WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?
Stop wasting hours browsing for the right presets and stop struggling to recreate these sounds yourself. Stop settling for "eh, close enough... this will have to do...". Stop relying on the same old factory presets everyone uses.
A hundred notes with a bad tone will annoy the audience, while one single note with the proper tone will send chills down their spines. You can cause a much bigger impact than other musicians by having better tones.
It's easy to fool ourselves thinking "if only I had those other 10 keyboards, then I would have the sounds I need". You don't need 10 different keyboards to play Floyd, you only need one MIDI Controller. Any MIDI Controller.
Music has the power to communicate things we can't express with words. With these pristine sounds you can immerse the audience in a truly intimate experience, just like Rick Wright always intended to do.
FORGED IN BATTLE
Floyd Keys Deluxe was crafted and constantly refined during a period of over 5 years.
From December 2016 to the release date in September 2022, each sound was battle tested on stage and polished accordingly.
Latest update: December 29th 2023
"Wow, the keyboard sounds were fantastic, I felt like I was listening to the records!" - frequent feedback that I got after concerts, no exaggeration.
At the studio rehearsing
At the studio rehearsing
DSOTM 45th anniversary tour
DSOTM 45th anniversary tour
DSOTM 45th anniversary tour
Animals 40th anniversary tour
Animals 40th Anniversary tour
My second concert ever
Richard Wright's 1975 Keyboard Rig
BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
You can see several keyboards in Rick's rig from the Wish You Were Here tour. Vintage analog gear is great, but it's also very sensitive to decalibration and damage, so imagine the weight of all of that gear and the massive effort to carefully carry all of that around on tour. Oh, and the maintenance.
With Floyd Keys Deluxe you will have maximum convenience:
1) No weight because the instruments and presets are software.
2) No tuning problems because digital pitch is perfectly stable.
3) Matching the instruments Rick used, only as software recreations.
4) All sounds safely stored as presets for instant recalling.
5) One MIDI Controller can do the job. Two would be optimal.
6) Lifetime Access, switch computers, switch controllers, it doesn't matter.
Pricing: $119,99
ACYL Lead
ACYL Split
Atom Heart Organ 1
Atom Heart Organ 2
Atom Heart Organ 3
Brain Damage Lead 1
Brain Damage Lead 2
Brain Damage Lead Split
Brick 1 Brassy Bass
Celestial Intro Organ
Celestial Organ
Celestial Perc Organ
Childhood’s End Organ
Childhood’s Intro Farfisa
Comfortable Pad
Coming Back Organ
Coming Back Intro Pad (new)
Coming Back Solina
Cymbaline Farfisa 1
Cymbaline Farfisa 2
Cymbaline Farfisa Split
Dogs Intro Farfisa 1
Dogs Intro Farfisa 2
Dogs Intro Farfisa Split
Dogs Lead
Dogs Lead Oakland (new)
Dogs Monster Lead
Dogs Organ
Dogs Organ Lead Split
Dogs Solina 1
Dogs Solina Ensemble
DSOTM Organ
DSOTM Organ 2
DSOTM Piano
DSOTM Synth Bass 1
DSOTM Synth Bass 2
Echoes Farfisa 1
Echoes Farfisa 2
Echoes Farfisa Split
Echoes Organ 1
Echoes Organ 1 Pompeii
Echoes Organ 2 Dist
Echoes Rotary Piano
Have a Cigar Lead
Have a Cigar Lead Split
Have a Cigar Solina
Have a Cigar Split EP
Hey You EP
Hey You Fly Buzz
Hey You Organ
High Hopes Piano Solina Split
Inside Out Lead
Learning Split 1
Learning Split 2
Learning to Fly Bend
Learning to Fly Pluck
Learning to PWM Sweep
Little Pinprick
Marooned Intro
Money EP
Monster Machine
The Machine Lead
(new)
OFTD Organ Split
OFTD Pulse 1 (Fade In)
OFTD Pulse 2 (Fade Out)
OFTD Pulse Split
On The Turning Organ
On The Turning Pad
Pigs Guitar Swell
Pigs Intro Dive FX
Pigs Intro Organ
Pigs Intro Solina
Pigs Intro Split
Pigs Monster Lead
Rick Wright EP
Rick Wright Farfisa
Rick Wright Farfisa Flute
Rick Wright Organ
Rick Wright Organ 2
Rick Wright Piano
Run Like Hell Organ
Run PWM Lead
Sheep EP
Sheep Fly Buzz
Sheep IL Lead
Sheep IL Organ Split
Sheep IL Split 1
Sheep IL Split 2 Leads
Sheep IL Split 3
Sheep Organ 1
Sheep Organ 2
Sheep Prayer Lead
Shine Intro Pluck
Shine Intro Solina
Shine Intro Split
Shine Intro Taurus Bass
Shine Lead 1
Shine Lead 2
Shine Organ
Shine Organ Lead Split
Shine Pt6 Lead
Shine Pt6 Split
Shine Pt8 Clavi
Shine Pt8 Lead
Shine Pt9 Lead
Shine Solina
Shine Synth Pad
Sorrow Analog Pad
Sorrow Organ
Take it Back Soft Pad
The Wall Organ
Thin Ice Reso Bass
Thin Ice Split 1
Thin Ice Split 2
Time Long Fade Organ
Time Short Fade Organn
Time Faded Organ Split
Time Intro Bass and EP
Time Intro Mellotron
Time Mellotron
Time Mellotron Split
Time Verse Bass and EP
Wish Brassy Synth
Young Lust Organ
Intros, cues and other sound effects.
