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Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Aspen GM Rompler

Eventually we might get a whole GM Rompler with many of the instruments. For the moment here is a collection of instruments covering the first 3 categories Piano, Chromatic Percussion and Organs with 24 instruments total. Many new instruments and lite versions of things like the Salamander Piano. Lots of cool instruments from Sam Gossner's new VCSL project.

Aspen GM Soundset Win 64 Win 32 Mac AU MacVST

Note that Reaper and some other DAWs don't like Maize Romplers

See read me for individual instrument licenses, all can be used to make commercial music.

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

VCSL Instruments

Sam Gossner, the man behind Versillian Studios and the VSCO2 Orchestra, has created the Versilian Community Sample Library. It is really just starting, but there are already lots of fun samples. These samples and my instruments are CC0 which means you can use them for anything you like.

As always I'm using the acronym VCSL so that folks will know where the samples came from, these instruments are my own fault and Sam did all the amazing sampling work. I'm not affiliated with Versillian. I just love the free samples!

JH Piano    Win 64   Win 32     Mac AU   Mac VST

K Piano                     Win 64   Win 32     Mac AU   Mac VST

4 Recorder Pack         Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

Saxello                       Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

Small Ocarina            Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

Samples CC0: Sam Gossner and Versillian Studios
Instruments CC0: bigcat instruments
As per usual you are agreeing to terms and conditions.

Here is a bonus instrument. Mattias Westlund of SSO fame created this violin trio using the violin samples from VSCO2, MSLP, ldk1609 and MIS.

Westlund 3 Violins Win 64 Win 32 Mac VST Mac AU

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0: Mattias Westlund

Saturday, March 3, 2018

Christian Henson Pleyel Piano VST

Christian Henson gave away a free set of samples / EXS & Kontakt instruments. I asked on thread if I could make Maize sampler versions and he responded "Oh I sooo want to see this! Please could you post here." So here is a link to the Youtube thread. You can find the instruments under my post as Joe Stevens. Pick the one for your OS.

Christian Henson Youtube

Since the response stopped short of complete permission, I don't feel comfortable posting it on the blog and don't want to get in wrong with one of the biggest sampling companies in our world, but it is easy enough to grab from the Youtube thread.

The piano itself is very odd. I did a lot of tuning, cutting and editing to get a somewhat in tune and consistent feel across the keyboard. It isn't for every situation, but it might be useful as a very different feel than a regular piano. It also comes with a pads VST.

Friday, February 16, 2018

NST Instruments

Magenta is a Google Brain project that has created something called NSynth which seems to be extracting the audio DNA from samples and then mixing it all together in a user controllable synth. While I can't give you the synth (it is highly confusing) which will hopefully someday come out as a VST, I can apparently use the NSynth Dataset to create more traditional though possibly funky sounding instruments. I've finally added in a Reverb to the GUI as well and thanks to my friend at VST4Free for the background image.
These use the latest version of Maize Sampler and should be compatible with both VST 2 & 3. They also use the new ADSR controls from Maize and should work better.

NST Vocals Win 64 Win 32 Mac VST Mac AU

These are 30 acoustic choral 'patches' in 5 instruments. The are arranged by range, Full, High, Mid and Low.

NST Pianos Win 64 Win 32 Mac VST Mac AU

These are 5 Acoustic Keyboards which are pianolike at any rate. They are called up from a single instrument sort of like a mini-romper.

License: The dataset is made available by Google Inc. under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Paper: Jesse Engel, Cinjon Resnick, Adam Roberts, Sander Dieleman, Douglas Eck, Karen Simonyan, and Mohammad Norouzi. "Neural Audio Synthesis of Musical Notes with WaveNet Autoencoders." 2017.

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Sample Science Player is out

I'm gonna break from my practice of using this blog to post only my own stuff because I wanted to mention that the endlessly cool Sample Science has issued the Sample Science Player.
It is totally free though you can slip him a couple of bucks if you like.

Sample Science Player

Lots of Soundcloud Demos.

Note I had nothing to do with this, I just think its really cool.

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

The VSCO2 Orchestra

Sorry for the issues with this orchestra. I've changed the name to the Sketch Orchestra and the checksums are now different so hopefully no more issues.
Here are packs of individual instruments made with the latest version of Maize Sampler. They should be fully compatible with VST2 & VST3 for both Windows and Mac. In short they should work with any DAW.

Win 64         Strings    Brass    Woodwinds    Percussion    Keys
Win 32         Strings    Brass    Woodwinds    Percussion    Keys
Mac VST     Strings    Brass    Woodwinds    Percussion    Keys
Mac AU       Strings    Brass    Woodwinds    Percussion    Keys

You can find the full Rompler at VST4Free as my version got taken down again.

VST4Free Hosted Version.

I know some countries can't access Mediafire and so the gentleman behind VST4Free has kindly agreed to provide another host for the project. This link is to the full Rompler, you can also browse bigcat instruments next to the '>' sign to get the individual instruments.

