A happy fiddle noodling in the key of D For years I’ve been dragging my feet trying to capture the idea of sampling “performances,” deconstructing them, reconstructing them, and then making them playable. Some of my earlier submissions touch on this idea. Well, now that it seems the sampling industry…
Fazioli’s Crown Jewel with Audience and Player VR perspectives. I guess I’m old school. When I starting my sampling journey with Pianobook in 2020, I really liked the idea of preserving a piano’s character, telling its story, and sharing its sound. Since then Pianobook has evolved into a comprehensive resource…
The Bartender’s Drum Machine Over the past 2 years, I’ve discovered a passion for cocktail creation. Mixing sweet, sour, and bitter ingredients to create a perfectly balanced drink brings me immense joy. I have combined my passions for mixology and music production to create “On The Rocks”. This drum sequencer…
The Bösendorfer Imperial stands as a titan of the piano world through its sheer sonic might and meticulous craftsmanship. This 9’6″ grand piano boasts an unparalleled 8-octave keyboard with 97 keys, granting access to both booming bass extensions and shimmering, otherworldly highs. Vienna’s legendary musical heritage lives on in its…
The Consord Piano A unique Kontakt library with aleatoric phrases and individual notes, featuring dissonant, sinister sounds, 3 keyswitches to move between patches and built-in effects. This entire project began as an exercise for my university coursework. I knew immediately that I wanted to learn how to create my first…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
