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AUTHENTIC TONE, ACTION, AND FEEL.
Lounge Lizard EP‑5 delivers the rich, expressive sound of classic electric pianos—beautifully packaged with everything you need to shape, play, and perform.
What's new in Lounge Lizard EP‑5
Here are the main features you get when upgrading to Lounge Lizard EP‑5
Dual Engine Precision
Our fully redesigned physical modeling core now features dedicated models for tine-based and reed-based pianos offers unmatched realism, warmth, and expressiveness.
Enhanced Browsing Experience
With an improved browser and an all-new search engine, navigating your Lounge Lizard library has never been quicker or more intuitive
Authenticity Perfected
The completely new Lounge Lizard EP‑5 factory library introduces over 150 new piano sounds, offering deeper expression, richer tone, and unparalleled authenticity.
Redesigned for a True-to-Life Experience
The redesigned dual-piano interface offers a simple view for a clean, straightforward experience and an advanced view for fine-tuning, delivering a more realistic, immersive feel.
Tine-based Piano
A studio staple with unmatched versatility. With its unmistakable smooth, mellow, crystal-clear tone—or warm, velvety, richly expressive growl—it brings timeless character to any track.
Reed-based Piano
This piano is all about attitude—gritty, punchy, and full of raw charm. Its warm bark and organic growl have powered countless classic records. From soft and mellow to raunchy and overdriven, it responds beautifully to your playing style.
AUTHENTIC TONE, ACTION, AND FEEL
Lounge Lizard EP‑5 delivers the rich, expressive sound of classic electric pianos, beautifully packaged with everything you need to shape, play, and perform.
PLAYFUL
Direct access to key effect and performance parameters lets you perfectly match the tone to your playing style. Shape your sound with classic cabinet, preamp, microphone, and signal chain combinations typically used with electric pianos.
ALIVE BENEATH YOUR FINGERS
There’s something truly immersive about the connection that forms between a player and their instrument—that’s where the magic begins. Lounge Lizard makes it happen with perfectly smooth velocity response and a deeply expressive feel that reacts to every nuance of your performance.
UNDER THE HOOD
Hammer, tone, tine, pickup—Lounge Lizard is built on meticulously modeled piano components. Custom pianos can be created with just a few tweaks—a process that once took hours of painstaking work on real instruments.
Custom Tone
Famous players all had their own signature sound—achieved through painstaking manual adjustments to forks, hammers, and pickups. Whether you're chasing a classic tone or carving out your own, Lounge Lizard gives you direct access to every component of the piano.
Fork and Reed
Sound is produced when the hammer strikes the tine or the reed. Shape the tone and natural decay of these vibrating elements at the core of the electric piano sound.
Damper
Control how dampers are applied or lifted from the fork, shaping the attack and release of a note to be either clean or noisy.
Hammer
Control the attack with the hammer by adjusting the impact force, hammer stiffness, and the noise it produces. Modulate these parameters across the entire keyboard range or based on MIDI velocity.
Pickup
Just like in an electric guitar, the pickup captures the vibrations of the fork or reed. Adjust its position to shape the tone and control distortion—dial in a warm, smooth sound or push it into a growling, barking edge.
Tremolo
Fine-tune the tremolo to your liking. Choose a triangle wave for a smooth, flowing effect or a soft square wave for that classic chopped effect.
FROM AUTHENTIC TO CLEVERLY PRODUCED
You’ll love the pure sound of Lounge Lizard EP‑5—but the built-in effects open up a world of sonic possibilities you’ll be glad to have at your fingertips. And you’ve got plenty to choose from: compressor, equalizer, delay, distortion, phaser, chorus, flanger, wah-wah and notch filters, and reverb.
CLASSIC TRACKS
The electric piano has played a defining role in the history of rock and jazz. The factory library features a wide range of presets built around classic effect combinations and signal chains—perfectly capturing the iconic sounds of timeless tracks.
BEYOND ELECTRIC PIANO
With unconventional effect chains or extreme sound design tweaks, Lounge Lizard can transform into something truly wild. It keeps the playability of a classic keyboard instrument—but delivers tones far beyond anything you've heard from a traditional electric piano.
