Samplephonics has released Leeds Town Hall Organ, an incredibly detailed sample library featuring the sounds of the Leeds town hall organ formatted for Kontakt, Ableton Sampler, EXS24, and Reason NN-XT.
Within the beautifully decorated town hall of the city of Leeds in England lies this spectacular organ, towering high into the music hall and silencing the sounds of the city with its earth shuddering, rich, harmonic tones. We spent many evenings in the town hall recording every single note with multiple round robins and over 10 second note recordings to capture the true sonic character of the organ.
If you’re looking for an epic organ sample library, download this one immediately. Samplephonics has done an amazing job sampling this unique instrument and releasing one of the best free organ sample libraries ever. It sounds magnificent, and the fact that it is released as a freebie is absolutely mind-blowing.
Let me explain. I enjoy creating sample packs occasionally and releasing them for free (take a look here if you’re interested).
The process of creating a sample pack is fun at first, but almost every time, it becomes a form of self-torture as you get closer to the end. Somewhere along the way, you definitely find yourself wishing you’d never even started it.
Recording all the sounds you want to capture, listening to each take over and over and finding the best bits, editing each sound to perfection, creating mappings for popular samplers, it really is a tough process which takes a lot of time and requires some serious motivation.
These guys sampled each note of this amazing instrument (10 seconds for each note) with multiple round-robin variations and created instrument patches for four different samplers.
I can’t even imagine how long it took them to finish this project, and I’m amazed by how great it sounds. It’s definitely one of the best freebies in 2014 so far!
Samplephonics has announced a whole series of similar sample packs for this year. I’m looking forward to that! In the meantime, you can sign up at their website and get 2 GB of sounds for free or browse their current product line.
Audio Demo
Check out the Leeds Town Hall Organ audio demo:
Download: Leeds Town Hall Organ (3.2 GB download size, ZIP archive, formatted for Kontakt, Ableton Live, Logic, Reason).
