A few days ago I came across the Pro Tone website and their freebie section. There are 7 royalty free sample packs for Kontakt that you should find helpful for electronic music creation.
Get Pro|Tone Elements here: http://www.pro-tone.eu/?page_id=1264
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I recently found some free sample packs from PureMagnetic. The PakBytes packs are free previews of the larger MicroPak collections. All electronic based sounds sampled from interesting vintage, analog and circuit bent gear. Might come in handy.
PakBytes are completely free. Free Access only requires a valid email address by registering here.
If you already have a Puremagnetik subscription, then simply login and download.
So far there are 9 free sample based instrument patches.
Get them here: PakBytes
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Halloween is over now but if you’re still in the mood for gore, guts, screams and horror – this is a Kontakt library for you.
Get Tonehammer Sick here: http://www.tonehammer.com/?page_id=5164
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This week Tonehammer, makers of some incredible sample libraries released a free Kontakt library of sounds made from bees. Check out the video to get an idea of what you can do with the sound of bees.
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Grab the free sample pack (Kontakt format with wav files) here: http://www.tonehammer.com/?page_id=5027
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This week I’d like to draw your attention to Audio Genetics Lab. They have a couple of free KONTAKT Libraries out now, the Tongue Drum, and the new Magnus Chord Organ. These two instruments on their own have limited use, but the engineers at Audio Genetics Lab don’t just accurately sample, they create new mutations using the incredibly powerful KONTAKT engine. Check out the samples to hear what I mean.
Magnus Organ Purist by AudioGeneticsLab
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Magnus 8bit Battle by AudioGeneticsLab
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Tongue Drum Only Demo by AudioGeneticsLab
I love what the team at Audio Genetics Lab are doing, I fully support their research and can’t wait to see what they do next.
The full version of KONTAKT is required for these. http://audiogeneticslab.com/
Free Sound Of The Week is a new weekly series here on AGZ, once a week I’m going to share a couple sound samples I’ve recorded or created and manipulated.
This week I’ve got a set of samples of bowed cymbals. I LOVE the sound of bowed cymbals, it’s one of those classic sounds that instantly evokes some kind of feeling, suspense, fear, etc.
If you create music for film, no doubt you’ve used bowed cymbals in your scores. Essential sounds for Horror, Suspense, Action and Adventure films.
The sound is created by dragging or pushing a violin bow across the edge of a cymbal. There are 2 different cymbals (china & crash) recorded with a spaced pair of Audio Technica AT3035 into a Presonus Firestudio Project audio interface. No processing has been done except fade ins and out.
Go nuts with them, pitch shift, time stretching, layer with drones (like my Household Drones set), and reverb, these are begging for some ambiance.
I think these turned out really well, I’d love to hear what you guys can do with them.
This pack contains 9 samples. 16 bit 44.1kHz Stereo Wave files.
