The Bleep Drums

The Bleep Drums free drum-sample-pack by ToneBytes

The Bleep Drums is a free drum sample pack by ToneBytes. Available files format(s): sf2, .wav, aiff.

The Bleep Drums is a free drumkit sample pack based on sounds from Bleep’ synthesizer.

This sample pack contains the set of original one-shot percussive samples (kicks, snares, claps, hats, bleeps etc.) and available in several audio formats: SF2, GIG, WAV and AIFF. So you can use any sampler or DAW with it.

A good choice for chiptune music or to add some vintage 8bit sounds in your tracks.

Sample format: 16-bit / 44.1 kHz.

http://tonebytes.com/

Phantom Organ

Phantom Organ free soundbank by root-sounds

Phantom Organ virtual instrument is a free organ and reed sound bank for Kontakt and Exs24, by root-sounds.

root-sounds has released Phantom Organ, sampled from a forgotten, neglected, and ruined reed organ. In addition to the completely out of tune instrument, Phantom Organ also provides a retuned version, the option of turning off the noisy motor and key clicks, and a special synth mode for extended real time MIDI control.

Phantom Organ is available as a free download for Logic Pro EXS 24 and NI Kontakt.

http://www.root-sounds.com

Nice To Be Your Friend Synth

Nice To Be Your Friend Synth free software-synthesizer by Secret Base Design

Nice To Be Your Friend Synth is a free software synthesizer developed by Secret Base Design. Available format(s): stand alone application for iOS.

Nice To Be Your Friend is the friendliest synthesizer app on iOS. There are two keyboards to play, with the top keyboard rotating around so that you can make music with a friend. What is played on one keyboard is highlighted on the other, so that you can share songs, and improvise new music.

The app is universal, and features more than one hundred sounds from a SoundFont engine. The app is polyphonic and multi-timbral. Warm pianos, electric and acoustic bass, guitars, strings, and even synthesizer tones — a huge array of instruments, all at your fingertips in one app.

With full support for both MIDI input and output, you can use NTBYF to control other iOS synthesizers, or use a sequencer to trigger sounds from the app. There’s even Audiobus support, allowing you to easily record your music, or to send the sounds through the wide range of filtering and effects apps.

The app also has an integrated Apollo MIDI over Bluetooth “A” endpoint, letting you send MIDI wirelessly between a pair of iOS devices, or between iOS and a Mac. This will require the Apollo app running on the other device — the Mac version of Apollo is free, so it’s easy to try out. Once you’ve experienced the low latency of MIDI over Bluetooth, you’ll never want to use WiFi MIDI again. Bluetooth LE is available only on the iPad mini, iPad 3 and newer, and the iPhone 4S and newer; this feature is not available on the iPad 1 or 2, and on earlier iPhones.

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http://secretbasedesign.com/apps

Egyptian Darabuka (Lite) V1.1

Egyptian Darabuka (Lite) V1.1 free soundbank by Mahmoud Altaf

Egyptian Darabuka (Lite) V1.1 virtual instrument is a free sound bank for Kontakt and Exs24, by Mahmoud Altaf.

This is a sample library of a beautiful Darabuka that I’ve received as a gift and thought it would make a great addition to use in my projects, especially since I’ve sampled certain articulations that I mostly use. This Darabuka was recorded with 4 dynamic layers per articulation and with 2 dynamic layers for the rolls. I haven’t recorded any RRs, but you’ll find that there are enough articulations and velocity layers to create a fairly realistic performance with it.

The Darabuka was captured in mono using the AKG 420 Perception microphone, which really brought out the clarity of the instrument while retaining the body. I’ve included a MIDI file performance using the instrument, which will give you an idea of how to use the instrument.

I’ll be further expanding on this instrument in the future by recording lots of Round Robins than I originally did, more articulations, and a couple more mic positions. In the meantime, please enjoy using this simple but articulate instrument.

Audio Demos

http://mahmoudaltaf.com

Arachno SoundFont

Arachno SoundFont free loop-sample-pack by Arachnosoft (Maxime Abbey)

Arachno SoundFont is a free sample pack by Arachnosoft (Maxime Abbey). Avalaible audio files format(s): sf2.

Arachno SoundFont is a General MIDI-compliant bank of 128 instruments/presets and 9 GM/GS drum kits, aimed at enhancing the realism of your MIDI files and arrangements.

It’s meant to be used with a SoundFont 2.x-compatible MIDI synthesizer, either hardware (e.g. Sound Blaster Live!/Audigy/X-Fi) or software (like SynthFont, BASSMIDI Driver or CoolSoft VirtualMIDISynth).

