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…
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…
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…
Here’s a strange and wonderful sample pack from internet phenomenon, Ze Frank: The Pain Pack—Tear it apart and put it back together. Here’s the deal in Ze Frank’s own words: “I posted a phone number and asked that anyone experiencing emotional pain leave a message describing their pain.” “I received a total of 53 messages…
Here’s a big-ass (1.3GB) collection of ambient samples from Airborne Sound. Cool, unique stuff here: A bundle of crowd, sports, hall crowd, and weather sound effects. Includes stations, construction, and other evocative atmospheres. Perfect for that rock opera in waiting. The dirt: 15 sound clips 96 kHz 24-bit stereo WAV files 1.36 gigabytes “Professionally recorded, expertly…
Here’s a huge bunch of primo-sounding samples from the lovable lads Attack Magazine and Wave Alchemy. “Attack has teamed up with some of the world’s best sound design companies and sample vendors to offer a series of free sample packs. The latest of our exclusive collections comes courtesy of Wave Alchemy.” “From one-shot drum hit…
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