Native Instruments – Claire

Quickly sculpt your sound from the Main page, with controls for reverb, delay, dynamics, and color, as well as blendable close and room mic positions.

Add depth and movement with the Particles engine, a popular feature introduced in Noire that generates new notes and textures based on your performance.

Dive deeper into detailed sound controls on the Piano page, including the unique fourth pedal for refined dynamic control.

Claire was meticulously captured with a range of premium microphones, offering blendable close, mid, and far positions with variable delay compensation.

The crown jewel of grand pianos

Claire is meticulously sampled from a world-class Italian concert grand piano known for its unmatched tonal clarity, depth, and power. Its long, extended strings create a deep, cutting bass, while a unique fourth pedal reduces the hammer-blow distance to enable a softer volume without altering timbre.

Flexible sound design

Recorded at the acclaimed Galaxy Hall, Claire offers both close and room microphone setups, which can be seamlessly blended to create anything from intimate tones to expansive ambience. Further shape your sound with color, tonal shift, depth, and richness controls, dialing in mechanical and pedal noises for an authentic performance.

Play with Particles

A much-loved feature from Noire, the Particles engine elevates your sound by adding layers of rippling harmonics, textures, and subtle rhythmic patterns that react to your performance. It transforms each note into an immersive and evolving soundscape, infusing your compositions with emotion and taking them in fresh, creative directions.

Exploring the sound of Claire

Join composer and pianist Nahre Sol as she explores the vast tonal range and deep sound controls of Claire, bringing the piano library to life with a Kontrol S88 keyboard.

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Perform with Kontrol keyboards

Claire integrates seamlessly with our Kontrol S-Series keyboards, offering an intuitive velocity editor, expertly crafted presets, and hands-on browsing and control of sounds via the detailed display for a truly immersive playing experience.

Created with Galaxy Instruments

Claire was produced in collaboration with Galaxy Instruments. Founder Uli Baronowsky and his team have previously partnered in the creation of critically acclaimed virtual piano instruments Noire, Piano Colors, The Giant, Una Corda, and The Definitive Piano Collection, as well as Alicia’s Electric Keys, Electric Keys – Tines Duo, Vocal Colors, Mysteria, Thrill, and Rise & Hit.