Vcsl

Your one-stop-sound-shop for samples, the Versilian Community Sample Library project contains dozens of orchestral, world, and experimental instruments professionally recorded and edited. For composers, a set of SFZ format patches are provided to allow use in any DAW in combination with Plogue Sforzando player. Please download Sforzando and watch the video tutorial for instructions on how to use SFZ files.

This collection is under a Creative Commons 0 (zero) license. Essentially it’s Public Domain- you can do whatever you want with these sounds (even make commercial software), no royalties, no credit, no special terms. This includes integrating it in projects such as generative music, DAWs, granular synthesizers, and samplers.

Pulse redemption keys are available for a nominal contribution of $2.50 to offset the cost of the download. If you would like to contribute a greater amount, please use the paypal.me link down below under ‘Development’. All contributions are earmarked specifically for VCSL and other freeware projects.

 

Free

Developer: Versilian Studios LLC.
Software: For (free) Sforzando Player (download)
Format: .sfz (Sforzando)
Samples: Over 4,000 Samples (?)Samples are individual performances, not including duplicates from multiple mixes or mic positions. The File count is the total number of sample audio files in a product.
Filesize:

5 GB size to date
(and more coming in the future!)
Other: SSD for sample storage & loading recommended
DIRECT DOWNLOAD

OR

GET A PULSE KEY ($2.50)
DOWNLOAD SFORZANDO
VISIT GITHUB PAGE

Development

What’s Included?

During the course of making commercial sample libraries, test sample sets, canceled projects, and other content is generated which is destined to never see the light of day for a variety of reasons. We created VCSL so we could share all of these projects with you, as well as light versions of our commercial products.

This goal of this set is to provide a consistently-recorded and convenient starting place for factory libraries, sound designers, and hobbyist developers to work from. A greater emphasis is placed on pitch fidelity (usually wholetone) and consistency, but less on more ‘professional’ features such as many round robins, articulations, or velocity layers, except where warranted.

Support VCSL!

VCSL is an ongoing project, and we rely on the support of our customers to fund development for it and other freeware projects. If you like what you see (and hear) here, consider purchasing one of our commercial products.

You may also send a contribution of any amount via Paypal.me. Please note “VCSL” in the description so we’ll know to earmark it for future work on VCSL! Thank you!

Projects using VCSL

INSTRUMENTS (1/24/2019)

Aerophones

  • Edge-Blown – Ball Whistle
  • Edge-Blown – Baroque SATB Recorders
  • Edge-Blown – Ocarina, Small
  • Edge-Blown – Ocarina, Typical
  • Edge-Blown – Pipe Organ
  • Edge-Blown – Renaissance Organ
  • Edge-Blown – Train Whistle, Toy

  • Free – Harmonica, Special 20 C
  • Free – Harmonica, Special 20 F
  • Free – Harmonica, Super 64
  • Free – Siren
  • Lip – Didgeridoo

  • Reed – Saxello

  • Reed – Tenor Saxophone

Chordophones

  • Composite – Concert Harp

  • Composite – Folk Harp

  • Composite – Strumstick

  • Zithers – Dan Tranh

  • Zithers – Grand Piano, Kawai – Legacy

  • Zithers – Grand Piano, Kawai

  • Zithers – Grand Piano, Steinway B

  • Zithers – Harpsichord, English

  • Zithers – Harpsichord, Flemish

  • Zithers – Harpsichord, French

  • Zithers – Harpsichord, Italian

  • Zithers – Harpsichord, Unknown

  • Zithers – Psaltery (bowed & plucked)

  • Zithers – Upright Piano, Knight

  • Zithers – Upright Piano, Yamaha

Idiophones

  • Friction – Wine Glasses

  • Plucked – Kalimba, Kenya
  • Plucked – Kalimba, Tanzania
  • Plucked – Mbira Mavembe, Low G
  • Plucked – Mbira dzaVadzimu Nya., B
  • Plucked – Nyunga Nyunga, Low F

  • Struck – Agogo Bells
  • Struck – Anvil
  • Struck – Balafon
  • Struck – Bell Tree (2)
  • Struck – Brake Drum
  • Struck – Cabasa
  • Struck – Cajon
  • Struck – Claps
  • Struck – Clash Cymbals (2)
  • Struck – Claves (2)
  • Struck – Cowbells (2)
  • Struck – Finger Cymbals
  • Struck – Flexatone
  • Struck – Glockenspiel
  • Struck – Gong (2)
  • Struck – Guiro
  • Struck – Hand Bells, Nepalese (3)
  • Struck – Hand Chimes
  • Struck – Hi-Hat
  • Struck – Marimba
  • Struck – Mark Tree (2)
  • Struck – Ratchet
  • Struck – Shaker (3)
  • Struck – Slapstick
  • Struck – Sleigh Bells (2)
  • Struck – Tambourines (5)
  • Struck – Triangles (7)
  • Struck – Tubular Bells (3)
  • Struck – Tubular Glockenspiel
  • Struck – Vibraphone
  • Struck – Vibraslap
  • Struck – Woodblock
  • Struck – Xylophone

Membranophones

  • Other – Ocean Drum
  • Struck – Bass Drum (3)
  • Struck – Bongos (2)
  • Struck – Conga, Quinto, Tumba
  • Struck – Darbuka
  • Struck – Frame Drum (2)
  • Struck – Snare, Legacy (4)
  • Struck – Toms, Legacy (2)
  • Struck – Snare (3)
  • Struck – Rope Tension Snare
  • Struck – Timpani (2 sets)
  • Struck – Tom (2)