A selection 5 tracks submitted in August 2020 and 5 'archive' tracks.

Pianobook instruments used:

Track 01 - Jonah's Felted Grand + Tape Delay Experiment + Tatak Felt
Track 02 - Dictaphone Loop Synth
Track 03 - 1911 Bechstein Upright
Track 04 - Spieluhr
Track 05 - Hyundai U852
Track 06 - The Hoffman
Track 07 - Micah's Choir
Track 08 - mRhodes + Soft Drums
Track 09 - Sol's Piano

Download all these instruments and many more absolutely free at www.pianobook.co.uk

Monthly Highlights - Aug 2020

Good Shit

Created by Christopher Scullion: "My dad got this piano for our house in about 1994 I think, he bought it for £10.
This year when I went home to visit I decided to get the piano tuned for the first time (it hadn't been tuned since 1992). I also decided to fashion a nice strip of felt off an old snooker table and staple it to a length of wood to dangle between the hammers and the strings.
The man who tuned the piano said it's a clunky piano because it's German. I like how it ended up.

Recorded with 2 Line audio cm3's into an apogee duet.

There are two version available to download - the “MVP” version and a “Full” version (which has more samples so bigger but better!)"

Download it for free here: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/tatak-felt-piano

Tatak - Felt Piano

Created by James Kedwards: "I'm James, a FOH Engineer and Composer from Berkshire, I put this library together while doing live sound - a keys player was after a specific felted piano sound; and thought I should share it with this community.

I've used these samples on every project needing a delicate and close sounding felted piano. I was given the quietest dynamics of these samples by a friend and mentor, Jonah, before he passed away last month. This 'piano' is a mixture of three different sampling sessions; The quietest (and main) layer is 'Jonah's Piano', a 2014 Kawai Grand in Los Angeles - Sampled early last year with a pair of U47's, and a central frankenstein of a tube mic, running through Neve pre's - It was recorded quickly and in suboptimal conditions, and through my DiGiCo console as the samples were needed for a project quickly after!
This has a smooth and dark tone as it had been felted for this occasion (thanks to Christian for the inspiration!). The low end and upper register sounds great, and the midrange is a little muddy but fits well with strings scores.

To achieve the other dynamics, I recently sampled my own 1897 Bechstein Grand with the same mics and pre's - my piano has different tone, although I felted it for a closer match. The retriggers for this piano are from a 1900's Broadwood Pianola, recorded for the good sounding mechanism (as mine is near silent and had the Kawai recordings didn't contain any). 

I develop DSP software for live audio which provides a virtual 3D mix space - allowing channels to be allocated by zone to a pseudo-surround area, providing a consistent and immersive listening experience in challenging concert venues. I brought this custom linux OS into use when recording Jonah's piano - purely to see what would happen - assigning each recording its own spatial area at that stage, and treating them as normal files from that point on, giving the image of a more accurate listening position for the samples. This worked surprisingly well, and I think would be even more effective with orchestral sampling if it catches on to developers. Let me know how you think it worked out, or if you're interested in it for your own projects!

The samples here aren't in traditional form, and aren't scripted - I've worked with what I was left with among many other of Jonah's recordings and projects- and my additions more recently; I hope you enjoy using it and let me know of quirks that I can take a look at in the future!

Take a look at 'Jonah's Ambisonic Rhodes' too; these sound great as a multi!"

Download it for free here: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/template-xnez5

Jonah's Felted Grand

Created by Christian Henson: What happens when you run a Schimmel piano through a Portastudio, an Echo Fix Tape Echo and an Oto BAM? With some clever maths to line up delay times when shifting pitch, Christian and the team created this inspiring set of samples. Find out more in the video below.

https://youtu.be/SgIO1asTNfE

Download it for free here: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/tape-delay-experiment

Tape Delay Experiment

I Don't Recall Saying Good Luck

This is the second track on my 2022 RPM Challenge Album "Focussed". For this album, I used only one sound library per track (plus other percussion and field recordings).
This track was made using the excellent Shivering Waves sound by Fred Poirier on Pianobook: www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/shivering-waves/

Focussed

A View Of Distant Lights

so I'm going to Bud's cajun food tomorrow night and I'm really excited cause I'm going to get crawfish etouffee I wrote a song to celebrate using Tatak Felt from pianobook
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/tatak-felt-piano/

Étouffée

Max Cooper - Lovesong - PoppyAckroyd Remix

If you'd like to buy this track it's available here with a few different versions:
https://audiojungle.net/item/calm-growing-orchestral-uplifting-adventurous/24005813

I created this track utilizing the piano I made for Pianobook:

Tatak - Felt Piano
www.pianobook.co.uk/library/tatak-felt-piano

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

www.pianobook.co.uk

For further information and updates visit

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh…jA7uvVnIDayerm1zl

Discovery Within (Tatak Felt Piano)

More about (Jonah's Felted Grand)
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/jonahs-felted-grand/

The idea was to make a simple piano demo for the awesome pianobook library but it turned out a little bit more complex.. ;)

Idea 4 (Pianobook - Jonah's Felted Grand)

This track was created as part of the pianobook project using it's free 'Jonah's Felted Grand ' . This short piece was simply improvised with no preconceptions and recorded with a touch of reverb and delay via a multi band FX unit.

