Since we’re approaching the holiday season, I figured I’d get in the “giving” frame of mind by rounding up every single loop I’ve ever posted on this site and zip them up into one file for an easy and free download. So here you go, everything from country to zeibekiko, 60 to 300 BPM, WAV to AIFF to REX2, it’s all inside this one zip file.

These are professionally recorded loops and licensed with a Creative Commons License.

This video shows you how to use Ableton Live like an MPC to chop and play your samples so that they can cut each other off.

The video also shows how to setup your own custom drum racks in Ableton so this chop and cut off setting is done automatically when you slice a new sample.

via SoundsAndGear

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!

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:

See also our earlier posts on Eric Archer and his Mini Space Rocker drum machines.

Synthtopia regular Torley takes a look at Plogue Chipsounds, with a preview of the standard patches and a few hickups along the way.

Don’t forget to check out Torley’s site sometime, where he’s got 100s of free, gorgeous pieces, including play while answering email & Vangelis meets Ryuichi Sakamoto.

This is a demo of Roland TB-303 Acid Sounds, a free collection of Roland TB-303 Bassline Synthesizer samples.

via LorDBassePL:

Acid Sounds from Roland TB-303 great for Hardcore/Rave/Hardstyle production.

Description:

Circuit Bent Sounds volume 2 includes a huge range of circuit bent samples suitable for Minimal, Tech, Electro, Techno, Industrial and Drum and Bass music producers worldwide.

Drum machines, synths and childrens toys have been assaulted, violated and pushed to the absolute limit, to create a collection of sounds completely unobtainable in any other way.

Circuit Bent Sounds volume 2 was created in conjunction with Paul Norris of Circuitbenders.co.uk – a devoted expert at the art of circuit bending, and a signed recording artist in his own right. Recycling noise since 2001.

Circuit Bent Sounds 2 retails £19.95 GBP.

Features:

• 777 Circuit Bent Samples.
• 303 Loops.
• 474 Circuit Bent Sounds.
• 25 Ready to play patched for Reason NNXt, Kontakt, Halion, EXS, SFZ and Kontakt Soft Samplers.
• Apple Loops version available.
• Acidised Wav and Rex2 (Main Zip).
• Machines used: Alesis SR16, Frontline percussion synth, Korg DDD5 and MR16, the classic Mattel Synsonics, Roland TR727 and the Yamaha DD6. The Circuit Bent Keys and Synths include the Casio SA1, SK60 & SK200 samplers, Fraktal Noise Synth, Korg Poly 800, Purple Keys and the Yamaha VSS200. The Toys used include the analogue Beats Toy, ELC, Matchbox Talking Teacher, Mighty Borg Teddy Bear, Texas Instruments and VTech Talking Computer and many others.

Puremagnetik has introduced Waveframe for Ableton Live 7 & Ableton Live 8.

Waveframe is designed to be a great tool for sound designers and programmers. The huge library of simple waveforms can be used to construct complex soundscapes and instruments.

Two and four-voice templates are included in the library as standalone Live Racks. Open the templates in a new track and drag your waveforms from the Waveframe Library into the voice chain. Then add effects and modulations to tailor your sound.

Waveframe Features:

• Over 1700 waveform samples
• Over 30 waveform rack devices
• A selection of preset pads, leads, basses & more
• Tightly integrated native Ableton effects & controls
• Easy hot-swapping between waveform devices

System Requirements:

• Requires Ableton Live 7 or 8
• 500 MB of physical RAM
• 300 Megabytes (MB) of free hard disk space

Description:

Utilizing the same “Transwave” concept, Waveframe contains a collection of pre-programmed patches, over 30 waveform devices and over 1700 “frame” samples. Waveform frames can be modulated via retriggering within a patch. This gives a natural sounding progression over time as each waveform spectrum evolves through its phases.

By employing features only available within the Ableton Live environment, Puremagnetik has reconstructed the Fizmo architecture from scratch. From over 30 unique waveform groups, a generous selection of presets have been programmed that employ many of the same features as the original Fizmo. And just like on the original, each voice group is highly individualized giving patches a complex, evolving and rich tone.

via Puremagnetik:

Waveframe is a an advanced wavetable synthesizer designed exclusively for the features of Ableton Live. Based on the Ensoniq Fizmo, Waveframe contains over 1700 wavetable samples, over 30 waveform Live Racks and a generous selection of performance patches.

