Samples, Loops

iPhone Music Software: The Strange Agency has announced the launch of Slice (App Store link), a $.99 beat-juggling app.
Check out how it works in the demo video above.
If you’ve used Slice, leave a comment with your thoughts!

SampleRadar has released a collection of free trance samples, royalty free:
The samples are split intro instrumental categories: Basslines, Drums, Explosions, Leads, Pads and Trance Piano. The Drums folder features both loops and single hits.
All the samples are supplied as 24-bit WAV files so can be imported directly into your DAW of choice. Because they’re royalty-free, [...]

OT: The Halloween Scream Machine (App Store link) is a free iPhone app for Halloween.
It plays back creepy sounds and soundtracks, and it also lets you record and play back custom samples.
Combine these scary sound effects with the Halloween dark atmospheric music mix and get read to scare the neighborhood……

Cinematique Instruments has released Experimental Box, a collection of rhythms, ambiences and instruments assembled from glitch, noise, hiss, hum and other weird and bizarre sounds, to create a tool for writing experimental and minimal music.
Description:
Experimental Box focuses on aspects of glitch, minmal and noise music and gives you a full toolbox of ingredients for cacophony, [...]

This tutorial video shows the key features of the Impulse drum sampler in Ableton Live 8 and how some of these features operate.
This video is ideal for the novice to intermediate level Music Technologist wanting to learn Live 8.

Making REX Loops was uploaded by: muzicali
Duration: 562
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Eric Archer, an electronics designer and musician who builds unique electronic sound generators, has posted a collection of samples made using one of his latest projects, the Mini Space Rocker drum machines.
Here’s a preview:

 

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Roland TB-303 Acid Sounds was uploaded by: LorDBassePL
Duration: 36
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The samplemeisters from Germany, Ueberschall, have announced a new Elastik Soundbank, Art of Sounds, that promises “Hyperactive Mix Sound Design for the New Music Paradigm”.
The sound library was designed by Yvat, a Rumanian IDM-artis, to create a new world of soundscape sculptures.
About Yvat
Yvat embraced a double track career of sound designer & producer and of [...]

Pettinhouse has released WarmJazzFREE, a jazz guitar sample library for Kontakt.
Here’s a preview of WarmJazzFree:

 

 Jazz Guitar [1:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

7 Kontakt patches ready to use: 1 patch is dry for amp simulators and 6 patches are amped with the Kontakt effects processor emulating some of the popular guitarist sounds.
129 unique samples.
3 layers.
Round robin played – upstroke/Downstroke.
Release samples for each note.

You [...]