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Mystical Indian Percussion 2
Mystical Indian Percussion 2
Black Octopus Sound Mystical Indian Percussion 2 by KV BalakrishnanDescriptionMystical, elegant and tip-top professionally performed; welcome to Mystical Indian Percussion 2 by KV Balakrishnan! After the great success of Mystical Indian Percussion, KV is back with volume 2 with even more of his famous...
$15.00
Nais Hard EDM [DVD]
Nais Hard EDM [DVD]
Loopmasters Nais Hard EDM [DVD / Multiformat] Loopmasters proudly welcome back DABRO Music with a ferocious collection of royalty free loops and one shot sounds covering a wide spectrum of hard dance genres ranging from 65 BPM right up to 185 BPM. Expect to hear Loud Brash Drums, Nasty Growling Bass and Edgy EDM Synths.
$15.00
Naked Drums, Pop/R&B  CD 1
Naked Drums, Pop/R&B CD 1
Snare, Kick, Hi-Hat, Stereo Overheads, Tom 1, Tom 2 and Tom 3. Hits include various kick, snare, hats, cymbals and bell mic'd the same way as the loops.
$10.00
Naked Drums, Pop/R&B  CD 2
Naked Drums, Pop/R&B CD 2
Snare, Kick, Hi-Hat, Stereo Overheads, Tom 1, Tom 2 and Tom 3. Hits include various kick, snare, hats, cymbals and bell mic'd the same way as the loops.
$10.00
Naked Drums, Pop/R&B  CD 3
Naked Drums, Pop/R&B CD 3
Snare, Kick, Hi-Hat, Stereo Overheads, Tom 1, Tom 2 and Tom 3. Hits include various kick, snare, hats, cymbals and bell mic'd the same way as the loops.
$10.00
Naked Drums, Pop/R&B  CD 4
Naked Drums, Pop/R&B CD 4
Snare, Kick, Hi-Hat, Stereo Overheads, Tom 1, Tom 2 and Tom 3. Hits include various kick, snare, hats, cymbals and bell mic'd the same way as the loops.
$10.00
Nate Smith Drum Loops Vol. 1 and Vol.2
Nate Smith Drum Loops Vol. 1 and Vol.2
If you're looking for a drum library with a focus on "live" hypnotic drum grooves with an incredibly deep pocket, The Nate Smith Drums Bundle is the collection for you. This bundle features both his Vol 1 and Vol 2 collections, all at a 30% bundled savings.Recorded at the famed Bunker Studios...
$15.00
Native Instruments Anima Ascent v.1.0
Native Instruments Anima Ascent v.1.0
VISIONARY, CONTEMPORARY POP Ultra-modern pop sounds with a genre-defying blend of trap, R&B, and soul Popped percussion kits meet multisampled vintage synths, hybrid keys, and video game sounds 47 BATTERY and 40 MASCHINE kits, 411 loops, and 70 MASSIVE, PRISM, and MONARK patchesWHAT GENRE?Pop ain’t...
$10.00
Native Instruments Pulswerk v2.0.1
Native Instruments Pulswerk v2.0.1
MINIMALISTIC GROOVE TOOLS The polished sound of minimalistic techno and house 50 MASCHINE and 59 BATTERY Kits for carving out distinct tracks for the dancefloor Features 60 MASSIVE presets for booming bassPOLISHED INTENSITYPULSWERK delivers the deep, clean, pounding intensity of contemporary minimal techno and house with edgy.
$10.00
Neo-Minimalism
Neo-Minimalism
Samplephonics Neo-Minimalism About Samples Library Explore the space between minimalism and beat driven electronic music with this masterfully curated collection of intimately beautiful sounds. Delicate processing, skilful playing and expert composition coalesce to create an intricate palette of sonic...
$12.50
Neptunian Drumz 1 vol.1-3
Neptunian Drumz 1 vol.1-3
Modernbeats Neptunian Drumz 1 vol.1-3 [WAV]Continuing our promise to bring you tha latest in blazin' hiphop drumz comes "Neptunian Drumz"! In the style of Neptunes, Just Blaze, and the KeeMaster, each Neptunian soundset is packed with 72 stompin' ambient kicks, 60 "snap-clap" layered style snares.
$10.00
New Ambient Edge
New Ambient Edge
Rich pads, Synths, Basses, SFX, Brasses etc
$10.00
New Gold CD 1
New Gold CD 1
New Gold 1 is a CD-ROM for the Akai S1000 Series Samplers which incorporates 50 banks of digital instrumentation. With over 1,500 programs, it contains a wide variety of instrumentation to allow the composer/performer incredible options.
$10.00
New Gold CD 2
New Gold CD 2
New Gold 2 is a CD-ROM for the Akai S1000 Series Samplers which incorporates 50 banks of digital instrumentation. With over 1,400 programs, it contains a wide variety of instrumentation to allow the composer/performer incredible options
$10.00
New Gold CD 3
New Gold CD 3
New Gold 3 is a CD-ROM for the Akai S1000 Series Samplers which incorporates 75 banks of digital instrumentation. With over 2,200 programs, it contains a wide variety of instrumentation to allow the composer/performer incredible options.
$10.00
New York City Drumworks CD 1
New York City Drumworks CD 1
1.2 gigs of awesome rhythm played by 6 of New York City's top session drummers! Funk, Rock, House, Hip-Hop, Latin, Cajun, R&B, Brazillian, Rock-a-billy, African, Reggae, Swing, Gospel, Country, Thrash beats and lots more! Played with sticks, blastix, brushes and mallets at multiple tempos per groove or style.
