Reflective FREE Piano Sample Library (with a great back-story) 

I would rather a pay one time fee and own the sample library outright

You have done God's work. This is the new go-to freeware piano à la spitfire soft piano. Thank you for your contributions to the earwaves we immerse ourselves in. They're all the more pleasant thanks to you ❤

I love this guy and everything he and his team does. To this day LABS is still one of my most used plugins, not just free but ever. The Kontakt libraries are astounding also. I'm well exited for this announcement, and surely will check it out subscription or not.

i love seeing people talk about things that they've made and really do care about. Amazing job on this vst. I'll definitely be using it.

I can manage a fiver a month for amazing libraries like Attic Grand. On a very tight budget here so any more cost will put me out of the market. I like the idea of a continual turnover of content, provided we can keep what we've downloaded and always have them. I think that's how you explained it. Well done for bucking the usual subscription trend!

The sounds of this piano gave me the shivers. It's beautiful!

You really are doing wonderful things for musicians and orchestral musicians working with DAW's 👏

I am shocked to read about what has occurred, leading to the Crow Hill Company's formation. My heart goes out to Chris Henson, and I wish him all the best. Such a generous chap. Who has made such a huge difference in our world.

Perhaps 'membership' is a better term for your novel idea? So if I understand it, as 'members' of Crow Hill, we get access to the vault(s) and can download (and keep, with a perpetual license) the libraries as they are released, but your special sauce is that we have to grab them before they disappear out of the vault. That's certainly an interesting idea, I appreciate it's designed to keep us as 'members', which feels fair, and adds an element of exclusivity to the idea. Please make it easy for people to pause/restart their membership. You could also offer annual bundles at a minor discount - £5/month or £50/year? You could also consider offering pay-once bundles periodically so those who had paused membership, or those to find you later on, can 'catch up' on things they missed. It all sounds great to me, I'd be happy to subscribe.. I mean, 'become a member' :) for a year to support you and see what you're planning.

Yey, another cool video!!!!!

I thought a long time I figured you out...and this video cements my suspicion. You once heared "artificial scarcity" and then just ran with it.

Just an absolute beautiful piano for the first release and I have used it for church purposes and it sounds really good

I like that the UI is more compact and useful than LABS.

As always your sampling chops are on full display. You have a talent for it.

You asked for feedback, so here goes. Perhaps a single (one-time) access level to your vaults? Like many, I stay away from subscriptions. I thought your example of Adobe was spot on. All that said another consideration, for me, is local currency. I don't work well with moving targets. So for example, US dollars don't work. Love the Attic Piano. I am so happy that you are back. You are a wonderful person.

So glad to see a new video. Thank you for all of the great content you create!

Thank you for all your explanations, always clear :) Looking forward to the rest!

Thank you so very much, Christian! It is pleasure to see you doing things you do)

Totally agree with your reasoning and approach. The world is fast becoming a renter's society where eventually nobody will own anything. Cars on subscription, houses to rent, video subscriptions, music subscriptions, and so on... but stop those subscriptions and you have and own nothing. It's like selling you an experience. Maybe some people are happy with this, after all you cannot take material things with you when you pop your clogs... but consumers should have choice and we should not have to pay for the rest of our lives just to use something that could (in the case of software) suddenly disappear off the planet if the company closes.

So excited, thank you so much Christian, sounds amazing, watched this very late at night so will have to wait till the morning to get going with this fabulous sounding piano.......what a great plugin

I can’t believe we’re still using velocity to do key press power in 2023. I wish the poly after touch also took in key power too

Very nice piano indeed. Seems to have the bottom end lacking in my library of pianos and the reverse and other effects are very usable too. Well done 🎉Looking forward to your subscription service and its new model. ❤

How I have missed these VIDEOS! Thank you Christian! I can’t wait to start composing with this.

Been having a lot of fun playing along with you.... Cracking plug in... Thanks for being back.... Excited to be seeing this unfold..... Cheers from Dunbar...... :)

great piano set up, many thanks for being able to select the download folder, a great sign of things to come.

