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Collected by
Wolfram-Maria Schröckenfuchs

The Wildmother’s Dulcimer Vol. II

A hammered dulcimer evoking forests and glades with evocative aleatoric playing as well as deeply-sampled standard articulations

  • Kontakt

The Spellsinger

Spellbinding vocal drones and phrases captured in an old church

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

Hunter’s Percussion – World

Djembe, Conga, Bongo, Udu and Taiko Family

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

Mom’s 1974 Baby Grand

My mother's 1974 Wm. Knabe & Co. baby grand piano, captured to be enjoyed forever.

  • Decent Sampler
  • EXS24
  • Kontakt
  • Other

Bilhorn Reed

A century old portable reed organ with all the character of a mechanical musical instrument. Tones range from surprisingly deep-throated growls up to asthmatic rasps. [ Version 2 (1.7 Gb) includes 7 round robins and more. ]

  • Decent Sampler

Toy Glockenspiel for DecentSampler

A sample library I created using a toy glockenspiel. I also had some fun and ran the samples through both a handheld cassette recorder and an old, mono reel-to-reel player.

  • Decent Sampler

Santa Croce

Fieldrecordings of sounds found in Sante Croce Firenze, spiced up with some sounds of an Arturia Microfreak

  • Decent Sampler

NFO Alternative Chamber Strings Shorts

Chamber strings shorts, keys and pulses, recorded by the Northern Film Orchestra

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

Raw Violin

Different and very versatile pads that can be played like keys, created from distorted and out of tune notes played on a practice violin

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

The Bowls

Two big metal mixing bowls!

  • Decent Sampler

Decent Oboe

A Decent Sampler instrument, samples recorded of a Yamaha Oboe. Sustains, Staccatos and a Legato option. (2 round robins). Extra controls for Vibrato, Delay and Convolution Reverbs

  • Decent Sampler

Legacy Knight Piano

A beautiful Knight K10 upright piano that was sampled at a local tuner’s workshop.

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

Acoustic Guitar Plucks

Short, plucky, percussive and tone-filled acoustic guitar samples.

  • Kontakt

1956 Tenor Horn

A Tenor Horn made in 1956 in Leningrad

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

A Child’s Memory

A Two-Piece Boroque Soprano Recorder

  • Decent Sampler

Adams Marimba

A well-sampled marimba with hits and rolls.

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

Anne-Marie the Hohner T

A Hohner Pianet T electric piano with bundles of character, DI'ed and amped......

  • Decent Sampler

Antique Harmonium

Tucked away at the back of Spitfire Audio Studios, lies a dusty old machine rescued from oblivion. From every creek to bellowing whisper, this pack is packed with character!

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

Babblings

The babbling sampler incessantly chatters, laughs, murmurs and expounds, in English and German, drawing from source material of Ulysses by James Joyce. Pull up the sliders to play.

  • Decent Sampler

Baldwin Piano

A Baldwin piano gift from a relative

  • Decent Sampler
  • EXS24

Bells

A glockenspiel recorded for Music by 300 Strangers

  • Decent Sampler

Blüthner – Leipzig

Thoroughly sampled Blüthner family piano.

  • Decent Sampler
  • EXS24

Broadwood

Piano recorded in Embra, slightly dampened.

  • Decent Sampler
  • EXS24
  • Kontakt

C&P Strings + Winds

A cello, viola, violin, clarinet, horn, and more all in one…

  • Decent Sampler
  • EXS24
  • Kontakt

Boz SL Grand Lite

A Steinway L grand piano from 1926 that has past through the generations

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

Cuatro Puertoriqueno

A handmade Puertorican folk Cuatro

  • Decent Sampler
  • EXS24

Lite Hammered Dulcimer

I sampled my 17/16 hammered dulcimer which I built.

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

The Rubberband Box

I needed some big rubber bands one day. Noticed a suitable wood box I was in need of for my studio on the same trip to the store. Of course the kid in me raised his head and said these need to be combined. So it’s a box with a rubber band around it. I […]

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt
  • SFZ

The E-Ukulele

A small soprano ukulele was built from a cigar box

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

Kawai Old Toy Piano

Old toy piano

  • SFZ

Piano Petit – Chupi’s Piano

This is my first attempt to sample this little gem we have in the studio. I should have call it Chupi's piano, as a dedication or just because he prepared or treated the instrument

  • Decent Sampler

Harmonium van Dijk

A harmonium that sounds like chants directly from hell.

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

Misty Flute

A wooden fife processed through reverb to make an ambient pad

  • Decent Sampler

Halfsize Nylon Guitar

A sample instrument based on a half size nylon string guitar from a flea-market

  • Decent Sampler
  • SFZ

Cupboard Classical Guitar

A simple classical guitar instrument with few optional extras.........

  • Decent Sampler

Royale Rhythm Percussion

A found 'Drumkit' recorded in a stairwell.

  • Decent Sampler

Rickety Ibach

An old Ibach piano captured with figure eight mics

  • Decent Sampler

MG Soft Nylon Guitar (Lite)

A free lite version of my Soft Nylon Guitar pack

  • Decent Sampler

RJS LoFi Nylon

A nylon string guitar with true-legato and optional lofi effects.

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

RJS Classic Electric

An electric guitar with multiple articulations including true-legato.

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

Upright 4-Mic Experiment

Yamaha C108 Upright Piano recorded in a living room with vintage mics in its slightly out-of-tune glory and imperfection.

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt
  • SFZ

Unity

A small collection of vocal pads and scripted legatos created as a charity project for Ukraine.

  • Kontakt

Mechanised Choir

A 'vocoded' choral instrument, 'ah' and 'oh' vowels sang through a TC Helicon Talkbox Synth pedal... Become one with the Machine

  • Decent Sampler

Joana’s Music Box – Notebook Series #01

Valentine’s present turned Wedding symbol, Joana’s Music Box sings an ethereal lullaby

  • Kontakt

Hephaestus

A sound design library born from creativity, inspiration and experimentation. Forge new sonic landscapes with Hephaestus!

  • Kontakt

Handbells

Handbells is a 4-octave Kontakt sample library that includes several articulations and effects.

  • Kontakt

Baldwin Grand

A 9' Baldwin Grand.

  • Kontakt

Shopping Cart

Shopping Cart Percussion

  • Decent Sampler

Woodland Grand Piano (demo)

The Woodland Grand Piano is a multi-layered and multi-miked instrument with five articulations (Felt, Normal, Muted, Plucked, Rain) and several release triggers and pedal sounds

  • Kontakt

Eiersheimer Orgel

A small church organ with 13 stops and 2 manuals..........

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

Neanderthal Pipe Organ

The Neanderthal Pipe Organ is an instrument built with love and 990 samples. Three mic positions (close, gallery, far). Sennheiser and Oktava mics. Reverb, Delay & Tremolo FX.

  • Kontakt

Legato Fife

A plastic fife sampled with 3 round robins and true legato

  • SFZ

Garklein

A tiny recorder

  • Kontakt

Flute+Violin

Flute and violin sampled in the style of Olafur's Chamber Waves.

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt
  • SFZ

Hoveflute

A Peruvian pan pipe sampled with a Zoom H2n. Glockenspiel included as well.

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

Systems Grand

Loud proud and short! A piano sculpted to create systems music with.

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

Spring Piano

A fresh look at sampling my Schimmel with some new techniques.

  • Decent Sampler
  • EXS24
  • Kontakt

Elektronika EM04

organ, string machine from the USSR

  • Decent Sampler