A Collection Of 1000+ Instruments [For Free] 🎻

[@VenusTheory]

EDIT: Many of these instruments no longer exist, if you'd like to know why you can read this: bit.ly/4bMoYe6 Get ALL my free instruments (no longer on Pianobook) ► bit.ly/vtfreeinstruments Check out the FTUS library ► bit.ly/3rkch4Y Use VENUSTHEORY to save 80%

[@Chalisque]

The thing with FTUS is that it will also cost quite a bit just for the storage to put it all on. Then there is the issue of how long it would take to audition that many samples.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Unison website was down yesterday, a youtuber said yesterday that the Drum Monkey plugin is now $1000 lol I had to check but the site was down. Let's hope they stay dead.

[@TonyThomas10000]

Can "over 222,708 satisfied customers" be wrong? LOL!

[@Clarity95]

Omfg, thank you 🤣 there ads are so annoying

[@peopnetwork9292]

Hi SIr, Which lens are you using in this video?🙂🙂🙂🙂

[@adammed8667]

your voice should be sampled and added to this library

[@akashchakrabarty5708]

Best comment xD

[@robertalexander2478]

Definitely would make a million in voiceovers

[@yodeeniobanke]

😂

[@SwurveOnEm]

Would be great for documentaries lol.

[@SwurveOnEm]

@@robertalexander2478 facts

[@wallenth]

Fun fact: Fred Poirier who made Shivering Waves is responsable for converting most decent sampler libraries from exs or kontakt format on pianobook Without him most libraries wouldn't be possible in this format

[@clementinelives]

What a fucking goat

[@symbolikarts]

The smile on your face as you listen to your creation tells it all.

[@eddiebreeg3885]

Pianobook is absolutely great, I've been using it for a while now and even made some instruments you can find on there. Pro tip with decent sampler: you can in fact extend the range as much as you like, because you can edit the .dspreset file (which is in fact just a text file). Long story short, all you have to do is to change the lokey/hikey value of the bottom/top regions to whatever note you like

[@Prajwal____]

Wow thanks

[@MattStevens9824]

Powah tip! Thanks!

[@damiana5268]

Commenting and liking for the algorithm. Thanks for sharing the info, huge help learning things like this

[@6r0k3n5t3ps]

Bless you.

[@anonymous_friend]

Do you know if I can load samples from pianobook on an ipad?

[@ethereal8655]

I've seen not one soul that said anything about the face of pure joy, which just... RADIATES with positive emotion, it's just so lovely to see someone be genuinely satisfied with own work like that, it's such a good feeling

[@andyto629]

He’s since gotten darker…

[@ryaneness]

This is beautiful work on your end. Could score a movie with these sounds

[@VenusTheory]

Absolutely! A lot of Pianobook stuff lends itself well to cinematic-y stuff which is awesome. Of course, there's still a time and place for big Kontakt libraries and whatnot but this project closes that gap significantly which is incredible.

[@kumarsajal8400]

But you don't! 😒

[@zat-svi-ua]

@@kumarsajal8400 what

[@boogs8112]

0:29 I love this guy

[@Novalarke]

So for funsies, I picked one of the instruments with about a dozen or so samples in it and duplicated it. In the dupe copy, I then copypasted the same number of samples from elsewhere that I had sitting around collecting electrons on my hard drive for god-knows-how-many-years, and then changed the names of the samples I found to the samples named in the decentSampler sample set, and the deleted the original samples, so I now had my new samples with the old names. Then I changed the name of the instrument to Warwick Chaos Box. It worked. Took me all of , I dunno, 10 minutes? Tops? And holy cow what a crazy mess of noise. Happy Happy Joy Joy. This thing is super hackable. This gave me the work the original programmer devised for their sample set and gave away for free (velocity changing samples, keymapping etc.) only now it's on samples of my choosing. Very. Freaking. Cool. This hack method is easier and more powerful than Simpler.

