Rusty Gates
Who would have thought that a Rusty Gate would have inspired such great creativity! Whilst walking through the most downloaded Pianobook pianos, Christian set a competition to see if the community could create instruments out of some raw audio clips recorded on holiday. Check out the video explaining it all below:
The response was tremendous, resulting in Christian listening to well over 400 samples. In the following video Christian shares his shortlist – it’s well worth a look as there are loads of great inspiration for manipulating samples – check out all the videos linked as well to see all the different approaches to sound mangling.
From a vote on that video the winners were picked – many congratulations to the three winners, Michael Denny, Art Tadevosyan and Ben Tinker!
You can download the winner’s samples here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/w9q6e5ew7oo87h1/Rusty%20Gates%20-%20The%20Finalists.zip?dl=0
Also the best of the rest are available in this handy download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/czqoq3f0w83xc68/Rusty%20Gates%20-%20Best%20Of%20The%20Rest.zip?dl=0
Demos
We also now have lots of great demos featured on the Pianobook Soundcloud page, which are also embedded on each of the piano pages so you can have a listen before downloading
If you would like to create a demo then check out the Demos page on how to submit.
Forum
As always, the Pianobook Forum has been very active with topics including:
plus much much more. Head over to the community today and start contributing!
New Submissions
Meanwhile, new to the Pianobook library we have a great range of new instruments for you to try:
Included this month is Christian’s final version of his Schimmel Piano – “Spring Piano”, he walks through the making of this version, along with some observations about why pianists play ahead of the beat in this video:
We can wait to see what people get up to in June! Check out the How To Sample guide and, when you’re ready, Submit Your Piano to the Pianobook Library!