Intuitive Keys is designed to provide the absolute best-sounding, most comprehensive library of sounds from stock MainStage.
Expanded
IK is now drastically expanded over the first version released in 2017. Today, IK is built on 80 instrument instances, which significantly expands its sonic palette. IK is efficiently built around layers and aliases. Included preconfigured are:
- 60 pads (warm, bright, chaotic)
- 20 synths (14 polys / 6 monos)
- 20 keyboards (Rhodes, EPs, Organs)
- 15 Orchestral (plucks, strings)
- 40 Movement* (arps, pulses, animations)
Stock Pianos + Audio In
Intuitive Keys supports two stock pianos at the concert level (always available at the touch of a button), and also supports hardware input! So if your hardware keyboard isn’t getting much love these days, try running it through our piano engine, and breathe new life into even older machines. If you’re running a Nord as a controller, here’s your chance to put that machine to some good use!
The brightness/darkness of the stock Yamaha and Steinway pianos is tuned with the mod wheel. In the default mod wheel position, the pianos are tuned to be warm and sit under the vocals. Three compression settings are available on the pianos: Soft (default), Lush, and Hard, and two reverbs are available, Spacious and Dense, plus a spectacular Shimmer effect. An Add 8va button is available which puts an octave on top of the note you’re playing. This is extremely useful for featuring thematic elements on breaks between song sections. Taken together, the piano engine has a powerful emotional range that allows you to tell the story of the song in a compelling way!
Intuitive Keys optionally supports Piano 162, Grand Rhapsody, Alecia’s Keys, The Giant, with piano instrument channels, all of which can be configured through the piano engine. In this way, IK maintains the efficiency of using just one instance of a piano sound, with the full flexibility of configuring it as needed.
*not included in Light version