Best Free Kontakt Electric Piano Libraries: Rhodes, Wurlitzer & Vintage Keys

Electric Pianos

Fracture Sounds Blueprint: Wurli Electric Piano

Format: Kontakt Player

Few sampled Wurly instruments capture the clank of the felt-tipped hammers striking the metal reads well. Fracture Sounds nailed that. It’s lacking when it comes to the bite of a real Wurly, but overall, this is a lovely sampled Wurly instrument.

https://soundcloud.com/fracture-sounds/1-sneaking-suspicion-benjamin

Sonokinetic EMP Electromechanical Piano

Format: Kontakt Player

A Rhodes Mark II Electric Piano. This is a decent sounding electric piano, that has a very lofi vibe to it. It’s tone is not as pleasing as some of the other choices below, like my favorite free electric piano, Fracture Sounds: Blueprint Electric Keys, but that’s a different model Rhodes, so if you want to have a larger palate of electric pianos, give this a try. It is compatible with the free Kontakt Player, so you don’t need to own the full version of Kontakt to enjoy it.

Wavesynth Glow

Format: Kontakt (Full Version)

Three Rhodes-like wavetable electric piano patches from a Sequential Prophet 6.

Fracture Sounds: Blueprint Electric Keys

Format: Kontakt Player

A beautiful, 1969 Rhodes Mark I Electric Piano library that’s good enough to be a paid library. It allows you to adjust the key noise. It doesn’t have a bunch of presets, but it lets you choose between direct input and amped and has controls for stereo spread, reverb, chorus, and atmosphere. It’s pretty obvious to see the developer’s rationale for giving this away free. Once you use it, you’ll be interested in their other libraries.

ETI Roads

Format: Kontakt (Full Version)

A very detailed Rhodes MKII electric piano sample library.

https://soundcloud.com/eti-roads/sample-pure-01-funky?in=eti-roads/sets/eti-roads

Lo-fi Wurly

Format: Kontakt (Full Version)

Despite the name Lo-fi Wurly, this Wurltizer electric piano AKA Wurli/Wurly is a detailed sample library that sounds really nice, but unfortunately does have noise in it that a pro sample developer would have fixed.

Premier Sound Factory Wurly G

Format: Kontakt (Full Version)

I want to put a caveat on this one, as I don’t love this sample library straight from the factory, however, I made my own user presets that I like a lot. So, if you spend a little effort, I think you can get some nice sounds of this, but I’m not in love with the sound straight out of the box.

SonicCouture Rocksichord

Format: Kontakt Player

Tony Banks used it on “Carpet Crawlers,” The Beach Boys, Dr. John, John Lennon, Sun Ra, Terry Riley, and Wilco all used it (in fact, the sampled instrument belongs to Wilco’s keyboardist and he recorded the samples).

The Electro Acoustic Piano

Format: Kontakt (Full Version)

This sample library was made using an amped Fender Rhodes electric piano and an acoustic piano. That’s been done a lot, but this was very well executed and sounds great. The samplists on this are the very talented Dan Keen and Angus Roberts-Carey.

https://soundcloud.com/nemoralismusic/overcast?in=pianobook/sets/the-electro-acoustic-piano