Illuminated Sounds has been doing twisted things with children’s toys, and they’ve got a free sample library to prove it – James’ Circuit Bent Library:

Here is a Collection of samples from a few of my own circuit bent toys. I’ve made a quick couple of videos that will show you the method of how I captured these samples. I edited them in Protools at 16bit 441khz as mono WAV files. Feel free to comment or request any more. Enjoy.

See the Illuminated Sounds site for more video demos and the free download.

You know what else raises the hackles around here?

Sample libraries with porn movie names.

You know you’ve seen them.

Ghetto Grooves, for example, is a pretty descriptive title. You can figure you’re going to get some solid hip hop and r ‘n’ b loops, with a title like that.

By the time you get to Ghetto Grooves 3, though, you’re moving into porn movie title territory. You gotta figure that the sound developer has put things on autopilot.

Ghetto Grooves 3 sounds like something that you’re going to find in the back room at Guitar Center….through the 18 and over door.

Here are a few more titles for you to consider:

• Heat Seekers 2
• Nu Jointz II
• Big Booty Remix 2
• Ethno World 4
• V-Spot
• Bollywood Bangers
• Black Butta 2
• Backside Bounce 2
• Urban Jointz
• Funky House Grooves 2

Sample libraries or porn movies?

You make the call!

Description:

Experimental Box focuses on aspects of glitch, minmal and noise music and gives you a full toolbox of ingredients for cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, glitch, machines, hum, and repetition.

The rhythms, ambients and instruments of the Experimental Box were assembled from unique sounds such as stations-announcements, trains, paper crumpling, acoustic and electronic noise, station hum, underground-railway noise, pneumatic doors, crown cap shaking, glitches, noise, hiss, hum and other weirdness.

Check out the demos at the Cinematique site.

Contents:

• Brakes & Noises: Screaming brakes of an underground railway and noise ambience sent through a tape delay.
• Clashing Rails: Screaming rails and station ambience including an announcement gong. Modwheel switches between the two scenarios.
• Cuts Cap & Paper: A couple of tempo-synced loops: Crone-Cap shaking, Paper crumpling,  Tapping the strings of a guitar and Steps in leaves. You can control the filter, delay and reverb and a quarter note gate.
• Electro Wrong: An eighth note gated distorted alarm sound.
• Frog Angels: Kind of whistling/ kazoo sound mixed with electronic filtered noise. Modwheel changes between the two ambiences.
• Harmonize Arp: Lot hum through an arpeggiator with 6 presets.
• Lonesomescape: Different recordings of synthetic generated noise and sine oscillators. Low and deep!
• Noisescape: Different recordings of a busy lot and a sample of a station hum manipulated by filter and gates.
• Railway Slices: A couple of samples and recordings of trains and underground railways of cologne as well as station announcements in German and English.
• Reverse Garden: A combination of autoharp and psaltery fragments mixed up with a “bad” synthetic sound.
• Western Dirt: A dirty, dry muted E-guitar with 3 Round Robin variations, additional noise, scratch and attack recordings. It´s easy to edit the delay (amount, speed and feedback) and reverb (amount).
• ZW Expressive: A very expressive and percussive variation of our Zeitter & Winkelmann Piano.

Experimental Box retails for 19 EUR.

Note: Kontakt 3 or higher full version is required.

According to Peeters:

This FreePack is very detailed with long samples every minor third across the keyboard range. Each one is impeccably looped and is as good a representation of this classic keyboard as you are likely to find anywhere.

The PolyMoog Keyboard was a preset-only version of the bigger PolyMoog. The PolyMoog was not a huge success in the market, partly because of its hefty price tage (around £5,000) but the fact that it wasn’t actually truly polyphonic with just one filter to service all voices much like the ARP Omni and Omni II. It was also extremely unreliable and many of them spent more time in service centres than they did in studios!

The PolyMoog Keyboard was a scaled down version of its bigger sibling featuring a mere 14 presets (6 more than the original PolyMoog!) and limited editability. The most notable presets were the fabled Vox Humana sound and the two string sounds on offer here. It was more reasonably priced at £2,000. Of course, the PolyMoog Keyboard shot to fame in the hands of Gary Numan who used one extensively in his music.

The PolyMoog Strings FreePack is available as a free download in Kontakt 3, Akai S5/6000 and Fusion formats.

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Here’s a sample library that kicks ass: 9Soundware’s new Kung Fu: Hits of Fury.

Kung Fu is a sample library, in EXS24 format, inspired by kung fu films of the 70’s.

According to 9Sampleware – scenes from classic films were studied, and their sound effects were recreated with a combination of Foley-like techniques and painstaking synth programming.

The real reason this sound library kicks ass, though, is its 7 sound categories:

• face hit
• stomach hit
• swoosh
• sword clang
• sword draw
• gong, and
• crash

I’ve seen orchestral hits in sound libraries before, but not “face hit” and “sword clang”!