This video offers a tour of the various Soundpacks that Percussa has put together for use with the AudioCubes.

Part 2 below.

Click here to view the embedded video.

via Percussa:

In the second of our online Percussa tutorials we take a look at the various Soundpacks Percussa has put together to help you get started with your cubing experience. We look at some of the audio samples included and the custom designed FX racks to find out what ways we can use these with the Cubes.

SignalToNoize has released a free set of Lexicon M200 impulse response samples.

Details:

• Model: Lexicon M200
• Impulse capture method: Sweep
• I/O: Analog
• Format: 24bit 44.1k WAV
• 50 impulse files containing Hall, Plate, Chamber, Rich Plate, Rich Split, & Inverse Room Programs.
• All Impulses have been captured via pristine analog A/D D/A @ 44.1khz.

The Lexicon M200 Impulse Set is donationware – download it and donate what you can if you use it.

Star6 (App Store link) is a sound remix instrument that lets you chop up beats with a flick of the wrist, pitch any sample up and down like a Theremin and more.

Description:

Use the iPhone’s accelerometer to control Star6’s granular synthesis engine to change the Pitch, Speed, Gate, Sample Order, Sample Size and Randomness of the samples. Record it with the press of a button and download recordings to your computer.

Star6 is a collaboration between musician Jason Forrest and Agile Partners, makers of GuitarToolkit.

Compatible with iPhone & iPod Touch OS 3.0.

If you’ve used Star6, leave a comment with your thoughts!

Ive been throwing this idea around for a few days, I really like the idea of social colaberations so i decided i would like to start one with circuit benders.

The idea is im going to pick a toy and do something to it, and make 1-5 loops out of it using the mod made then i will then pick someone off the list and send it to them and they will do the same thing, so on and so on

Then after we have been through everyone on the list the unit will come back to me and im going to make a big loop pack using everyones loops made durning the process and some other ones ill make running the unit through different things. The loop pack will then be posted for download.

The reason the unit is coming back to me is so i can make a lot of one shots and just dig for sounds that were left out during the colab so that we can get every little sound out of it for the sample pack.

After the loops are up i would like everyone who had the unit to make a track for a compilation.

Sounds like it could be an interesting project. Contact Green via his site, if you are interested in participating.

Check out Green’s YouTube channel, too, for examples of his creative circuit bending and audio hacking.

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Ethan Hein put together this Michael Jackson sample map, which shows how Jackson’s songs have been sampled and reused by other artists.

This is a promo video for John Tracker’s Amiga 1200 album, Cyber Techno. All 18 tracks on the album were created on the Octomed tracker app on an Amiga 1200.

via bazartist:

Jon Tracker’s track made on the Amiga 1200 titled Cyber Techno and promotional video to assist. This track and the Amiga Album will be available on iTunes soon.

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

Image: Ethan Hein

Saturday Synth Porn: This is a visual representation of how you hear a looped sample, in this case, one of the most popular drum loops of all time.

Based on a screenshot of the break in Recycle. The big shapes at three and nine o’clock are the snare drum hits on the backbeats. Check out a blog post on the natural history of the Funky Drummer break.

Read clockwise.

via the Synthtopia Flickr Group

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.

This demo video offers a simple tutorial on how to slice WAV / AIF samples in Propellerhead Reason’s NN-XT sampler, when you don’t have Recycle.

Requires Reason 2.0 and higher.

via williamlamy

This is a demo of the Trance Hands-up Electro Sample Pack.

It’s a free download. But remember what Paul van Dyk said.

Details below.

via LorDBassePL:

THE = Trance Hands-up Electro Samplepack

This samplepack contains:

- 20 Drum Construction Kits (Trance, Hands-Up, Electro…) = 115 files
- 15 Basses Root Key C (Trance, Hands-up, Electro…) = 15 files
- 30 Synths Root Key C (Leads bells pianos…)
- 1148 MIDI Trance Melodies (Various Artist: Tiesto, Armin Van Buuren, Paul Van Dyk…) Alphabetical Sorted.

DOWNLOAD LINK:

http://hotfile.com/dl/1291240/9a0186c..