[@unoriginalk2665]

wait what

[@Novalarke]

@@unoriginalk2665 Hi! TLDR: duplicate a DecentSampler preset folder. Rename it to what you want. Rename the .dspreset file to the same. Make Sample(s) you want. Rename the .wav files to what the .dspreset file is expecting. Replace the old .wav files with the ones you have made. Done. Some better 'splainin' here: The way this sampler works is like this: The sampler (DecentSampler.dll) accesses an XML file. XML is a type of plain text file that is mostly readable by humans. It has a syntax not very different from HTML. This XML file is just a list of "things" and "values" that tell the Sampler what to do, such as what is the range of a sample on the keyboard (such as, say, C3 to D5 or whatever). Another thing this sampler can do is stack samples by velocity, so this way a sample might be of a gentle strike below say, 64 in velocity, and a hard strike above 63, etc. Each velocity layer has a name, you get the picture. *For the sake of simplicity, I won't get into layers here.* For the sake of simplicity, we'll look at one of the sets that only has one sample in it: Ash's Singing Radiator. The name of the wav file used in Ash's Singing Radiator is "LS_50404_bipA#5.wav". To find it go to where ever it is you installed the resources for DecentSampler. (For me, I saved them to a different huge internal drive, "Internal 2TB", so as to not clutter my SSD. For me, the path to LS_50404_bipA#5.wav is: D:\AUDIO FILES\Decent Sampler Files\Ash's Singing Radiator (DS)\Samples\LS_50404_bipA#5.wav) And the first thing you do is duplicate Ash's Singing Radiator folder. Name it something you want, say, Khalliope's NoiseBox. Now: Inside the Khalliope's NoiseBox folder, rename the XML file. It will have the suffix ".dspreset". So, the XML file will now have the name "Khalliope's NoiseBox.dspreset". So now, all you have to do is take a .wav file of whatever noise that flips your crank and makes you happy, then name it "LS_50404_bipA#5.wav" and *REPLACE* the old LS_50404_bipA#5.wav file in your Khalliope's NoiseBox / Samples folder with this new one. *BANG. That's It. You're done.* You now have a DecentSampler preset called "Khalliope's NoiseBox" available to you in DecentSampler next time you open your DAW. Easy Peasey. You can reverse engineer other samplers like this - eventually you learn what is in the XML file and what it means. It's really just a list, a kind of look-up table so DecentSampler knows where to find the samples and what to do with them. I expect DecentSampler and the rest to fade when Reaper rebuilds Samplematic5000 into something more useful and 64bit. But until Reaper comes up with a more intuitive, powerful and easier to use Sample player (like, *cough* Ableton's Simpler...) hacking DecentSampler files is a fairly easy thing to do.

[@syd7750]

@@Novalarke "TL;DR" *makes comment fucking 6 times longer than the first*

[@Novalarke]

@@syd7750 - So when did your parents remove your sense of humour? Or were you simply born without one?

[@d.w.6584]

@@Novalarke thanks for the explanation, it helped me understand and I look forward to trying it out. Plus I enjoy reading and learning. some folks just don't.

[@felixsmittick9128]

Pianobook is my best source for free instruments. Decent Sampler for the win. Thank you

[@JonBrewster-gi9mg]

This is my first time listening on headphones and Im obsessed with your vocal chain. that low tone is just *chefs kiss*

[@nobbystyles4807]

this is amazing. as much as i love sitting down with a hardware synth, what really appeals to me is instant playability. i want to use my time to actually make music not spending hours making patches.

[@VenusTheory]

👏 exactly

[@SWATTECHNOLOGIES]

@@VenusTheory I can agree though I still enjoy the creative juices when modifying patches or Studio Sets. However, from scratch? Yes, but less often, there are too many good starting points out there to build on..

[@Jason75913]

Sound design is always worth your time, especially if you hit a creative block or need a bit of a break and something different to do before going back to composing and mixing with a refreshed mind. You don't have to start from scratch if you don't want to, starting from zero can be more challenging for some people, and you always have the option to start with ready-made presets

[@mmoore4456]

Pianobook is so very, very good. I'm very much a Spitfire fan, in part because my work involves many of the company's libraries. But it's things like LABs and Pianobook that sets Christian, Paul and the rest of the crew apart. Good people, good music. Nice video, as usual, Cameron.

[@shannonia81]

Where do you even start with Pianobook? It's incredible. There is literally no reason not to try it. If you like beautiful, it's there. If you like quirky, it's there. If you don't even know what you like, it's there!

[@PurpleSpiritArmor]

The beginning of the Pheobe Bridgers song "Funeral" uses Harmonic Flights but with some extra drive saturation, I do believe!! - VERY COOL!!!