To find out more about the project, how you can get involved and to download "Jonah's Felted Grand' and many more free pianos visit

www.pianobook.co.uk

Stream Of Consciousness-Pianobook version

This track was created as part of the pianobook project using it's free 'Jonah's Felted Grand.'

To find out more about the project, how you can get involved and to download 'Jonah's Felted Grand' and many more free pianos visit

www.pianobook.co.uk

For further information and updates visit

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh…jA7uvVnIDayerm1zl

Tepid Grounds

A piece inspired by murky autumn weather I've been experienced lately in every sense. The track features "Tatak - Felt Piano" as well as the "Amplified Music Box" libraries, both available at Pianobook. Visit https://www.pianobook.co.uk for more information on the Pianobook project.

Slumber

A track built around a piano sequence using the basic version of the instrument; I augmented it with guitar, bass, drums and some strings at the end. Although the lack of dynamics in what I wrote and staccato nature of the sequence leaves it sounding unreal, I still like the effect.

'Has its Day' (Tatak Felt Piano Demo)

This track was created as part of the pianobook project using it's free Tape Delay Experiment, 9000ft Piano and Americana Granular Pad instruments.

To find out more about the project, how you can get involved and to download these and many more free instruments visit

www.pianobook.co.uk

For further information and updates visit

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh…jA7uvVnIDayerm1zl

Reiteration

This song im using 3 free libraries from Pianobok. Rustic Banjo as mostly a base, Tape Delay Experiement as piano and Flute+Violin as a Pad.

https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/fluteviolin?rq=flute
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/rusty-banjo?rq=banjo
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/tape-delay-experiment

A day there #pianobook

Demo of Christian Henson's Tape Delay Experiment Pianobook library. 
I was trying out Christian's new Tape Delay Experiments library yesterday and a whole piece just kind of fell out of me as soon as I played the first chord - very inspirational! I really liked the imprecise nature of the delays, loops and noise, so I played everything loosely without a click or quantise in order that all the delays were randomly out of sync and this helped to create a wonderfully chaotic sounds that contrasted nicely with the simple chords and melodies. 
Only uses sounds from the library. No effects used other than a tiny bit of EQ and light mastering.
The library is available on Pianobook here: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/tape-delay-experiment

Under The Water

Under The Water (Tape Delay Experiment Pianobook Demo)

Written with Pianbook's Tatak Felt Piano: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/tatak-felt-piano

Melatonin

This track was created as part of the pianobook project using it's free Mandolin Guitarophone, Lowery Pad, Soft String Spurs and Tape Delay Experiment instruments.

To find out more about the project, how you can get involved and to download these and many more free instruments visit

www.pianobook.co.uk

For further information and updates visit

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh…jA7uvVnIDayerm1zl

Doubt I-III

This track was created as part of the pianobook project using it's free 'Spieluhr' by contributor Frederik Czerny.

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

www.pianobook.co.uk
www.pianobook.co.uk/library/spieluhr/

Test Drive (Spieluhr - Frederik Czerny)

Made with the Hyundai U852 by Samual P Davies available for free at Pianobook

https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/hyundai-u852/

Photo by Natalya Letunova on Unsplash

Tolstoy's Waltz

WORDS by Alice Dean

INSTRUMENTS:
Spitfire: Originals Felt, Chamber Strings     
PianoBook: Jonah’s Felt Grand, Tape Delay Experiment, Tatak Felt
Arturia: Mini V3, Stage 73V
Splice Samples: Drums, Vocal, Textural
YouTube Samples: "Have Mercy" (Eryn Allen Kane) - Penny Loafers A Cappella
Vocals and Acoustic Guitar recorded with Rode NT1-A + Focusrite Scarlett 2i2

THIRD PARTY PLUGINS
Goodherz, Inc: Lossy, Wow Control, Vulf Compressor 
SoundToys: EffectRack, Little Alterboy, Little Plate 
PSP: Vintage Warmer II
Xfer: OTT
Valhalla: Vintage Verb, Room, Supermassive 
Waves: Puigtec EQs, CLA-76 + 2A, Vocal Rider, Sibilance, Kramer, J37 
Camel Audio: Camel Crusher 

DAW Logic Pro X

Prelude (Version II)

PIANO: 
Spitfire Originals Felt
PianoBook - Jonah's Felted Grand + Tape Delay Experiment + Tatak Felt

STRINGS:
Spitfire Chamber Strings

Prelude

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

This started as a piano improvisation over a simple chord progression. I ended up using a Pianobook sampled piano called The Hoffman. I added orchestral parts using Spitfire British Drama Toolkit and Studio Strings.

Prelude

Sam DeFriend