Akebono Kit

ZynAddSubFX free software-synthesizer by paulnasca 2

Akebono Kit virtual instrument is a free sound bank for Battery, by Icebreaker Audio.

A kit of 15 percussion samples from a strange suitcase instrument from Japan… probably from the mid to late 80s.

Download size: 2.43MB.

Battery Kits require Battery version 3.2.2 or later.

http://www.icebreaker-audio.com/

AGML II

AGML II free rompler by Ample Sound

AGML II is a free rompler VST, Audio Unit, RTAS, AAX plugin developed by Ample Sound. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

AGML II is the lite version of AGM II, recorded on the Martin D-41 acoustic guitar, Natural sustain and resonating sounds of the guitar are unadulterated.

As one of the largest free virtual instruments, AGML II provides most useful features of AGM II with 866 MB samples to satisfy accompaniment in pop music.

Sysem Requirements:

  • 6 GB of free hard disk space.
  • Windows XP or newer, Pentium 4 or Athlon processor with 2 GB RAM.
  • Mac OS X 10.7 or higher, Intel-based Mac with 2 GB RAM.
  • AU, VST, VST3, AAX or RTAS host application and professional sound card recommended. Stand-alone version included.

Sampling:

  • DFD (Direct from disk).
  • Controllable Resonance.
  • Rich Fingering Noise – more vivid and realistic.
  • Finger Instrument libraries to fit different needs.
  • Each Cycle & Rhombic Sampling structure – Separate sample cycle for each note and vel layer to improve sample utilization efficiency.
  • Sustain, Hammer On & Pull Off, Palm Mute, Popping 5 articulations.

Technology:

  • Capo Logic – Intelligent play according to guitar rules.
  • Doubling Guitars – different samples at L & R.
  • CPC (Customized Parameters Control) – any button knob etc can be controlled by MIDI CC or Automation.
  • Poly Legato.
  • Slide Smoother.
  • Combined Articulation – combine 2 articulations via pressing 2 keyswitches at the same time.
  • Poly Repeater.
  • Open String First for playing arpeggio.
  • Alternate Tuner.
  • Capo – Transpose without need to modify midi.

Tab Player:

  • The Tab Player can load and play several prevalent guitar tablature file formats. Users can load, display and playback any specific track inside a tablature file. When used in DAWs, the Tab Player also allows users to export the tablature as an audio file.
  • The Tab Player supports all the fingering, looping, chords, articulations and other markers in the loaded tablature. Supported articulations articulations include: Strum, Natural Harmonic, Artificial Harmonic, Hammer On/Pull Off, Trill, Bend, Tremolo Bar, Legato Slide, Slide In, Slide Out, Vibrato, Tremolo Picking, Palm Mute, Popping, Tapping, Let Ring, Staccato, Dead Note, Grace Note, Ghost Note, Accentuated Note, Fade In, etc.
  • As a built-in function, the Tab Player works seamlessly with the Ample Sound instrument engine, which has extremely customized guitar playing logic so as to model a real world guitar being played. The Tab Player can even judge on its own to automatically add some refining articulations when it thinks it is appropriate, such as slapping on strings or body, or other realistic and indispensable noises.
  • Strumming is an important factor of guitar playing. By taking advantage of the Ample Guitar Strummer engine, the Tab Player can not only mingle different articulations into strumming, but can also alternate between strumming several strings (i.e. multiple notes) simultaneously and strum at a particular string (i.e. one note).

Strummer:

  • 14 Strum notes + 28 ways to play for every chord.
  • Strum Legato – HP can be played while strumming.
  • Easy Strum Time Control via velocity.
  • Body Resonance and Mute Depth.
  • Total and Each Strum time, 4 humanization settings.
  • Customized Chords in Select or Detect mode.
  • Chord inversions to Positions.
  • Strum SEQ with customized rhythm.
  • Delicate presets with Drag & Drop Support.

https://www.amplesound.net/

Afterlife Free

Afterlife Free free soundbank by ForceSampling

Afterlife Free virtual instrument is a free sound bank for Kontakt, by ForceSampling.

Afterlife Free is is the free version of the Kontakt library Afterlife, featuring 1.06 GB of sample content and 100 patches hand-picked from its big brother.

The library content covers a wide scope of different genres (cinematic, ambient, dnb etc.), but its goal is not to provide bread and butter sounds for modern genres, instead the focus is to bring unusual and unexpected sounds to give extra spice to your compositions. Distorted synth brass from dystopian lands, surrealistic drones from your weirdest nightmares, ethereal pads full of enlightenment and morphed acoustics that sound both natural and otherworldly, all in the same library.

Tweak the sounds fast and easy using the simple interface that provides a filter, amp envelope, 4 band eq, arpeggiator and 4 custom fx buttons. These buttons offer easy tweaking of all patches, just with a one or two clicks.

http://forcesampling.com/

African Slit Drum

African Slit Drum free soundbank by Xtant Audio

African Slit Drum virtual instrument is a free drums sound bank for Kontakt, by Xtant Audio.

A high quality African slit drum for Kontakt. These samples were produced by Ethan Winer originally as a Sound Font instrument. Ethan has made the samples freely available to everyone through his website.

From Ethan’s website: “The drum used for these samples has seven slit sections, and each was recorded in stereo and sampled at three velocity layers.”

