A very rare instrument used in Oman Folk Music My name is Ahmed Almusawi, and I’m a TV/film composer and music producer from the Sultanate of Oman. I’m thrilled to be making my second contribution to this vibrant community. Allow me to introduce you to the Rahmani Drum, also known…
C75 Drums is a virtual instrument that captures the sound from Abbey Road Institute’s drum set. The perfect companion for songwriters and producers. These drums were recorded while I was studying at Abbey Road Institute. The studio had a lovely Natal birch drum kit with Zildjian cymbals that were part…
K-OSC is a sample based instrument built upon the Mini polyphonic analog synthesizer by John KRISCHER. Full EN/FR Manuals provided. K-OSC was our first attempt to produce a Kontakt library. It’s a raw instrument plugged into guitar effects. Inspired by John KRISCHER’s original handmade Analog Polyphonic Synthesizer, the K-OSC is…
An ambient/drone synth with multiple effects & a full studio setup. The KRISCHER_MINI is a complete recreation of John KRISCHER’s MINI analogue synthesizer handmade in France. This sample-based instrument is running in Kontakt 6.7 Full (not the Player). Sampled by Fluidshell Design & fully endorsed by John KRISCHER. It’s a…
Free sample library of a classic drum machine. Hi! I’m Lee, a solo creator of libraries for Kontakt and Decent Sampler. I release the libraries for free using the name “White Orchid Instruments”. I hope you like the instruments and enjoy using them. The CR Seventy Eight is the first…
Acoustic sound design elements and rhythms CONCRETA is basically a library of sound objects that comes from my passion for electroacoustic music, indeed it’s quite common in this context to manufacture acoustic laptops amplified with piezoelectric microphones at home, in order to expand, through processes of sound manipulation in real…
6 Flute ensemble with Legato, Aleatoric patches and Runs. As a proper instrument hoarder, I’ve collected number of instruments (and I don’t intend to stop anytime soon) amongst which are also some flutes: Baby ocarina, Ocarina in C, Soprano Recorder, Dizi, Xiao and Native American Flute. And I thought of…
An in-depth sampling of 5 authentic Japanese taiko drums, played by actual taiko drummers. In total: 1 O-daiko, 2 okedo-daiko, and 2 shime-daiko, with multiple velocities & sounds. Hello! I’m Grady, a taiko drummer from Las Vegas (currently drumming with Korabo Taiko). The drums in this pack were sampled from…
12 layers of analogue synth goodness you can blend how you like… I had an idea, I wanted to share my love of analogue synthesis, but I wanted to embrace the advantages of sampling. I didn’t want to simply recreate the sounds I had made on my synth, I wanted…
Contemporary Cello, 10 patches, 13 techniques. One day I invited my father (a former principal cellist in Brno Philharmonic) in my humble home studio and we recorded some extended techniques and cool sounds. We spent couple hours experimenting and in the end there was bunch of cool samples stored in…
The wooden box is back with a lot of new sounds, tweaks & UI. Percussion, springs, bits and thingies. New version 1.3 The NoiseBox) was our second instrument for Kontakt. It’s been used by many artists since its first release, back in 2021. New features detailed below, new UI controls…
MALEMBE, is a sound library specialized in the “Culo e’ puya” drum kit, typical of the Barlovento region, Venezuela. Designed based on traditional techniques, this library is designed to infuse authentic Afro-Venezuelan flavor into your musical productions. Malembe’s transcendental purpose goes beyond the mere compilation of sound samples. By exploring…
Four solo folk wind instruments, with various articulations, and organic pad sounds made from ensemble textures and the original source material. Folk Winds consists of four solo folk wind instruments: Recorder, Ocarina, Wooden Flute, Pan Pipes, also pad sounds made from the original samples and some new ensemble textures. This…
Cinematic guitar patches created with a 1950’s Ampex reel-to-reel machine…. My great grandfather passed before I could really say I knew him, but he left behind a 1950’s Ampex reel-to-reel machine that I use often. The tape component hardly functions, but the tube pre has a ferocious, noisy tone when…
A Kontakt 5 drum library with raw sound. Hi, I made this instrument a couple of years ago. I wanted to try the entire process of sampling drum instrument. My old friend Michal Zubaty provided his own drum kit that he plays. I recorded his drum kit with his settings…
