The picture speaks for itself. Within the beatifully decorated town hall of the city of Leeds in England lies this spectacular organ, towering high into the music hall and silencing the sounds of the city with its earth shuddering, rich, harmonic tones.

This project was part of a new chapter for Samplephonics known as Sonas, who will be unveiling some spectacular virtual instruments over the coming year. More on that soon!

We spent some time with organist Dr Simon Lindley who told us all about how the instrument works, it's history and even a guided tour up in to the inside of the organ itself!

Simon crafted 6 versatile presets for us and we began the painstaking process of sampling this incredible feat of engineering. Over the next few months we spent many evenings in the town hall recording every single note with multiple round robins and over 10 second note recordings to capture the true sonic character of the organ. The repetetive nature of the task actually became quite hypnotic and a strange bond began to form between us, the organ, the building and the very spirit of the city of Leeds.

Everyone involved in the project worked long hours and for free, so we felt that it was only right to give away the fruits of our labour and hope that the spirit of this incredible instrument could spread throughout the world and help people to craft wonderful music that moves people to do good things.

We packaged the sounds up into a custom Kontakt 5 instrument with a lovely photo of the organ in all of it's splendor, as well as sampler instruments for Kontakt 4, EXS24, Reason NN-XT and Ableton Sampler. We hope you enjoy making music and spread the word about this wonderful organ so others can too!

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Gezzz ..... this organ is indeed a gift ... and the very best of its kind!!!

Sounds completly awsome, almost no peak on the cpu and 6 awsome presets!

Best Kontakt freebie in a very long time

 

This is the best freebie of the month. 3.2 GB organ for free...

 

This is flippping awesome! Of course now I don't know what to do what all these samples I made and I flew all the way to Leeds too.
Seriously you rock Phloopy, great find!

 

Phloopy does it again exploring the vast wasteland of the internet to bring us only the best treasures. He returns parched and out of breath to the sound of clapping. Good find mate, thanks so much.

 

Oh so I guess information isn't free anymore. Let me ask you a question if a developer or another site gets information here will you credit us? Somehow I doubt it, that seems like a double-standard to me.

 

Thanks for a great post!

 

As they say: it's all in the delivery, it came off as if you were saying: well since you're already copying my site you might as well post a link to it. Personally I have no problem with you posting links to your site so feel free. I just wish one day that it would work both ways, that's when I can say AudioSex became a success.

 

Fantastic phloopy....

Thanks alot

 

Sweet

I've no idea how to play an organ though, I've got the hauptwerk vst one, and there's so many knobs and buttons to pull and flick that i just ended up randomly flicking switches and pushing knobs to try and get a sound out of it

Once you get it though, it sounds great