Created by Ash Verjee: "Popping in one day last week to my deserted, locked-down school to pick up a few things from my office, I put my head around the door to our main school hall, and there, in the middle of the stage, in near darkness, stood our beautiful Steinway concert grand, unloved, and unplayed for months. I thought it might be fitting to try to create a thing of beauty from such a sad sight.

St. Helen’s Steinway Pad was made by recording middle c and the octaves above and below it in a random sequence with the only recorder I had on hand – an Olympus LS-5 digital dictaphone. I then fed the whole 72 second recording through Valhalla’s Supermassive plugin and Arturia’s tape delay and captured the 100% wet output.

The resulting instrument, with a super-slow attack and release, undulates and evolves due to the octaves in the original recording, and provides a dreamy, airy texture, a promise of when the hall will once again soon be filled with music and joy."

Download it for free here: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/st-helens-steinway-pad/

St. Helen's Steinway Pad

Created by Christian Henson: Just as summer is drawing to a close, we bring you the Summer Piano.  Presented in our brand-new monolith format, here is another beautiful take on the Shimmel we all know and love from the shed.

To learn more about our monolith concept, check out the video linked below!

https://youtu.be/EzDD-boT1Bk

Download it for free here:

Summer Piano

Pianobook Demos - Bemused

Please take time to explore and drift off to other planets with these stunning electronic tracks by solo artists and bands that i've stumbled upon here in Soundcloud.  if you like what you hear, go visit their page and show them some love...

ELECTRIC SHEEP

not all those who wander are lost...  same goes for the mind.   we can wander inside of ourselves, and sometimes get lost in there...  the tracks in this playlist are for those in need to being transported somewhere better...  somewhere beautiful, inspiring...  or back in time, to a special place, a certain face...  a scent.   i have found these tracks to be rather mesmerising, haunting, moving.  i hope you enjoy this journey...  If you do, please visit the artist's page and show them a lot of love.  thank you x

NOT ALL THOSE WHO WANDER ARE LOST

Illustrating some of the new pianos on Pianobook - Claustrophobic Piano and Midnight Upright. And Echoes Guitar also from Pianobook.
Plus atmos from the LABS instrument Tundra Atmos.
Dedicated to the musician Harold Budd who passed, from Covid 19 complications late last year.

Fragments

Using the NFO - Orchestral Swells from Dan Keen as the prime demo. Plus other Pianobook instruments - Pianobook 1 (an early piano submission). LABS - Amplified Cello Quartet, An early LABS instrument - Alice Allen Cello.
More questions than answers at the crossroads

Crossroads

Try to Run (Interlude)

A bit of spring
Using free Kontakt libraries:

https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/hypersonic-violin-textures/
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/summer-piano/

Singing the spring song

A project of Scottish musician Ian Beattie.
@manwithglasses4

Man With Glasses-Israel Hands

Beats

IT'S A SET UP

All This I Do for Glory

All this I do for glory

Harass

Void For Solo Violin

Stupidity, conventions, stereotypes divide people..

...could Be Together...

These tracks were created as part of the Pianobook project.

Curated by one of the founders of SPITFIRE AUDIO, Pianobook is a collective sample project that aims to bring together a community of likeminded music makers to talk about their stories through the pianos they use, admire and are inspired by.

To find out more about the project, how you can get involved, and to download these (and many more) FREE sounds, visit
www.pianobook.co.uk.

Contact: marcusmanderson@gmail.com 
Facebook.com/dafingaz 
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So, summer is here alright. Using from the pianobook roster - The Meyer Choir / The Summer Piano / St.Helen's Steinway Pad. And "electric tweets" I constructed with Kinetic Metal in Kontakt.
Time to lie back in a field and watch the clouds float by.

A Distant Summer's Day

「Un petit cauchemar」-ささやかな悪夢 album ver.

This is perhaps my most ambitious track from my new album "Them Hybrid Folk". Hope you enjoy!
https://moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/them-hybrid-folk

Mood Exhibit - Vagabond Dreamers

A track featuring the Winter Voices from Pianobook.
WV Naturals, WV Max Nattrass, WV Evolutions, WV Radiation Textures, WV Dynamic Evos Slow, Jon Meyer- Gentle Vibes, Lowery Pad, LABS Scary Strings & Frozen Strings.

Winter Voices - Snowdrifter

Instruments I used for this demo:
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/st-helens-steinway-pad/
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/niue/
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/st-helens-cantores/
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/grand-studio-a/

Aurora

Miseria (St. Helen’s Steinway Pad, Niue, St. Helen’s Cantores, Grand Studio A Demo)

Using Music Box DLX and Ebow Piano from the Pianobook roster.  An improvisation with copious amounts of processing.
An imagined ancient procession slowly makes its way to the temple.

The Procession

Using some of the new instruments from the Pianobook community :
Lullaby by Carlos Esparza / C&P Strings (cello) / Jen- Co Vibes.
Trying to capture the mood of fireflies at dusk in an empty glade.

Fireflies

Bemused explores textures,sounds,colours.
And has written for theatre, contemporary dance, video productions and installations.
And a side project - Pennine Project - https://soundcloud.com/pennineproject explores a cinematic, ambient portrayal of the Pennines.

Check my alter ego of Tracing Arcs :http://soundcloud.com/tracing-arcs
Four albums of Bemused tracks can be d/loaded for free at Jamendo and Bandcamp (links below).