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Let’s Make This Together!

Let’s Make This Together! Audio Incubator is our chance, as a community, to build on everything we loved about Pianobook and take it to the next step – connecting people who love to make sounds with people who are inspired by them. We want to keep things accessible to everyone, to create and to use. […]

FURTHER QUESTIONS ON SAMPLING

Every pack submitted to Pianobook should contain original audio. That is, audio that is created by the Samplist/ Uploader. This could be a recording made with a microphone, or a signal created by an Oscillator or Generator. Put simply, we always advise that you should sample acoustic instruments and synths with analogue or digital oscillators that are not pre-programmed.

Competition Time! The World’s Biggest BRAAAM

It’s November 2022 and as we head into Christmas (yes, it’s coming) we want to throw another sample challenge competition. The third edition of this challenge (after Winter Voices & Global Swarm) will involve creating a BRAAAM… so when we combine all of your samples together we should be able to create The World’s Biggest […]

Hearth & Hollow Plucked Folk Ensemble

The fourth instrument in the Pianobook Artists lineup is an evolution of one of Hunter Rogerson’s best sample libraries on the Pianobook Site- The Wildmother’s Dulcimer. If you are not familiar, the dulcimer coveys a warm and dusty tone- perfect for intimate folk-like compositions.  Hearth & Hollow is an ensemble of seven unique acoustic instruments that […]

Christopher Siu Composes with Pianobook

It was a pleasure to see the very talented Christopher Siu using our best Pianobook sample packs in a recent video to compose a track. In the video, Christopher breaks down his composing process and well as giving a quick overview of the instrument he uses- all from the Pianobook Site. We highly recommend subscribing […]

Introducing Pianobook Artists!

Pianobook is a global community of nearly 500 contributors, who have together created over 1000 virtual instruments on our website for Kontakt and the free Decent Sampler. To celebrate the success of the platform, we have started a new label called Pianobook Artists- where we seek to reward our best contributors by giving them the […]

Project Reflex With Dan Keen

For our monthly Discord Challenge, we’re teaming up with Dan Keen to assist with his latest sample project- Project Reflex. Join our Discord to take part: https://discord.com/invite/mAGYfHUUBF Here’s everything you need to know: There will be two instruments created: Pitched and Percussive. If you don’t have an instrument or voice to record, feel free to […]

Global Swarm Community Event

In 2020 we bought 400 of your voices together it what (we believe was) the biggest choir sample pack ever created. This Spring, we’re ready for chapter two and the theme this time is Global Swarm. Like Spitfire’s coveted Swarm libraries, we’re going to collect your different tremolo samples and create a massive textural library- […]

March 2022 Newsletter

Our March 2020 newsletter featuring Mike Georgiades amazing Soft Nylon Guitar sample library.

Christmas Treats 2021

Three more treats for Christmas

HOW TO REVIEW

How to write great Pianobook reviews & Beta test your own packs to make them as good as they can be.

Beta Testing a Sample Pack

Introduction Creating a sample pack or library is a long and arduous journey. It’s a labour of love and because of that, we can sometimes be blinded by problems with our creations in the same vein as being told your angel of a child has been naughty at school. We need colleagues to tell us […]
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