After a year off the Pianobook Advent Calendar has returned!
Back in 2020 we started the perfect countdown to Christmas for composers. 25 days, 25 FREE sample packs. Kicking off today with the incredible ‘Handbells’ by Russ Thomas!
Visit the site every day for more free packs and, as usual, we’ve got something very special planned for Christmas Day itself!
Love this! Such a generous gift!
Day 2 of the Advent Calendar: Telephone Guitar by Soroosh Mohassesi
“A Yamaha acoustic guitar with old strings, sampled through a telephone”
Day 3: Mountain Chimes by Stephen O’Connell
“Trinkets from the mountain market stalls”
Day 4: Church Steinway – Special Edition by Richard Luke
One of the earliest piano sample packs on Pianobook gets an updated version 5 years after the original! Now with noise reduced samples, timbral shift, convolution reverb, tremolo, distortion, brightness control and reverse samples.
Day 5: Automotive Junk by LMNO Project
“A collection of old automotive parts and junk hit with a screwdriver.”
Day 6: RJS Vocal Pads by Risto Sipola
“A synthy instrument made out of vocal samples.”
Day 7: Bosque by Mateus H. G. Beledelli
“A walk in the university’s grove can be an experience of expected and unexpected sounds! What do you think we could hear?”
Day 8: The Lester by dannysmartmusic
“Halo Studio’s stunning Lester Grand Piano.”
Day 9: The LoFi Jazz Guitar by JSamples
“Hollow Body guitar sound with LoFi effects”
Day 10: Fiddle in D by Cordaro Rodriguez.
“A happy fiddle noodling in the key of D”
Day 11: Hephaestus by Andrea Giordani.
“A sound design library born from creativity, inspiration and experimentation.”
Day 12: Subliminal Keys Elegy by Fluidshell Design
“A sound creation studio allowing you to mix up to 4 polyphonic sources at the same time.”
Day 13: Reverse Guitar Texture by Roslaen.
“A Swarm-Like Reverse Guitar Pad for Ambience or Rhythm”
Day 14: Sam’s Kitchen by Sam Ecoff.
“If Gordon Ramsay was hired to record Spitfire’s Hammers library…”
Day 15: Bandola Andina Colombiana by Estiven Sepúlveda.
“A traditional 12 string instrument from Colombia.”
Day 16: The Experience – Austrian Concert B290 by Dore Mark.
“A Bosendorfer Imperial Concert Grand Piano, including the famous Black Keys for total of 97.”
Day 17: Afrixilo African Xilophone by Raregod.
“The simple sound of a Xylophone, the sounds are low and high with a range of four octaves.”
Day 18: Vignettes (Folk) by Joshua Meltzer.
“A baritone banjo, a fiddle, an acoustic guitar and 3 pads make up this Americana inspired library. Six organic colors for your musical canvas, to start scoring your scene!”
Day 19: Distorted Memories Of You by Xylander.
“A vocal instrument based on just two samples of my late grandparents singing the word ‘you’.”
