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Samples » loops
Soundiron Quadral 3 WAV-FANTASTiC screenshot
FANTASTiC | 18 February 2024 | 1.92 GB
Quadral 3 is a prolific audio powerhouse. Launch your next favorite electronic score using 16 brand new groups of hand-crafted atmospheric synth pads. This pack includes layered leads, iridescent ambiences, and floating textures ready to drop in your track. Each sound has been sculpted with care, allowing you to weave layers together into spectacular new tones with categories like Fragmented, Sleek, Cerebral, Balmy, Metallic, and Driven.
Samples » loops
Soundiron Sitarion Phrases WAV-FANTASTiC screenshot
FANTASTiC | 18 February 2024 | 1.80 GB
Sitarion Phrases is a powerful virtual electric sitar sample pack designed to harmonize tradition and innovation. Chithrinie Nirupama sampled her beautiful custom sitar built by luthier Sanjay Rikhi Ram Sharma. This library fuses the timeless characteristics of the sitar with modern advances of recording techniques and improvisation.
Windows, Samples
Karoryfer Samples Virtuosity Drums v0.924 for Sforzando-R2R screenshot
Team R2R | 2024.02.18 | 1.08 GB
Virtuosity Drums is an open source (Creative Commons 0) contemporary Jazz drum kit library, performed with sticks, recorded at Virtuosity Musical Instruments in Boston, MA.

It features performances by drummer Austin McMahon on the shop’s “house kit”, indicative of a typical setup in a live club or venue, recorded in the style of a live recording. With six mixable mic positions and detailed controls, it will work in many other genres too.
Windows, Samples
Karoryfer Samples Unruly Drums v1.100 for Sforzando-R2R screenshot
Team R2R | 2024.02.18 | 622.3 MB
Lots of people sample classic drum kits which make familiar sounds. This is very different. Every drum in this kit is a snare. There's a relatively normal 14” snare, a deep 13” snare converted from a tom, and a giant 22” snare we constructed specifically for the purposes of sampling. Even the kick is a 20” marching band bass drum with two sets of microsnare wires under the reso head. We put this kit together specifically for the purposes of sampling it, starting with making the 22” snare and then looking for pieces to match it.
Windows, Samples
Karoryfer Samples The Hat With The Phat v1.104 for Sforzando-R2R screenshot
Team R2R | 2024.02.18 | 452.8 MB
A free sample library of a giant hi-hat made up of two ride cymbals. Because we can. Six degrees of openness with bow, edge and bell hits for each, and four or five velocity layers. Chiks with four velocity layers, splashes and clutch drops with two velocity layers. Pedal return and clutch raise noises. All with four round robins. 356 total samples, additionally duplicated as another set of pitch-shifted files.
Windows, Samples
Karoryfer Samples Swirly Drums v1.104 for Sforzando-R2R screenshot
Team R2R | 2024.02.18 | 591.1 MB
Now free, this was our first commercial sample library, which grew out of trying to find ways to sample snare drum brush techniques in a flexible way. No, nothing here is played with sticks. It also contains some unique things, especially the percussion: brushed cowbell, darbouka, djembe and bongos and a cajon used as a kick. There's also a China cymbal and a few cracked or broken cymbals.
Windows, Samples
Karoryfer Samples Horse Pulse v1.000 for Sforzando-R2R screenshot
Team R2R | 2024.02.18 | 94.3 MB
While working on Three Tagelharpas, we also recorded this library of the bass tagelharpa played pizzicato - which is definitely not the main traditional use for any kind of tagelharpa. It was created with repetitive pulses in mind, so there are five different types of pizzicato with up to six round robins, plus percussive FX. It adds up to over 500 samples and 180 MB.
Software » Windows
Karoryfer Samples Frankensnare v2.100 for Sforzando-R2R screenshot
Team R2R | 2024.02.18 | 338.8 MB
Just like Dr. Viktor Frankenstein tried to put together the best parts of various humans, Frankensnare lets you create your own snares from a wide array of acoustic snare samples, from giants the diameter of a kick drum to a tiny 10" one, and also including the mad science "sympathy snares", which are recordings of a kick drum making six snares buzz sympathetically at once. There are also several varieties of claps, guitar chiks, and a tambourine. Over 3500 samples of snare drums, with an SFZ instrument built for layering
Windows, Samples
Karoryfer Samples Big Rusty Drums v1.100 for Sforzando-R2R screenshot
Team R2R | 2024.02.18 | 586.3 MB
Drums that are not nice and easy, but nice and rough! Samples of drums made by Zygmunt Szpaderski in a one-man workshop in Poland. They're big, and they've gotten kind of rusty over the decades. We matched them with an even larger floor tom made from an Estonian-made RMIF kick drum, and some nice modern cymbals. While we paid the equivalent of $111.68 for the Szpaderski kit with hardware, stands and cymbals, the Sabian ride cost more than four times as much, and we don't care - they are a good match sonically.
Samples » loops
Soundiron Drone Flutes Phrases WAV-FANTASTiC screenshot
FANTASTiC | 18 February 2024 | 548.65 MB
We teamed up with acclaimed sound practitioner René Jenkins to bring you a fantastic catalog of indigenous Central American drone flutes, in the Mayan, Aztec and Zapotec traditions. René performed with six of his favorite 2, 3 and 4-chambered flutes at the giant cathedral-like St Paul's Church in San Francisco. We recorded improvised melodic phrases in meticulous detail, perfect for cinematic compositions, game scoring, atmospheric songwriting, folk music and creative sound design.