This SoundFont project was first started somewhere in mid-2003, as a modified version of the “Magic SoundFont”, by Dennis Deutschmann, for the author’s own MIDI listening purposes, such as video game music listening or audio production.

Designed to enhance MIDI music from your old favorite video games

Arachno SoundFont has been created with video game music in mind, mainly focusing at enhancing MIDI music from classic PC video games from the 80’s and 90’s.

Here are some of the numerous games it has been tested with:

  • id Software/Raven Software (Robert C. Prince, Lee Jackson, Kevin Schilder…):
    • Wolfenstein 3D.
    • Spear of Destiny.
    • DOOM.
    • DOOM II: Hell on Earth.
    • Heretic.
    • HeXen…
  • Apogee/3D Realms (Robert C. Prince, Lee Jackson…):
    • Duke Nukem 3D.
    • Rise of The Triad.
    • Wacky Wheels.
    • Hocus Pocus…
  • LucasArts (Michael Z. Land, Peter McConnell, Clint Bajakian, Steven O’Brien, Robin Goldstein, Anthony White…):
    • The Secret of Monkey Island.
    • Day of the Tentacle.
    • LOOM.
    • Indiana Jones…
  • Westwood Studios (Frank Klepacki):
    • The Legend of Kyrandia, Book One.
    • The Legend of Kyrandia, Book Two: The Hand of Fate.
    • Lands of Lore.
    • Command and Conquer…
  • Sierra:
    • Leisure Suit Larry.
    • King’s Quest.
    • Space Quest.
    • Quest for Glory.
    • Police Quest…
  • Interplay:
    • Descent.
    • Descent II.
  • Psygnosis (Tim Wright, Brian Johnston, Malc Jennings, Tony Williams…):
    • Lemmings.
    • Lemmings 2: The Tribes.
    • Discworld.
  • Microids/Monolith:
    • Gruntz.
    • Get Medieval…
  • Origin:
    • Ultima series.
    • Wing Commander series.
  • Microsoft (Stephen Rippy, David Rippy, Kevin McMullan):
    • Age of Empires.

Audio samples and recordings

Listen to some audio tracks recorded with Arachno SoundFont, either official (by the SoundFont author himself) or by third-party users:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIDa3D3rbqU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIpA9dBGhDw

Official Arachno SoundFont recordings:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH9BhB6Jfbp248d1AC4Vv6jAaEojYD_QV

http://arachnosoft.bandcamp.com

http://soundcloud.com/arachnosoft

Recordings made with Arachno SoundFont by third-party users and musicians:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH9BhB6Jfbp0SRMsxa9cyrbPKfWfB-IRl

https://soundcloud.com/arachnosoft/sets/made-with-arachno-soundfont

Official product information pages

http://www.arachnosoft.com

Aid01 MC-808

Aid01 MC-808 free loop-sample-pack by dboxSamples

Aid01 MC-808 is a free sample pack for Battery, Exs24, HALion and Reason by dboxSamples. Avalaible audio files format(s): sf2, cel.

Aid01 MC-808 is a fundamental classic drum hit collection loaded with 1300+ Kicks, Snares, Hats, Claps, Toms, Hits & EFX from Roland most desired percussive sounds.

dboxSamples drop a new concept from extensive sampling of hardware machines, turning ROM sounds into pristine 24-bits wav samples ready to use in your productions.

analogue::in::dbox captures de best of the MC-808 Groovebox factory drumkits featuring samples from rhythm machines such as the TR-909, TR-808, TR-707 and TR-606.

Boost your drum rig up with the aid01 MC-808 selection of internal sounds and MIDI patterns. Easy access to all the samples from this collection on most used software samplers such as Kontakt 4, Exs24, NN-XT, Battery or Halion.

Features.

  • 59 Factory Drum Kits – 16 Sounds per kit – 3 Kicks / 3 Snares / 3 Hats / 3 Toms / 2 Cym / 1 Clap / 1 Rim.
  • Single Elements – 78 Snares / 57 Kicks / 69 Perc / 36 Toms / 33 Hits / 32 Fx’s / 32 Chh / 27 Ohh / 14 Zaps / 12 Crashes / 11 Noises / 9 Rides / 9 Vox / 8 Rim.
  • 50 Xtra Factory MIDI patterns.
  • 1397 x 24-bits wav files.
  • Kontakt, Battery, EXS24, Ableton, Halion, NN-XT & Soundfont.

http://www.dboxsamples.com/