Rusty Piano is a lo-fi acoustic piano with a lot of character and charm. Recorded hot on purpose, Rusty Piano has a very saturated and thick sound. It's the perfect piano sound for "rougher" music genres like indie rock, lo-fi hip-hop, free jazz, rock'n'roll, etc.
Features:
A fully multi-sampled acoustic piano
One sample per note
Multi-LFO
Highpass/lowpass filter
Room reverb
Amplitude range controls
3 voice modes: polyphonic, monophonic, and legato
Requirements:
Windows 8.1/10 or macOS El Capitan to Mojave (not compatible with Catalina and up)
144 MB of HD space
2GHz Quad-core CPU or better with 4 GB of RAM or more
64-bit VSTi/AUi Host
Famidrums is a sample pack featuring the crunchy and lo-fi sound of the Nintendo Entertainment System sound chip (more precisely, its DPCM sampler and triangle/noise oscillators).
The drum sounds included have been extracted from games while others have been resampled NES-style using classic analog drum machines as sources.
Accurate software emulation of the NES sound chip has been used to get that original thick drum sounds typical of classic games such as Super Mario Bros 3, Lifeforce, Super C, and Kid Icarus.
Features:
240 NES percussion
16-bit 44.1 kHz Wav samples
Royalty-Free
Requirements:
5.9 MB of HD space
Software that reads 16-bit WAV files
Recorded in his local church in Grebbestad, Sweden by music producer Tobias Marberger, this set of music samples should be invaluable to amateur and professional musicians alike.
For this version of the hard-to-find files, Tobias Marberger has officially Creative Commons-licensed the samples with a Sampling+ license. The multitude of samples includes percussion of many different kinds (anvil, snare, wood sticks, hi-hats, brush plate, bongos), as well as piano, organ, mandolin, glockenspiel, flute, and many other high-quality recordings.
Pine Forest Drums is a percussion and sound fx sound module inspired by the sonic universe of Boards of Canada. From vintage drum kits to found sounds, tabla to voice cuts, the variety of sounds found in Pine Forest Drums is big compared to the usual drum module.
Available as a VST plugin instrument for Windows and VST/AU plugin instrument for macOS, Pine Forest Drums contains 38 "drum kits". Each kit has been tailored with 70s education documentaries, the esoteric culture of the 60s, and the National Film Board of Canada in mind.
Features:
38 percussion kits each containing 10 sounds
380 original samples
Vinyl crackles/Film/Tape sound generators
Sub generator
Detuner with depth and rate controls
10 drum pads for finger drumming
Level, pan, attack, outputs, and decay controls for each sound
Amp range controls
30 MIDI drum loops
Requirements:
Windows 8.1/10 or macOS El Capitan to Mojave
452 MB of HD space
Quad-core CPU or better with 8 GB of RAM or more
64-bit VSTi or AUi Host
A collection of 35 Kontakt instruments taken from my archive of sounds. These instruments date back to 2015 when I was just starting out sound design. In it, you'll find lo-fi FM synthesizers sounds processed using guitar pedals (labeled "FM"), high-fi FM synthesizers sampled from a Yamaha DX-21, genuine analog synthesizers sounds (labeled "Mopho" and "AA" for Analog Age), original sound design (labeled "VS" for Vortex Soundwaves), 8-bit sounds taken from SMROM, and early 60s sounds taken from Thales Model I.
Requires the latest and full version of Kontakt 5 (and up). It won't work in the free Kontakt Player.
Requirements:
macOS 10.9 or later
Windows 7 or later
451 MB of HD space
The full version of Kontakt 5.8.1 and up
Not compatible with the free Kontakt Player
2GHz Quad-core CPU or better with 4 GB of RAM or more
SQ8ROM is a sampled version of SQ8L, a VST plugin based on the sound and synthesizer architecture of the Ensoniq SQ80. The Ensoniq SQ80 was a 1988 synthesizer based on a wavetable with an analog filter to generate its sound, something common in the 80s. The result is lo-fi and charming.
SQ8ROM comes with 168 sounds, perfect for 80s music productions! SQ8ROM is a must-have if you produce synthwave, synthpop, vaporwave, and any other 80s influenced genres.
Features:
168 sounds
Amplitude ADSR
Reverb
Multi-LFO
Not compatible with macOS Catalina and up!
Requirements:
Windows 8.1/10 or macOS El Capitan to Mojave
3.47 GB of HD space
2GHz Quad-core CPU or better with 4 GB of RAM or more
64-bit VSTi or AUi Host
All the free sample packs in one convenient download. Includes:
606 Clones is a collection of sampled 606 clone drum machines. The sample pack features the sound of the Acid Lab Drumatix, the Cyclone Analogic TT-606, and the Behringer RD-6.
Features:
Samples from 3 different 606 drum machine clones
24-bit 44.1 kHz Wav files
25 drum samples
Royalty-Free
Requirements:
2.5 MB of HD space
Software that reads 24-bit WAV files
8-bit FX is a collection of 60 retro-style sound FXs. The samples are royalty-free and can be used in your 8-bit infused tracks. Bombs, gunshots, laser beams, and bleeps included!
Features:
60 samples
WAV format
16-bit 44.1 kHz
Requirements:
3.14 MB of HD space
Software that reads 16-bit WAV files
Drum & Bass Chord Pads is a collection of chord pads for drum & bass and jungle music productions. Obviously, it can also be used in other genres that require soothing silky smooth chord pads like ambient, downtempo, vaporwave, etc.
Features:
122 Drum & Bass Chord Pad samples
Key labeled
Seamless loop points
24-bit 44.1 kHz Wav Samples
Royalty-Free
Requirements:
330 MB of HD space
Software that reads 24-bit WAV files
Vintage Drum Elements v2 is a virtual drum machine featuring the sound of the Yamaha RX-5. This seminal drum machine of the eighties is the perfect companion to any synthwave, vaporwave, synthpop, and chillwave enthusiast who seeks that eighties vibe in their drum patterns. The RX-5 has been used by such artists as the Cocteau Twins, Bomb The Bass, Masters At Work, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Louie Vega, Chromeo, Vangelis, Depeche Mode, The Pet Shop Boys among many other professional producers.
2GHz Quad-core CPU or better with 4 GB of RAM or more
64-bit VSTi or AUi Host
Dr. Beat Box is a retro drum module paying homage to the classic drum machines of the 70s and early 80s. Featuring no less than 35 drum kits including sounds from rare analog beatbox and obscure mid-eighties drum machines. Among them, the Korg Mini Pops made famous by Jean-Michel Jarre with his early hit track "Oxygen Part 4". The Korg KR-55 used by Depeche Mode on their first album "Speak and Spell". The BOSS Dr. Rhythm DR-55 used by The Cure on "One Hundred Years".
