The story
To help rescue Christmas 2020 we decided to make a very special gift for the Pianobook community… and asked them to help make it.
The worlds biggest sample library made from 1000 vocal (and vocal-like) sounds donated from over 400 submissions from all over the world!
Winter Voices is a available in both Kontakt 5 format (requiring the full paid version of Kontakt) and Decent Sampler format (available for free).
Donate
2020 has been a very tough year for the creative industry and, whilst Winter Voices (like all Pianobook instruments) is free, if you enjoy it and are able provide a small donation, Pianobook is supporting #WeMakeEvents, which splits donation across a range of charities supporting the arts during this hard time, including Acting for Others, Music Support, Stagehand and #MakeItBlue. Donate here:
https://we-make-events.raisely.com/pianobook-winter-voices
Credits
Massive thanks to:
- Angus Roberts-Carey for coming up the Winter Voices concept, organising all the submissions, building the Kontakt templates and some amazing patches
- Rupert Coulson and Jake Jackson for mixing
- Zoë Wenban for the amazing graphics
- Dave Hilowitz for creating the DecentSampler versions of all the patches
- Christian, Jo, Robbie, Simon, Stephen for all the support behind the scenes on Pianobook
- Everyone who contributed videos and samples to make the Winter Voices a reality!
Videos
Thank you to everyone who contributed a video for the Winter Voice project. You can browse them all below!
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Reviews for Winter Voices
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So amazing
I remember this whole rollout and drop last year. It was such unexciting time. A new instrument everyday of december all culminating in this release. Im sure i speak for everyone in the community when i say we are blown away by this. Knowing how much went into making this makes it such a treasure. It just keeps evolving and never feels boring. voices, noises and textures just keep folding in on one another. The GUI is pretty solid and you get a fair amount of patches with different vibes. Its a beautiful frosty choir/ ambient pad that can just keep looping forever. This was such an exciting time for pianobook and i still remember it like it was yesterday. Even-though there's so much going on you still hear individual voices and things coming in which is so cool.
One of the best library on Pianobook
Just perfect , this entire project it's amazing! My most favourite patch in this library is Winter Evo Slow series
Woah! Pure inspiration.
This is full if different sounds but I particularly love the frozen textures as a "wall of sound" type pad.
