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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 [...]

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.

Trash_Audio has an interesting look at Richard Devine’s new audio library - The Electronic Music Manuscript:
I wanted to make a library that would be useful for many different people. I was aiming for sound designers, composers working in Film/TV, radio, video games, and electronic music. I tried to create some really unique material that could [...]

AudioWarrior has introduced a new Mellotron sample library.
Unlike the original Mellotron, though, these 8 -econd samples have been looped for the modern world. The loops may be turned off to recapture the vintage effect of certain voices ending at variable times.
The Mellotron followed its direct ancestor the Chamberlin which was, in effect, the world’s first [...]

 

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Time + Space has introduced Action Drums: Taiko Edition, Japanese taiko drums in the REX, Stylus RMX, ACID wav and Apple Loop formats.
Description:
Recorded in a concert hall with microphones from stage to balcony, Action Drums: Taiko Edition captures the energy resonating from every strike, boom and cinematic blow. With suite names like Alley Sprinter, War [...]

Inspiration Sounds has released Dobro - a new collection of 515MB of dobro licks and slides performed by Bob Dixon, who has been active on the country music scene for 35 years.
Inspiration Sounds recommends Dobro for Music, TV, Film and Multimedia producers. However, the content can be used in a wide variety of other genres [...]

Loopmasters have introduced a new sample library, Deep House Producer.
William ‘Harley’ Cataldo and Flavio ‘Muscle’ Romaniello, aka Harley and Muscle are known for their smooth House stylings — they are composers, producers and remixers of Deep House tracks and have remixed Gloria Gaynor, Loleatta Holloway, Jocelyn Brown, Alexander O’Neal, The Rurals, Spanka and Miguel Graca, [...]

Nusofting has released Broken Drum Machine for Mac OS X.
BDM is a plugin instrument designed for musicians who love chaos. BDM offers four drum pads in the style of an old beat box — one each for Bass Drum, Snare, Hi-Hat and Stick. Each pad features the usual suspects for shaping the synthesized sound, including [...]

DSK Music has released Asian DreamZ, a freeware rompler featuring 7 Asian instruments.
Asian DreamZ features

7 Asian Instruments: Pipa, Pipa tremolo, Luan, Guzhen, Erhu & Ban di + 1 percussion kit.
Velocity response.
Amp. envelope and micro-detuner.
HP/LP Filter.
Midi automation.

Tom of Music Thang has shared a sample pack of Fisher Price record player goodness:
A pleasant evening at Music Thing towers, spent fixing up and sampling this ancient Fisher Price record player from my parent’s attic. The Swiss-made music box mechanism was rusted solid and the tiny clockwork motor doesn’t really give enough juice to [...]

The Vienna Symphonic Library has released seven Extended Libraries, complementing its already existing Vienna Special Edition download products.
All Special Edition modules, including the PLUS libraries, now offer additional instruments:

Special Edition Strings — Extended Library
Special Edition Strings PLUS — Extended Library
Special Edition Woodwinds — Extended Library
Special Edition Woodwinds PLUS — Extended Library
Special [...]

BOLDER Sounds has released Tibetian Singing Bowls, a 760MB sample library.
The bowls were struck by a number of items for a wide selection of tone colors. Also included are a few bonus Tingsha Bell samples.
The Singing Bowls were “played” hit and also sustained. The sustained samples are what people refer to as “singing” bowls. This [...]

 

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