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Samples » MIDI, SF, Akai
Synthline AN1X Internal (AKAI) screenshot
AKAI | 480 MB
The AN1x is a powerful retro-analog synth with a really cool new feature that lets you record real-time editing and filtering and be able to store it as part of the sound! A major contender in the new wave of analog-digital synths using DSP modeling of analog waveforms to recreate the coveted sounds of analog synths with modern digital specifications.
Education » Literary
Down in Orburndale: A Songwriter's Youth in Old Florida screenshot
English | Publisher: Louisiana State University Press, 2007 | PDF | 288 pages | 7 MB
Bobby Braddock, one of the most successful country songwriters of all time, is a living legend. His smash hit "He Stopped Loving Her Today" won the Country Music Association's Song of the Year Award in two consecutive years and was voted "Song of the Century" in a poll conducted by Radio & Records magazine and "greatest country song of all time" in a poll conducted by the BBC. In this captivating narrative, Braddock demonstrates that he is as much at home writing the story of his life as crafting an award-winning country tune. Warm, candid, intimate, and laugh-out-loud funny, Down in Orburndale -- the title plays on the Southern pronunciation of Braddock's hometown of Auburndale, Florida -- recounts his colorful saga up to age twenty-four, when he decides to move to Nashville and pursue a career as a professional songwriter.
Education » Literary
Dark Mirror: The Pathology of the Singer-Songwriter screenshot
English | Publisher: Praeger, 2008 | PDF | 246 pages | 3 MB
Singer-songwriters' lyrical reflections have a magical way of expressing our own sentiments and feelings. Almost all of the singer-songwriters discussed here ― including Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Tom Waits, Amy Winehouse, The White Stripes, and many more ― sing in an exotic and raw vocal style, which one would not traditionally call reassuring, and yet their profoundly unique voices appear to be the only ones capable of conveying their unique messages. One of the key elements being studied in this book is the fact that singer-songwriters often suffer from a deep sense of loneliness, perhaps associated with a sense of being the only one who could adequately sing and perform what they compose.
Education » Literary
Unleashed: The Story of Tool screenshot
English | ISBN: 1780381514 | 2012 | EPUB | 272 pages | 4.57 MB
The very first book about the Anglo-American metal band Tool explores not only their uncompromising music but also their unsettling, self-made image based on mythological symbols and arcane theories.
Education » Literary
Ska: An Oral History screenshot
English | ISBN: 0786460407 | 2010 | PDF | 216 pages | 14.07 MB

