Narrative

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Narrative

The definitive toolkit for cinematic storytelling.

A broadcast-ready concert grand, instinctual velocity-switched textures, and evocative contemporary strings, built to remove the barrier between your hands and the drama on screen.

This is for the composer who needs to react instantly to the drama on screen. It brings together three deeply expressive libraries designed to act as a fluid, responsive extension of your compositional voice. Anchored by our gold standard grand – the BBC Symphony Orchestra Piano Professional, and supported by the improvisational textures of the Contemporary Drama Toolkit and the raw emotion of London Contemporary Orchestra Strings, this is your definitive collection for character-driven underscoring where every dynamic shift matters.

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What's included

BBC Symphony Orchestra Piano Professional
BBC Symphony Orchestra Piano Professional
$151.00 $189.00
The complete gold standard piano
Contemporary Drama Toolkit
Contemporary Drama Toolkit
$159.00 $199.00
Less theory — more feeling
London Contemporary Orchestra Strings
London Contemporary Orchestra Strings
$349.00
Ultra-modern chamber strings techniques

Listen to Narrative

Clair de Lune - Debussy

Rise Pt 1 - Paul Saunderson

Approaching Umbriel - Mathias Pedersen

Every great score begins with a single idea, often sketched on the keys. But moving from a fragile, intimate sketch to a fully realised cinematic cue requires instruments that respond instinctually to the picture. The Narrative Bundle is designed specifically for this journey.

At the heart is the BBC Symphony Orchestra Piano Professional. Captured in the iconic Maida Vale Studio One, this pristine Steinway Model D was recorded in concerto position, ensuring that its spatial panning and acoustic depth blend flawlessly with your existing orchestral template in BBC SO Pro, Core or Discover. With 13 distinct microphone signals, ranging from vintage BBC mono setups to immersive Dolby Atmos arrays, as well as two bespoke mixes, it’s a hyper-detailed, broadcast-ready grand that serves as the perfect emotional anchor for any scene.

BBC Symphony Orchestra Piano Professional

A pristine Steinway Model D concert grand captured in the legendary acoustics of Maida Vale Studios. The Professional edition offers an unmatched 15 microphone signals, allowing you to sculpt everything from an ultra-intimate, hammer-focused cinematic tone to a sweeping, traditional symphonic perspective.

Adding further colour is the Contemporary Drama Toolkit. Created in collaboration with composer Samuel Sim, this library rethinks how you use MIDI to trigger different instruments. Instead of programming complex CC curves to ride the emotional arc of a scene, the engine uses velocity to intuitively match the intensity of your keystrike: soft touches yield atmospheric Juno 6 pads; striking harder instantly triggers characterful, expressive solo lines, allowing you to score a scene in a single, fluid pass.

Contemporary Drama Toolkit

An ensemble curated specifically for modern scoring. Blending piano textures, vintage analog synths, vocals, and electric strings, this library utilises highly sophisticated velocity-dependent layer switching. It allows you to weave from textural beds to bold, emotive lead lines simply by altering how hard you strike the keys, empowering you to respond instantaneously to the picture.

To complete the Narrative palette, we’ve included LCO Strings. Known for their visceral, boundary-pushing techniques, the London Contemporary Orchestra provide a raw, textural counterpoint to the pristine BBCSO Grand. Together, these three libraries give you all the sounds you need to grip the listener, allowing you to stay entirely focused on the story.

London Contemporary Orchestra Strings

A deeply evocative, experimental string library captured in a dry acoustic space. Focusing on the raw, bowing techniques and textural playing of one of the world's most innovative contemporary ensembles, it provides the perfect gritty, intimate accompaniment to an immaculate concert grand piano.

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Tech specs

macOS requirements

OS 11 - OS 26 (Kontakt 8.8 requires OS14 min)

Both Intel and Apple Silicon/ARM are supported

Minimum: 2.8GHz i5 minimum (quad-core), 8GB RAM

Recommended: 2.8GHz I7 (six-core), 16GB RAM

32-bit systems are not supported.

PC requirements

Windows 10 or Windows 11 - (Latest Service Pack, 64-bit)Minimum: Intel 2.8 GHz i5 (quad-core) or AMD Ryzen 5, 8GB RAM

Recommended: Intel Core i7 6th gen and later or AMD Ryzen 7, 16GB RAM

32-bit systems are not supported.

Kontakt Player version

Kontakt Full or Kontakt Player 5.6.8 or higher