Howdy doody, y'all! 🤠

It's Black Friday again which means I have to put stuff on sale again and send an email again because that's how the good lord intended it.

Things are a bit nutty for me right now juggling 3 different game projects, prepping for charity stream week, and doing a bunch of other projects that are on the way so things likely will slow down for a while. But, the upside is I get to maybe have a semi-normal schedule for a bit.

Anyways, I have discounts for you, a new free thing, and even more discounts.

New FREE Instrument // Auras:Lichen

So I bought the Soma Terra finally for a new game score I'm working on the next few months. It's...weird, but I dig it.

As one last freebie for the year, I decided to sample it out for a new instrument in the Auras project called Lichen so that everyone can benefit from my financial mistakes of GAS.

The Terra is extremely hard to sample given the chaotic and performance-focused nature of its design, so I played around for a few days and decided to focus on 'performance samples' for the instrument design. Long story short, this means I had to individually sample every note in the library with each having a unique 'performance' by manually moving around and modulating various things.

The result is pretty unique - every note has it's own flavor, and for those long evolving pads/drones/textures it's pretty solid!

I've also included a new set of experimental IRs in this instrument designed to enhance the weird and wild sounds of the Terra with some that at time explode into crazy saturated bursts.

It's a good time, and now it's yours for the low, low price of $0.

Decent Samples Sale

Check Out The Sale Here!

Meanwhile, over at Decent Samples HQ, we have our Black Friday sale on now! Nearly everything in the store is now 30% off for you to grab and enjoy in the free Decent Sampler plugin.

This includes my collaborations with David Hilowitz, including our latest library 'Memos'!

A few favorites of mine:

Memos (LoFi / Ambient)

Featuring 50 sources recorded to vintage microcassette recorders like the Panasonic RR930 and Sony M560V, Memos captures the nostalgic grit and charm of tape to add intimate texture to your productions.

Interlaced (LoFi/Vaporwave)

The warm, nostalgic sounds of synthesizers recorded on VHS. Interlaced is a collection of sounds from a variety of analog and digtal sources recorded onto VHS tape with vintage VCRs designed to bring the warm, fuzzy, nostalgic feeling of VHS tape to the realm of the DAW.

String Flows (Cinematic/Media Composition)

String Flows is a unique string library consisting of a range of unconventional string articulations combined with a whole host of outboard effects, designed to bring an uncanny beauty to your compositions.

Bitscape 95 (LoFi/Synthwave/Vaporwave)

A treasure trove of lo-fi magic, meticulously crafted from the YakBak: a 90’s childhood staple. Combining a world of digitally crushed, nostalgic textures and characterful imperfections with all the grit and vibe you’d expect from a device about as lo-fi as lo-fi can get.

Motorlab (Ambient/Media Compositon/???)

MotorLab is a charming library of experimental origin. Inside, you’ll find an assortment of sounds sourced from a variety of battery powered motors all meticulously captured to infuse the dynamic and electrifying essence of mechanical motion into the realm of musical creation.

alt.strings (Cinematic/Media Composition)

Combining the sound of pristinely recorded bowed string articulations with imaginative analog and digital effects processing from a variety of boutique pedals and plugins, alt.strings offers a new take on what a string library can offer.

Of course there are a TON of other great libraries on sale, and a bunch of awesome free instruments you can grab on the Decent Samples website. Dig around a bit, you never know what you'll find!

Another Black Friday Sale

As usual, I've got my own store on Gumroad set up for Black Friday but it's too complicated for me to figure out how to do things in a more fancy way so I've decided to just set everything to 30% off because who has time for that. We have music to make and plugins to buy.

This applies to everything from sample packs to courses to presets (including the Blacklight bank with Jason Graves!) so go nuts. If you buy more than one thing, it'll take 30% off the entire order.

Anyways: just use the code 'blackfriday' at checkout to save 30% off whatever you want!

More Free Stuff In Case You Missed It I Guess

This year has been a big year for the Auras project, and I've released some other free goodies as well like wavetables and other fun things.

In case you've missed any of it, here's some quick links to grab all the free goodies your heart can handle.

All My Free Stuff Here!All My Free AURAS Releases!

So yeah that's it - thank you all for your support this year and to all my Patrons who have made the free Auras series such a success and making it possible to make free things that benefit everyone.

I've got some fun news in store sometime early next year, so stay tuned. In the meantime, I'll be head down working on [redacted] and [redacted] and [redacted].

Have a good holiday, and I'll catch you all at some point in the new year.

Cheers! ☕

~venus

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