Heeeeeyaaaaahhh!

Kung Fu: Hits Of Fury retails for $19.99 and is available at the 9Soundware site. The 17 MB download includes 1 .EXS file and 100 WAV files (24-bit/44.1 kHz).

via SonicState

Andre from Cuesounds discusses new sound libraries for the Percussa AudioCubes.

Click here to view the embedded video.

In this video, Andre offers an introduction to the Percussa AudioCubes

Description:

Abstraction 04 is an all-you-can-eat buffet of domestic “found sound”, which has been purposefully polished, refined, and formated into rhythmic loop adders designed to spice up your percussive pallet and inject freshness into your grooves. This time around however, it is targeted directly at down tempo breaks, centrally-Intelligent hip-hop, and experimental urban futurism. Furthermore, this massive second helping of glitch rhythms and real-world sampled eccentricism, is for the first time paired together with analog kick and snare loops to synergistically co-create some seriously freaky future funk designed to make 3008 look old-school.

All Abstraction 04 loop content is produced at a native tempo of 106 BPM and is designed to effortlessly stretch from 90BPM to 120BPM and beyond to fit all tempo ranges used in current urban and down-tempo breaks music sub-genres.

Features:

• 1,040 new cutting edge loop files (over 1GB, 44.1K/24bit): 160 Solo Kick Loops, 160 Solo Snare Loops, 320 Abstraction Percussion Loops, 320 Mix Loops, 80 Extra Bonus Abstraction Perc Loops.
• Both Mix and Solo Element loops are provided. Four different loop types are available.
• All solo element loops are provided without additional auxiliary Reverb or delay effects. This keeps the loops pristinely clean and sharp, enables easy custom slicing and editing, and allows the producer to apply his own favorite effects.
• All percussion samples are made in stereo and make use of extreme spatial processing techniques at the sample level to produce sounds that literally jump out of the speakers.

Abstraction 04: Found Sound Urban Intelligence is available in Apple Loops, Acid Loops, REX Loops, and Single Hit Samples versions, starting at $39.95 USD for a single format, with additional formats available for $14.95 USD. A free set of samples is available for download from the product page.

This sample pack features 28 short percussive samples recorded from an Atari 260 Jr PAL console.

Download it here.

Hardstyle Destruction Samples is a free collection of 285 audio samples for hardstyle & hardcore music production.

Download (Hotfile link of .rar archive)

via LorDBassePL:

Enjoy this Massive Crunchy Pack

Trance Emotions Sample Pack

This pack contains: 370 Samples sorted in categories – Kicks, Claps, Hihats, Crashes, Rides, Snares, Percussions, Basses, Synths, Effects

The file is compressed as a .rar file.

Download link (Hotfile)

via LorDBassePL

Enjoy this pack

Signtaltonoize.com has released a 2nd Moog Drum Rack Sample Set for Ableton Live 8, Moog Drum Two.  (The 1st can be downloaded  HERE.)

The library is released as Donationware.

Description:

You will find some nice deep tones in this set. Think 808 if it had a Minimoog filter.  I’ve created pitch macros for each sample. Being that it is sampled @ 96k you have plenty of  room to re-pitch those samples without quality loss for music production.

Captured @ 24bit/96k with Lynx converters & DBX 903 compression.

Analog Signal path = Moog Voyager-DBX 903’s-Console EQ-Dominator II- Lynx.

Six velocity samples per pad.

This is a quick demo on how to create endless samples.

via cosmcosm:

Stretch out a drum roll, an ambient noise, or anything that is busy.

Of what?

Old skool computer game sounds.

The sample collection contains 374 retro style computer games one shots and hits. Jumps, bangs, wizzes, etc. Accoring to HHR, the samples are great when tuned, stretched, chopped and used as part of your drum tracks.

Download it here.

Black Magic Lite is the free little sister of Black Magic, a loop generating VSTi plugin for windows.

Description:

With the ability to quickly randomize and save out looped WAVs, the Black Magic machines make building a unique sample collection easy and quick. Even though Lite has fewer features than the big version, all of the important ones have been retained, so it is a fully functional synth in it’s own right. Upgrading to the big version will get a large collection of included samples, the ability to use your own and a hard compressor amongst other things.

Some of the main features:

• 10 Samplers – each with many parameters and modulation options
• 128 Preselected Samples
• FX Section with SoundScaper, Delay, Flanger/Filter
• 10 Part 32 step sequencer
• Overview Mixer
• Master Section
• 1 Bar Recorder

Motion Samples

Description:

Hip Hop Genetics offers multi-samples of layered vintage instruments like organs, farfisa, piano, harpsichords, rhodes, glockenspiel, along with various classic guitars, basses and strings all composed into dark and deep melodies with that dirty record sound.