So simple conceptually but so well designed and thought out, you can really see the attention to detail and how it comes through in the music.

Thank You Christian...I love this piano for just audio doodling as its so lush and thick.

That business model is one of the fairest things I've seen in years. As for the instrument, it sounds beautiful. It's in danger of outshining other instruments in the mix, which is not a terrible problem to have for a free instrument. And the accompanying music coming straight from the soul of Christian Henson is still ringing in my ears. Well done, and welcome back.

Great sound

Simply love the story, the philosophy and the sound. Can't wait to give it a try !

Lovely sounding thing - thank you

When you describe the 9th level i cried, i never saw that deep good explanation, that wishing, it's like feeding what you see as being good to keep doing to chase it, because the action itself it's the final product of everything that you see, think, feel and wish, and to think about that and changing you perception, amazing

Soooooooo good to see you (and your new entourage) back.

You've hit the nail on the head with the way you've designed this plugin to play better. This has been my main gripe with sampled pianos and their inadequate performance in terms of velocity sensitivity. I tried using MIDI scripts to change the sensitivity range in my DAW, which helps, but I have to say brilliant work!! fixing this issue. I've only just found your company after using Spitfire stuff for many years and enjoying the professionalism of the libraries. All the best with your current work. I will be following your work closely and definitely want to buy some of these wonderful plugins you are creating.

The subscription idea is interesting, I just hope that the removed instruments would reappear from time to time so new members (or those who took a break from the subscription) would also have a chance to download them.

Sounds fantastic!

This is incredibly well made. Thank you so much for these wonderful instruments that breathe life

Thank you !

This how subscriptions should be done. I love it! :) And that piano is amazing, definitely trying that out. Thanks!

Loving it, thanks CH!

Absolutely fantastic fella it’s all about dynamic spirt Feel and great modern vibes tones and sound effects you your just fantastic man you are the Best 🎵☘️🙏

I love watching your video's,the best.Hope you get back to that warm soft light in the room.

I love it! So excited about this venture. Let's go crows!!

idea for vaults: release the first one with a subscription, then when the next one comes out, make the first one come out. maybe only do this with the company made vaults, and give artist's vaults the ability to be subscription or become one time pay. idk just throwing stuff out there

Great idea. Will definitely be looking at this.

You're the BEST!! Period!!

I don't fully understand how the vaults will work but I'm almost certain it wouldn't interest me. That being said I did sub to Logic Pro on iPad, which surprised me - but that is a lot of content for £4.16 a month. Even then I worked out if I use it for 15 years, it'll have cost me £750, which would probably be the most I've paid for any software - and that's quite a lot more than I'd like to have paid for something that, iif I stop paying, I won't be able to access any longer - so I'll likely knock that on head before long. I get your point about keeping stuff, but I really hate ongoing fees for anything because, like a lot of VST junkies, I always tell myself this one purchase is the last one and now I can finally spend money on life things like my wife, dogs, house and car. (maybe even a holiday)

You’re a force of nature, Christian.

Thank you for making this available for just a few clicks

Great video, I feel I understand the whole concept and the way to use this piano now. If I'm honest I'm more a fan of buying things outright rather than subscriptions, I do have a lot of stuff though so someone newer to the process might be more open to the idea. £5 does seem good value. Looking forward to seeing what's next.

Great to see you again, Christian!

Great stuff this. Really enjoying the instrument in Ableton. Fun stuff. 😁

First time I've seen you on YT for quite some time. Not sure if you've been on and I just haven't seen the vids. Nobody else seems to be welcoming you back in the comments. I'm very glad to see you again. You are, to a large extent, a trusted friend who sells me things he thinks I would like. This sounds divine. You're involved. I'm in.

