Friday Freebies – Free Music Software & Samples

It’s Friday, so we thought you might want to start of the weekend right with some music-making freebies:

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Free Sample Library Features 1,300+ Samples & Loops

Loop Hunter has shared a free sample library that’s monster-sized:

DIGITAL REDUX FREE BUNDLE is a pack in which we got together all free sample packs from the whole product of our DIGITAL-REDUX producer; with over than 1300 samples and loops, you will be able to get an idea of the 20 packs that you can find on our website. With styles as diverse as electro, house, techno, chill out, dubstep, hip-hop, dnb, and the likes.

A good way of having a little sample of each one of these incredible packs aimed at professional electronic music producers.

Download at the Loop Hunter site.

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Free Commodore 64 Sample Library

Reader Tomislav Zlatic (Bedroom Producers Blog) sent word about another free Commodore 64 sample pack:

I’ve just released Commodore 64 Synthesizer Sessions Part 2.

The pack features 14 multisampled instruments and one multi patch, with a total of 142 samples in 16-bit WAV format (download size is 79.4 MB).

Each instrument comes with Kontakt 5 and Shortcircuit 1 patches.

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Free Epic-Epic Sound Library Sounds Pretty Dang Epic

Audio Genetics Lab has released Epic-Epic, a free sound library for Kontakt that actually sounds pretty epic.

Here’s what they have to say about Epic-Epic:

All audio demos are produced entirely with the Epic Epic library and do not use any extra processing other than reverb ,EQ ,compression, volume automation, imaging, more reverb, limiting, delays, analog hardware panning ,a Reaktor patch that sounds great but who knows what its really doing, a few interns for getting coffee, a Palindrometer, deep meditation, and the luck of the Irish.

That’s pretty much what it takes to get a clean, up-front epic sound, these days.

Details at the Audio Genetics Lab site.

Free Vocal Sample Library

Sample producers Vocal Sample have released a free vocal sample library, Vocal 60′s:

VOCAL 60´s features 551 Royalty-Free Male and Female Vocal Samples in 24-bit Wav Format. Includes spoken words, lines, shouts, adlibs, funny vocals, slang, scats and more!

352 Mb of 24 bit resolution .wav format files, covering a tempo range of 090 to 170 bpm. All these features makes Vocal 60 `s Pack a powerful composing tool that gives you more life and dynamism to your music.
This is a Vocal Pack suitable for both DJs and Producers from different musical genres.
Whenever you need a great vocal track for an electro, ambient, trance, chillout, lounge, Electronica, minimal or soul releases, no doubt about it, this is your pack!!!

It’s a free download from the VocalSample site.

Free Analog Percussion Sample Pack

Reader Ville Väisänen sent word of a free sample library, made with the Korg Monotribe:

I made this free drum/percussion sample pack with my monotribe. I found it is great box for such sounds; with pitch and filter envelopes and great sounding resonant filter I recorded some pretty powerful analog bass drums, effect sounds and other percussion.

There are 90 files available for download as 24bit wav files, above or via SoundCloud. They are CC licensed.

Free Gameboy Sample Library For NI Maschine & Kontakt

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Reader Max Pfetscher tipped us off to a new free Gameboy sample library, Noizedrumz Vol.2 [nanoloop] for NI Maschine & NI Kontakt.

The library features Gameboy nanoloop samples in high quality.

Features:

  • all samples created with a nintendo gameboy running nanoloop
  • recorded and mastered with DBX 386, Cubase 5, Adobe Audition
  • 918 Samples
  • 24Bit, 44,1kHz, wav, available stereo and mono
  • 6 nki instruments vor Native Instruments Kontakt (v. 4.2.4.5316 and above required)
  • 5 nki BooTweak instruments vor Native Instruments Kontakt (v. 4.2.4.5316 and above required)
  • 9 drum kits for Native Instruments Maschine
  • ready for Native Instruments Maschine

You can download the free goodness at Noizefield.com.

Free Justin Bieber Super Fun Ableton Live Pack

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We’ve been hard at work for the last couple of weeks, putting in the long hours to bring you the news from the Winter NAMM Show.

But we’ve been so focused on NAMM news that we totally missed some new gear that flew in ‘under the radar’ – the Paper Jamz Justin Bieber Keyboard Guitar.

We don’t know how we missed a sick cardboard axe like this, especially since you can get it for $10 at Wal-Mart.

Fortunately, AfroDJMac has his finger on the pulse of the Justin Bieber action and he brought this Bieberific bad boy to our attention:

Hey Synthtopia, Thanks for all the great coverage over the last week, it’s been pretty exciting.

Surprisingly, however, you guys have never covered one of the years hottest electronic musical instrument, the Paper Jamz Justin Bieber Keyboard Guitar ;)

Well don’t worry I have the scoop on it and have made it into an Ableton Live Pack consisting of a synthesizer, drum rack, some nasty samples, and a Slice to Midi preset for the enjoyment of all! There’s a gritty lo-fi charm bringing this Justin Bieber toy into Ableton and making synths and such out of it. I hope you guys like it!

Actually, listening to the demo for the Justin Bieber Super Fun Ableton Live Pack, it sounds like AfroDJMac’s come up with something a bit twisted and wrong.

But, if twisted and wrong + Ableton Live + Justin Bieber is right up your alley, check out AfroDJMac’s site for the details and the download.

Applied Acoustics Systems Expands Chromaphone Sound Bank Series

Applied Acoustics Systems, developer of “software based synthesis tools,” has expanded its Sound Bank Series with new titles for its Chromaphone percussion synthesizer.

Chromaphone combines acoustic resonators to create drums, percussion, mallet, string, and synth-like instruments. Drum skins, bars, marimbas, plates, strings, and tubes form pairs that are “sparked to life” by a configurable mallet and a flexible noise source. In describing how the software works, AAS explain that they have developed “a novel coupling technology” that precisely models how vibrating objects interact and influence each other capturing key acoustic behaviours of musical instruments.

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Free Sample Pack

AZ-Rotator has released a free sample library, AZ-ROTATOR FX:

I’ve always dreamed with to put some sounds over some film or animation. Past year I was recording different sounds and processing them. I imagined some images on my mind and tried to put sounds on it.

I have been using this samples on my productions and gigs in the last times, now I would like to share them, so here is a pack with some of these sounds, for you use them like you want.

Content:

  • 100 Sounds from my own film. A collection of FX Samples by AZ-Rotator.

Specifications:

  • 140 Mb Complete Pack Content.
  • WAV / 32 bits / 44.1khz
  • PC/MAC Compatible (Logic, Cubase, Reason, SonyAcid, Fruity loops, GarageBand, etc…)

via reader Albert