Musician and sound designer Venus Theory has launched yet another free goodie, and this time it’s a piano library sampled right from his good friend Benn Jordan’s own home studio piano.
Jordan’s piano is described as a “unique” upright Yamaha, which also happens to have a MIDI input. The pair had been meaning to sample it for quite some time, and finally, it’s available free of charge for the Decent Sampler plugin (handily, this is also free).
Venus Theory, also known as Cameron, launches free tools thanks to support from his patrons, and has a mission to make inspiring and easy to use music tools that are completely free of charge with “No strings attached. No stupid subscription bullshit. Just sound.”
The new piano tool marks the start of another new free series from the creative, which will all fall under the name of “forms”. The series introduces a new interface, but currently there are no other plans or ideas in motion for what might come next.
In a newsletter speaking of the launch, Venus Theory recalls of their joint project, “I packed a few extra goodies with me and we set up his Yamaha Upright with my piano sampling template and got to work drinking some bourbon while the piano played itself. Turns out a piano with MIDI Inputs makes for a very easy sampling session comparatively.
“This session was done as a ‘test’ to see if we could get the sound we wanted from the piano and experiment a bit with the recordings to come up with other ideas and we had no real intention of ever releasing this set of sounds since it was just an experiment more than a proper session. However, once we put them together in a test instrument and played around with it we liked the result too much to not share it,” he says.
Forms:piano is available to download for free now. Check out more from Venus Theory and Benn Jordan.
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