311 Results for "samples"

Free and discounted music content to keep you inspired in isolation

With many of us stuck indoors (thanks, coronavirus), many are looking for some new tools to keep happy and inspired. Here's a list of free and discounted music gear to put a smile on your face.

Samples to make you smile: Happy sounds vocal pack from TiNRS

Priscilla Haring-Kuipers from This is Not Rocket Science (TiNRS) has released a fun pack of vocal samples to "inspire and assist you in making great audio" and it's totally joyful and completely free.

Best Sample Packs this Week: Cadenza Violin, Grano, FearX and True Trance Sounds V2

This week our round-up features a magnificent digital recreation of a violin, a granular synthesizer that can do some amazing things to audio, a trance sample pack and a cheap virtual synthesizer.

IK Multimedia SampleTank 4 Custom Shop: 50 instruments and 4GB of sounds for FREE!

SampleTank 4 is IK Multimedia's flagship workstation virtual synthesizer with up to 260GB of sounds. The new SampleTank 4 Custom Shop kicks you off with 4GB of sound content completely free.

Squarp Rample: 4-voice sample machine for endless sound in your Eurorack

Squarp Instruments has officially announced Rample. It's a 4-voice Eurorack sample player and effects processor with no duration limit that can playback both sampled audio files and control voltage.

Best Sample Packs this Week: HERZ-OG, Granulizer, Everwave, Harmonium, Room Tones USA

Welcome to our new series of weekly round-ups, bringing you the best and boldest offering sin the world of sample packs and instruments! Some cracking products in our first issue, too. Check 'em out.

Music Fingers: Unleash your fingers and tap out some tunes with these techno thimbles

Spanish hopefuls Music Fingers has some wearable instruments in the shape of thimbles designed to get you tapping out tunes and playing along with your fingers.

Best free plug-ins this week: Rock Amp, MCharmVerb and AFX

This freeware Sunday, we've got something for everyone: a guitar amp, a drum machine and a reverb plug-in, all of them free. Introducing Rock Amp, MCharmVerb and AFX.

Best free plug-ins this week: Natasha, Mouthin’ Off and Drag

Ah, Sunday! Time for free plug-ins! This week, we've got a binaural ambience plug-in, a fun beat box rompler and a synth for Goa and Psytrance leads. Here's Natasha, Mouthin' Off and Drag.

Enter SoundWeaver, a standalone sample layering and sound design tool

SoundWeaver conjures fresh sound FX from any sample library you have laying around. It searches for audio files by keywords, picks them randomly, and layers them. Neat!

NAMM 2020: Spitfire Audio Albion NEO modern cinematics

Spitfire Audio is launching the next chapter in the Albion series. It's called NEO and is a modern cinematic collection of small orchestra and intimate strings threaded through their synthesis engine.

NAMM 2020: Nord Wave 2 4-Part Performance Synthesizer

Nord is introducing the Nord Wave 2 - a powerful 4-part performance synthesizer combining Virtual Analog synthesis, Samples, FM and Wavetable and have covered it with controls.

NAMM 2020: UVI JP Legacy celebrates galactic Japanese analog synths

UVI has released a collection of 4 instruments inspired by iconic cosmically named Roland analog synthesizers. They are calling it the JP Legacy bundle.

Instruo Arbhar and Lubadh now available for preorder

The remarkably named Arbhar and Lubadh from Instruo are now available for preorder offering some really interesting pathways into modular-based sampling and granular manipulation.

Steinberg Padshop 2: Granular and Spectral oscillators co-existing in the Microcosmos

Steinberg has released an update to the rather wonderful Padshop virtual instrument and bringing samples together in a microcosmos of grains and spectra to discover completely new sounds.

UNO Drum gets all the kits in the free Drum Anthology Library

The Drum Anthology Library covers all the kits you've ever wanted. Taken from more than 40 vintage drum machines from the 1960s through all the favourites and everything in between. 

UVI samples the Prophet 10 into the PX P10 virtual instrument

UVI has created a very cool soundbank for their UVI Workstation platform in the form of PX P10 "Analog Prophecy" inspired by the chunky and very rare dual keyboard Sequential Prophet 10.

Can Sonnox Drum Gate handle all your drum gating and triggering?

Drum Gate aims to dispense with the inconsistencies and difficulties of traditional drum gating by means of intelligent detection and optimisation, and combines several tools in one.

Stagelight acquired by Roland Corporation and becomes Zenbeats

Open Labs has taken Stagelight as far as they can go and Roland has picked up this versatile touch-orientated DAW and will move it forward as Zenbeats. Free move for existing users plus classic Roland kits

Momo releases an editor for the Elektron Model Sampler

The Elektron Model Sampler gets all its tracks laid bare, hidden parameters revealed and XY pads added in this comprehensive editor plug-in that will run inside your DAW.

Brushify Pro puts a brushed and swept drum kit on the end of your fingers

A brushed kit is something of a rarity in sample packs and drum instruments. Sampleson is looking to redress the balance while reproducing some of the technique that's unique to drumming with brushes.

BASSYNTH: filthy, gritty and epically modern bass making soft synth

An "entirely new bass engine" built in the familiar Kontakt Player with 11GBs of sampled synths, brass, strings and basses from all sorts of places in 4 layers with effects and masses of modulation.

BeatBox by Rhythmo: Check out this DIY drum machine in a cardboard box

BeatBox by Rhythmo is a DIY drum machine in a cardboard box. It's a lovely creation that's definitely worth checking out, as BeatBox seems to be capable of producing some awesome - well - beats.

Best free plug-ins this week: Hand Bells, Vos Contemporary, SP22

This week, we have two awesome free sound libraries for you, as well as an unconventional sample recorder / editor. Check out Hand Bells, Vos Contemporary, and SP22.