Exposure

Exposure free soundbank by Artvera

Exposure virtual instrument is a free sound bank for Kontakt, by Artvera.

The sound library Exposure is dedicated to a memory of Tim Conrardy (1957 – 2009).

Exposure includes ambient pads, atmospheric sounds, melodic and ambient loops and some arpeggios in 52 instruments.

Library Features:

  • For Kontakt 5.2.1 and higher.
  • 123 samples in ncw format.
  • Total of 52 instruments (341 MB uncompressed).
  • Two layers/groups for each instrument.
  • EQ, LPF, HPF and 5 effects.
  • Chord and Arpeggiator.

http://www.artvera-music.com/

Etherealwinds Harp II: Community Edition

Etherealwinds Harp II: Community Edition free soundbank by Versilian Studios

Etherealwinds Harp II: Community Edition virtual instrument is a free harp sound bank for Aria and Linux Sampler and Sforzando, by Versilian Studios.

Other versions & More Information: http://vis.versilstudios.net/etherealwinds-harp.html

When Etherealwinds told us he was willing to make a sequel to the now-classic Etherealwinds Harp freeware library, we were all too happy to oblige. Recorded completely from the ground up in an eight-hour session, we’ve assembled quite possibly the most complete lever harp library in existence, the Etherealwinds Harp II.

Because we wanted to keep the spirit of the original freeware alive (and we knew you’d never let us get away without it), we also put together this reduced version of the new library under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Share it, edit it, remix it, and build on it however you’d like.

Quick Facts:

  • Chromatic sampling of a 34-string lever harp @ 44.1/16.
  • 2 velocity layers.
  • 2 round robins.
  • Bonus: a selection of harp effects and vocal phrases from the full library.
  • Available as VSTi (Windows 32-bit & 64-bit, Mac), Audio Units, and SFZ (w/ raw .wav’s).
Made with Maize Sampler

http://vis.versilstudios.net/

EP Essential Gift

EP Essential Gift free soundbank by TOTALMIDI.com

EP Essential Gift virtual instrument is a free piano and and rhodes sound bank for Halion, by TOTALMIDI.com.

EP Essential Gift reproduces the sounds of the Fender Rhodes:

  • Adjust the tine to change the sound.
  • One patch is included, and the patch is named MIDI Rhodes.

This is free.

HALion Sonic SE 3 (ver3.2+) Free Player is required. Please download the free HALion Sonic 3 Player at the Steinberg website.

HALion Sonic SE 3 is available for free as a plug-in for any VST3, VST2, AU and AAX compatible host and as a stand-alone application for mac OS and Windows.

https://www.totalmidi.com

Engine Artists Library

Engine Artists Library free soundbank by Best Service

Engine Artists Library virtual instrument is a free sound bank for Engine, by Best Service.

Your free entry into the world of Best Service Engine 2

The Engine Artists Library includes a total of 16 full working demo libraries for the Best Service 2 Engine. From acoustic and electronic drums, unique virtual synthesis, to precious, ethnic sounds of the past, the Engine 2 universe offers a wide range of instruments and sounds for professional use.

Included demo instruments from:

Ancient Era Persia

Ancient Era Persia – A collection of sounds from forgotten places of the middle east. Create your own melodies with 28 (.) fully playable instruments, deep sampled, with true legato and glissandi, different dynamics and lots of articulations.

The demo version includes:

  • Duduk (limited playing range).
  • Turkish Mey (limited playing range).
  • Turkish Violin (limited playing range).
  • Percussion Loops und Phrasen (demo selection).
  • 4 Soundscapes.

Epic World

Epic World – Cinematic Landscapes by Eduardo Tarilonte is the perfect tool for composers and sound designers to create ambience for films, documentaries, video games and new age music.

The demo version contains a selection of inspiring drones, pads and SFX, as well as playable percussion and mystical Ney phrases.

Era II Medieval Legends

ERA II Medieval Legends – a wonderful collection from a forgotten fantasy world of knights, princesses and dragons…

The demo contains a small selection of the numerous instruments and soundscapes, which are available with the full playing range.

Highlight is the Renaissance Tenor Recorder with numerous articulations, including Real Legato.

Forest Kingdom II

Forest Kingdom II is a unique sample library inspired by Nature. It is the sound of forests and jungles and the sound of Mother Nature in one magic sample library.

The demo features eight instruments and soundscapes from this award-winning collection.

GALAXY X

Galaxy X – After three years of development Galaxy Instruments proudly presents an exciting new virtual instrument with an extraordinary new kind of sound design:

Galaxy X is a Convolution Synthesizer, bringing an extremely powerful and creative sound design tool at your disposal: FX Convolution.

