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Venus Theory gives us Synthbox for Decent Sampler An instrument that contains 20 different patches created with various modular gear and hardware synthesizers to create a 'box' of utility sounds perfect to add to your next track or just strike up a bit of inspiration! https://venustheory.gumroad.com/l/vtsynthbox

Post-Apocalyptic Guitar FREE Kontakt v5.8.1 full / later required 0.97 Gb Emotional Post-Rock Guitar Delivered by Download Yin (Soft Phrases) Yang (Hard Phrases) 4-5 Layered Phrases Live Phrase and Pitch Control 12 real-time triggered FX Bonus: Flageoletts and layered Powerchords https://8dio.com/products/post-apocalyptic-guitar

https://audiomodern.com/playbeat-packs/?utm_id=894 OUT NOW: DECONSTRUCT for Playbeat Our new Playbeat Expansion is inspired by the Tech House names of today. Loaded with a huge selection of sounds & patterns including Kicks, Hats, Atmos, Percussion, Weird sounds and FX. A collection produced to the highest standard which comes with 20 fully unlocked customizable preset kits where each can be re-arranged and remixed into infinite combinations with our cutting-edge pattern generation engine.

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UREQ v1.0 U-Style stripped down classic equalizer Features - Switchable Low Band : 60Hz / 110Hz / 180Hz / +/-16dB - Switchable Low Mid : 400Hz / 830Hz / 1.4kHz / +/-16dB - Switchable High Mid Band: 2kHz / 4.4kHz /7.4kHz / +/-16dB - Switchable High Band : 5kHz / 11kHz / 18kHz / +/-16dB - High Pass Filter : 80Hz - Low Pass Filter : 12kHz - INPUT & OUTPUT: +/-16dB (Gain compensated input) - Touchscreen support - Resizable interface. Simple "Bottom Right Corner Handle" to resize. 50% to 200% https://www.patreon.com/posts/ureq-88488633