This is a perfect idea, almost an exemplar / model of how sample Library subscriptions should be implemented and so long overdue too! It’s putting the musicians before the money, the artistry before the accountancy, not locking us into preposterous fixed term subscriptions with no guarantee of longevity (particularly in this industry) to implement something like this would be so welcomed and extremely appreciated by myself and I’m sure everyone else!

You guys are freakin amazing🎉 great work Chris.

First off I want to say I absolutely support this idea and think it's cool. That being said, I feel much like you Christian, and am fairly against subscriptions at this point. I have more samples and recordings then I can keep track of, and there is little I would still subscribe to. I like buying things outright. The one thing I make an exception for is stiff that really inspires me, something that does that and fit right under my fingers and my particular way of being creative. Anything that fits that I would subscribe too. That also being said. Testing something for a fiver I am almost always willing to do if it looks interesting. I think five💲 is a good start and should be fairly available to a lot of folks. Just don't lock us in for a year 😅

Have been enjoying your videos for years...missed you! Glad to see you again...and that special thing that makes a Christian video a Christian video. Excited for your new endeavor...and thanks for the free and beautiful Attic Piano! Cheers!

awesome great to have you back as well, will check it out in cubase 12 pro 🙂

Wow, but this sounds beautiful!

Really smart to make that reverse louder when on the upper notes and filter them out of the low end. Awesome.

Done up like a kipper 🐟

looking forward for the rest, love you so much

Wonderful, can't wait to add this to my library of sounds

Sick stuff mate!

Please stop bringing tears to mine eyes!

Beautiful! Initially thought the "offset" control was pointless but it makes perfect sense now! I've been putting a little automation on the offset for a more organic feel to my rigid midi sequences (I'm no piano player) and then resampling. As for the subscription... I'm on board if it's in the £5-£10 a month range. Looking forward to the future releases!

awesome sound !

Love your videos man good to see you back.

Always good to hear your thoughts, Christian, and you are neverr less than forthright. I will wait and see what is in these vaults, but I am not opposed to the idea if it stays cheap = otherwise an alternative of buying stuff outright might be a good idea to run in parallel - but maybe not everything in the vault, just some of it. What I particularly like though is your drive to create communities around businesses, which for me makes it much more than a business. That approach, I thnk your have proved in your endeavours so far, makes the business far more likely to succeed, and expand in ways that you don't necessarily anticipate, because your community will offer ideas and input to add to the total sum of happiness. In this digital and social media age it makes sense, and i think you have a natural and instinctive talent for it. Many businesses have no idea how to harness this interdependent world we now inhabit, but you have a great way to get peopke involved in what is a journey. I look forward to joining the adventure.

Amazing video as always, you have said often that you procrastinate, for me you are more a very impressive workaholic and talented musician. Great work !

Never heard of a subscription model like this, but to me it seems to be the fairest model for us consumers/composers and for your company, especially in this business type. I'm really excited to see what's coming next in the vaults, I'm in!

Nice!!!

Cool plugin! I've been using it for a couple weeks now... I really dig the unique fx parameters :)

love you and your work man

So, where are "The details down below" you mention @ 4.55?

"I can SEE it but I can't HEAR it??" 🤣

I’m in - bring it on!

Gosh, this sounds nice!

Hey I know that tune! Kinda nice to hear again

Brilliant - I guess I need a six version of this piano. Glad you are back among living (however that translate in the socials)

You've got a good and fair plan in mind.

I loaded this into Cubase 12, and after at first being very satisfied with the way it sounded, I started troubleshooting, because I simply did not get any dynamics. I see now that I was too ADHD to pick this up from this video - that it is meant to be this way. Maybe this is just something I don't understand 😌 So cool you're giving this away though.

I prefer to own my plugins and sound libraries. Won't likely pay for subscription unless you release something so amazing I won't have a choice. Love this piano by the way. Very excited to hear what you do next.

Hey Christian - like most, I don’t like subscriptions, but what you have proposed sounds like a good compromise. I’m really enjoying the Crow Hill adventure so far - looking forward to what comes next.

