VSCO 2 Kontakt

Sam Gossner had a dream. After creating the original VSCO which was nice little orchestra, he wanted to create something bigger and bolder. Collaborating with dozens of friends from both sides of the pond, he created a new chamber orchestra. Two years in the making this version at its largest (and most expensive but still quite reasonable) has 300 instruments.

However he didn't forget you and I, the freebie loving population of the world. He has put almost 2000 samples under a Creative Commons Zero license which is similar to Public Domain. These include 16 string, brass, woodwind and keys instruments along with lots of handy orchestral percussion. I've been busily working on the strings, woodwinds and keys for Kontakt. Meanwhile Sam has put out an SFZ version that includes everything but the percussion which will come later. The brass are next up for me and then I'll try to figure out the percussion, which I've never understood. Thanks to CCLarry for helping me iron out some glitches and Fleer for his continuing moral support.

Thanks especially to Sam for making these samples available. I've written across the years to a number of the commercial orchestra makers and tried to get them to let me use some small subsection of their samples maybe from older versions with the promise of full credit, links to their sites etc... I never heard back from a single one. This free Community Orchestra had nothing to do with me, but after my failed attempts, I realize how rare it is for a commercial product to allow a subset of its samples into the freebie world.