[@karmaindustrie]

Thank you for your suggestions. I suggest to make more videos with pianobook suggestions. That's what people need these days :)

[@gtao22]

You're the king of free stuff and mellow airy ambiant. Very very nice for the nervous system...

[@lokelosk]

Godamnit, I didn't know Pianobook had sampled instruments for freeware samples, always thought they used only Kontakt (which I don't have). I'm going to dive deep into it this week, hope I don't drown. Thanks, Cameron!

[@lokelosk]

Decent Sampler, which Cameron uses in this video, is free.

[@rudelionmedia3457]

Your mic settings are INCREDIBLE

[@michaelmunafo7776]

These are so sick. Love the music community ... these being free is insane. Pure ingenuity.

[@Z-Tbh]

Spitfire as well are a buncha legends with their approach in the music production scene

[@engician7620]

I don't know why, but when the track kicked in I suddenly had tears in my eyes !! May be it just hit the right spot in my mind !! Beautiful work man, keep the good work flowing ! Thank you ❤

[@joedominguez-romero]

Some of my favorite DS libraries/artists. Every single library made by these artists are amazing, and of course I couldn’t list everything, but there are a great number of Choirs, Violins, Pads I really love. This list are just my top favorite ones for Decent Sampler -ARTISTS- Venus Theory SampleScience OSC Audio Dan Keen SynthPhony (all 7 libraries) -LIBRARIES- Prismic_V01 12 String Acoustic Jonneke’s Spinet Modular Synth Vol.1 George Yazbek- Pure STATIC (808) Bells Auditory1- Deep Harp Spring Chimes by Dave Poirier 205220_Bass FOF Choir Practice Room Piano

[@Acid42]

Need more hard drive space to download all these free instruments! Ugh. But thank you for highlighting DS and the Pianobook community. The generosity of these sound designers is awe inspiring.

[@hermancharlesserrano1489]

I bought one of your albums on bandcamp, a couple of weeks back, without realizing it was the same you as your KZbin you 🤣 like the album, this is beautiful…I could listen to that all day

[@sagereynolds]

Nice one, Cameron! Great to see your Pianobook shout-out and hear the track you made. It’s also cool to hear that you dig Harmonic Flights. :) Have a good one!

[@TheGhostRecordsChannel]

Ohoh hey Sage good to see you here man :)

[@sagereynolds]

@@TheGhostRecordsChannel Good to be here and it’s sweet to see the love for Pianobook. Cheers!

[@samecoff2788]

@@sagereynolds Your work is awesome, Sage! It's so cool that you were featured as the simplest of the month. Very well deserved!! Congrats!

[@sagereynolds]

@@samecoff2788 Thanks Sam! I dig your sample packs, too. Today I’m finishing-off one more sample pack for February 2022 to share on Pianobook. What an inspirational community!

[@sagereynolds]

@Chris Cheltenham You're very welcome, Chris! It's always a pleasure hearing about folks using one of my sample instruments. I hope you've gotten a chance to try-out the new Spitfire LABS version and I hope that Harmonic Flights continues to give you inspiration! All the best.

[@almightyanonone6059]

Eternal grace to the algorithm that placed this video on my feed, i only regret not subscribing to ur chemnel sooner.. thanks for the mini demo of Piano Book, and by the way, i dont know if u do voice-over work at all, but if not, you DEFINITELY SHOULD: commercials audio books, something,.. loved the introductory statement for unison, made my sofa come out my nostrils lmao

[@matturner6890]

how are you alive after passing a sofa through your nose?

[@orderd29]

Amazing composition. Huge respect to you and everyone at PianoBook for being so inspirational.

[@MiRoDevYT]

This feels like an inside out core memory, or a sunrise at the end of the world type track you’re the only one left and it’s just you and your dog

[@GourlieRecords]

Your sharing of Pianobook is serendipitous timing! I'm planning on recording the various pianos that family members own and turning them into instruments so this was wildly useful to know. Had no idea this existed. Thanks, Cameron!!

