SPLINTERED: Soundboard
Splintered Soundboard is a deeply textured, decayed piano crafted from a broken upright. With raw, haunting tones and evolving sound design layers, it’s perfect for scoring and experimental music. Embrace imperfection and create something beautifully fractured.
Splintered Soundboard is a deeply textured, decayed piano crafted from a broken upright. With raw, haunting tones and evolving sound design layers, it’s perfect for scoring and experimental music. Embrace imperfection and create something beautifully fractured.
Splintered Soundboard is a deeply textured, decayed piano crafted from a broken upright. With raw, haunting tones and evolving sound design layers, it’s perfect for scoring and experimental music. Embrace imperfection and create something beautifully fractured.
A SOUND REBORN FOR CINEMATIC TENSION
What happens when you strip a piano down to its core, remove the hammers and keys, and push its soundboard to its absolute limits? SPLINTERED: Soundboard is the answer—an experimental sound design instrument built from the resonant remains of a well-worn piano, transformed into a tool for horror, thriller, and atmospheric scoring.
Every strike, scrape, and resonance has been meticulously captured, processed, and presented in an intuitive Kontakt instrument, giving you full control over deep percussive hits, unsettling textures, and extreme cinematic effects.
DEMOS
BOARD
A fusion of percussive and tonal resonance, featuring recordings of the piano’s strings struck and plucked with a variety of materials:
Screws, bass plectrums, fingers, scrap metal, drumsticks, and straws
Varied attack dynamics – blending sharp strikes with lingering resonance
FX
Cinematic impacts, risers, and high-intensity horror elements:
Hits & Jumpscares - Struck with hammers, spanners, for massive, resonant impacts
Risers & Downers – Tension-building movements captured directly from the piano’s wires
SCAPES
Evolving textures and abstract sound design layers built from processed recordings:
Ebow drones & wire scrapes
Reverse textures & randomized percussive loops for endless experimentation
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Full version of Kontakt 6.8.0 or higher (Not compatible with Kontakt Player)
No license restrictions – Use freely in any project
Snapshots included – See installation instructions below
INSTALLING SNAPSHOTS FOR SPLINTERED SOUNDBOARD
Complete the installation of Splintered Soundboard using Pulse.
Open an instance of Splintered Soundboard in Kontakt.
Click the wrench icon in the top left corner.
Select Instrument Options and then click on Snapshot.
Where it says "Snapshot Saving Location", click Show—this will open a window showing your unique snapshot folder.
Open a second Explorer/Finder window and navigate to the Splintered Soundboard folder (the location you selected during the Pulse installation).
Inside the Splintered Soundboard folder, find the Snapshots folder.
Copy the contents of this Snapshots folder into the snapshot location that Kontakt just opened.
Close and reopen Splintered Soundboard in Kontakt—your snapshots should now be available in the snapshot menu.