Venus Theory, a sound designer and content creator, has launched another free instrument as part of his Auras collection.

The latest addition to the free range is Eraphine, a brand new sample library delivering “the sound of winter”. Inside you’ll get a range of seasonal sounds including a downtuned ‘frost’ violin, a range of stirring vocal recordings (created by his wife, captured using premium microphones and a tube preamp), plus decorative granular soundscape texture accompaniments.

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The Auras range was created by Venus Theory, whose real name is Cameron, as part of a mission to make inspiring and easy to use music tools that are completely free of charge with “No Strings Attached. No stupid subscription bullshit. Just Sound.”

Eraphine was originally made several years ago, but this revised edition features completely remastered and optimised samples, brand new presets, and puts the entire library into the new ‘auras’ engine. According to Venus Theory, this brings a new life to the sounds with added velocity, dynamics, and expression controls alongside the more refined ‘layers’ system, bringing it into something that feels “distinctly organic and alive compared to the original”.

Eraphine joins Volts, a synth library sourced from recordings of over $200,000 worth of synthesisers, and polyscape, which explores the cinematic sounds of the Polybrute 12 synthesiser from Arturia (you can hear this below), creating a trio of free Auras instruments. And, that’s not all, as Venus Theory says there are more exciting free releases on the way.

“Since launching this project, there have been over 24,000 downloads of these free releases and in that time I’ve received so many cool messages from y’all about how you’ve been using them in your music and projects and how much the releases have helped you out,” comments Venus Theory. “So, I figured why not cap off 2024 with a surprise release to bring something new to the ‘auras’ series!”

Auras:eraphine is available now to download for free. Check out more from Venus Theory.

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