[@allehooop]

I come here just to see the face of pure joy 😊 My face was probably the same while listening the music. Long life for Decent Sampler!! 🎉

[@Eltron2010]

Wow. Just Wow. Thanks for schooling me on this! On my way over there right now. You're the man, don't let anyone tell you different! 👊

[@Emily_M81]

I learned photo editing just so I could make UIs for Decent Sampler instruments I was working on XD (I put a corona virus on some old Synthworx Virus B samples >_> I just updated from 1.13 to 1.5, those toggles look new >_> If you want to "get weird with it" just open the .dspreset file in a text editor and change the note range of the last note (unless I am misunderstanding what you're wanting here). Aaanyway, yeah, Decent Sampler excites me, even if programing it can be... tedious at times. Thanks for sharing!

[@bengsynthmusic]

12:20 That would sound like the welcome theme of Windows in the year 2080 or something. Computers probably inside our heads by then.

[@pbasswil]

Amazing resource; amazing that it's freely available. But I gotta tell you: I can't imagine anything more distracting-from-musicmaking than having a TB of samples to download, store, backup, and sift through. Oh, the _hours_ of precious, priceless free time! God save me from the temptation.

[@simonkendrick762]

if its called free usually the creators have decided to give it for free so its not really stealing is it. I always appreciate creators efforts to build these amazing vsts.

[@phillip557]

I support LMMS and this is a great find. This is another project that has my full support. thank you, you have my subscription

[@jetlag1488]

Really happy to see you cover Pianobook. I discovered it a year after it was created and even though I haven't checked the site for about a year, I've gotten so much use out of the instruments people have uploaded there. Such a good website. And you have inspired me to grow my collection. I guess I know what I'll be doing all day tomorrow :P

[@creslynalao2816]

went through when I first started video editing, now it's taking a whole new switch and learning soft will only boost my courage for the

[@Rhekluse]

I thought you needed the latest version of Kontakt for many of these types of Instruments but that Decent Sampler is really something else!

[@Jason75913]

there's the free Kontakt Player and free libraries across the internet, too, if you're interested

[@makzoor]

Ooooookkkk.... I just accidently found this channell, got curious at the beggining, but after what i heard at the end... This depth, this sound and the idea to help people just create. Immidiately subscribed. You are awesome man. Keep up the great work! Much love!

[@tracktionwaveformtips]

Wow, some amazing sounds there, I’ve been missing Spitfire, Labs and other unusual Kontakt sample stuff since I moved to Linux. I can’t wait to go digging through this stuff. Wow!

[@botnet3201]

I use spitfire on linux, but it's good to have alternatives like this

[@kerwinfernandes9583]

Thank you for this lovely demo! God bless you and your family! 😊🙏🏻❤

[@philmarsh5593]

Just discovered Piano Book myself before xmas (I'd always dismissed it thinking it was "just pianos" - which it isn't obv). Great vid once again, seeing you so into those sounds - that's why we all do what we love doing, for those moments. Super nice textured piece too. Could you perhaps consider 1 day doing a compilation of those dry, pithy, sarcastic intros?! Love 'em. 🤣 PS - "Poirier" is French - "pwa-ree-ay" is pretty close.

[@buaidhnobas1ify]

Very cool Cameron. I'm trying out Decent Sampler and all the stuff in Pianobook. I may be awhile so bye for now. Another great video so thank you very much. You always bring the best so I'll be back.

[@GerenM63]

The finished clip is beautiful and the choice of sounds is really tasteful! There's only one think I feel is missing -- and I feel like it's missing from a lot of ambient/soundscape is some sense of what I'll call a "heartbeat" for lack of a better term. But otherwise, yeah: WOW! is the word. Really, really nice. And also, a great discussion of Pianobook and Decent Sampler. I've been following and using both for some time now -- I've even bought some samples! That Claustrophobic Piano is reminiscent of the piano used in the intro to The Who's 'Love Reign O'er Me', and the Frozen Glock tickles a musical memory, too, of an old recording of Tchaikovsky's 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy' from an old Firestone Christmas album my parents had when I was a kid. Again, very nice choices! Thanks for sharing your work! It's inspiring me to get my butt in gear and start working on some new music! Cheers!

[@piotrszablowski3881]

I have never been happier to like and subscribe to something. The content is defo worth it but not being told to do those two things (I think for the first time in my case) made it really pleasant to actually do. Thank you and I will see more of your channel for sure.

[@kaidoChess]

I can’t thank you enough for this video. My sounds I’ve been using have become dry and this is exactly what I’ve been looking for

[@sehengamhewa7296]

ur content is always so immersive. ur videos are made really well, and I appreciate just watching them. completely forgetting what I actually take away etc. etc.

