The Sample Devellopers Adress Book

[SampleScience]

In an attempt to help sample devellopers I have made a list with links & comments. Note that I didn't include all the devellopers so if you're not listed feel free to ad your url with descriptive informations.

Peace Love Productions
http://www.peaceloveproductions.com
They offer a wide variety of acid loops samples either on cd or as a download. By subscribing on their mailinglist you have a link to a free sample pack each month which usualy contain sounds from their commercial library. Dance/techno/house/drum & bass orientad sample content.

Homegrown Sounds
http://www.hgsounds.com
High quality soundfonts & acid loops. Guitar & synthetize sound content, their guitar loop library is excellent. Free samples available on their website for evaluation purpose only. Worth looking if you don't already their work.

SonicCouture
http://www.soniccouture.com
A new sound develloper in the business providing content for the Native Instruments Kontact player. The quality is good & they offer a free acid techno pack with tr-909 samples on their website! Thanks guys!

Kriminal Sounds UK
http://kriminal.presetbank.com
Bass multisamples available in a variety of virtual samplers formats (including Orion). The quality is good, made with love & inexpensive. Free presets for virtual instruments are also available including many SR-202 drum kits!

Les Productions Zvon
http://www.lesproductionszvon.com
Unusual sounds you won't find anywhere else. Check out their Sidekick percussive soundfont for original velocity layered synthetic percussions & fxs. A generous amount of free sounds can be downloaded on their site including royalty-free soundfont & demo versions of their commercial products.

Dangerous Bear Underground
http://www.dangerousbear.com
Their Hollow Sun classic synths refill (also available in soundfont format) is quite simply amazing! They offer content for Reason, the Wusikstation engine & EVE among others. Don't be fooled by the basic website, try the demo sounds & judge by yourself1!

Equipped Music & Publishing
http://www.equippedmusic.se
Formelly known as e-lab, their new genre oriented DVDs of wav & rex2 loops are simply outstanding! Defenitly pro content for house, breakbeat & downtempo producers as well as any other genre that require high quality guitar licks, acoustic drums, bass, rhodes, etc... Demo mp3s & rex2 files available on their site.

Big Fish Audio
http://www.bigfishaudio.com
Develloper & distributor of sounds, Big Fish Audio offers a wide range of multisamples & loops for a variety of sample formats including acid, rex, reason refills, akai, emu & audio. Beware thought that their samples are not always perfectly edited & normalize.

SampleLab
http://www.samplelab.com
HQ 24-bits samples of analog synths, acoustics & electronic kits, loops & sound effects. Demo .wav files of their work can be downloaded for evaluation purpose only. They have an interesting loop layering concept on their Luscious Groove library. A develloper to check out for future releases.

Drumdrops
http://www.drumdrops.com
24-bits multitrack samples with templates for Pro-Tools & Live. Standart drum loops also available. Vintage style recordings made by pro, their beats are the closest you're going to get to real breakbeats of the sevenies. Some of the best acoustics drum loops & performances out there.

the rest of the links in the next post...

[Spe3D]

Hello

I will have another site for your listing in near future to save confusion

At least one of them will be umm! listed - seems only if you charge money for quality samples does it become something that gets recognised as a sample provider - have no fear - this is something I will correct in the very near future

In fact your list is pretty short sighted and of limited use (and from a very very small world of awareness by the looks of it)

Best regards,

Spe3d

:O)

[SampleScience]

Spectrasonics
http://www.spectrasonics.net
Their Stylus RMX instrument of one of the most popular virtual instruments out there. Distorted Reality is the best selling sample cd of all time. A top notch company, ultra professional with quality samples & new original sampling concept (Stylus RMX chaos engine). An example to follow for other sound devellopers.

Ilio
http://www.ilio.com
Sound distribution & productions. Professional sound design embeded in virtual instruments of wav & rex files on cd-roms. Never bought anything from them but they seems to be a good trustable company.

East West
http://www.soundsonline.com
Develloper & distributor of samples discs & rompler. They have a big catalogue of mostly good sample content. Orchestral & piano stuff also available.

Zero-G
http://www.zero-g.co.uk
Another big shot. They have produced content for Mixman Soundiscs, they are the creators of the Planet of the Breaks series & their old breakbeat/acoustic drum loops cds are simply excellent. A personnal favorite of mine. Title to check: Brutal Beats,Shawn Lee's Planet of the Break series & the Jungle Warfare trilogy.

