎹 Homestead Piano – Vintage Soul for Modern Composers
Your Personal Heirloom Upright, Reimagined ✨

Rediscover the magic of a timeless upright piano with Homestead Piano — a deeply expressive, vintage instrument lovingly sampled from a cherished family heirloom. Played for generations by Fracture Sounds founder Will Bedford, this piano brings an unmatched warmth and character to your music. Perfect for cinematic scoring, emotive songwriting, and intimate ambient soundscapes, Homestead Piano delivers the heartfelt sound of a well-loved classic.

🎧 Crafted with Care. Sampled with Soul.
Immerse yourself in the authentic realism of a piano captured in painstaking detail:

🎤 Dual Microphone Positions – Stereo pencil mics + spaced pair from the player’s POV
🔊 Real Pedal Noises & Hammer Sounds – Adds lifelike nuance to every performance
🌬️ Built-in Reverb & Seamless Blending – Instantly matches your mix environment

Every creak, breath, and touch is preserved—giving your compositions that “human” edge that’s impossible to fake.

🌌 Atmosphere Layers – Expand Your Creative Universe
Go beyond traditional piano tones with 9 cinematic Atmosphere Layers, each one hand-designed by the Fracture Sounds team to elevate your sound:

🔹 Blend rich textures, processed strings, and dreamlike pads
🔹 Mod Wheel (CC1) control for real-time dynamic layering
🎚️ Intuitive sliders let you shape, swap, and morph each layer into your sonic vision

Whether you’re scoring a haunting film scene or adding shimmer to a lo-fi ballad, these layers give you limitless creative potential.

🎛️ Designed for Expressive Control
Tailor the feel and tone of Homestead Piano with powerful performance features:

🎨 Colour EQ – Fine-tune brightness to fit any mix
🌑 Timbre Shift – Dial in dark, mellow textures or bright, articulate tones
⚡ Dynamic Response Curves – Customize how velocity affects volume and tone independently

Inspired by Fracture Sounds’ signature libraries like Woodchester Piano and Moonlight Celeste, Homestead Piano brings you deep expression with zero compromise.

🎶 Why Homestead Piano?
✅ Warm, nostalgic tone from a real vintage upright
✅ Ultra-realistic sampling with all the human nuances
✅ 9 customizable cinematic textures for modern scoring
✅ Dry, intimate sound ideal for layering and mixing
✅ Full control over dynamics, color, and playability