Note this needs Windows Vista or later, it won't work on XP.

Thanks to Sam Gossner and his crew for this collection of samples. Thanks to Simon Autenrieth for the artwork. Take a look at the Community Edition on Sam's site. You can find the samples, SFZ versions and much more. If you enjoy the sound you might invest in the pro edition. I did and I'm quite enjoying it. The fun exotic instruments like wooden flutes, baroque recorders and unique brass along with more standard orchestra instruments and great percussion make it worth the price of admission.

Thanks to VST4Free for providing alternate hosting here.

Creative Commons Zero: Versilian Studios / Sam Gossner
Piano and Organ sampled by Simon Dalzell of Ivy Audio
Artwork: Simon Autenrieth

NSBreaks wrote "I have the instruments working in Garageband 10.2. I tried copying to the components folder in the MACHD/Library folder rather than the user/Library folder then I restarted my computer and the instruments simply became an option under 'AU instruments'."

Note this needs Windows Vista or later, it won't work on XP.

Full Rompler contains all the instruments below it.

Instrument	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Full Orchestra	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU

VST4Free Hosted Version.

Soundcloud Demo kindly created for me by Sam.

Demo of the Harp, Res Evil 3, Res Evil Main Hall by WhiteNoiz

Creative Commons Zero: Versilian Studios / Sam Gossner

Piano and Organ sampled by Simon Dalzell of Ivy Audio

Artwork: Simon Autenrieth

By downloading and using anything on this site you agree to this Limited Warranty & Liability.

Instruments	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Violin	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Violin Section	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Viola Section	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Cello Section	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Double Bass	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Trumpet	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
French Horn	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Trombone	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Old Trombone	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Tuba	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Piccolo Lite	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Flute	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Oboe	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Clarinet	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Bassoon	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Piano	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Upright 1 Piano	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Organ Loud	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Organ Soft	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Harp	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Percussion	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Timpani	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Marimba	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Xylophone	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU
Glockenspiel	Win 64	Win 32	Mac VST	Mac AU

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

The GM Soundset

While far from complete, here is a list of all the instruments in basic GM order and their download links. A list of credits is at the bottom. All these instruments can be used commercially, but please give credit to the samplers listed under Attribution Credits.
Some instruments have links to my friend at VST4Free who kindly hosts many of my instruments.

Piano

1   Acoustic Grand Piano
      City Piano       Win 64 Win 32 Mac VST Mac AU
      City Piano Lite             Win 64   Win 32 Mac VST Mac AU
      City Piano Crisp    Win 64 Win 32 Mac VST Mac AU
      Iowa Piano                Win 64   Win 32 Mac VST Mac AU
      Sonatina Piano          Win 64 Win 32 Mac VST Mac AU

2    Bright Acoustic Piano
   Salamander Piano       Win 64 Win 32 Mac VST Mac AU

3    Electric Grand Piano
   Y Piano               Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

4    Upright Piano
   Skerratt London Piano    Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU
   VSCO2 Piano                    VST4Free Link
   VSCO1 Piano    VST4Free Link
Intimate Piano
   The Whisper          Win 64 Win 32 Mac VST Mac AU

5    Electric Piano 1
       W Piano         Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

6    Electric Piano 2
       MK Merlittzer           Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

8    Clavinet
     H Piano                 Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

Chromatic Percussion

10 Glockenspiel
       VSCO2 Glock                             VST4Free Link
       Sonatina Glock              Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST Mac AU

11 Music Box
   UbikPhonik Music Box               Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

12 Vibraphone
       Atonia Vibraphone                      Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

13 Marimba
       VSCO2 Marimba          VST4Free Link

14 Xylophone
   VSCO2 Xylophone VST4Free Link
       Sonatina Xylophone          Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

15 Tubular Bells
       Sonatina Chimes           Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

Organ

20 Church Organ
       VSCO2 Organ             VST4Free Link
   VSCO2 Soft Organ                     VST4Free Link
       Prudhoe Organ            Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

Guitar

25 Acoustic Guitar - Nylon
      Freepats Spanish Guitar          Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU
MF Natural Concert Guitar       Win 64 Win 32 Mac VST Mac AU

26 Acoustic Guitar - Steel
       FS Blues Steel String Guitar    Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

27 Electric Guitar - Jazz
   FS Mor Peter Bridge        Win 64 Win 32 Mac VST Mac AU

28 Electric Guitar - Clean
       Karoryfer Cute Emily Guitar    Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU
   Karoryfer Cute Emily Dirty         Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

Bass

34 Electric Bass - Fingered
       Project16 Fingered Bass          Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU
       Quartertone Bass                 Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

35 Electric Bass - Picked
       Project16 Picked Bass            Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

39 Synth Bass 1
   Axis 80 Plinks and Plunks        Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU
   Contains Synth Bass

(Fairly) Complete Orchestra Romplers (contains all the VSCO2 or Sonatina instruments)