[@aidenwhitlock4019]

The song you made reminds of something off of the "Series of unfortunate events" movie. It sounds like something that would be played whenever they are out on the lake behind Aunt Josephine's house.

[@mdk1983]

Thank you so much for this.. you not only saved me a lot of money i might have desperately spent on plugins, but also introduced me to endless possibilities with more and more contributions. Also tried out a few Venus Theory packs available in DS format. They are lovely, thanks a ton!

[@alejandrobojorquez6181]

A Celestial Dream Scape brilliant job super soulful vibes so magical. Please make more it's just beautiful the way it all came together so uplifting thank you.

[@robertclarkguitar]

You have no idea how awesome this is. To me i was buying hardware keyboards over the years for pads and chorus stuff for ambient eerie emotional stuff. Ive recently picked up guitar but i have to get this old cheap keyboard hooked up via the cheap midi wire. Im still new to daw yet. Ill be in heaven to freely be able to write music and background tracks to solo over. Awesome.

[@benbawden3348]

Sounds freakin beautiful, really happy I found your Chanel, loving the sounds you create and you explain/describe things fantastically well so thank you!! I wish I had an ounce of your talent.

[@YouGotOptions2]

Agreed

[@glenesis]

Good day, sir! I'm always glad to see love for Pianobook. It really is a wonder. I'm working on a few instruments to contribute to that wonderful community. Cheers!

[@BlackMarluxia]

Impeccable timing man. I just recently started learning about music production and was kinda stuck in a rut because I didn't know how to make things sound good - Ableton stock instruments are synth presets after all and do sound very artificial. Lo and behold next thing I know is you're putting this video out. Thanks for all your work!

[@RaymloR]

You should also check out Spitfire LABS, it's very good. Orchestral Tools Layers is also free although not as extensive right now but I expect that to change in time.

[@mikeexits]

You might be surprised how powerful Ableton's stock tools are (particularly if we're talking about Live 10 Suite or later, which is what I use). Live 10 + 11 had some really cool additions such as the Wavetable synth, Inspired by Nature, the percussive synths, built in Convolution Reverb, as well of course as time-saving tools like editing multiple MIDI clips at once, MIDI capture (recording MIDI input in the background which can be called into the Arrangement view with a button near the other transport buttons), recording audio as MIDI (introduced in 9 actually, but I feel like a lot of users don't know it's there), etc. But it sounds to me like you prefer acoustic/organic sounds over electronic ones based on your wording. Plugins and sample libraries are definitely the way to go in that case. Btw, Native Instruments Kontakt has a free player which you can find tons of free sample-based instruments for all around the internet (seriously, there are *TONS).* Reaktor Player is another that has tons of free user-made content, as well as Max For Live (which comes with Ableton Live Suite and basically expands Live's functionality in whatever way you want to, turning Live into an infinite modular playground, even including real-world feedback devices for avant garde creative endeavors), but those wouldn't appeal to you as much as Kontakt's content if my guess about your preferences at the start of paragraph 2 is correct. If not though, I'd suggest messing around with doing subtle modulation patching with your instruments, because a lot of the time, even with electronic sounds, the difference between static, dead, synthetic-feeling sounds and living, breathing, organic-feeling sounds, is movement - movement that feels natural. PS. By the way, if you're using Live Intro or standard, then I understand your boredom with its stock sounds a lot more. I'd recommend seeing if there's anything to your liking in the Packs section, where you can download Live Packs from inside the DAW. Lots of cool sounds in there, including acoustic ones, but what you can get depends on which version you have. Personally, I was stuck with Live 9 Intro for like 6 years and basically depended entirely on plugins for sound design and instrumentation. Now with Suite, I don't even feel like I need my plugins anymore, save for specialized and unique ones, though I'm certainly not getting rid of them anytime soon hahaha.

[@SpeccyMan]

synthesize (verb) ... make something by synthesis synthesis (noun) ... the process of combining objects (in this case sounds) into a complex whole So, by definition, artificial! If you can't make a preset sound "good" you have a long, long way to go.

