From developer AV-Ylänne comes Finnish Forest Percussion, a free organic percussion library for Decent Sampler.
We’ve covered lots of Decent Sampler libraries on BPB, and new releases are always a treat to hear about.
If you’re new to Decent Sampler, I’d suggest checking out any of the Venus Theory libraries, like forms:steel, auras:lichen, and auras:altis. They are outstanding.
One of my favourite things about Decent Sampler, besides being a source of amazing free sounds, is that it has lots of quirky and unusual libraries.
Finnish Forest Percussion is one of those more unusual libraries, and it’s quite lovely.
Sometimes a library has a creative name that reflects its intended use or the emotion it inspires, and that’s perfectly fine.
In this case, Finish Forest Percussion is exactly what the name suggests: a collection of 23 unique percussion instruments made from wood, stones, leaves, pinecones, sticks, and other organic materials found in a Finnish forest.
Inspired by wood and stone instruments at a 2025 exhibition, AV-Ylänne decided to explore the organic percussive sounds of those natural materials.
The library features five round robins for natural variation, and a handful of adjustable parameters to alter the tone, pitch, texture, and impact of each strike/sound.
AV-Ylänne recorded all sounds at 96 kHz so that you can pitch them down while maintaining high audio quality.
The library also has built-in Reverb and Delay to help position the sound well and add depth.
Any percussion library that features wood/stone instruments like claves or any sort of lithophone is typically great for atmospheric cinematic music.
With Finnish Forest Percussion, you get that real atmospheric, cinematic quality, but you also get something that feels more organic than taking wood and stone from the forest to a workshop to build traditional instruments.
You get field recordings of imperfectly shaped natural objects vibrating in their natural surroundings, and they sound great under moody strings or piano.
The library is available for free, but if you feel like it benefits your work and you’d like to support/thank the developer, you can pay whatever you feel is fair.
Download: Finnish Forest Percussion (FREE / Name-your-price)
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