A total of 50 hand-picked patches are included in this demo.

Gu Zheng

Gu Zheng – For the first time, a Chinese instrument was sampled with great care by local Chinese music producers, who have a natural understanding of their culture and a sole passion to express the true quality of Chinese instruments.

This demo offers all included articulations with limited playing range.

K-Size Engine

K-Size Engine – Four highly acclaimed K-Size products in one pack powered by the easy to use interface of the famous ENGINE 2 sampler. Have access to 8600 finest up-to-date club loops & sounds available for Tech House, Techno, Progressive House & Minimal and genres in between. This is the ultimate source for the freakiest grooves, breaks and an overload of loops and samples for your Club production. ENGINE 2 offers a very flexible and comfortable access to all the sounds and loops.

Discover a wide selection of the numerous loops and authentic sounds of this secret weapon in this demo.

Klanghaus 2

Klanghaus 2 – Unique Instruments – invented and constructed by Ferdinand Foersch.

With your Klanghaus 2 virtual instrument you have access to a collection of unique instruments, invented and constructed by Ferdinand Foersch.

A total of four big patches of this impressive sound library can be tested without restrictions.

Klanghaus Bio Machine

Klanghaus Bio Machine is the next great addition to the original Klanghaus 2 Library, produced, composed and recorded by German musician, sound artist and instrument designer Ferdinand Foersch & realized by Best Service. With Bio Machine you have access to a big collection of unique rhythms and loops of bizarre percussion, thunderous cymbals & never-heard-before stringed instruments played and programmed by Ferdinand Foersch.

The four demo patches offer the complete scope of the editing possibilities, including the numerous modulation presets.

Organum Venezia

Organum Venezia – a must for every Classical/Church Pipe Organ player, and lover of the romantic French type church organ sound.

“Organum Venezia” is a virtual church organ. Even located and recorded near Venice (Italy), it reflects the characteristics and sound of a typical French romantic organ like they were built by Cavaillé-Coll and Puget.

Beside the big “TUTTI” sound, the registers Ripieno, Old Chappel and GOR Plein can be played in the demo with a limited playing area.

Peking Opera Percussion

Peking Opera Percussion – is a collection of high quality drum and percussion instruments used in traditional Chinese Opera, especially the Peking Opera, one of the cultural treasures of China, and Kunqu Opera, known as the “teacher” or “mother” of a hundred operas.

The demo version contains a complete kit of this authentic percussion library.

SYNTH-WERK

SOUND – SYNTHESIS – RHYTHM
PAST – PRESENT – FUTURE

The ultimate collection of sounds for electronic music in one virtual instrument from the makers of Titan. A total of 38 patches are represented in the test version, divided into the German and English versions.

Era II Vocal Codex

Eduardo Tarilonte Vocal Codex – Voices of the past.

ERA II Vocal Codex is the perfect addition to Era II Medieval Legends. It completes this extraordinary medieval-library by adding authentic sounding solo voices.

The demo contains two of the voices as the playable version (limited playing range), as well as a selection of the unique phrases of the other two performers. Three soundscapes complete the free demo version.

Alpine Volksmusik

Alpine Volksmusik offers 24 single instruments, from Accordion to the “Zillertaler” violin.
This collection offers everything you need to compose music in the authentic Alpine and Upper Carniola style. Only the best artists from this genre have been recorded for these instruments.

Bass trombone, dulcimer, nylon guitar, as well as a Styrian harmonica can be tested with limited playing range and all articulations.

Voyager Drums

Voyager Drums – by Best Service brings you two Power Drum Kits, recorded and edited by the maker of “Artist-Drums” and “Artist Grooves”.

The punchy and powerful sound is perfect for your Pop, Rock, Jazz and Funk productions. 360 MIDI Grooves for instant use are included.

The demo includes the direct microphone position of Kit 1 in limited form (no round robin, less velocity zones).

TITAN 2

Experience the most extensive and diversified synthesizer in a completely new version.

Titan 2 outshines its predecessor by doubling its sound-library, adding countless new presets, a fully redesigned user-interface as well as sound shaping potential exceeding even the originals.

84 of the 12,800 presets can be played and edited in this demo version.

http://www.bestservice.com

Emilyguitar

ZynAddSubFX free software-synthesizer by paulnasca 2

Emilyguitar virtual instrument is a free sound bank for Sforzando, by Karoryfer.

A sample library of an Epiphone Emily the Strange electric guitar.

