Addictive Keys Complete Collection – 4 Sampled Pianos for $29.99

Piano libraries usually sell you one instrument and a promise. The Addictive Keys Complete Collection sells you the shelf: four meticulously sampled keyboards covering the grand, the upright, the electric grand and the Rhodes — the four piano sounds that between them appear on the overwhelming majority of recorded music. XLN Audio’s Addictive Keys engine is known for instruments that are fast to load, easy to shape and honest to play, and the Complete Collection is that engine with its full keyboard catalogue in a single purchase.

The Four Instruments

Studio Grand is a Steinway Model D concert grand, sampled for dynamic range and expressiveness — the rich, resonant sound that fills concert halls and carries everything from classical repertoire to pop ballads. Modern Upright is based on the Yamaha U3, with the clear, defined, intimate tone that suits jazz, indie and any production where a grand would be too grand. Electric Grand blends the qualities of an acoustic grand with electric elements — hammers, direct line and amplified outputs captured as separate perspectives — giving the stage-piano sound that works from rock concerts to jazz clubs. Mark One is a rendition of the classic Fender Rhodes Mark I, the smooth, soulful electric piano behind decades of funk, jazz, rock and electronic music. Each instrument is recorded with state-of-the-art equipment for warm, deep and clear audio, and each carries a range of presets as starting points.

Microphones Are the Sound Design

The Addictive Keys approach to customisation is acoustic before it is electronic: advanced microphone positioning lets you choose and blend the perspectives each piano was captured from, which changes the instrument’s character more fundamentally than any EQ. Close for intimacy and detail, room for space and grandeur, or a blend voiced for the mix — the same grand becomes several pianos. On top of the mic control sit streamlined sound-shaping controls and built-in effects — reverb, EQ and compression — so a preset can be finished inside the instrument. The interface is deliberately intuitive: navigation and adjustment are quick, which matters in sessions and matters double on stage.

Studio and Stage

Addictive Keys is optimised for both environments — low latency and reliable performance for live use, and the depth and detail studio production demands. The genre range is the genre range of the piano itself: solo pieces, full band productions, jazz, classical, pop, funk, electronic. It runs as VST, AU and AAX in the major DAWs including Ableton Live, Logic Pro and FL Studio, on Windows 7, 8 and 10 and macOS 10.9 or later, with a modest footprint of 4GB of RAM and around 6GB of disk — light enough to live on the laptop that travels.

There is a quiet economic argument inside this collection. Producers typically accumulate piano libraries over years — a grand here, a Rhodes there — spending more in total for less coherence, and learning several interfaces along the way. The Complete Collection consolidates the purchases into one engine with one logic, one mic-position philosophy and one effects approach across four instruments. Your hands learn it once, and every keyboard part you write afterwards benefits from that fluency. It is the piano category, bought once, at the price of a single mid-range library.

The Deal

All four instruments — Studio Grand, Modern Upright, Electric Grand and Mark One — for $29.99. Addictive Keys instruments are praised individually precisely because they sound like the classics they sample; the collection simply removes the need to choose between them. If a keyboard appears anywhere in your music, this is the shelf it should come from. Instant delivery.