So, I have a question for pianobook creators, what motivated you to start making sample packs for pianobook? I want to share what motivated me to start making packs.
See, I started making music back when the “most talked about” freebies were around, more specifically BBCSO Discover and libraries like The Free Orchestra by ProjectSAM lol. I kinda heard about Pianobook at the time, but I hadn’t really made an account, I remember one of my friends telling me about how pianobook ironically had more instruments than just pianos (i mean it would be a fair assumption for me to make right? Pianobook? lol) so at that point I made an account but I never really thought about making packs.. so I kinda just “existed” but just as a user.
Fast forward to save time, learned a bit of Decent Sampler coding but at the time i was not great lol. The first proper library I made which was underrated at first which involved my fridge (its still underrated but not as underrated lol), just put it up there because I thought it sounded cool. However, what really brought me motivation to actually pursue a side hobby to help actually aid my own music (i think of myself first) I then tried to put together a full library with string FX, and some weird orchestrations in the vain of strings (this is what you may or may not know as Aleatory), mainly because I wanted to have a horror library, much like Albion Uist… only I was broke and couldn’t really afford it, tried to find free stuff that was in that vain and it just wasn’t what I was looking for - it woud just be “scary” synths (not my thing i prefer organic sounds) and weird “ghostly whisper” sounds (which… again not my thing).
That’s when I thought I’d try doing it myself, okay it might not be “perfect” (perfect in the sense of “OH ITS ALBION UIST, ITS AIR STUDIOS AND PERFECTLY RECORED!” etc.) but its stuff I knew it was looking for. If it weren’t for the recordings I found on my laptop, Aleatory wouldn’t have been made, If aleatory wasn’t made, any other events like Violin Experiments wouldn’t have happened either… let that sink in.
The reason why I put out Aleatory (which got eyes on me) on Pianobook, is because I knew there would be many people in my position - looking for stuff that would sound horrifying in a pleasant way, and is literal aleatoric FX rather than a typical “synth” or ghost whispers, or a crappy organ sound (no seriously those “scary” organs sound terrible, probably a hot take but eh). Since Aleatory came out, I did end up getting a horror FX library (still not Uist but to name drop its CAGE Strings and Brass) but I still use Aleatory because its my gem, the thing that really started my pianobook journey. I get more and more unhinged in my overview videos as more libraries I make come out.
anyway, if anyone gave this a read, thank you for reading and hey if you want to share your story, go ahead.
