Samples, Loops

Ueberschall has introduced Score FX, a sound library they describe as a comprehensive solution for professional, musical sound design.
Description:
This instrument includes 7 GIGs of brand new sonic stimulants. Featuring a progressive structure and layout made for building tracks from supplied “themes” and construction kits offering ease of injection into projects.
Thanks to the extended possibilities of […]

Travel blogger Matt Harding (Where the Hell is Matt) traced a sample around the world to its origin:
I went to the Solomon Islands to research the origins of Rorogwela, a traditional folk song that was sampled in Sweet Lullaby by Deep Forest and reused in my dancing videos.
In the years 1969/1970, the ethnomusicologist Hugo Zemp […]

Zero-G has introduced Urban Ammunition, a new sample library designed for urban production.
Description:
Urban Ammunition features beats, keys, basses, guitars, synths, strings, licks, fills, percussion, scratches and other samples guaranteed to create an R&B or Hip Hop track that is bullet-proof. The sample collection features 128 full construction kits with loops and single hits. To allow […]

Nokia has announced a “What does your city sound like?” competition, featuring DJ Shadow:
Now is your chance to collaborate with the inimitable DJ Shadow in his unique experiment for Nokia Trends Lab. This cutting edge music experiment offers a once in a lifetime opportunity to co-create a track with DJ Shadow using modern mobile technology.
Entitled […]

Glitch is a genre of electronic music derived from a fascination with the sound of technology failing in interesting ways. While the music originated with musicians exploring things like CDs skipping, the sound of glitch has been absorbed into all types of electronic music, with musicians using glitch noises and effects within a rhythmic framework.
Here […]

Inspiration Sounds has introduced Pure Live Breaks Volume 1, 270MB of drumloops recorded at tempos from 95-130 BPM and presented in Acid, Apple Loops, REX, and WAV Formats.
You can preview the library below.
A free sample pack is available for download (.zip)
Specifications:

270MB Content
ACIDized Wave Files
Apple Loops
Rex2 Loops
Loops at 95, 100, 105, […]

 

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SONiVOX MI has released Anatomy, a sample library for Kontakt that features exclusively human body sounds.
Anatomy offers over eight-hundred instruments that “twist and transform the human body into one expansive collection of physiological melody and rhythm. Anatomy sonically explores the human condition in ways never dared attempted previously, delivering you a deep, diverse & rich […]

IK Multimedia is now shipping SampleTron, a virtual instrument workstation featuring a collection of authentic “Tron” and other vintage keyboards instrument samples.
According to IK, SampleTron includes the most complete “Tron” anthology ever released in one virtual instrument, with over 2 GB of sounds, 640 presets and 260 multi-samples from 17 rare and vintage Mellotrons, Chamberlins, […]

Puremagnetik has released three new bundles for Ableton Live, Kontakt, Logic and GarageBand:
Vintage Collection, contains 7 of Puremagnetik’s old-school synthesizer libraries sourced directly from the classics of the 1970s and 80s:

TeeBee - Roland® TB-303 instrument and loops.
Circuit:30 - “Circuits” based on Moog® synthesizers and effects.
Analog Bass Volume 1 - Assortment of deep analog bass instruments.
P-50 […]

Ueberschall has released URBANIC Producer Pack, a Hip hop & RnB sample library powered by Elastik.
Urbanic Producer Pack features:

1.3 GB Hip Hop and RnB sounds, 2090 loops and samples.
1120+ individual single drum sounds: kick drums, claps, snare, hi hats, percussion, cymbals and shaker samples.
BPM information and root key (key signatures) are embedded in most loop […]

MPC2000xl has released a free sample library based on the Casio Rapman Rap-1.
The Casio Rapman is probably the most bizarre of all Casio toy keyboards from the 80s and 90s. The RAP-1 is the first of the two Rap-themed keyboards from the big ‘C’ and was released in 1991.
The samples were taken directly from the […]

Michael S. Schneider, author of A Beginner’s Guide To Constructing The Universe, has published an interesting analysis of the Amen Break (probably the most important sample ever).
In his analysis, the Amen Break may be popular because of the way the Golden Ratio is found it the break’s timing:
Having looked at the geometry of the Golden […]

Real Music Media has released a collection of free Mellotron samples.
These samples were taken from a 30 year old Mellotron M400S, serial #500 a few years ago.
The Tron’s condition was decent. The heads were cleaned and the azimuth was aligned by Streetly Electronics in England (the original maker of this Tron) just prior to sampling. […]

Sonic Cinema has three free sample packs for download.

Foley Series Vol. 1 - Gloves and brushes (WAV and Soundforge files), a ACIDized sample pack and the first edition of Sonic Cinema’s Foley Series. Containing foley sounds for that extra touch in your production. Be it a score for film or a cinematic music piece.
Foley Series […]

Ronny Pries has released a free sample pack:
The pack contains 60 chords/stabs and loops between ~110 and ~130 bpm. Most can roughly be classified as minimal, detroit, dubtechno orientated material. You’re invited to cut/slice/mash/torture/mix/whatever and use them for your own tracks.
Details and download here.