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This may be a bump post. These have been reworked and grouped... some very usable patches for layering. Some of the solo brass sound like they may mesh well with the OT Majestic Horn:

The Alpine Project

The finest free orchestral sample libraries for Kontakt.
alpineproject.wixsite.com alpineproject.wixsite.com
 
rottoy said:
Here's some piano samples I recorded last year, put together in Kontakt for Pianobook.
Feel free to chime in with feedback!

The Bjarma Grand – Pianobook

www.pianobook.co.uk www.pianobook.co.uk
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I'm using Pianobook instruments in my work quite often these days. Your "The Bjarma Grand" is one of the most intriguing submissions I came across there lately. I really like the character of the piano itself, but the fact you've sampled it "lightly", as you wrote in a description, in my opinion further contributed to its feel in a positive sense. Iused "The Bharma Grand" in a recent composition, which I've also sent to Pianobook.

 
TomislavEP said:
I'm using Pianobook instruments in my work quite often these days. Your "The Bjarma Grand" is one of the most intriguing submissions I came across there lately. I really like the character of the piano itself, but the fact you've sampled it "lightly", as you wrote in a description, in my opinion further contributed to its feel in a positive sense. Iused "The Bharma Grand" in a recent composition, which I've also sent to Pianobook.

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I'm glad you are finding a use for it! Lovely composition! :D
 
Some possibly useful new freebies at KontaktHub

soundbake Aural Tradition
https://www.kontakthub.com/product/aural-tradition/
soundbake Broken Strings
https://www.kontakthub.com/product/broken-strings-free-kontakt/
Visionary Robots Industries Cedar: Harmonico
https://www.kontakthub.com/product/cedar-harmonico/
 
Thanks for sharing. It's been a while since I've visited Kontakt Hub. The third one looks particularly interesting to me. I will also check out the others; I believe I came across this particular developer on Pianobook as well.
 
Just read that the fantastic library by Riot Audio, Bowed Glass Clouds is currently free for download courtesy of VSTBuzz. Check here:

vstbuzz.com

Freebie: "Bowed Glass Clouds" by Riot Audio

"Bowed Glass Clouds" is a cinematic virtual instrument running in NI’s Kontakt. Its morphing pad engine creates rich, organic evolving textures with sounds sourced from bowed glass bowls and jars.
vstbuzz.com vstbuzz.com

I've grabbed this for free some time ago thanks to the Audio Plugin Deals. Though the library doesn't offer much content out-of-the-box, thanks to the clever control and morphing options included, it is quite easy to come up with variety of original and inspiring snapshots from the basic sound. The full version of Kontakt is required, of course.
 
I just found out about this at Rekkerd.org:

rekkerd.org

MeldaProduction releases Monastry Grand FREE piano instrument

The instrument was recorded with 16 microphones, resulting in 50GB of data from which over 3GB of the best sounding samples were used for the library.
rekkerd.org rekkerd.org

Although I'm familiar with Melda Production (though I don't use their products), I didn't know they're also into VI's besides processing and effect plugins.

The Monastery Grand listed above certainly does sound intriguing, at least judging from the description and its file size. However, once again it requires the installation of yet another (non-standard) plugin and platform. From what I've read, it is possible to obtain a completely free version of Melda Production Player, though you need to wait for the trial version to expire first (at least, this is how I understood it).
 
Looking forward to some demos of the Melda Piano from the usual suspects ;)
I like the overall tone, but the demos on the website all sound a bit hard, as if it's just one dynamic layer (but then 3GB would be quite a lot). So maybe it's just missing dynamics in bad midi files.
 
FlyingAndi said:
Looking forward to some demos of the Melda Piano from the usual suspects ;)
I like the overall tone, but the demos on the website all sound a bit hard, as if it's just one dynamic layer (but then 3GB would be quite a lot). So maybe it's just missing dynamics in bad midi files.
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Yeah, it's very annoying when they don't put info like dynamic layers, pedal/half pedal samples, round robins, etc. Makes them not look really professional.
 
Spitfire has added Mandolin to its Labs series and also introduced a new website for the same, currently in beta stage.

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Looking forward to trying out a new version of Labs mandolin. The old one from the Kontakt series is the best one I've used; I'm wondering are there some new features added. I do play the real thing amongst the other instruments (actually I'm still learning), but as usual, the virtual replicas are often more convenient to use.
 
https://github.com/sfzinstruments/WilkinsonAudio.NakedDrums/ - the classic Wilkinson drum samples now on Github with SFZ mappings. 1.3 GB FLAC compressed is pretty deep for a free drum kit. License says NC right now, but it's not, and we'll fix that - you can use these in commercial productions, just not resell them in sample libraries.

Lots of other goodies at https://github.com/sfzinstruments as well, there are a few people regularly contributing to that.
 
I've just found out that Cinematique Instruments has released another free "Klang" instrument - based on Theremin if I'm not mistaken.

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I'm glad to see they're continuing the tradition - it seemed to me like they're planning to go strictly commercial with "Klang", at least for a while.
 
Agreed - it needs a better description than "piano library" though. This is not a straight-ahead piano sound, very niche (in a good way - last thing I need is another plain old piano sound).

Also this requires Kontakt. Please folks mention this if true.
 
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