Wave file (.wav), Akai program (.akp), Battery kit (.kit), Soundfont 2.0 (.sf2), SFZ (uh, .sfz), Recycle (.rex, .rx2, .rcy), Shortcircuit group (.scg), and Shortcircuit multi (.scm).MrHope wrote:what formats can Short Circuit use? Could you list them...?Izak Synthiemental wrote:i think we should support formats that can be used with the powerful and free Shortcircuit Sampler! there are too many great free sample banks out there in formats which are not usable to the freeware community!
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 65#4244265
Making free samples available...
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- KVRAF
- 2278 posts since 8 Apr, 2003 from Texas
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- KVRian
- 1068 posts since 25 Jul, 2007 from Calgary
Not sure if this has been mentioned- but if you have free stuff to share- you can upload to KVR's Banks & Patches section. You get a 20mb per file limit- so you would have to be creative if you have larger soundsets- but why not- it's free.
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- KVRer
- 6 posts since 20 Aug, 2013 from UK
I have found this thread to be very interesting indeed! 
What I've gathered from all these posts is this:. Sharing your wonderful stuff with a small group of friends is fine and good. But, sharing your ideas free to the world does mean it's going to cost you!!
I have been looking into distributing my own kontakt instruments recently, and have found great places to sell and distribute your stuff. But, that's the point - selling. Even if it's just for a pound (dollar, whatever your currency is), then a token payment to help cover distribution costs doesn't seem at all excessive.
As far as my position goes on this, 'free' means covering this cost. If I wanted to make money, I'd have picked anything other than music as my job!!
If most people are put off by paying a pound, then all it means is I'm reducing my bandwidth costs and only sharing my time and effort with people who understand this. Personally, I have been (and am happy to continue doing so) supporting people by paying for products, even when they are 'given away' cheaply. I would much rather be in a community that shares things cheaply than for free, as I understand the real world!
Considering that people who want something completely for free are already paying for internet access (why not ask for that free too) and a machine to download stuff on (er, can I have a free macbook please?!!) .... you get my point. Why should the creative people who produce something be expected to give it away at their own personal cost?
So, this is a very useful post as it does highlight the problems of internet sharing, and the hidden costs!
What I've gathered from all these posts is this:. Sharing your wonderful stuff with a small group of friends is fine and good. But, sharing your ideas free to the world does mean it's going to cost you!!
I have been looking into distributing my own kontakt instruments recently, and have found great places to sell and distribute your stuff. But, that's the point - selling. Even if it's just for a pound (dollar, whatever your currency is), then a token payment to help cover distribution costs doesn't seem at all excessive.
As far as my position goes on this, 'free' means covering this cost. If I wanted to make money, I'd have picked anything other than music as my job!!
If most people are put off by paying a pound, then all it means is I'm reducing my bandwidth costs and only sharing my time and effort with people who understand this. Personally, I have been (and am happy to continue doing so) supporting people by paying for products, even when they are 'given away' cheaply. I would much rather be in a community that shares things cheaply than for free, as I understand the real world!
Considering that people who want something completely for free are already paying for internet access (why not ask for that free too) and a machine to download stuff on (er, can I have a free macbook please?!!) .... you get my point. Why should the creative people who produce something be expected to give it away at their own personal cost?
So, this is a very useful post as it does highlight the problems of internet sharing, and the hidden costs!
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- KVRAF
- 4302 posts since 31 Oct, 2004
Sites to upload your samples:
https://archive.org/ (no ads, no fees, give to the community!)
http://bandcamp.com/ (people can give money as a tip, but limited free downloads, still a good place if you use it with archive.org)
https://www.wetransfer.com/ (hosted free for two weeks)
Google "free file hosting" and you got tons of free hosting services... but most of them are ad financed. Still free thought.
https://archive.org/ (no ads, no fees, give to the community!)
http://bandcamp.com/ (people can give money as a tip, but limited free downloads, still a good place if you use it with archive.org)
https://www.wetransfer.com/ (hosted free for two weeks)
Google "free file hosting" and you got tons of free hosting services... but most of them are ad financed. Still free thought.
