Alteration: Prepared Piano Samples £16

Modernist composers like John Cage stuffed bits of rubber in the strings of their piano, muffling and warping the notes. Here, the Mode Audio pianists follow suit, coaxing all manner of oddball sounds from their instruments, as they cram nuts, bolts, and erasers inside, and merrily bash away.

You get hundreds of samples, rich in off-key harmony, detuned and muted note clusters, and bonkers little plucked sounds. Plus, channel strip settings, MIDI, and some drum kit sampler patches. modeaudio.com

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