Xtant Audio has taken these samples and put them into a single Kontakt monolith file for ease of use by Kontakt users.

http://www.xtant-audio.com/

African Gyl

African Gyl free soundbank by Rast Sound

African Gyl virtual instrument is a free percussions sound bank for Kontakt, by Rast Sound.

African GYL II is a free library with playable solo instrument and patterns available in Kontakt & WAV format. The King Gyl tonal percussion instrument is a rare taste, with a distinct sound colour.

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+ 167 MB unzipped Kontakt & WAV.

+ Loops & Multisample One-shots.

http://www.rastsound.com

Acoustic Indian Dhol Lite

Acoustic Indian Dhol Lite free rompler by RDGAudio

Acoustic Indian Dhol Lite is a free rompler VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by RDGAudio. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Acoustic Indian Dhol Lite is a sample based Indian Dhol Instruments. It has been sampled from real Indian Leather Dhol Instruments.It is the first VST and AU plugins that can play real Indian Dhol inside any Digital Audio Workstation. Indian, Punjabi, Bollywood and Bhangra styles are available in Acoustic Dhol. Various articulations are available. If you are tired of playing boring Indian Dhol loops, if you hunt daily for new Dhol loops, just try the Acoustic Indian Dhol VST and AU plugins. You are not just limited to a loop, play real Indian Dhol right inside your favorite host.

Purchase the Full version

Features:

  • Sampled from real Indian Dhol.
  • Different articulations.
  • MPC style GUI.
  • Velocity sensitive.
  • Attack Release Rotary Knob.
  • Tune Volume Pan Rotary Knob.
  • Algorithmic Reverb.
  • Level meter.

System Requirements:

  • Windows 7,8,10 & Latest Mac OS X.
  • Intel or AMD CPU.
  • 2GB RAM (4GB recommended).
  • 1GB GPU (2GB recommended).
  • ASIO supported host DAW.

{See video at top of page}

https://rdgaudio.com

Acoustic Guitar Steel (Free)

Acoustic Guitar Steel (Free) free rompler by H.E. Audio

Acoustic Guitar Steel (Free) is a free rompler VST plugin developed by H.E. Audio. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

Features:

  • Natural sound and high degree of user-friendliness.
  • New MIDI keyboard, new control wheel.
  • ADSR volume envelope (adjusted by time not by proportion).
  • Stereo-sonic Delay effect and Reverb effect.
  • New knob (limit of numerical value and double-click reset).
  • Every note is taken from real guitars.
  • Various Standard sounding-1, 2, 3.
  • Full range of guitar Harmonic sounding.
  • Free version recording guitar is Gibson-Everly.

http://www.timesconcept.com/News.aspx?id=3&hl=En

Accordion

Accordion free rompler by Safwan Matni

Accordion is a free rompler VST plugin developed by Safwan Matni. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

“Accordion” emulates a variety of accordion sounds. It consists of seven registers, each octave and volume can be adjusted.

Made with SynthEdit

http://smatni.tripod.com/safwanmatnivstplugins/

Abstrakt Vol.1

Abstrakt Vol.1 free soundbank by Soniccouture

Abstrakt Vol.1 virtual instrument is a free sound bank for Kontakt, by Soniccouture.

Abstrakt Vol.1 is a library of effects and atmospheric synthesis for Kontakt.

Soniccouture Archives: Abstrakt Vol.1:

  • 250MB Sample library.
  • 16 Bit 44.1khz samples.
  • 64 Kontakt instruments.
  • 5 KSP Scripts.
  • Kontakt format ( v3, 4, 5 ).

http://www.soniccouture.com/

ABPL II

ABPL II free rompler by Ample Sound

ABPL II is a free rompler VST, Audio Unit, RTAS, AAX plugin developed by Ample Sound. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

mple Sound has released Ample Bass P Lite II (ABPL), a free “lite” version of ABP, recorded on a Fender Precision Bass.

Sampling:

  • DFD (Direct from disk).
  • Rich Fingering Noise – more vivid and realistic.
  • Each Cycle & Rhombic Sampling structure – Separate sample cycle for each note and velocity layer to improve sample utilization.

Technology:

  • New technology: Auto Buzz system.
  • CPC (Customized Parameters Control), any button knob etc can be controlled by MIDI CC or Automation.
  • Poly Legato.
  • Slide Smoother.
  • Open String First Function.
  • Manual vibrato wheel designed specifically for string instruments.
  • Capo – Transpose without need to modify midi.

Tab Player:

  • The Tab Player can load and play several prevalent guitarbass tablature file formats. Users can load, display and playback any specific track inside a tablature file. When used in DAWs, the Tab Player also allows users to export the tablature as an audio file.
  • The Tab Player supports all the fingering, looping, chords, articulations and other markers in the loaded tablature. Supported articulations include: Strum, Natural Harmonic, Artificial Harmonic, Hammer On/Pull Off, Trill, Bend, Tremolo Bar, Legato Slide, Slide In, Slide Out, Vibrato, Tremolo Picking, Palm Mute, Slapping, Popping, Tapping, Let Ring, Staccato, Dead Note, Grace Note, Ghost Note, Accentuated Note, Fade In, etc.
  • As a built-in function, the Tab Player works seamlessly with the Ample Sound instrument engine, which has extremely customized guitar playing logic so as to model a real world guitar being played. The Tab Player can even judge on its own to automatically add some refining articulations when it thinks it is appropriate, such as slapping on strings or body, or other realistic and indispensable noises.

https://www.amplesound.net/