 This is the real-to-real piano library, a completely free lo-fi piano with features like tape hiss, some tape warble, and what about the shimmer? Hi folks, I'm Mike and I hope you will. All of the free libraries that I'm going to be featuring in today's video can be used within the free decent sampler. I'm going to put a link for that in the description down below. Not only that, but you can often download and install these libraries from within the sampler itself, meaning you don't have to visit lots of websites and sign up for different things. Now there's some pretty quirky instruments amongst the ones I'm going to feature today, starting with this one. This is Santa Monica Waves and you can grab this library from within the decent sampler itself, just go up to the browse feature here, then scroll down and you should find it somewhere. There it is, Santa Monica Waves. Now have a listen to the wave sound come in on the decay of these chords. And you can emphasize those waves by using this waves control here. So I'll push it up as we play. And there's a few presets similar to that with a slightly different sound to the pad stroke organ. Now you can also add some seaside-like bells in there as well. I'll go across to this preset, which is the delayed bells preset. Let's have a listen to that. And if you like, you can actually use the bells all by themselves. I'll go to the final preset, which is vendor bells here. Have a listen to that. Look, I reckon this could be really useful, actually, if you want to get that kind of seaside feel to it. Very moody, a little bit dark in some ways, but definitely worth grabbing hold of. Volitions, as you may imagine, is a violin inspired library from Venus Theory. And you can grab this one as well from within the decent sampler itself by going to the browse feature. Now, I really do love this library. It's very, very rich. And it's got six presets, which all have their own kind of character to them. Now, this first one, Arteek, is really worth listening to with a decent pair of headphones or on studio monitors. There's a lot going on with this preset. There's some pluck sounds, there's some legato sounds. There's maybe some harmonics going on in there as well. Let's have a listen. Beautiful. Now, the second preset here, for some reason, every time I hear it, it reminds me of like the desert or something, a kind of a Middle Eastern kind of vibe to it. Let's see what you think. And if you want to focus more on the pluck side of things, you can go to the third preset. How do you pronounce this? Chasu, Chaso, not quite sure. Doesn't matter. It sounds like this. Nice bit of ear candy there. And on the other extreme, without any plucked things going on, more of the legato sound with Freud. I reckon that could lend itself much more to some sort of Irish sort of Gaelic kind of sounds going on in there. Then we have Sinistras. Little bit creepy. And finally, the last preset, which I'm not going to pronounce these correctly, Volatile. This one's really, really rich sounding. Maybe one of my favorite of the six. Let's have a listen. Really loving the low end of some of these presets especially. So that's Volitions from Venus Theory. Do you know what else is free? This video. It's also free to like it and subscribe to this channel. Thank you. Back to the plugins. So we heard real to real piano in the intro and is the sound of a piano which has been put through a rather old tape machine here, real to real tape machine. Okay. And as we saw, we can add in tape hiss. We can add some warble to mimic the sort of speed changes that you get with tape. And then we also have shimmer. Let's hear it again with some shimmer. I can't get enough. Dreamy. You can also add in some chorus. And I have a little soft spot, I've got to say, for turning the tone down here. Okay. I know it already sounds kind of subdued. Yeah. But listen to this for a really subdued kind of almost like a felt piano sound. Yeah. That in some hiss and some warble. Something about this is a little bit charming. I know you're not going to use it on too many tracks. But when you want this kind of sound, I reckon real to real piano is the way to go. This is a sampled library of a zither. An instrument you may not think you need yet. Maybe when you hear it, you'll want it. Now this library cannot be gotten through the browse feature of the decent sampler like the others. But you can download it still for free. And I've got a link for that in the description down below. You're going to hear this very kind of folk type of instrument here. But I've got a challenge. Why not put it with something unexpected? I don't know, like an 808 or something like that. If you do that, let me know about your creations in the comments down below. But let's hear this with its most sort of basic sound, a picked sound. Now apart from that picked sound, we also have some sort of slowly odd chord sounds here. Yeah. And then some kind of special effects, I guess, down here on these keys. Now, as I say, that was the picked sound. Let's have a listen to that little demo again using the stick sound or even a tremolo sound. As I say, how about use this in a creative way, perhaps with a style of music it's not expected for? As I say, let me know in the comments down below. This is Banjo Eucalyli and you can get this from within the decent sampler itself by using that browse feature and is exactly what it says it is. Now, this is a velocity sensitive instrument and you can only play the notes which are authentic to the instrument itself. The only control you have is this reverb control over here, which I shall manipulate as we play this cutesy little demo. It's incredible what you can get for free these days. And I've made a whole series of videos about free effects and instruments. I recommend you watch it by clicking on this thumbnail here. Get yourself a coffee, get yourself a comfy seat and binge.