Jimmy Fingers Music has released Fender Rhodes VOL1, a free sample library featuring a collection of chords and licks performed on a Fender Rhodes electric piano.
I put together this collection of chords recorded with my 1974 fender rhodes. I used a little bit of analog delay from the memory boy made by elctro harmonix. It’s about 120 different chords I recorded into wave files. They sound great! I figured somebody out there who doesn’t have access to a real fender rhodes could get some use out of these for your own production.
Please note that you’ll need to subscribe to the Jimmy Fingers Music mailing list in order to get the free sample library. The download link will be delivered via email as soon as you confirm the subscription.
See also: Free Piano Sample Libraries!
The library contains 120 audio samples in total. It features multiple variations of each chord paired up with short riffs and one shot samples. Unfortunately, one shot samples feature only one velocity layer per note, so they aren’t really all that usable. The chords on the other hand sound great, and I can imagine people using these free samples in various different music genres from hip hop to house and lounge.
The included sounds are 100% royalty free. You can use them in your commercial music projects without any restrictions. Here’s a quote from the confirmation email:
Feel free to use these clips however you like in your tracks, however you do not have permission to sell or give them away.
So, you are free to use the provided samples as long as you don’t re-distribute them. The confirmation email also contains information about the various services offered by Jimmy Fingers Music. For example, you can hire them to create custom electric piano tracks for you, to re-create samples so that you can use them in your projects, etc.
Download
Fender Rhodes VOL1 is available for free download via Jimmy Fingers Music (72.8 MB download size, ZIP archive, contains 120 audio samples in 24-bit WAV format).