A beautifully sounding kalimba combined with a powerful arpeggiator engine. My brother gave me a beautiful kalimba for Christmas. Of course, the first thing that came to my mind was to sample it. Said and done! I sampled the 10 tone kalimba with up to 6 velocity layers and stretched…
600 recordings from over 40 players of the Northern Film Orchestra About a year ago, I got an email from Jack Hughes, founder of the Northern Film Orchestra, based in Manchester. Following my Soft String Spurs project and my Isolation Collaboration, he proposed we do a similar thing but on…
Evolutions that grow out of single notes from a solo cello. Welcome to Solo Cello Spurs! Truth be told, during the last weeks of 2020, I’ve been recording a brand new sample library in with many modules and layers, due to be released soon! This library is the first in…
Somnium is a sample library for Kontakt that allows you to create rich and evolving sounds using analog synth waveforms. Blend triangle, saw, and square waveforms with the XY pad, and add depth, dimension and textures with 6 unique convolution effects. Somnium is perfect for ambient, cinematic, and experimental music….
A rich, playable instrument comprised entirely of recordings from NAMM 2022 My first ever trip to NAMM was a thrill and a shock. I couldn’t believe how little one could do to escape the constant noise. But, while the whole of it was an unrelenting roar, the individual parts were…
Another Pianobook community collaboration sample pack, this time created from different “swarming” instruments played slow, medium and fast. Different instrument layers are controllable to find that perfect blend of textures for your next composition. Big thanks to all the contributors (too many to list!) and volunteers who helped pull together…
Our best work is done with others Become transported to sonic realms with this evolving engine. Each build provides a unique center control that adjusts multiple processors uniquely chosen for the sounds presented by the samplists involved. Sam Ecoff captured thick synth tones from his beloved ARP 2600. Sage Reynolds…
Djembe, Conga, Bongo, Udu and Taiko Family This is the world percussion portion of a multi-part percussion library I put together during my final year of university. For a few years now, this library has been a secret sauce/garnish that I would blend into my other paid and professional libraries…
A hammered dulcimer evoking forests and glades with evocative aleatoric playing as well as deeply-sampled standard articulations After a lot of consideration, I’ve decided to bring the second half of the Wildmother’s Dulcimer into Pianobook! This collection is a healthy extension of the first. Like the first set of patches,…
Seven deeply sampled acoustic folk instruments assembled as a fully arrange-able ensemble. Songwriting means everything to me and I’ve spent a lot of my living and learning in that world. Even when its tenets are taken from their original context and employed in movies or video games it tends to…
Spellbinding vocal drones and phrases captured in an old church Toward the end of the summer, my partner (the star of this library) and I had a couple of hours to ourselves in a 173yr old church. We spent that time capturing these samples. We took full advantage of the…
The library includes a collection of drones and phrases performed by Avery Bright, featuring violin, viola, and octave viola. Woven strings is a collaboration between myself and violinist extraordinaire Avery Bright. We sampled his violin, viola and octave viola in 2 separate articulations, drones and phrases. All of the samples…
Flute and violin sampled in the style of Olafur’s Chamber Waves. I made the mistake of using the Olafur Arnalds Chamber Waves in a project where my intentions were to stay out of the box as much as possible. We all know how beautiful those samples are, so replacing the…
A traditional Icelandic fiddle, built by my grandfather. The playable range of the melodic string is sampled, plus some drones, strums and soundscapes made by sample manipulation. Langspil-Icelandic traditional fiddle. For my first foray into Kontakt sample-instrument creation, I decided to sample my Langspil. The Langspil is a traditional Icelandic…
To make your guitar epic, just add AIR Studios. The story Its good to be back. For the last few months I’ve been plugging a way as a composer. As I’ve always said the more you progress as a composer, the more the likelihood of getting fired. This came to…