You are a gem to the world

Oh missed you Christian youtube just put this video on my feed great !

As you said, I don’t like subscriptions. If we could purchase the instruments in the vault that would be great. A free subscription to a particular vault then I could purchase what I want.

Excellent stuff as always, I've had a lot of fun messing about with Vaults in reaper, where it functions very well and looks snazzy too. 5 quid a month seems more than reasonable to me.

Inspirational stuff. That piano is sensational

Instantly downloaded it the moment i heard the first note

If at all possible I'd love to be able to purchase the vault sounds outright.

Sounds amazing! Using it I found that I can delete the letters of the bottom knobs, very small detail to fix but just to let you know!

I'm usually allergic to subscriptions but I really like the sound of this model. A pint will cost you a fiver (if not more) so yes, I'd be more than happy to put a paid-for TCHC subscription on the shelf to keep Netflix company. Edited to add: where would you like screenshots of Attic being used in other DAWs sent? And what sort of shot? Step-by-step opening?

Love the idea and products! I’d love to pay upfront, but certainly will try the subscription theory and see where it leads. Best of luck, and Thank You for the product!! If you can make this compatible with Luna (if it’s not already), that’d be great!

A fabulous piano, what a gift! Thank you! I personally would be unlikely to subscribe to anything. I like to buy the instruments in my collection; I have no idea what a subscription done this way is going to bring me in advance of the release for each instrument. When I buy I know what I am getting and my money goes straight to the software instruments I know I want. That's why I love the Spitfire Audio Originals - and Labs of course. This model is however far better than the Software As a Service model; if something really irresistible comes along I might subscribe for a while just to get that one instrument. Luck might then bring me something else I will use before the subscription ends. That's me then... Once I get BBCSO Professional and the matching piano I will rarely if ever spend money on software instruments. I have a ton of them and with Logic Pro's Alchemy and Sampler I can make hundreds more. A bit of experimenting with any good DAW and a sampler plug in with synthesis and/or processing capabilities can make you an almost infinite variety of instruments, each unique to your own collection.

Prefer to pay and own!

It looks like it needs to be hammered home more that you keep the instruments once you have them. So you actually are buying them outright, but the subscription ensures you don't miss any releases. Many of the misgivings seem to be that it feels like you don't keep the software, but you actually do! It's literally a comic / magazine subscription, you keep the magazines! It's a much better subscription model. You'll probably need big reassurances on ongoing technical support for items that get old and are no longer in their respective vault. But if the software build remains quality and stable for each plugin then probably a forum will be fine for that! Speaking of a forum, will there be one? Future compatability is a question also, for example new OSs will sometimes mess up your plugins, and things like future hardware architecture can render some unusable, if you have future proofed the GUI for that somehow or pledge to do so for new environments that would be a big selling point too. The flexibility to choose vaults sounds good. You could also have a feature where products can be brought back into a vault now and then by popular demand, say for a limited time, for newer subscribers that missed a plug in. Or just create an archive vault for the most popular plugins. Another idea that could be great is that since this is aimed at people who can afford say £5 a month, people on that budget also tend to use free FX plugins (or those terrible "99% off! Today only" Plugins) that's a gap in the market for better quality FX plugins on a more reasonable budget. Inventive things would be ideal here, not just yet another chorus/flanger/ reverb/amp etc.. This whole thing could also be appealing to people with different levels of disposable income, as you pick how many vaults you spend on, and which ones. Perhaps a free subscription for every X number of subscriptions too? Also, It looks like if someone could only afford, say, £5 or £10 a month and they see a plug in they love on another vault, they can just subscribe for one month, get that particular item and keep it, which is great if that's the case. As long as people can't "hop" between vaults using the same fiver of course😂 looking forward to seeing how this grows!! 👍😁

Let's go!

Thank you. It would be great to have a linux version and also a CLAP format for all platforms. It should be a matter of just enabling them in the config

One perks for high-end members should be to name one macro with the onomatopoeia of their choice