[@BlackMarluxia]

@@mikeexits Wow what a response, thanks for taking the time to write all that, let me try and get to some points u mentioned. I am actually using Ableton Live 11 Suite so it's not a matter of me being cut off from the fun tools - I did actually find the wavetable and it seemed very fun to play with - but I guess it's more so like me not knowing where to find them. I do like very Electronic sounding music (in terms of what I'd like to make, I listen to anything across the board tbh) - Neuro, Jungle, Dnb, Breakcore... that's sort of up my alley and it often felt like whatever sounds I had were very clearly synthy. Sure, Ableton has some Operator Presets to try and emulate a Piano but it sound svery artificial and not... Piano-esque, I guess? So often when I was playing around trying to find my bearings I ended up with a bunch of tracks that are just different flavours of Synth, whereas I feel like it would be very nice to be able to have some strings or guitar plucks or piano or what have you that sound more authentic. But again: I am brand new, so maybe I am simply using the synths wrong or haven't found what I'm looking for. There's so many plugins after all and I know very little of music production or what the plugins do. I feel like more sounds can't really hurt since I can also use them as a starting point to do whatever with it (as shown in the video: Boiling water can become a nice textured bass), so I'll definitely take a look at Kontakt, thank you for that suggestion!

[@BlackMarluxia]

@@SpeccyMan Yes thank you for nitpicking the wording of a beginner trying to put how a sound feels into words. It did sound off to me and I do still have a long ways to go as I just got into all of this.

[@murraywebster1228]

Your passion for what you do comes really well over, even better being in conjunction with Piano Book which is an unbelievable passionate group of musicians and sound designers, this video should be watched by every creator out there, doesn’t matter which branch they are in, very well done 👏🏼

[@toddwmac]

Great to see you showcasing this on your channel. This project along with Labs from Spitfire have some great free content. Thanks for your efforts!

[@VenusTheory]

Been meaning to do this video for ages - Pianobook deserves a lot more attention, this project is amazing!

[@shubhamgrover6103]

@@VenusTheoryI am unable to confirm my email on the website what is the procedure for the same??

[@shubhamgrover6103]

Can you tell about confirming email, I am unable to confirm on this website

[@timmiethedog]

Consider that boot well and truly tooted. Thanks for the introduction to Pianobook and Decent Sampler fella; much appreciated

[@TitoSilversax]

That claustrophobic piano sounds straight out of a silent hill OST 😁

[@VenusTheory]

Huh actually yeah it does haha. Might have to use it for some spoopy projects I'm working on.

[@Moujemusic]

I can almost swear it sounds identical to FKJ Ylang Ylang

[@ahom_ahom_ahom]

That was a super easy install of the Decent Sampler.

[@TheLightSmith1971]

Wow, I found this video incredibly inspiring! The sounds we can pull out of Decent Sampler are absolutely epic, especially some of the pianos. I just did a track with Cakewalk driven by a couple of the great piano voices you mentioned on the video. Well done!

[@studiogeekproductions]

One of the coolest things happening in Music these days. Your patches are top notch and in particular, loving your Malevolence path! In appreciation. 🙏

[@svetlanakostic8684]

You are such a cool person and your content ist so honest and so great to listen to. Thank you.

[@fredkennedy8435]

Wow, what a gem! Thanks for the share!

[@normapadro420]

I like your video. Most of my music I produce with free vsts. Most of my sample packs are purchased, but I have learned to record sounds all around me then add effects from the DAW. I also use the instruments that my DAW supplies as well. I will try your recommendations. I have 47 free synthesizers. Mostly all are atmospheric sounds which I love. I love producing cinematic music as well. I got my inspiration from horror movies. By adding compression these productions sound as huge as on the big screens. Thank you for your informative video. Enjoy your day.

[@VincentKnaus]

Thank you! Just what I needed, right when I needed it! I look forward to watching more of your videos.

[@NoahHornberger]

I downloaded several things from pianobook and found many of them were unusable due to some production mistake in the user created content. Things like pops and clips. Don't get me wrong, there are some nice sounds and particularly some good stuff for experimental type enthusiasts where the goal is to widen the sonic style. But if you are looking for production sounds, these libraries have issues like: tuning, hiss and quality, too broadly sampled: audible pitch distortion as samples are stretched to fill in gaps, etc. Tuning problems in some notes while others can be great, and a lack of standard free way to load them means you need to keep a small library of plugins to manage loading all the various interfaces. It ended up being a lot of trouble and then I went back to my vst painos because they sound better. Hard to admit it but its alot of effort to get each file loaded, learn the different interface for each app and then to occasionally find glitches in the interface and in the sound just kind of left me a little disappointed for how cool it appears to be. The idea is nice, but its free. A high quality piano sound demands a level of attention that people get paid for.

