Versilian Community Sample Library (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.

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.

Projects using VCSL

Strudel REPL: https://strudel.tidalcycles.org/

Generative.fm: https://generative.fm/

Orchestools Keys: https://musictop69.wixsite.com/orchestools

VCSL Keys: https://www.kvraudio.com/product/vcsl-keys-by-versilian-studios