Before Bob Marley brought reggae to the world, before Jimmy Cliff and Peter Tosh, before thousands of musicians played a Jamaican rhythm, there were the men and women who created ska music, a blend of jazz, American rhythm and blues, and the indigenous music of the Caribbean. This book tells the story of ska music and its development from Jamaica to England, where the music took on a distinctively different tone, and finally to the rest of the world. Through the words of over 30 of legendary artists, gleaned from over a decade of interviews, the story of ska music is finally told by those who were there.
Samples » loops
Deep East Music Bombastic Brazil WAV screenshot
DEEP EAST MUSIC | WAV | 650 MB
Deep East active & excellent in providing bespoke music and sound design. TV & radio advertising, trailers & promos', corporate production or wherever else tailored audio is required.
Our expansive pool of composer and musician talent are all experts in specific genres and production methods and have provided music for literally hundreds of commercials, TV shows, promos & more.
Our state-of-the-art Soho studios & suites not only mean production is always of unbeatable quality but that we're on hand to turn around projects double fast, or faster if thats what you require.
What this all adds up to is the provision of some seriously intuitive and nail-on-the-head audio... and some appreciated compliments and big-ups from happy creatives and producers.
Get in touch and let us show you why they are smiling.
Samples » loops
Deep East Music Speed Fever Fury WAV screenshot
DEEP EAST MUSIC | WAV | 560 MB
Deep East active & excellent in providing bespoke music and sound design. TV & radio advertising, trailers & promos', corporate production or wherever else tailored audio is required.
Our expansive pool of composer and musician talent are all experts in specific genres and production methods and have provided music for literally hundreds of commercials, TV shows, promos & more.
Our state-of-the-art Soho studios & suites not only mean production is always of unbeatable quality but that we're on hand to turn around projects double fast, or faster if thats what you require.
What this all adds up to is the provision of some seriously intuitive and nail-on-the-head audio... and some appreciated compliments and big-ups from happy creatives and producers.
Get in touch and let us show you why they are smiling.
Samples » MIDI, SF, Akai
Kawai K-5000 - AKAI screenshot
AKAI | 408 MB
The K5000 was Kawai's top of the line music workstation digital synthesizer when it was released back in 1996. It's a bold and elegantly designed synth with a large LCD display, realtime controls and incredible sounds! The look and functionality is rivals the competition from the time...the Korg Trinity and Kurzweil K2500.
Education » Video Tutorials
Future Music In The Studio With D Ramirez TUTORIAL screenshot
FUTURE MUSIC | TUTORIAL | 1.65 GB
Producer D. Ramirez walks through the process of building a remix. Once voted DJ Magazine’s Best British Producer and Best British Remixer, Dean Ramirez knows what he's talking about.

The biggest development in his career came when he felt he had done all he could with the funky house sound he’d been tagged with and became enthused with the New York tribal sound that was re-emerging in the late nineties.


Education » Literary
Band Intonation Exercises screenshot
English | 3 Sept. 2016 | ASIN: B01LIL1QBQ | 72 Pages | PDF (True) | 60.69 MB
These exercises include hundreds of Tips & Tricks to help your band play more in tune. Including rehearsal techniques for teaching your band to listen and adjust pitch.
Samples » loops
Sony Creative Software CHARM Relaxing Commerical Downtempo WAV screenshot
SONY CREATIVE SOFTWARE | WAV | 470 MB
Charming things are universally appealing. In the world of modern electronic music, good downtempo and IDM tracks exude real charm. So naturally, this kind of sound works well in multiple contexts: background and foreground, personal and social, alternative and mainstream, simple or sophisticated.
CHARM's 31 construction kits are calibrated for success in pop songs, commercials, film, and multimedia presentations. Royalty-free and easy to use, CHARM also works across professional contexts, making this a go-to title for media producers at every level — just open a kit, layer a few of its exceptionally pleasant sounds on your timeline, mix to suit, and enjoy instant, high-quality music that will fit right in and stand up to repeated listening.
Education » Literary
Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber: The New Musical screenshot
English | Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2001 | PDF | 464 pages | 33 MB
The New York Times called Stephen Sondheim "the greatest and perhaps best known artist in the American musical theater," while two months earlier, the same paper referred to his contemporary, Andrew Lloyd-Webber as "the most commercially successful composer in history." Whatever their individual achievements might be, it is agreed by most critics that these two colossi have dominated world musical theater for the last quarter century and hold the key to the direction the musical stage will take in the future.

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