Howdy doody, y'all! 🤠

I figured it's about time to drop off a little surprise I've been working on in the background to say THANK YOU ALL for the incredible reception of the 'auras' project.

Since launching this project, there have been over 24,000 downloads of these free releases and in that time I've received so many cool messages from y'all about how you've been using them in your music and projects and how much the releases have helped you out.

So, I figured why not cap off 2024 with a surprise release to bring something new to the 'auras' series!

AURAS:ERAPHINE

Get It Here!

As with all releases in auras, this was created for the free Decent Sampler platform.

This library was originally created as an exclusive for another platform, and then...well...it's not worth getting into here. It features samples from a downtuned 'frost' violin, some recordings of my lovely wife's vocals through premium microphones and a tube preamp, and some decorative granular soundscape texture accompaniments.

The overall theme of this library was 'the sound of winter' and I think it came together in such a cool way, and it felt like a shame that it was no longer available anywhere.

So, long story short, I decided to remix and remaster all the samples from this collection, optimize them, and wrap them into the new 'auras' engine to bring them to life in a whole new way!

As with my other AURAS releases, this library has the same clean and clear UI with dynamic velocity response and CC1 and CC11 controls for Dynamics and Expression as you'd find in most premium libraries.

This time around, the A/B system blends between the 'normal' sounds and the 'winter' sounds.

This library is also highly optimized, giving you the entire multisample library in only 130mb for big ol' sounds in a little bitty package.

**No Strings Attached. No Subscription Bullsh*t. Just Sound.**

A New String Library Collab

My pal David Hilowitz and I have been on the hunt for some new string libraries for our composing work, and we just couldn't find anything that seemed to fit the bill.

Naturally, as we tend to do when this happens, we figured we'd just make it ourselves. And, although of course I'm a bit partial, I think the final result is pretty killer.

If you want to check it out, it's available for an intro price of just $29.

Grab It Here!

This library is made up of a TON of recordings from our favorite instruments, including some homemade celli/violas/violins from David!

This library is a new set of unique string articulations configured as a chamber ensemble of 3 celli, 3 violas, and 3 violins recorded with the warm sound of ribbon mics in live rooms to offer the best of 'intimate' and 'live' string sounds.

We then took these recordings and manipulated them with our favorite boutique pedals and 'special sauce' in the DAW with things like additive resynthesis, spectral effects, and all sorts of other weird and wonderful things to create a set of 'shift' layers.

This was a ton of work already, but then we decided to bring the whole collection to life with a new 'cascade' feature that blends between three layers at once for up to 27 players for some (in my opinion) really lovely contemporary scoring strings and textures that work well on their own or paired up with your other favorites.

That's All For Now!

Now that I've wrapped the soundtrack for Avowed and gotten this last freebie put together (and that string library, which was a unpleasant reminder at how long and tedious string sampling is) I figure I'll be taking a bit of time 'off' to just sorta chill until the new year.

I'll likely have one more video out on my channel sometime in December, and after that I'll be back...eventually.

That being said, the next couple 'auras' releases are pretty exciting! No spoilers yet, though.

I hope you all enjoy this new release, and have a great rest of your year through the holidays and such.

Cheers! ☕

~venus

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