[@juliankenning]

This showed up in my feed. Got curious, watched whole video and after listening to the resulting track went to Bandcamp to to listen to Motions and Echoes.Great album - Instant purchase. Thank you very much!

[@cmdrbuzz7779]

Thanks - this is SO useful. I started making music again as a result of watching one of your videos last year. (First time since 1991 when I sold my Moog Rogue to make rent ) . This is a really great resource. Thanks VT.

[@halfcamel6063]

How is it going??

[@cmdrbuzz7779]

@@halfcamel6063 Good. I recently upgraded to Ableton Standard and working on a few tracks at my own slow pace.

[@erb34]

This is awesome.. I'm playing with this on my laptop... thanks for the introduction to these super resources!

[@forsale313]

You and Stephen King need to have a sit down. Thanks for another "third eye" opening upload. You are helping me get to the level of production I'm shooting for.

[@VenusTheory]

I'll have his people call my people haha. Cheers! ☕

[@mikebrigs1218]

I LEARNED ALOT FROM YOUR VIDEO'S AND JUST WANT TO SAY THANKS!!

[@VenusTheory]

No problem at all, glad to be of service!

[@bricelory9534]

I absolutely love Piano Book. It really makes me want to explore sampling instruments myself - just a unique world of a mix of acoustic and impossible sounds. Plus, I absolutely LOVE Claustrophobic piano for the intimate soft piano sound - it kinda pushes LABS Soft Piano out of the lime light for free intimate piano for me.

[@brave7033]

That claustrophobic Piano is stunning 😱

[@danielleohallisey4218]

I absolutely love Pianobook and I love what you did with those sounds, here! I’d love to see a video where you follow up, taking this and expanding it to a full-length composition. I find myself reaching a place where I’ve got a good theme and a piece that’s short enough to qualify as a cue, but wanting it to be a few minutes long; but struggling to fill in those blanks. Thanks again for your videos and the inspiration!

[@try-restart]

The project looks amazing. Thanks for the introduction.

[@runningintohistory]

Awesome work and thanks for bringing this to our attention. I have been primarily using Spitfire instruments for the music on my KZbin page to the point that I kind of played the sounds out. This will definitely allow me to diversify my sound.

[@zielaz3714]

That was one of the best ambiences I've heard in a while, bravo Venus!

[@nikolaantonov9007]

Просто фантастика! Я столько интересного на этом сайте нашел! Спасибо тебе, дружище!!!

[@VenusTheory]

Рад помочь! Иди и сделай с ними что-нибудь классное! 🎉

[@iosmusicman]

Fab. Got the FTUS library cued up for purchase too. Cheers. Lee

[@RussJohnsConnects]

Love the track and the collections are so inspiring.I love the creative process. #kindnessiscool #smilesarefree Enjoy the day

[@chelefranc]

Thanks for sharing. The blend of instruments talk to each other creating something else. Very nice production.

[@officialjrduncanpage]

Is it safe to say, with this massive collection, with the granular effect plugin mentioned in the video, and Valhalla Supermassive for a reverb…A combination of all three, is a competitor to Omnisphere??🤔

[@AARVMUSIC]

I would call it an alternative rather than a competitor

[@officialjrduncanpage]

@@AARVMUSIC Great point , I’m still surprised that Iris2 doesn’t get the recognition it deserves as an alternative as well

[@allenway]

@12:24 - i have been there my friend! solid sounds bro

[@jeffagoddard]

I like your “collaborative community” message. I was looking for a comparison of Decent sampler versus Logic ESX24 and Kontakt (which I have) but really I’m just being lazy, ‘cause I could just download and try Decent sampler. At the 50,000 ft level, I wonder why each DAW and vendor has their own sampler and why? In the long run, wouldn’t it just make sense if we all used the same sampler? I understand the business motive. NI sells Kontakt instruments and has 300 partners and I believe they’re the #1 most popular sampler instrument format. That’s a revenue stream they’ll want to protect, right? But the Kontakt player is free, just like Decent sampler is free. Where are we headed?