Playing Time or Money without the iconic introductions wouldn't be the same. The audience is really really familiar with those sounds, so to play Floyd live, those samples are kind of mandatory.
Some of these I found on the internet, some I sampled myself from the songs, some I made from other sound effects.
Neatly organized, leveled out volumes, convenient fade ins / outs.
All ready to use without any hassle.
* I don't own any rights to any of Pink Floyd's music, nor am I selling their content. These samples are free, intended to help out other musicians who want to play Floyd live.
Frequently Asked Questions:
You only need to download Analog Lab by Arturia.
https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/analoglab/free
* About computer parameters like processor and RAM memory, I recommend having at least an i5 with 8gb of RAM.
To use Floyd Keys Deluxe with 2 MIDI controllers at once, I recommend at least an I7 with 16gb of RAM. (this is what I use)
Allan's optimal pick: Macbook Pro, M2 processor with 64GB of RAM
For more info on computer requirements, consult the Analog Lab page from the Arturia website
Analog Lab is a hub for all Arturia software instruments from the V Collection. You can open it as a plugin inside of your DAW, or as standalone, and it can play sounds from any of the instruments.
There are 4 tiers of Analog Lab:
Analog Lab PLAY (free)
Analog Lab INTRO
Analog Lab PRO
Analog Lab PRO + V Collection
The free version is enough to be able to import this sound pack.
More information on their website:
https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/analoglab-v/overview
V Collection is a separate license that gives you further access to customize the sounds, but it's not a requirement to load and play Floyd Keys Deluxe.
It's a collection of software recreations of legendary vintage keyboards and synthesizers made by Arturia. They sell each instrument separately, but you can get them all as a bundle for a much better price.
* You don't need a full V Collection license to be able to import Floyd Keys Deluxe, though I recommend getting it because it's absolutely fantastic and worth it.
https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/v-collection/overview
Yes. The sound engines of Analog Lab and the V Collection instruments are SOFTWARE, so the "brains" are inside of your computer. MIDI is a standardized communication protocol of digital instruments, and controllers ~control~ software or hardware instruments. You use your MIDI controller to trigger the sounds that are being processed in real time inside of your computer.
Yes. The only requirement being Analog Lab V, it works with previous versions of the V Collection.
With Analog Lab you can play sounds from any instrument from the V Collection, what the V Collection licenses adds is INSIDE ACCESS to CUSTOMIZE presets. If you have V Collection 8 you will be able to play ALL sounds from Floyd Keys Deluxe, but you won't be able to CUSTOMIZE a few presets like the Piano V3 presets and Prophet-5 V.
Unfortunately no. VST's are software instruments that run exclusively inside computers, so it's not possible to simply import the sounds into your keyboard.
It's a very simple process.
1) Open Analog Lab (sandalone or plugin)
2) Click the icon of 3 lines on the top left corner
3) Click IMPORT
4) Select the Floyd Keys Deluxe Soundbank File
All of the files will be imported at once.
Further instructions on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkV1v254Xss
Samples are simple .wav files and there are several ways you can use them. Most of these are intended as one shot samples for you to trigger as special sound effects to enhance the Floydian experience.
The way I triggered these live is by adding them to audio clips in audio tracks on Ableton Live, then I mapped the play button for these clips to pads on my Keylab (Cmd+M takes you to MIDI assign mode).
There are other ways to use samples, I recommend that you take some time to research about sampling, it's worth it.
Arturia recently released V Collection X with a completely rebuilt Minimoog plugin, the Mini V4.
Floyd Keys Deluxe was released more than year before this launch, and has many Mini V3 sounds.
Mini V3 and Mini V4 are not backwards compatible.
To make sure you see all Mini V3 sounds you need to enable "Include Legacy Sounds".
1) Click the "hamburger" (3 white lines) on the top left corner of Analog Lab
2) Enable Include Legacy Sounds and you will see that the remaining Mini V3 sounds will appear normally.
* I am in the process of remaking all V3 sounds on V4, though it will take some time. You will get all of these sounds for free, being a Floyd Keys Deluxe owner.
WHAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING
WHO IS BEHIND FLOYD KEYS DELUXE?
I gave up my career in Biomedicine to follow my heart and work exclusively with music.
Long story short, I lived for a year in the USA and when I came back in 2016 a local Floyd tribute band invited me to become their keyboardist. I had to make up for my yet undeveloped playing by having outstanding sounds, so I taught myself sound design through the Arturia V Collection.
I make tutorials and other videos for Youtube, create premium sound packs for the V Collection and the Roland Fantom, and teach keyboard and sound design classes in Brazil.