Attention all you dubsteppers. Ghosthack has released a HUGE collection of dubstep samples for you to chop, crop and smash. They’re preprocessed and sound awesome. There are loops included (all at the standard 140 BPM), but there are one-shot samples as well, so if you want to put together your own beats from scratch, you’re…
This pack, by Mats Helgesson, is a big bad boy! Using 792 stereo samples of a concert piano, a Yamaha CF3, and recorded with two Neumann KM84 microphones with 5 velocity layers, this is one hell of a piano soundbank. How does it sound? AMAZING. (Check out the sound demos here and here). If you’re…
Mellotrons are cool and this emulation is one of the coolest I’ve come across. Here’s how it works. You’ve got a flute sound, strings sound and a chorus (the singers not the effect). There’s a big knob on the right hand side that you use to blend them together. Sounds simple right? It is, but…
Get some free drum samples here. These samples, from Wilkinson Audio, are some great Creative Commons drum sounds, unprocessed (apart from some selective EQ), that you can use to build your tracks into fully-fledged compositions quickly and easily. Included here are two sets of toms, various kicks and snares (and you’ll need to source your…
Here’s a cool initiative: The FreePats Project. “FreePats is a project to create a free and open collection of digital instruments for music production. We would like to collect sound samples that can be used to build sound banks for free software synthesizers.” “In the same spirit as free software, sound samples in the FreePats…
Orchestral String One is a great little VST that can produce lively string arrangements in moments. Recorded in the legendary Berliner Hall, this full string orchestra includes 14 violins, 10 Violas, 8 Cellos and 6 Double Basses. These are presented as a single ensemble making this a convenient, CPU-friendly (yet essentially limited) go-to orchestra. Tweak…
If you’re on the look-out for good-sounding bass samples, free ones are hard to find and paid-for versions are so expensive they’ll make you hair curl. The kind chap at TurtleSounds has gone to the trouble of making some and they’re yours, absolutely free of charge. I haven’t tried them out but I have listened…
Everyone wants an orchestra at their fingertips, but the prices of paid-forversions are enough to turn your hair grey. Enter Total Composure, a big, fat sample library that puts all those great classical instruments at your fingertips. The spiel: “The Total Composure orchestra(TCO) is a full orchestral sample library created using only samples that are…
The KickMaker from Teragon Audio is a synthesizer designed specifically to create good kick drum sounds. It uses four independent oscillators and a wide range of effects, allowing you to create perfectly customized beats. You’re not going to get an Andy Sneap-type kick out of this, but if you want to come up with your…
Looking for free samples? Quit your Googling and go straight to the source: Sampleswap.org is the home of professional-quality free audio samples all for free. “This 100% free AIFF/WAV collection contains 7.5 GB of sounds — including 2,430 techno, hiphop, rap, trance, and drum and bass drum beats / loops, 1,265 drum hits, 95 drum…
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