[@snesmocha]

Closed source as hell and is insanely hard to work with kontakt due to its strange proprietary and encrypted formats Plus as you said profits, and player is used to entice you to the rest of the ni library

[@intergalacticspacecanoe4659]

Developers are seeing a completely different game to what we, the customers are. with a propietary sampler of their own, they do not have to shell any cash to another company. i mean, for example with NI, it costs 13 grand to have like 1500 licenses, 300 free runs and have your shit encoded to their format. imagine what happens when you get a big breakthrough as a developer and your shit gets like five to seven figure yearly downloads? now, imagine the same scenario if they release their own sampler?

[@JeffyG]

@@intergalacticspacecanoe4659 developers always get screwed. I worked in the enterprise software business for 27 years. So developers strike gold, but it’s rare. Private equity have billions to invest and few places to put it. They see musicians/producers with home studios as an opportunity to capitalize and make money - the opposite of what motivated developers to create the next VST or plugin.

[@ArchieMackintoosh]

That Harmonics Flights patch might be the most beautiful thing I've ever heard.

[@AymericFrerejean]

How do you get this vocal sound so far from the mic ? Impressive !!

[@helmar_rudolph]

I was about to ask the same question. @venustheory :-)

[@tylerbuckner3750]

Boom, probably.

[@alobowithadhd6191]

Might have a really well hidden lavaliere (?) mic.

[@danielakachi3666]

love that face of pure Joy. 12:23

[@MaximilianRoof]

I got some "Hollow Knight" vibes here. Great library and a beautiful piece of music that you created there.

[@BastetMusic]

Between the voice I was not expecting and flipping Unison the bird, I'm mad I've never found this channel until just now

[@bosslenz2766]

Wow, Cameron! Your selection of Sounds are right up your compositional alley and beautiful! Unfortunately, I can't write any ambient stuff right now. I lost my Mom last month and music that uses sounds like these puts me in a place I don't want to be in right now. The F-minor you played with the Artic Pad was more than enough. For me to compose a track with just that... I have composed ambient stuff in the past, that I'll share with you later. Of course I'll get this but you will not deter me from getting the Project Sam libraries I've been lusting and drooling over for the last couple of months. Also, have you had any experience with SonoKinetic Libraries like Noir?

[@musicbydavidsmith]

This was great, and thanks for the tip-off for Emergence. Much appreciated! I’ve followed Spitfire/Pianobook for ages, and found you a year or so ago, and it’s kinda cool to see you get as excited as I do when I hear the amazing sounds that are now available. May our boots be tooted forever more!

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Is it true that a substantial amount of the sounds are being ripped from Arturia V collection or native instruments?

[@TheGhostRecordsChannel]

You mean on PIanobook?! There is absolutely no evidence and the site already has the ones checking the libraries because the site has precise rules if I'm not mistaken and I really think someone would notice that so pretty sure no in both case.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

@@TheGhostRecordsChannel Ok I hope your right as love the idea of Piano book I dont want them facing a parental crippling lawsuit.

[@ZehNettoOficial]

Man!! The Free to use sounds was an amazing tip!! Thank you so much, mustach guy!

[@alexi2706]

Does anyone encounter problems with creating an account? I am not able to receive the email to activating my account. Checked the spam...

[@lariska894]

Same

[@mazmahjoobi]

Same, looks like everyone is having this issue. Something wrong on their website.

[@alphascorpii185]

Same, and they don't answer to emails submitting the issue. It seems it's not new, I've found a post on Reddit discussing that in in february or something like that.

[@swervature]

Very Reznor/Finch. I say that in the most complimentary way. Thanks for putting this together and sharing it.

[@Markrspooner]

F*#% Unison Audio! 👍😂

[@VenusTheory]

Fully and absolutely.

[@kedskies]

Lmao

[@karmaindustrie]

ALL HAIL NIKO !!!!1!11

[@karmaindustrie]

Expose ALL the shady producers !!

[@kedskies]

@@karmaindustrie yes

[@paulegavin]

Would you consider making a video about sound designing the kinds of organic sounds we find on piano book? I'd like to learn more about how to take organic sounds and give them a little more character, while still keeping them organic.

[@VenusTheory]

Stay tuned.... 😉

[@Memer44]

Your voice 🗿🗿🗿