Prodyon
http://www.prodyon.de
VST devellopment, sound design including free drum kits & the Spacehawk massive pad & textures collection. Try the demo soundfonts to judge by yourself. As far as I'm concerned, for an independant develloper the quality is as good as it could be!

SampleTekk
http://www.sampletekk.com
I discovered them with their Christmas freebie. The quality is pro & they offer a good variety of sample discs of pianos among other things.

SampleFusion
http://www.samplefusion.com
FL Studio's in house sample productions company, the quality is not always there but their atmospheric pad collection is quite good. If you have fruity loops yoou have access to more than 1 gig of free samples from their site!

Power FX
http://www.powerfx.com
High quality samples content. I know & use some of their drum loop/breakbeats library & all I can say is that the sounds are excellent!

Loopmasters
http://www.loopmasters.com
Loopmasters are the new e-lab for me. Their discs are cheap & sounds extremely good. They have a freebie page with 8 free samples in .wav/mp3 or rex2 formats from each of their discs. So you can try the sounds in your favorite DAW & judge by yourself if you like them or not.

Kreativ Sounds
http://www.kreativsounds.com
I don't have Reason but their refills looks very good, their ABt Xtc combinator refills sounds great judging by the demos. Free wav sounds sample packs can be downloaded from them on the FreeSoundProject website under the ao_ks moniker in the sample pack section.

Electronisounds
http://www.electronisounds.com
Cheap sample cds of electronic sounds. The content is not always good but most of the time it`s usable. The sounds are always perfectly edited & their discs seems to be gear toward using FruityLoops the oldschool way (with one-shots instruments & percussions). I often ended up using their demo sounds in my track so check them out, it might suit your taste!

Sonic Implants
http://www.sonicimplants.com
Their soundfonts are a bit of hit or miss. Personnaly I find most of them to be very usefull & intelligently optimize. Works very well in my FL Studio soundfont player.

Hollow Sun
http://www.hollowsun.com
Maybe not the most orginal sample develloper, but the sampling editing is always top notch! Sounds that you can process further for your own needs, mostly vintage synths & drum box, Zero-G also distribute the vintage collection in a NI Kompakt engine (if you prefer taht kind of thing...).

more to follow...

[SampleScience]

In fact your list is pretty short sighted and of limited use (and from a very very small world of awareness by the looks of it)

What do you mean?

[Spe3D]

In fact your list is pretty short sighted and of limited use (and from a very very small world of awareness by the looks of it)

What do you mean?

Well for one thing this seems like a waste of your time (keep in mind there is a list at the very start of this forum)

look here http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 72&start=0

Plus your small list annoyed me bearing in mind you did not need to look too far to be able to fill it a bit better (keep in mind a few of the sample providers you have not listed do in fact have forums in K-v-R - so I worte what I worte

Does that help explain it?

Best regards,

Spe3d

:O)

[Failed Muso]

Hollow Sun
http://www.hollowsun.com
Maybe not the most orginal sample develloper, but the sampling editing is always top notch! Sounds that you can process further for your own needs, mostly vintage synths & drum box, Zero-G also distribute the vintage collection in a NI Kompakt engine (if you prefer taht kind of thing...).

more to follow...

Actually, given that Steve created the library for the grand-daddy of all samplers, the Akai S900 and onwards, I'd say he is THE original sample developer !!

And you forget to mention the range of sample CD's that have won critical acclaim, including the Newtron Bomb, CP70, PPG, Oberheim M1000 and M/01.

Shameless plug I know, but Steve deserves the credit

[SampleScience]

Beta Monkey Music
http://www.betamonkeymusic.com
Acoustic drum loop performed by a real drummer recorded in a high quality studio. I personnaly don't like them because they sound all the same, it's seems that the drummer used the same kit over & over. But the drums are recorded dry in a variety of styles & not always the usual 'urban' kind of. More oriented to studio performing arists who use acoustics instruments & would like to ad a rhythm part to their demos without having to hired a real drummer.

SoundEngine
http://www.soundengine.com
An online store where you can buy sample discs of loops, vintage & soviet synths, fxs & more... demo mp3 available.

Back In Time Records
http://www.backintimerecords.de
Films sound scoring, virtual instruments, multisamples, etc... they have a forum on KVR. Pay them a visit, it might fill a more 'adult'(mature) market. Intelligent professional sound design.

FinalFloyd
http://www.finalfloyd.com
Used to give a lot of freebie multisampled instruments but they have been removed to give the place to his commercial library for the EVE virtual instrument. Still new freebie are planned for Wusik station users. Worth a look if you either have EVE or a version of Wusik.

