Scoring Central

Brass:

• AMS: Low Brass - Free Jitters Test Patch (Kontakt)
  
• Carpenter Trombone (Kontakt)
  
• Fortissimo Horn Ensemble (Kontakt + wav)
  
• Fortissimo Trombone Ensemble (Kontakt + wav)
  
• Fortissimo Trumpet Ensemble (Kontakt + wav)
  

Collections:

• ARIA Engine Free Sounds Vol. 1 (sfz + flac)
  
• G-Town Church Sampling Project (gig, exs24 + wav)
  
• Music Sample Library Project (nn-xt + wav)
  
• No Budget Orchestra (sfz + wav) & (modified sfz files)
  
• Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra (sfz + wav)
  
• VSCO 2: Community Edition (Kontakt, sfz)
  

Keyboards:

• Estate Grand LE (sfz + flac)
  
• Salamander GrandPiano (sfz + wav)
  
• Piano in 162 (Kontakt, sfz)
  
• VS Upright No. 1 (custo Win VST; Mac AU)
  

Strings:

• D. Smolken's Double Bass (sfz + wav)
  
• Cornucopia: Strings Staccato Freebie (Kontakt)
  
• Embertone Intimate Strings LITE (Kontakt + wav)
  
• Etherealwinds Harp (custom Win VST; Mac AU)
  
• Fretless Zither (custom Win VST; Mac AU)
  
• Maestoso 18 Violins Ensemble (Kontakt + wav)
  
• pocketBlakus
  

Vocals:

• Clare Solo (Kontakt)
  

This is a list of free sample libraries. If you've come across free sample libraries that you found useful, feel free to drop a line so we can add them to the list.

Update (8-24-16): I'm back, but it's gonna be a while until I've caught up with the list. I've yet to crawl through https://musical-artifacts.com/. While I was busy, it seems VSCO 2 CE dropped. Be sure to check that one out. Right now, it's one of the largest freeware libs out there.

Update (5-18-16): Wow! I'm about two thirds through this list so far, and there's some quite amazing stuff in there. You could probably pull off a pretty mean scoring template without spending a single dime, provided you've got the time and patience to audition everything and find out what matches with what.

Here's a few more:

G-Town Church Samples 

MSLP

Jasper Blunk samples

Ivy Audio

Strezov Sampling freebies

Embertone Intimate Strings LITE

bandshed.net

pocketBlakus

D. Smolken's Double bass

Various old stuff in sf2 format

Here's something interesting: Musical Arifacts. Lots of public domain and CC-licensed stuff, including much of the old soundfonts from Hammersound.

Thanks! Might be a while until I'm done looking through all of it, though.

(05-31-2016, 08:29 PM)Otto Halmén Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks! Might be a while until I'm done looking through all of it, though.

What, you're not done yet? I thought you had started on the reviews by now!

I found these a little while back. A good sized collection of percussion instruments (Some of it was derived from G-Town and the University of Iowa samples.) and a couple pianos. There used to be a small selection of woodwind instruments before this. Flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and a saxophone, each with a few articulations. But for some reason, they're not there anymore.

http://www.anthonydeaton.com/philharmonic.html

Welcome aboard, Steven, and thanks for the link! I'll have to find the time to try these out properly. It seems like there isn't exactly a shortage of free piano libs.

If I can be forgiven for mentioning it, I've been working on a blog with the best Kontakt instruments I've come up with. I've tightened up the previously mentioned Salamander Piano and the LDK1609 Violin (man I hate editing samples), tuned some things, added scripts ,etc...
http://bestofbigcat.blogspot.com/

http://alpineproject.wix.com/main An ongoing project. A few woodwinds and brass for Kontakt.

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Oh and thanks Otto! Yeah, there does seem to be quite an abundance of pianos in the free realm.

It's a shame that Anthony got rid of his woodwind instruments. I really like the oboe that was up on his site.

Got this recently and found it useful:
https://www.virharmonic.com/violin_freebie

It works with the UVI Workstation, which I still use a bit having followed through with them since the Plugsound Pro days.