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- KVRer
- 2 posts since 24 Sep, 2013 from Home
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Hello...Just want to share something. recently I made a custom kontakt library, and I put some installer that let you install my library and registered by the mac (its a mac version for this time), and you can add my library directly to kontakt player without even had to registered the native instrument licensing program.
Just want to know how you guys think about it.
you can found it here : "http://labs.numosh.com (http://labs.numosh.com)"
its under download pages
Thank you.
Ps. and if it agains the Law because some of my installer code, I'll shut it down shortly.
work hard, stay humble
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- KVRAF
- 2169 posts since 20 Sep, 2013 from Poland
What about Audiobombs? https://www.audiobombs.com/ looks like they'll just host any free samples (or synth presets) for free, though they have no apparent way of making money off the site, so I wonder. Anybody tried using it? I'm thinking of using it to mirror my basses, take some of the load off my host.
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- Banned
- 23 posts since 7 Jun, 2014
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- KVRer
- 5 posts since 14 Jun, 2014
Free Interpulse Kick Drum Sample Pack
from stomping psy to soft warm kicks... enjoy!
http://www.interpulse.com.au/index.php? ... le-pack%2F
from stomping psy to soft warm kicks... enjoy!
http://www.interpulse.com.au/index.php? ... le-pack%2F
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- KVRAF
- 2169 posts since 20 Sep, 2013 from Poland
We put our samples (which now add up to more than a gigabyte of downloads) on Audiobombs as well. Should be faster for users from most places than the Karoryfer site. Seems to be working quite well so far. My samples and those from Ludwik Zamenhof are here: https://audiobombs.com/users/Karoryfer
Not sure if this is the magic solution to hosting free samples, but seems worth trying - it's been easy to use and reliable so far.
Not sure if this is the magic solution to hosting free samples, but seems worth trying - it's been easy to use and reliable so far.
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- KVRian
- 690 posts since 4 Jul, 2011 from England
I was looking for a way to whole packs; I guess to grab those you mentioned would take a few weeks on a on-by-one download? Is there a way to get packs from there? Archive.org does that.DSmolken wrote:We put our samples (which now add up to more than a gigabyte of downloads) on Audiobombs as well. ...
Not sure if this is the magic solution to hosting free samples, but seems worth trying - it's been easy to use and reliable so far.
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- KVRAF
- 2169 posts since 20 Sep, 2013 from Poland
Sure. We have organized our samples into six packs, each one is a zip file including samples and mappings. The largest one should take a few minutes to download if you have a good connection.
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- KVRer
- 1 posts since 10 Aug, 2014
ive been using gumroad.com to host my samples. it works in a similar way to bandcamp but the customer support is really good, worth a look if it hasn't been mentioned already
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- KVRer
- 4 posts since 8 Mar, 2014
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Hey all,I've made my start into creating a sample library with a Nokia 3310 Composer tool for Kontakt! Check it out here, demos included: http://www.virtually-conducted.com/kont ... nstruments (http://www.virtually-conducted.com/kontakt-virtual-instruments)
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- KVRAF
- 4302 posts since 31 Oct, 2004
It's a topic about how to share free samples, not about the free samples themselves...oozles wrote:Hey all,
I've made my start into creating a sample library with a Nokia 3310 Composer tool for Kontakt! Check it out here, demos included: http://www.virtually-conducted.com/kont ... nstruments
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- KVRer
- 26 posts since 5 Feb, 2016
http://patcharena.com/
I didn't see it mentioned yet. I'm considering it once I finish some SFZ projects (but also consider all nice options mentioned here).
I didn't see it mentioned yet. I'm considering it once I finish some SFZ projects (but also consider all nice options mentioned here).
Signal Experiments
http://sig-ex.com
http://sig-ex.com
