Experimental, werid & unconventional samples

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Hello folks!

I’m looking for the most bizarre, experimental & unconventional sample packs/libraries (Please no Kontakt libraries but actual WAV’s for further manipulations in my software and tools).

Think about Richard Devine, Kyma, spectral resynthesis morphing stuff and other weird & wild sound design oriented sounds. Anything can is actually uncategorizable.

Post what you think that might fit the bill!

Thanks :)

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You might like my Dark Territory pack. Its designed as a Live Instrument, but all the samples are included as 24 bit WAV files.

http://www.thecontrolcentre.com/packs

Check out Glitchmachines samples too. :)
https://glitchmachines.com/products/teratoma/

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I got an excellent Twisted Tools sample pack with Computer Music full of those kinds of sounds. Might be worth picking up the appropriate back issue as they're pretty nice for a fiver.

Glitchmachines make some solid packs too. More suited to reprocessing than using 'straight' though, as the packs I have are quite severely top and tailed with natural decays etc cut off.

Glitchedtones also make some cool sounding packs, but I'm yet to pick any up. They have packs involving feedback loops, databending (i.e. hex editing wav files), and electromagnetic/RF interference.

On the RF interference tip, if you've a soldering iron handy it's fairly easy to make an 'electromagnetic microphone' that will pick up interference tones from various electronic devices. Those sounds make great starting points for the granulator/FFT mulcher.

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Thanks for the replies so far guys!

Indeed, Glitchmachines samples are wild. Very wild! Checked some and can't get more experimental than these.

About Twisted Tools, in fact after your recommendation cron I've checked their sample packs and they do have some crazy stuff, I especially liked the Darkmorph one, full of twisted textures and highly processed strange noises. Great wild stuff for further manipulations :D

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It's definitely worth checking out the Glitchedtones packs too - I think you'd find them the most interesting of the three I suggested. They make the most out-there, 'unmusical' packs I know of. The data destruction packs are just full scale speaker shredding blasts of coloured noise, while the interference packs have everything interesting happening above 2 kHz, to give just two examples. There's a real purity and rawness to the packs they make. The actual sounds of interference and corruption, not just aesthetic/interpretative approximations thereof.

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This lot seemed interesting...

https://outsidersounddesign.com/
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Indeed, very interesting. Nice input whyterabbyt :tu:

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Oh, there's also been a few CM coverdiscs with above-average-weirdness samples on them; most of them can be got via Music Radar now.

https://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/fr ... tis-627820

I have some of these from the magazine, and others sound interesting so, maybe a dig through ones like these...

360 free abstract samples
289 free battery-powered samples
494 free contact mic madness samples
1,007 free criminal damage samples
545 free domestic appliance samples
258 free dystopian drone samples
200 free experimental lead samples
100 free experimental samples
500 free industrial samples
502 free noise, hiss and crackle samples
464 free out there FX samples
592 free tuneful toy samples
271 free malfunctioning synth samples
171 free feedback samples
271 free malfunctioning synth samples

yadda yadda
An idiot on Set Theory:
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."

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https://samplesfrommars.com/products/da ... rs_toolkit

Richard Devine free samples (bent 808, modded ARP 2600 and others):
http://www.devinesound.net/ - go to library for downloads

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Might want to look at Anomaly....

http://westgatesounds.net/Anomaly/index.html

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Westgate stuff is amazing!

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I've enjoyed what's available here for subscribers ($10 Canadian for a month); includes unique Reaktor ensembles, Live stuff and M4L creations, as well as .wavs:

https://woulg-related.bandcamp.com/subscribe

Not very active lately, but the back catalog is choice!

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Again, thanks all for your nice input. Great stuff!

Keep them coming 8)

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