I created a list of recommended free sample libraries that play on free sample player plugins to help those on a very limited budget. It led to a number of people asking me if I could do a similar list for KONTAKT libraries. But this list is a bit different. I wanted the other one to cover all of the bases so that someone who was flat broke could find a library they wanted of almost any kind. This list reflects the free KONTAKT libraries that I like enough that even though I own paid libraries for the same kind of instrument, I still find the freebie worth keeping. Most of these samples libraries are for the full version of KONTAKT. Libraries with an asterisk are KONTAKT Player libraries. I put this together quickly after @ralfrobert asked if I could put together a list with ten or so of my favorite KONTAKT freebie libraries based on the list I put together for free sample players. Consequently, I realize there are a lot of libraries that I have that I couldn't think of here that I will come back to add later. But these were the first that came to mind. I invite others to comment with their own favorite free sample libraries for KONTAKT -- I'll modify the title if others join so that it doesn't merely refer to me but states something like "OUR FAVORITE FREE SAMPLES LIBRARIES FOR KONTAKT." If you add your favorites in this thread, it would be great if you could tell people the reasons why you like a library. I haven't done that perfectly below, but will come back and update this thread, as I wanted to get this out as soon as I could. Hopefully, all of us will end up learning about new, inspiring, totally free libraries for KONTAKT as a result. PIANO 8Dio 1928 Scoring Grand - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! There simply isn't premium piano library with this quality and similar specifications for KONTAKT that is availabe for free anywhere else; the closest anyone comes is SonicCouture's Hammersmith FREE (which is also very much worth having). The 1928 Scoring Grand is deep sampled library (okay, I'm not crazy about that phrase, I'd say, a highly detailed sample library) with extensive velocity layers, round-robin based sustains and round-robin based staccatos, two mic positions, some very nice convolution reverb IRs, 23 presets. This extensively sampled 1928 Steinway grand piano sample library simply is unmatched when it comes to detail and capabilities for a free sample piano library for KONTAKT. Developers simply don't giveaway libraries with this amount of detail (if you have found otherwise, please post and provide a link). Commonly, a developer's free libraries are a cut down version of a paid library. This is a premiium, 10.7GB library the developer previously charged $249 USD for (I've seen it on sale for as low as $49 USD prior to this; it's also available for free in SoundPaint format). https://8dio.com/products/1928-scoring-piano?variant=41309999792328 SonicCoture Hammersmith Free (KONTAKT Player) - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! IMO, the Hammersmith Free is the other must have acoustic grand piano freebie (the only reason not to download and install this is if you own the full paid version). It's not as extensively sampled as the 8Dio Scoring Grand, for a free piano sample library, before 8Dio released the 1928 Scoring Grand, there was no other free piano sample library for KONTAKT -- or any other sampler -- at the same quality and detail level of the Hammersmith Free. The sampled piano is a Steinway Model D grand piano. It lacks real sustain pedal samples and multiple mic positions, but it sounds great, and if you're comparing it to other free piano libraries, you really won't find any others except for 8Dio, with this level of detail. 21 velocity layers and 4.8 GB. https://www.soniccouture.com/en/products/p322-hammersmith-free/ Heaviocity Foundations: Piano* - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Like just about all free pianos, there aren’t many velocity layers, but it sounds good and what’s really good about this are the snapshots and the effects, like the built-in arpeggiator. https://heavyocity.com/product-category/foundations/ Strezov The Creative Toolbox Piano* A lovely Steinway grand piano. https://www.strezov-sampling.com/products/view/the-creative-toolbox-piano.html Isolation Tubes and Tape Piano One of my favorite piano sample libraries on Pianobook. A Steinway Model O piano was sampled for this. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/isolation-piano-tubes-tape/ Quarantine Piano A beautifully sampled Yamaha U3 upright piano. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/quarantine-piano/ The Woodland Piano A Yamaha Upright piano with 4 articulations: normal, felt, muted and plucked. https://www.ockpii.com/instruments/woodland-piano Dan Keen The King’s Upright A lovely, soft upright piano. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/the-kings-upright/ The Experience (Mason and Hamlin Grand Piano) Dore Mark has made a series of detailed piano sample libraries available on Pianobook that are at a very high quality level. But the character of this piano really just connects with me more than any of his others. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/the-experience/ PREPARED PIANO Preparato Piano Free - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! This is an amazing prepared piano sample library. A reflection of how talented this young developer is. Great work and it’s truly surprising this is free. Try it and you’ll understand why I’m so fond of this developer (FTR, I don’t know him, I’m just a paying customer who loves his libraries and read about him at his site). https://www.xperimentaproject.com/preparato-piano-free/ Production Voices Death Piano - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! A superb prepated piano sample library. https://www.productionvoices.com/death-piano-le/ ELECTRIC PIANO Fracture Sounds: Blueprint Electric Keys (KONTAKT PLAYER LIBRARY) - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! A beautiful, 1969 Rhodes Mark I Electric Piano library that's good enough to be a paid library. It allows you to adjust the key noise. It doesn't have a bunch of presets, but it lets you choose between direct input and amped and has controls for stereo spread, reverb, chorus, and atmosphere. It's pretty obvious to see the developer's rationale for giving this away free. Once you use it, you'll be interested in their other libraries. https://fracturesounds.com/product/blueprint-electric-keys/ ETI Roads A very detailed Rhodes MKII electric piano sample library. https://eti-roads.com/ Lo-fi Wurly Despite the name Lo-fi Wurly, this Wurltizer electric piano AKA Wurli/Wurly is a detailed sample library that sounds really nice, but unfortunately does have noise in it that a pro sample developer would have fixed. https://drive.google.com/file/d/15U99DL5BJdPAwj3SDOYvI2EPJ1_eaL8K/edit Premier Sound Factory Wurly G I want to put a caveat on this one, as I don’t love this sample library straight from the factory, however, I made my own user presets that I like a lot. So, if you spend a little effort, I think you can get some nice sounds of this, but I’m not in love with the sound straight out of the box. https://premiersoundfactory.com/wurly-premier-g/ ORGANS Sonuscore Pipe Organ “An E.M. Skinner pipe organ.” https://www.sonuscore.com/shop/free-pipe-organ/ Hunter’s Tonewheel Foundations A well-sampled and beautiful sounding Hammond organ with a controllable Leslie speaker (I grew up the son of a piano/organ/guitar teacher and played piano/organ/drums and we owned an organ and a Leslie along with a Wurli, piano and other instruments so I fell in love with these sounds very early on in life). https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/hunters-hammond-tonewheel-foundations/ The Leeds Town Hall Organ Take me to church. https://www.samplephonics.com/products/free/sampler-instruments/the-leeds-town-hall-organ Orange Tree Samples Melodica* Okay, this developer has been a client and is a friend, but Orange Tree Samples’ is also one of the most talented sample developers on the planet and is literally incapable of producing a bad sample library. If you like the sound of the Melodica, download this! https://www.orangetreesamples.com/products/indie-melodica GUITAR Heavyocity Nylon Guitar* A nylon stringed acoustic guitar. Very nice and delicate. https://heavyocity.com/product/foundations-nylon-guitar/ DRUMS & PERCUSSION Strezov The Creative Toolbox Drums and Percussion* A full drum kit with cymbals, a drum machine and percussion samples. The drum kit is nice, but it sounds really small like a picollo snare. It would fit well for R&B and hip hop, but I wouldn't use it for most rock situations. https://www.strezov-sampling.com/products/view/the-creative-toolbox-drums-and-percussion.html DS RCS Essential Demo It’s called a demo, but it’s a complete drum kit with cymbals and it’s a very good rock drum kit. https://www.redpackdrums.com/dsdrum-kontakt Heritage Percussion Assorted percussion -- shakers, claves, rattles, djembe… -- well recorded and highly usable. https://impactsoundworks.com/product/heritage-percussion/ 8Dio Cajon and Bongo I don't like a fair amount of the bongos sampled in this library, except for the bank labelled "Bongos 4." They sound really good and that is why this made my list. https://8dio.com/products/the-new-cajon Fruit Shake* - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Contains four shakers. Very nicely recorded. https://insessionaudio.com/products/fruit-shake/ Red Room Audio Snaps, Claps, Stomps and Shouts I have a bunch of sample libraries of snaps, claps and stomps, but I most often use this one. It's epic! https://redroomaudio.com/product/snaps-claps-slaps-stomps-shouts/ ORCHESTRAL/STRINGS/BRASS Project Sam: The Free Orchestra* and "The Free Orchestra Part Two* - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! From the developer: "16 free cinematic instruments ranging from soft strings to thunderous drums; Includes sounds from our acclaimed Symphobia series." https://projectsam.com/libraries/the-free-orchestra/ https://projectsam.com/libraries/the-free-orchestra-2 Heavyocity: Staccato Strings* - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Love it and it has an arpeggiator that's lots of fun. https://heavyocity.com/product-category/foundations/ Red Room Audio Palette Primary Colors - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Strings, woodwind, and brass ensembles. https://redroomaudio.com/product/palette-primary-colors/ Dan Keen: Soft String Spurs - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Dan Keen creates some of my favorite sample libraries on Pianobook and this is probably my favorite of his. Really, it’s just beautiful. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/soft-string-spurs/ Pocket Blakus Solo Cello - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! I own a bunch of paid solo cello libraries, but end up using this freebie a lot. One of my all time favorite freebie sample libraries. https://vstbuzz.com/freebies/pocketblakus-cello/ Dan Keen Solo Cello Spurs - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! I’m a sucker for strings, especially the cello. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/solo-cello-spurs/ Strezov Afflatus Mimilist Violins - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! A beautiful violins section sample library, Excellent. https://www.strezov-sampling.com/products/view/afflatus-freebie.html TUNED PERCUSSION Frozen Glock A beautiful glockenspiel library. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/frozen-glock/ Mister Rogers Celeste* - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Yes, that trolly sound from Mister Rogers (if you’re an American and grew up in that era). But if you didn’t, it’s kind of a plain sounding celeste, but it has a certain charm. https://store.cinesamples.com/products/mister-rogers-celeste Toy Xylophone* What can I say, I love glockenspiels, xylophones and all sorts of tuned percussion. https://store.cinesamples.com/products/createseriestoyxylo Create Series Kalimba* There are a ton of free kalimba sample libraries on the interwebs. This is one of the good ones. https://store.cinesamples.com/products/createserieskalimba Tongue Drum* Beautiful tone. But I do wish it was more than 1 octave. Still, I love it. https://store.cinesamples.com/products/tonguedrum SonicCouture Music Boxes* - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! I’m a sucker for music boxes and this library contains two music boxes: one uses punched paper and the other an embossed metal cylinder. https://www.soniccouture.com/en/products/p43-music-boxes/ Soundiron Desk Bell - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Don’t let the fact that they sampled a desk bell fool you into thinking this library isn’t special, it is. https://soundiron.com/collections/free/products/desk-bell Jonathan’s Glockenspiel A well sampled, very nice sounding one and half octave glockenspiel. https://vstbuzz.com/freebies/jonathans-glockenspiel/ Dave Hilowitz Reonator Glockenspiel It’s a different sounding glockenspiel that contains resonator bells, like orchestra bells and vibraphones have. https://www.decentsamples.com/product/resonator-glockenspiel-free/ 8Dio Smiley Drum This sounds like a tongue drum, and I think,technically, that it is a tongue drum. Noice! https://8dio.com/products/smiley-drum Deagan Vibraharp Vibraphone A beautiful sounding vibraphone that is nicely sampled by one of the most talented sample developers on Pianobook. It is as good as a commercial (paid) vibraphone sample library and I even like it better than some of the vibraphone sample libraries I've bought. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/deagan-vibraharp-vibraphone/ Shulmerich Handbells A really beautiful set of Schulmerich handbells from samplist Jon Myer. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/schulmerich-handbells/ Music Box DLX I'm a sucker for music box sample libraries and this is a very nice one that is as good as the paid music box sample libraries I own. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/music-box-dlx/ Splash Sound Music Box The straight default music box sound on this is nice, but where this really shines is when you push the slider to double. https://splashsound.org/musicbox.html Spring Chimes - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! This library, which was created by combining 14 bells and metallophone libraries together (all free libraries from Pianobook) is pure magic. If playing this doesn't inspire you, I don't know what will. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/spring-chimes/ VOCALS Heavyocity Emotive Choir* - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! “Evolving, sustained vowels and textures paired with a layer of our signature sound design.” https://heavyocity.com/product/emotive-choir/ SonicCoture Tape Choir* - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! They nailed the choir sound from 10CC’s “I’m Not In Love.” Yes, you can buy the real thing, fairly inexpensively from SampleTekk, but this free version does the job well at no cost. https://www.soniccouture.com/en/products/18-exclusive-free-content/p170-tape-choir/ Micah’s Choir by Cordaro Rodriguez - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! A beautiful, soulful solo male vocalist that you can play chords to make into a choir. I wish there was a commercial version of this. The developer (and musician) and singer are very, very talented individuals. https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/micahs-choir/ Embertone Arcane - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! This contains 5 small sample libraries, but the ones I like best are the vocal ones. https://www.embertone.com/instruments/arcane.php ALSO SEE Project Sam: The Free Orchestra under Orchestral SYNTH Various Retro Synths from Hollow Sun Like a lot of others, I suspect, I used to have these little friendly chats with Stephen Howell, the developer behind Hollow Sun. I was a customer, who sent him my bio and offered him free advice (not in exchange for NFRs, I just appreciated him as a developer I bought from and offered it completely free). Anyhow, we had a bunch of really nice chats and I thought he was a really nice guy who made some really nice synth libraries for KONTAKT back in the day. He gave away a series of synth libraries used by Gary Newman on his song "Cars." http://hollowsun.com/HS2/freepacks/index.htm ETHNIC World Color Clar Duduk* A well sampled and beautiful sounding duduk. https://www.evolutionseries.com/product/world-colors-clar-duduk/#:~:text=Welcome to World Colors Clar,a bit of worldly magic. TRONS Sinewavelab: Mellotron for KONTAKT I am a sucker for Tron sounds and I own the M-Tron Pro, Sonic Reality’s various Tron libraries (from Dave Kerzner), UVI Mello and a bunch of Tron KONTAKT libraries and this freebie is still worth having. It contains unlooped, 7 second samples of the following libraries: Combined Choir, GC3 Brass, M300A, M300B, MkII Brass, MkII Flute, MkII Violins, String Section, Woodwind 02 and Cello. https://sinewavelab.com/products/free-mellotron-library-for-kontakt/ SOUND DESIGN LIBRARIES KLANG by Cimematique Samples - - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Everything. I’ve downloaded all of their freebies and bought numerous paid libraries from the series and they’re just small sound design sample libraries that I think sound really good. https://klang.cologne/ An asterisk (*) denotes that the library plays in the free KONTAKT Player and does not require the full version of KONTAKT.

