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Sample Science Free Sample Packs, Plug-ins and More High Quality Sampling is no easy business. It's not easy to craft a great sample set. It often involves painfully long hours in uncomfortable positions recording and trimming and processing dozens, hundreds, and often thousands of individual digital sound clips. Getting artful performance qualities out of thousands of digital audio clips certainly does involve a lot of science. Sample Science is the alias/nickname/handle as well as the company and website name of one such amazing, diligent practitioner of this labor of love. Yes, you have to be in love with sampling to produce anywhere near the volume of the body of work produced by Sample Science. And for the volume of freebies and donation-ware (pay what you want) this fine person has made available to our music making community, imho, he should change his name rightly to "Saint Sample Science". Good community is hard to come by, and in his many forms, Sample Science

Pianobook Overhaul 650 Free Sample Libraries These are places and people you computer-music-makers should all know about!!! Spitfire Audio & Pianobook were started by Christian Henson . Here is his youtube channel...There is Valuable Info there by the ton, including lessons on constructing your own sample libraries. https://youtube.com/c/ChristianHensonMusic In case you didn't know that the Pianobook site exists, it is an unfathomably huge repo of sample libraries for free , made by so many amazing people. Pianobook is a community of musicians who create and compose with these sample libraries. Membership is free, and you are welcome to contribute sample libraries and to participate in the forum. Pianobook currently has 650 beautiful, usable sample libraries in many popular formats. This week Pianobook received a complete overhaul of its interface, focusing more now on the people who create the sample libraries. Site navigation just got a big overhaul. Now it's easier

Coincidental with me starting my blog, David Hilowitz of Decent Sampler fame has made a video of his favorite 5 Free Software Instruments. I won't waste bandwidth, I'll let David tell you about them in his video. I will say that I use all of the plug-in instruments he mentions, and that all of them are epic! Here's David! https://youtu.be/CPjj6KzrW0s

Plugin Boutique is a great site to buy discount plugins, for sure, and they take Paypal, which is super convenient. I am in no way affiliated with Plugin Boutique nor with any site, but I do shop there monthly. I think a lot of retail prices for software are obscene, but every few weeks even insanely expensive plugins go on sale at Plugin Boutique for ridiculously low prices. Better even than the sales, though, are the tons of freebies available. They do require you to register on their site, but they have a colossal number of free plugins on site. Having an account there is good, too, because they keep all of your licenses and serials in your account pages for your convenience! If you've ever had a computer up and die on you then you know how amazing this feature is. Also, every month, they offer a great piece of usually expensive commercial software as a bonus with any purchase. All in all this is one of my favorite retailers, and I'm glad to share them with you. Of course, i

Hi! Lucky Post #3 here. On to business... Fairlight CMI Resources Index Free Fairlight CMI Samples and More Last week I went hunting for Fairlight samples to feed my sample habit. From its release in 1979, the Fairlight CMI additive synthesizer and sampler immediately revolutionized the sounds heard on hit records. I wanted to find the sample library, but what I found was so much more! Although it is difficult to locate working links, some hunting reveals that there are a few accessible good transfers of the original Fairlight CMI IIx library, as well system disk images, manuals, schematics, lore, and even a detailed, freeware CMI emulator you can run on your computer. While digging around, I found a lot of dead links. Wherever I could, I located backups of missing links at archive.org . It became clear to me that I ought to make an up-to-date index with links I've verified, and that's actually why I started this blog. So now, I present to everyone... Free Fairlight CMI Samp