Precisionsound
http://www.precisionsound.net
They have a really interesting section where you can buy samples from weird old vintage instruments. The Red Dragon soundfonts is simply excellent. Quality work from a quallity company.

Modernbeats
http://www.modernbeats.com
Drum kits & drum loops available for the most popular virtual samplers. Hip hop oriented content, mostly high quality & very usable. They have a FreeKit to promote their work.

More to come...

[Spe3D]

[SampleScience]

In fact your list is pretty short sighted and of limited use (and from a very very small world of awareness by the looks of it)

What do you mean?

Well for one thing this seems like a waste of your time (keep in mind there is a list at the very start of this forum)

look here http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 72&start=0

Plus your small list annoyed me bearing in mind you did not need to look too far to be able to fill it a bit better (keep in mind a few of the sample providers you have not listed do in fact have forums in K-v-R - so I worte what I worte

Does that help explain it?

Best regards,

Spe3d

:O)

Ah yeah I see... I personnaly prefer shorter list with 100% copyrighted free content than just a big giganstic list of links with one line comments. I actually either bought, downloaded or used & auditionnize the samples I'm listing. So I know what they are & I certainly know that they are clear of copyrighted materials. I also say by which condition you can use the sounds, for evaluation purpose or not.

Which is usefull for someone willing to buy libraries of sound but don't know where to start.

But I understand what you mean, most people will prefer to download tons of sounds without ever investigating more about their origins & their quality...

[Spe3D]

So unless you downloaded it - and purchased it - it does not get listed - explains why the list was so short - but now its getting bigger, are you now buying and downloading the sounds then add them to the list?

If you are going to keep with this thread - you may need to change the spelling in the topic line from 'Devellopers' to Developers Oh! and 'Adress' to Address

[bluedad]

If you are going to keep with this thread - you may need to change the spelling in the topic line from 'Devellopers' to Developers Oh! and 'Adress' to Address

so I worte what I worte

[Spe3D]

Indeed BlueDad indeed - glad you found it - I love irony where possible

[SampleScience]

So unless you downloaded it - and purchased it - it does not get listed - explains why the list was so short - but now its getting bigger, are you now buying and downloading the sounds then add them to the list?

If you are going to keep with this thread - you may need to change the spelling in the topic line from 'Devellopers' to Developers Oh! and 'Adress' to Address

Anyway, what bothers you? The spelling or the list or both?

It's all done with good intentions but if you feel it's gives a bad image & dosen't help at all then I'll ask a moderator to just delete the thread.

Personnaly I will keep the list I've compiled because I just love the content these developers are providing & feel they play a major role in modern music technology by producing excellent sounding tool for musicians & dj to use.

I even use you own work but didn't put you on the list because you're not selling anything (Am I wrong?). That doesn't mean your stuff is bad, I just wanted to encourage those who try to live off it.

[Spe3D]

I even use you own work but didn't put you on the list because you're not selling anything (Am I wrong?). That doesn't mean your stuff is bad, I just wanted to encourage those who try to live off it.

This is one of my initial points – unless someone sells something, they don’t get recognised as doing anything worthwhile and never get the focus needed to generate the interest to sustain the ideology behind the free sampling – hence from now on I will not do free samples.

My free samples are to generate traffic to other artists in the auditorium to get their work noticed as well as my own services.

So in fact I need as much advertising as anyone else does – just coz its free does not mean it does not cost money and time to provide the equipment, edit and manipulate the sounds, and host the sounds – I am not the only one who would feel that way reading these type of lists.

I know it’s a no harm thing and I tend to just write what I feel, this I admit can be disruptive sometimes.

I will just add – its not this thread or your post that has brought that decision about – its one I have been on the verge of for a little while (due to stuff just like this and other things) and its just stuff like this that has helped me realise that doing free samples is Not a Cool thing to do, as its payback is negligible compared to the costs involved in providing them – it would be much better to do things in a much more sensible way from now on imo. So I will be charging for samples I produce in the future.

Have fun,

Spe3d

:O)

[SampleScience]

It's not that I don't recognize the work of free samples developers, it's just that there's so many sites with unlegitimate content in it such as samples from records, other sample discs that are not own by the site owner, samples from hardware or software romplers, current sample based groovebox & drum machines, etc...

It gives a bad reputation to free sample providers.

So, if you decide to sell at least one thing it will automaticly give more 'value' to your free stuffs. I don't know why but unfortunatly it's like that...