Notes are sampled every minor third with four velocity layers and three round robins. There are also string muting noises triggered on key release (sampled every minor third with four round robins) and various percussive noises (with five round robins).

The total is 323 WAV samples in 24-bit, 44.1 kHz quality. There are four SFZ mappings with various degrees of realism plus two additional mappings for chords.

https://soundcloud.com/karoryfersamples/emily-basic-demo-habanera

http://www.karoryfer.com/karoryfer-samples

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

Easy Guitar

Easy Guitar free soundbank by Doctor Doubledrop

Easy Guitar virtual instrument is a free guitar sound bank for Kontakt, by Doctor Doubledrop.

Easy Guitar includes 14 different instruments for Native Instruments Kontakt 5 Sampler:

  • 8 Recorded from an Ibanez S Prestige tuned at 432Hz and played through a Conford Harlequin, a top of range boutique valve amplifier;
  • 6 Recorded from Native Instrument Massive and Synapse Dune tuned at 440Hz.
  • 1 Ibanez EW50 acoustic guitar

All instruments are ready with up to 20 presets includes clean & distortion guitars, sequences and processed guitars with effects like vowel, phaser, formant, skreamer, wah and more:

  • 11 different cabinet model;
  • Skreamer;
  • Wah;
  • Phaser;
  • 3-Band Equalizer;
  • Compressor;
  • Distortion;
  • Rotator;
  • Stero Modeller;
  • Chorus;
  • Flanger;
  • Reverb;
  • Step sequencer for velocity, sustain pedal and volume;
  • 3 mono modes;
  • 2 portamento modes;
  • Smart pitch bend;
  • Send levels for chorus, flanger, phaser, delay & reverb.

A default preset with no effects can be loaded for each instrument so you can make your own presets.

As bonus included in the download are the synth presets used to make the synth guitars and the soundfonts file for all the instruments.

Any review will be more than appreciated! ..maybe with a good spoken English! :p.

{See video at top of page}

http://drdoubledrop.altervista.org/

Earcandy Gratis Series Sukon Analysis 17

Earcandy Gratis Series Sukon Analysis 17 free soundbank by Earcandy

Earcandy Gratis Series Sukon Analysis 17 virtual instrument is a free sound bank for Kontakt, by Earcandy.

Earcandy decided to create a free version of Sukōn containing a free program to play around with called Sukōn Analysis 17.

This is not a trial version of the full version of Sukōn but a separate product containing Basic Program 17 you can use for whatever you want. May we suggest you try and turn those knobs?

http://www.earcandymedia.com

E-Ukulele (free)

E-Ukulele (free) free soundbank by audiowiesel

E-Ukulele (free) virtual instrument is a free ukulele sound bank for Kontakt, by audiowiesel.

We sampled an electronic ukulele (Les Paul model) from Epiphone. At the beginning it was just a fun project and we kept adding new sample content for private use only. Now, we decided to make this available to the public as free download in order to let everybody use this in their own productions.

All samples in E-Ukulele are mixed totally dry in order to give you the greatest amount of flexibility. This way you have total freedom of spatial placement and the role E-Ukulele plays in your production (like a melodic or background instrument).

We hope that you have at least the same amount of fun we experienced with this instrument. Use it, abuse it and please share your work with us and the public and talk about our libraries with your friends.

Important note: In order to use E-Ukulele you have to have the full version of Native Instruments’ Kontakt 5.3 (or higher). This library does not work with the free Kontakt Player.

Main features:

  • 2 nki patches: Standard and Chords.
  • Standard: 11x round robin per note per velocity, 4 velocity layers.
  • Chords: 14x round robin per chord per velocity (7x down-stroke, 7x up-stroke), 4 velocity layers.
  • 10 different chord structures available on every root tone: major, major6, major (-7), major7, major9, minor, minor6, minor (-7), sus2, sus4 and also dead notes.
  • Total size 1.2 GB.

https://soundcloud.com/audiowiesel/sets/e_ukulele

http://www.audiowiesel.com

DTF017 – Untouchable

DTF017 - Untouchable free soundbank by DETUNIZED

DTF017 – Untouchable virtual instrument is a free sound bank for Live, by DETUNIZED.

Untouchable is a 10-cell Drum Rack for Ableton Live.

The Rack delivers 100 noises that were recorded with the built-in microphone of a vintage minidisc portable while touching, scraping, rubbing and hitting it.

Specifications:

  • Format: Ableton Live Pack.
  • Compatibility: PC/Mac, Live 8 Suite.
  • Instruments: 1.
  • Samples: 100, 24 Bit/44,1 kHz.
  • Disk Space: 8 MB.

http://www.detunized.com/