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archaelia
I wanted to grab a few Decent Sampler patches that Venus Theory mentioned in one of his videos, and then I realized there’s a lot of great stuff here on Pianobook so I took some time to browse through a hundred or so entries for things that seemed unique, cinematic, or naturalistic, and covers a wide range of sonic needs. Percussion, pianos, voices, strings, woodwinds, nature, synths, and more!
Kawai Felt Piano
A Kawai upright felted and recorded with Neumann KM84’s, U47 clones, and a pair of Coles 4038 Ribbons. Two dynamic layers and two round robins.
Hunter’s Ampex Ecosystems
Cinematic guitar patches created with a 1950's Ampex reel-to-reel machine....
Legacy Knight Piano
A beautiful Knight K10 upright piano that was sampled at a local tuner’s workshop.
Sol’s Piano
Sol Berkowitz was my theory and orchestration teacher at college. He also gave me free piano lessons and composition lesson and I remained close to him right up until he passed on in 2006. This piano was at his home in Queens NY. He owned it for over 50 years and I played it often […]
Wild Percussion
A percussion library that was recorded using pieces of the wilderness. Contains sounds like stones, moss, kicks, claps and stone slides.
Bright Kalimba
The Bright Kalimba creates magical feeling within a song, filling the space with mistery notes...
Vibraphone Renaissance
A fully restored vibraphone recording has been used as the basis of this instrument.
Marimba Renaissance
A multi-sampled marimba recording was found in the public domain and restored using RX 9.
Forest
A little library with dark, medium, and bright atmospheric sounds made of forest ambiance (clear sound included).
Thunder
A small library with three shades of atmospheric texture sounds made of thunderstorms, including the original sound.
NFO Alternative Chamber Strings Longs
Chamber strings longs and drones recorded by the Northern Film Orchestra...
NFO Alternative Chamber Strings Shorts
Chamber strings shorts, keys and pulses, recorded by the Northern Film Orchestra
A Singing Bowl From New Hampshire
A Brass Tibetan Singing Bowl made in India I found in a store in North Conway New Hampshire