SampleScience gives us the plugin Virtual Vocaid Vocal assistance device created for individuals with speech impairments For Windows and macOS https://samplescience.gumroad.com/l/virtualvocaid More details

Subscribe to the channel, and send an email as he describe in the description part of the video The web of Marco Mayer is here: https://marksound.gumroad.com/

IamLamprey gives us the Kontakt instrument (Songbird - Toy Kalimba) Available for NEAT Player v0_17+ & Kontakt 5.8+ (Full Version) Features - Multi-Velocity Samples - Four round-robin variations. - Built-in Reverb, Delay and Chorus effets. - ADSR Controls. Demo Download https://www.iamlamprey.com/l/songbird?layout=profile

LUveler Is A FREE Loudness Plugin By Thomas Mundt (same author of LoudMax) https://luveler.blogspot.com/

81 Drum One Shots 31 Drum Loops 16 Top Loops 10 Drum Fills 5 Shaker Loops 24 Percussion Loops 16 Percussion One Shots 13 Sub Hits & Drops 57 Bass One Shots 16 Bass Loops 50 Synth Loops 26 Synth One Shots 15 Synth Chord One Shots 3 Synth Pads 27 Live Instrument Loops 15 Live Instrument One Shots 29 Vocal Loops 19 Vocal Atmospheres 4 Vocal One Shots 26 FX Risers & Fallers 17 FX Glitch One Shots 11 FX Impacts 12 Foley One Shots 30 Serum Presets https://blackoctopus-sound.com/product/free-1gb-of-black-octopus-samples/

Quiet Music - KLIM v1.0.0 FREE using the code: 00KLIM Virtual instrument created with a 17-key Kalimba Multi-sampled at 192 Khz and 32 bit and processed with different high-quality effects to offer you 15 presets with different textures https://quietmusic.gumroad.com/l/ctvsy

Martin Lüders gives us PG-8X v2.0.13, completely free This virtual instrument is the emulation of a Roland JP-8 Emulation https://sites.google.com/site/mlvst0/pg8x-2 For banks, patches, presets,... https://www.kvraudio.com/product/pg-8x-by-ml-vst/downloads

Free plugin APU Lodness Meter v1.2.2 for Windows and macOS https://apu.software/meter/ Video using the plugin https://apu.software/media/demo-meter.mp4

New free plugin from Wavesfactory Flash v1.0.0 is a transient shaper plugin for Windows and macOS Download it here: https://www.wavesfactory.com/free-audio-plugins/flash/

Analog Obsession presents GrapHack v1.0, the famous American Graphic Equalizer & Saturator Features 10 Band Graphic Equalizer with Independent Band Saturation Each band has its own Mode (M button). You can switch between Equalizer and Saturation knob and use both features independently at the same time! Each band has its own Bypass (I/O button). You can simply bypass each band! Gain Compensated Input (Drive) Mix feature to blend DRY and WET signals ANALOG OBSESSION label is oversampling. Simply click it and engage 4x oversampling Touchscreen support Resizable interface. Simple "Bottom Right Corner Handle" to resize. 50% to 200% Available for Windows and macOS Mac versions require a graphic card that supports Metal Windows versions require a graphic card that supports OpenGL https://www.patreon.com/posts/graphack-80663451

Pulsar Audio lets us to get its compressor plugin, Smasher, completely free (normally 49€) If you have any problem with the code, is: mixbustv2023 Use this link to add the item to your cart with the code included https://bit.ly/3ZN8cWW More information about Smasher https://pulsar.audio/smasher/

Unwav is giving us The Ultimate EDM Soundbank, a set of 205 presets for Serum https://unwav.com/product/stellar-ultimate-edm-soundbank/#download

Cool WAV gives us Dreamers Vol 1 A set of 20 presets for Cherry Audio Dreamsynth https://coolwav.com/b/8SOLx

OSC Audio has published Thru-Zero E-Piano, a FREE Decent Sampler library https://oscaudio.gumroad.com/l/thruzeropiano

20 presets FREE for Arturia MiniFreak V by Cool WAV Mega Freak Vol 1 You can listen them here And the download link here: https://coolwav.com/b/ASDvy

You can get these plugins in Plugin Boutique completly free (normally, about 50€ each one) LoFi Flux Light small version of Flux Machine, an instant classic effect that can be used to add appeal, life & character to any audio signal you feed into it https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/2-Effects/53-Multi-Effect-/8493-LoFi-Flux-Light Spread Light Indispensable tool, allowing you to narrow the stereo width of tracks or push them wider in mixing and mastering situations https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/2-Effects/27-Stereo-Width/8480-Spread-Light

OSC Audio gives us the plugin BFM v1.0 A Metering plugin for Windows and macOS using a code that is applied in the next link directly https://oscaudio.gumroad.com/l/BFM/freeMeters A video about the plugin is here

DeeDoubler for Win and macOS Plug-in that adds a doubling effect to vocals https://dotec-audio.com/deedoubler.html