Well this is an exciting time to be a composer, especially if you are on a budget. There are free orchestras available already, and you can do some wonderful things with them. Orchestral Tools recently decided it was time to get some of their Berlin Orchestra into the hands of everyone, at no cost. They…
This week, we want to focus on a brand new freebie from the folks at Fracture Sounds. It’s a solo string trio called “Blueprint: String Trio”, and is meant as a teaser for an upcoming library (likely available within days of this posting). It is part of their ongoing free Blueprint series, which you can…
This week’s freebie is an amazing virtual sampled trumpet and trombone instrument; Bell and Bone by Librewave. Bell and Bone comes as a library that loads into the Rhapsody Player, so be sure to download that first (you can get it from the Librewave website). But once you get it loaded, you get a nearly…
This week’s freebie is an amazing and fun to use reverb plugin from Adam Szabo; Solaris. This plugin was actually the winner of the 2023 KVR Developer’s Challenge. Solaris can function as a typical reverb unit, but it is much more than that. Solaris is more of an ambient modulated shimmer machine…..if that makes any…
This is a cool new freebie from veteran sample developers, Sonuscore. I’m always a fan of interesting percussion, so this freebie is a welcome announcement. With 5 velocity layers and 8 round robins on offer, along with built-in effects, I’d say not too bad for free. Below is the info from the Sonuscore website: Pound…
If you’re looking for a great pipe organ sample library, this should be on your list of things to download. And it just happens to be FREE from Samplephonics.
Cinesamples released their latest freebie today, called Jerry’s Pianos. Often the orchestral piano is called upon to double rhythmic patterns at pitch – its percussive nature allows the texture to speak quicker and more precisely. Larger orchestral ensembles occasionally include a second piano for balance and color. Orff employs two pianos playing the ostinato in…
Tone2 has decided that Firebird 2 has reached the end of it’s commercial life and the company has announced that this extremely popular and flexible synth is now FREE for everyone. See the full press release below. After seven years of faithful service, Firebird itself has become vintage. Even though it’s no longer profitable to…
The guys at Ample Sound have created several plugins over the past year designed to give you realistic acoustic and electric guitar sounds. And if you’ve been looking to get your hands on the libraries to test, you’re in luck. They announced today the first FREE version of one of their libraries, the Ample Guitar M Lite.
Quality sample libraries are difficult to make. They require a lot of time, energy and money to bring to fruition. So it’s no wonder that most libraries don’t allow you to take their samples, process them, and then SELL those samples in your own library. But the DNR Collaborative Sound Repository is different. Here’s a sampling of what you’ll find.