Hip Hop Genetics is available for download for $50 USD. An audio demo is available athe Motion Samples site.

This is a demo of littlescale’s free Khene Sample Pack, used in Ableton Live.

The khene (also spelled “khaen”, “kaen” and “khen”) is a Laotian mouth organ.

Details of the sample pack below.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Download here.

Description:

The library contains a variety of instruments, including boom whackers, PVC pipe percussion ensemble to flower vases, glasses, rainsticks, soda bottles. Also included are a  set of music box samples, which were recorded in several locations including large hall, studio and so forth.

The library also contains a variety of more unconventional instruments ranging from human beats through a cellphone (10 round robin and 10 velocity layers), stop watches and a compressive patch of “human trumpets”.

Anti-Drum II Features:

• 76 instrument patches, 4.555 samples, 2.15 GB installed, 925 MB .rar download.
• 44.1kHz/16bit and 48kHz/24bit mono and stereo .wav formats.
• Extensive read me install, patch and hint documentation (.pdf) (download here).
• Exclusive Troels talking about the core instruments in the library (mp3 interview).
• Format(s): Kontakt 2 and .wav (note: Kontakt 3 requirement for bonus content).

Anti-Drum II is available for purchase for $49 USD ($59 USD on 4/7/09).

f you’ve used Tonehammer Anti-Drum, leave a comment with your thoughts!

Description:

Each sound has been made from scratch, and over 20 Hardware synthesizers have been used to create this Nu-Era Series release which boasts one of the most diverse and intricate collections of glitch material released to date.

What can you expect from this collection? Files seperated into; Hisses, Klangs, 8-Bit, Industrial, Clicks, Noise, Distortion, Bass, Hat, Snare, Percussion, Circuits, LFO, Modulation, Lo-Fi, Mechanical, Pitched, Buzz, Soundscape, Stretched, Synth….

The sounds ranges from robotic glitches to crushed percussions, pure white noise alchemy to circuit bent mayhem, defragmented sonic drum electronics to dark metallic collisions, and that’s just for starters!

Glitch Cuts is available for download in various formats (24-bit) for £12.95 GBP.

Audio demos and a free download for Glitch Cuts are available at the Prime Loops site.

Available exclusively as a download product in Steinberg’s Online Store from Q2 2009, the new Chillout, Reggae and Orchestra Content Sets add hundreds of new first-class loops, and take the total number of Sequel Content Sets to ten.

These new content sets extend even further the range of additional content available for Sequel 2,” said Nadine Roos, Steinberg’s Product Marketing Manager for Sequel. “The Sequel Content Sets are an ideal way for both Sequel and Cubase customers to explore new genres and spark new musical ideas.”

Steinberg offers the following Sequel Content Sets: Rock, Electro, Hip Hop and Hip Hop 2, 80s Pop, Industrial, Funk, Chillout, Reggae and Orchestra. Each Sequel Content Set features between 200 and 350 loops by leading content producers.

Pricing and Availability:

Available from from Q2 2009

Description:

Mixer feedback loops by DJ Shiftee, the winner of the 2007 DMC World Championships. Along with being the titleholder in the prestigious event, he is also the winner of the 2003 DMC NYC (youngest champion ever, at age 17.) as well as a finalist for the DMC USA in both 2003 and 2004. In addition to being the winner of countless other DJ battles, he is also a member of the legendary Lo-Livez crew alongside members of The X-ecutioners and a highly acclaimed DJ that has opened for artists such as The Roots, Talib Kweli, and Aesop Rock, among many others. Literally being among the top DJs in the world, the musicality and virtuosity of his performances are simply jaw-dropping.

These loops showcase DJ Shiftee’s innovative techniques, in which he uses nothing but a mixer to create an astonishing variety of textures. By manipulating a feedback loop with the mixer’s onboard controls, he performs phrases ranging from simple feedback rhythms to blistering walls of noises and bassline-like phrases. The ingenuity behind the unique performance is simply extraordinary and gives new meaning to the phrase “mixer as a musical instrument”. Created in the spirit of experimental music traditions with the artistry of a world class DJ, these unusual samples would surely make for interesting additions to loop libraries in need of something different.

Many of these loops contain extreme waveforms. These continuously full-scale waveforms look like bricks in an audio editor. This means that they are VERY loud. Be very careful when auditioning sounds. 9 Soundware is not liable for damage to your speakers, your hearing, or YOU. Also, due to the nature of the mixer used, many of the loops contain hard-panned audio, where in some cases, audio is present only in one of the channels throughout the entire phrase. Stereo to mono conversion is not recommended, as doing so will produce phasing artifacts.

Mixer Feedback includes 131 loops (1 to 4 bars in length) at tempos 70, 80,90, 100, 110, 120, 130 and 140 BPM.

The 212 MB download contains files in WAV format.

131 WAV files (24-bit/44.1 kHz)

212 MB