The ones most familiar to me are those by Augustine of Augustine’s Virtual Organs: Free Composite Sets The large amount of material available in Sonus Paradisi’s demo sets is not lost on the VPO community, and with Jiri’s encouragement, many “composite” sample sets have been released which combine stops from various demo sets.So this set is not free, but you are able to try the entire set without restriction prior to payment. I should also note the Kdousov instrument from Sonus Paradisi is offered as shareware: download for free, and pay if you like and want to use the instrument. The MPS Orgelseite has GrandOrgue ODFs available for some of the SP demo sets. Sometimes the selection of stops is large indeed – most notably, their Rotterdam Laurenskerk demo set is 24 sounding stops including a full principal chorus, reeds, mixtures, mutations, and even chamades! SP is very generous in their demo sets, and the Rotterdam demo is not an anomaly – the Doesburg demo offers 20 stops, the Brasov demo 18 stops, the Caen demo 16 stops, and so on. Sonus Paradisi offers unrestricted demos of most of their sample sets they choose to make a selection of stops available from a given instrument and make it available for free.As of early 2020, Piotr has begun to release new, paid sample sets but he continues to offer his previous 15 sample sets for free and has indicated they will remain available at no charge. Try his sets and if you like them, please donate to help him continue his work – it takes a staggering amount of time to create quality sample sets, and he is kind enough to give them away. Further, Piotr invests the time to release organ definition files for GrandOrgue as well as Hauptwerk. The sets are of high quality and have well designed, attractive user interfaces similar to those found on commercial sets. He has released fifteen free sample sets to date of small to medium sized instruments (up to 44 stops as of this writing). Piotr Grabowski is one of the only active producers of free sample sets.Some sets on this page do not come with GrandOrgue ODFs – Organ Builder can be easily and quickly used to produce functional, if basic, GrandOrgue ODFs to play these sets. This page is not intended to be exhaustive by any means, but rather to point you towards some of my favorite free sample sets, producers, and resources where you can find others.
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