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List of free sample libraries - Otto Halmén - 05-18-2016

Brass:
Collections:
Keyboards:
Strings:
Vocals:
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. Smile

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.

RE: List of free sample libraries - Mattias Westlund - 05-18-2016

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

RE: List of free sample libraries - Mattias Westlund - 05-31-2016

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

RE: List of free sample libraries - Otto Halmén - 05-31-2016

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

RE: List of free sample libraries - Mattias Westlund - 05-31-2016

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

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

Big Grin

RE: List of free sample libraries - StevenT2112 - 06-04-2016

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

RE: List of free sample libraries - Otto Halmén - 06-04-2016

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. Smile

RE: List of free sample libraries - bigcat1969 - 06-04-2016

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/

RE: List of free sample libraries - StevenT2112 - 06-05-2016

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

RE: List of free sample libraries - Kev Adams - 06-10-2016

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.