VSCO2 Rompler                         VST4Free Link
Sonatina Rompler                     Win 64   Win 32    Mac VST

Strings

41 Violin
       LDK1609 Violin                  Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST Mac AU
       VSCO2 Violin                     VST4Free Link
       VSCO2 Violin Section       VST4Free Link
       Sonatina Violins         Win 64 Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

42 Viola
       VSCO2 Viola Section           VST4Free Link
       Sonatina Viola Section            Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

43 Cello
       VSCO2 Cello Section         VST4Free Link
       Sonatina Cello Section              Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU
       Contains Solo Cello

44 Double Bass
       VSCO2 Double Bass          VST4Free Link
       Sonatina Double Bass                 Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

47 Orchestral Harp
       VSCO2 Harp                VST4Free Link
       Sonatina Harp             Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

48 Timpani
   VSCO2 Timpani                         VST4Free Link
       Sonatina Timpani      Win 64 Win 32 Mac VST Mac AU

Ensemble

51 Synth Strings
      Axis 80 Weird Strings                  Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

53 Choir Aahs
       Sonatina Choir           Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

Brass

57 Trumpet
       VSCO2 Trumpet           VST4Free Link
       Sonatina Trumpet                      Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU
       Iowa Trumpet                  Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

58 Trombone
       VSCO2 Tenor Trombone          VST4Free Link
   VSCO2 Old Trombone    VST4Free Link
       Sonatina Trombone                 Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU
       Iowa Tenor Trombone                 Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU
       Iowa Bass Trombone       Win 64 Win 32 Mac VST Mac AU

59 Tuba
       VSCO2 Tuba           VST4Free Link
       Sonatina Tuba                            Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU
       Iowa Tuba                                  Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

60 Muted Trumpet
   VSCO2 Trumpet           Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU
        Contains 2 Mute Articulations

61 French Horn
       VSCO2 Horn                   VST4Free Link
       Sonatina Horn              Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU
       Iowa Horn          Win 64 Win 32 Mac VST Mac AU

Reed

65 Soprano Sax
       Iowa Soprano Sax            Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU
   VCSL Saxello                     Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

66 Alto Sax
       Iowa Alto Sax              Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST Mac AU
       Clruwe Alto Sax            Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

69 Oboe
      VSCO2 Oboe                 VST4Free Link
      Sonatina Oboe                 Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

70 English Horn
       Sonatina Oboe                  Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU
Contains an English Horn

71 Bassoon
       VSCO2 Bassoon                VST4Free Link
       Sonatina Bassoon             Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU
       Contains a Contrabassoon.

72 Clarinet
        VSCO2 Clarinet          VST4Free Link
        Sonatina Clarinet           Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU
Contains a Bass Clarinet

Pipe

73 Piccolo
Sonatina Flute           Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU
Contains both Alto Flute & Piccolo
   VSCO2 Piccolo Lite VST4Free Link

74 Flute
       VSCO2 Flute             VST4Free Link
       Sonatina Flute        Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU
       Iowa Alto Flute            Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU
       Iowa Flute                Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU
       Iowa Bass Flute        Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

75 Recorder
   VCSL Alto Recorder             Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

80 Ocarina
   Small Ocarina              Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

Orchestral Percussion

       VSCO2 Percussion          VST4Free Link
       Sonatina Percussion             Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU

Drums

Quartertone Drums             Win 64   Win 32     Mac VST   Mac AU
Open Source Drums       Win 64 Win 32 Mac VST Mac AU
Musyng Kite Drums    Win 64 Win 32 Mac VST Mac AU

Attribution Credits
Sonatina: Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0: Mattias Westlund
Y,H & W Piano Samples created by Greg Sullivan used with permission, please credit him.
Salamander Piano: Creative Commons Attribution License: Alexander HolmFeel
Quartertone: Creative Commons Attribution: Quartertone
Project16: Creative Commons Attribution: Project16
MK or Musyng Kite: Creative Commons Attribution: Sarcyan
The Skerratt London Piano: Creative Commons Attribution: KungKrill
Prudhoe Organ: Creative Commons Attribution: Mark Beverley
Cute Emily: Creative Commons Attribution: Kaororyfer
MF Guitar: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported: Markus Fiedler
Exception allowed for Commercial Music, just no sale of the samples / instrument
UbikPhonik Music Box: Creative Commons Attribution: UbikPhonik

Public Domain / CC0 / No Attribution Requested
FS: GNU GPL license: Flame Studios
VSCO 2: Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal : Versilian Studios / Sam Gossner
Freepats Guitar: Creative Commons Zero: Roberto of Zenvoid.org
Iowa: Public Domain thanks to the University of Iowa.
Axis 80: Sampled by Richard Taylor and placed in the public domain
The City and Whisper Pianos were sampled by me and are Public Domain.
Atonia Vibraphone: CC0: Atonia

By downloading and using anything on this site you agree to this Limited Warranty & Liability.