$10.00
New York City Drumworks CD 2
New York City Drumworks CD 2
1.2 gigs of awesome rhythm played by 6 of New York City's top session drummers! Funk, Rock, House, Hip-Hop, Latin, Cajun, R&B, Brazillian, Rock-a-billy, African, Reggae, Swing, Gospel, Country, Thrash beats and lots more! Played with sticks, blastix, brushes and mallets at multiple tempos per groove or style.
$10.00
Niche Audio Creator Series DnB Evolution
Niche Audio Creator Series DnB Evolution
Niche Audio are proud to announce DNB Evolution, the first in our new line of custom production packs for Maschine 2 and Ableton Live. Expand your sound palette and explore the deepest depths of Drum N Bass, as we kick things off with our brand new Creator Series. DNB Evolution brings you a fresh new...
$10.00
NN19 Dance Instruments
$8.33
Noiiz Pixelord Cyber Electronic
Noiiz Pixelord Cyber Electronic
Pixelord returns to Noiiz from the distant future with ‘Cyber Electronic’. Coated in his unique style and including a huge variety of content ranging from distorted techno beats and futuristic melodies to glitchy drums and processed atmospheres, ‘Cyber Electronic’ is a great addition to your collection.
$10.00
Novation Nova Refill
Novation Nova Refill
Novation Nova Refill Pack is a refill using samples taken from the desktop model of Novation's Nova.Review: The real Nova sounds great, but this refill is like the real thing. Some of the patches are the best I've ever used in Reason. There are a lot of pads which are very hard to find in other refills or synths.
$7.50
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$10.00
Nu Bossa
Nu Bossa
Zero-G Nu Bossa [Multiformat DVD] Nu Bossa (WAV, ACID, EXS24, Kontakt, HALion, Stylus RMX compatible REX loops, RMX, Reason NN-XT, Apple Loops). Nu Bossa provides over 2Gb of pure 24bit South American lounge, samba and bossa construction kits. The library was created by Davor Devcic, an incredible talent...
$25.00
Nu Directions-The Phuture Sound of House
Nu Directions-The Phuture Sound of House
Big Fish Audio Nu Directions-The Phuture Sound of House "If you're into deep, jazzy and soulful house then this is definitely the collection for you!" - Future Music Are you looking for the ultimate house sample CD? Well if you're bored with the current approach of some sample discs, this will surely...
$10.00
Nu Disco Fundamental Kit 01
Nu Disco Fundamental Kit 01
Nu Disco Fundamental Kit 01 [WAV] With Zenhiser's drum sounds reaching nearly every part of the clubbing globe we thought it was time to bring you a brand new drum kit from one of our highest profile producers. 'Nu Disco Fundamental Kit 01' delves deep into the nu disco sound with the pre-requisite air...
$2.50
Nu House - Hard House & Nu NRG
Nu House - Hard House & Nu NRG
Zero-G Nu House - Hard House & Nu NRG [WAV format] Hard is in the name, and hard house is the game. A fantastic collection of tough construction kits and individual samples from Zero-G in a package that combines ACIDized WAV formats, ready to roll: chunky drums and loops, pounding bass lines, cutting synths and bubbling filters.
$10.00
Nu Jazz Funk [Multiformat DVD]
Nu Jazz Funk [Multiformat DVD]
Equipped Music Nu Jazz Funk [Multiformat DVD] NU JAZZ FUNK - 4 GB DVD LIBRARY - 6 377 LOOPS/SAMPLES Can’t get enough of those wild, syncopated funky beats of Nu Jazz? Then enter the brazilian flavoured sounds and moods of Nu Jazz Funk. Super funky sounding broken beats, mixed up with jazzy rhodes, moogy basses.
$32.50
Nu Metal City
Nu Metal City
Big Fish Audio Nu Metal City A head-banging collection of construction kits covering a variety of styles, including Nu Metal, Metalcore, Death Metal, and Industrial Rock. Inspired by the music of such artists as Slipknot, Korn, Anthrax, and Nine Inch Nails, NU METAL CITY features live and programmed drums.
$10.00
Nu Tec Grooves
Nu Tec Grooves
East West Nu Tec Grooves From the private archives of Techno/Ambient producer Oliver Morgenroth comes Nu Tec Grooces. Call it Technoid, progressive, experimental- Nu Tec Grooves delivers club oriented, up to date groove layouts with single drum sounds. Drum and Percussion grooves, Bass Lines, Sub Bass runs.
$10.00
Nu Wav Penpocket LoFi Drums
Nu Wav Penpocket LoFi DrumsNew
Pepocket LoFi Drums is a collection of more than 200 loops and one shots recorded at Luna Studios in Los Angeles, CA by Chilean drummer & engineer Pepe Hidalgo Ramos. This pack features Pepe’s favorite vintage drums, which include a 60’s Ludwig and Slingerland bass drums, a 1920’s Leedy.
$10.00

