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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. 

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Da Fingaz Pianobook Demos 2

Created by Peter Esch: "I came across a CD-ROM with Csound files, containing a choir imitation using granular synthesis, which I used more than 15 years ago in a project. Csound is a powerful sound and music programming system. Csound’s FOF opcode produces sinusoid bursts useful for formant and granular synthesisis, loosely based on IRCAM’s CHANT program. Each FOF produces a single formant, and the summed output of four (or more) produces a vowel imitation.

The FOF Choir – Basic – instrument produces the 5 vowels (a, e, i o, u) which can also be used in a random fashion.

The FOF Choir – Vowel Morphing – instrument produces slow morphing textures, each note has its own permutation of 4 vowels. There are two round-robins for each note, to obtain a even more less-repeating texture.

Both instruments are available in Kontakt 6 and in DecentSampler format (split into 7 instruments: 5 individual vowels, random vowel, vowel morphing)
Developed in CSound 6.15, Kontakt 6, DecentSampler"

Download it for free here: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/fof-choir/

FOF Choir

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 like-minded 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 
Twitter.com/dafingaz
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VAX RX7

The English Felt

The Emperor & King

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 like-minded music makers to talk about their stories through the pianos they use, admire and are inspired by. (Not sure what was happening on the clicking here 😳).

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 
Twitter.com/dafingaz
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The Bjarma Grand

Farmhouse Pads

FOF Choir - FOF Choir - Basic

Although the instruments used are from quite different regions, they still blend together quite well on this oriental track (I think).
Only free instruments were used, namely:
Abecedarian Sitar and FOF Choir (Vowel Morphing) from Pianobook
Native Instruments' Kontakt Factory Selection (for the percussion)
Free Ethnic Flute Phrases by Sonuscore.
Check out pianobook.co.uk for many-many more free virtual instruments, and for a great community!
Photo made by yours truly in Singapore.

Oriental Maze

Featuring pianobook's acoustic unicorn series skimmer glass alongside claustrophobic piano

also rises (demo)

A calm minimalistic new age piece composed while exploring some lo-fi-sounding instruments available at https://www.pianobook.co.uk/ Featured instruments: "Autumn Piano", "Midnight Upright", "Lullaby" and "One After 969". Cover photo by John Towner at Unsplash

Waves

Demo track using two Pianobook instrument submissions:
FCF Choir - Matrix
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/fof-choir-matrix/
and
Bamboo
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/bamboo/

Along with some other VSTs:
SoundEthers - Free World
and
Thunder Drum

Raum reverb for Bamboo
Magnetic II and Ozone Elements for master LR

Samba 13

This track was created as part of the pianobook project using it's free 'Dictaphone Loop Synth' as well as Spitfire Audio's LABS Soft Piano.

To find out more about the project, how you can get involved and to download the 'Dictaphone Loop Synth' and many more free pianos visit

www.pianobook.co.uk

Messages in Memories

Demo for the Niue patch Hit 1. Niue is a sample library with atmospheric and inspiring sounds all based on wine glass recordings.
Read the story and get the library for free on www.pianobook.co.uk/library/niue/

Niue Hit 1 Demo

Technically just another study/improv for polyphonic arpeggiators (No 13), however as it reminded me harmonically very much of the great Penguin Cafe I decided to quickly sketch some string parts on top reminiscent of said group.

Using the following Instruments:
The Emperor and King (Chords - Panned Left)
College Kemble (Arpeggios - Panned Right)
Spitfire British Drama Toolkit (Viola)
Spitfire Aperture Strings (Flaut Ens)

To find out more about the Pianobook project, how you can get involved and to download 'The Emperor and King' and 'College Kemble' as well as many more free pianos please visit:

www.pianobook.co.uk

For further information and updates please visit:

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Study for Arpeggiating Penguins - College Kemble & The Emperor and King

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