ELECTRIC PIANO WORKINGS AND TUNING
Lounge Lizard’s synthesis engine is built on a detailed model of the key components found in real electric pianos—hammer, fork or reed, damper, and pickup. Each element is precisely recreated to capture the authentic tone, dynamics, and playing feel of the originals.
TINES AND REEDS
Electric piano players often fall into one of two camps: tine-based or reed-based. Regardless of preference, both instruments have been immortalized in countless songs by legendary musicians. With its vast library of classic and custom tones, its authentic playing feel, Lounge Lizard delivers a truly inspiring electric piano experience.
NEW PRESETS
Lounge Lizard EP‑5 features an all-new factory library with over 150 electric piano sounds, organized into three distinct packs: classic tine-based pianos, classic reed-based pianos, and custom instruments. Created by professional keyboardists, these presets fully showcase the expanded tonal range and expressive possibilities of the new piano engines.
REMASTERED EP‑4 LIBRARY
Every sound from the legacy Lounge Lizard EP-4 has been carefully reviewed and remastered to take full advantage of the new piano engines—putting an additional 242 inspiring presets at your fingertips.
TOP SOUND DESIGNERS
The Lounge Lizard EP-5 factory library features exclusive signature sounds from a great team of experienced sound designers and professional keyboard players: Cipryan Bot, Philippe Dérogis, Jon Gilutin, Jerry Kovarsky, Christian Laffitte, Adam Pietruszko, Thiago Pinheiro, and Roger Ryan.
Explore all Lounge Lizard EP‑5 features
Top features
- Complete electric piano solution
- Great on stage or in the studio
- State-of-the-art physical modeling for unmatched realism
- Onboard effects rack
- NEW Dual synthesis engine (tine-based, reed-based)
- NEW Completely redesigned physical modeling core
- NEW Dedicated UI for each piano type
- NEW Redesigned browser with search function
- NEW New library of classic and custom pianos
- Standalone instrument version
- Support for all major plugin formats
- NKS support
- In-depth documentation and tutorials
Neat Features
- Scalable GUI
- Easy synchronization of effects to DAW
- Support for micro tuning
Effects List
- Auto-Wah
- Chorus
- Compressor
- Delay
- Distortion
- Flanger
- NEW Guitar Amplifier
- Multi-band Equalizer
- VCAsNotch
- Phaser
- Reverb
- Tremolo
- Wah-Wah
Neat features
- Standalone operation for quick jams and experimentations
- Real-time control over any parameters via your MIDI controller knobs, faders, and switches
- Host tempo synchronization for effects
- Relaxed editing with unlimited undo/redo capability
- Scala scale file format for microtonal music making
The benefits of physical modeling
- Sound manipulation at the source core
- Presets load in a flash
- Super smooth dynamics—no velocity layers!
- Small memory footprint—less than 256 MB of RAM per instance
- Installs in less than a minute
WINDOWS · MACOS · 64-BIT
VST2 · VST3 · AU · AAX NATIVE · NKS · STANDALONE
Multiphonics CV-1 and AAS Player are compatible with nearly all DAWs.
Ableton
Live
Apple
GarageBand
Apple
Logic Pro
Apple
MainStage
Avid
Pro Tools
Bitwig
Bitwig Studio
BandLab
Cakewalk
Cockos
Reaper
Image-Line
FL Studio
MOTU
Digital Performer
Native Instruments
Komplete Kontrol
Native Instruments
Maschine
Presonus
Studio One
Reason Studios
Reason
Steinberg
Cubase
Mac minimum system requirements*
- macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) or later
- Intel Core i5 (circa 2015), Apple M1 processor or later
- 64-bit DAW
PC minimum system requirements*
- Windows 10 64‑bit or later
- Intel Core i5 (circa 2015) processor or later
- 64-bit DAW
*The minimum system requirements mentioned above are for standalone usage. For plug-in usage, please refer to your DAW software requirements (Cakewalk, Pro Tools, Cubase, Live, Digital Performer, Logic Pro, etc.).