Sample types

Sample libraries are the collections of sound files that are usually organized in sets concerning musical instruments or environmental sounds categories used for compilation. They are widely used by composers, DJs, music producers and other people for making musical works. Usually, famous music composers are known for their own sound style they form using blends of various sample libraries and sound effects in their compositions.

Samples can be differentiated from regular sound records by few special features. They are short (length about 10 seconds) and are recorded using one note. That helps to make a qualitative instrument on their basis. High quality samples are usually professionally-cut. In such samples micro-pauses in the beginning and in the end of a sample are deleted and the stops for sound loop are marked. Samples without sound loop are called “one-shot” samples, which are reproduced from the very beginning to the very end of a whole piece. Such samples are ordinary used in making drum sounds, sound effects etc.

Samples with sound loops are called “loops”. E. g, one set of drums for four-eight time can be recorded as a loop. Special software that can work with pre-made loops has become widely-popular among the amateur musicians. These programs include SONY ACID, EJAY and many others. Sample libraries and single samples in WAV format can be reproduced with literally any PC sound playback software.

Sample recording

When it needs to digitize the piano sounds, one can guess, that it will be enough just to record every piano note. This approach was used in 1970-s, when sampling techniques just appeared. But the sound quality made with such a technique is rather poor and too far from the professional sounding.

For recording a full-quality sample it's inevitable to take into consideration all the trifles of sound, e.g, the velocity of key press, using a pedal, sounding with opened and closed piano top etc. Adding to it the sounding dependence from the place where sound is played and even from the furniture of this place we have a great bunch of factors that can notably impact on the sounding. So, the quantity of sounds can reach 100 per one piano note. The more sounds we record, the closer we are to the original sounding, but also the bigger are the recorded files. It enlarges the size of an instrument that is sampled.

Potentially, sounding of an instrument that uses sample libraries come close to original. But considering that there are a lot of peculiarities in the sounding of original instrument, digital instruments can't copy it with an absolute accuracy. That's why original pianos are still in use.

After recording desired sounds, we need to make an integrated instrument, which sounds will be then reproduced by digital or analog sampler. For that, we need to assign (map) the samples from our own sample libraries to each keyboard key. For getting qualitative sounding, we need to spend a lot of time assigning appropriate samples.

Clean and processed sound libraries

The most part of sample libraries present clean («dry») sounds without any sound effects applied. So, the musicians can put necessary effects by themselves choosing the right place for them in any individual composition.

Some sample libraries can have samples with special sound effects for particular purposes, e.g., imitation of cathedral choir reverb or heavy metal distortion. These samples are also called «wet» samples.

Sample libraries and music software for DJs and amateur musicians

Sample libraries are vitally important for a good DJ. If some time earlier Djs used analog devices for making cool sounds, now they can use their own collections of digital sounds to make a musical masterpiece. The quality of a synthesizer for a DJ or other musician's purposes is measured by the quality and quantity of sound samples it can reproduce. The best ones, for example, some Yamaha high-end models, have an impressive sample libraries in combination with perfect sound quality.

Sample libraries can be used not only by professional musicians and producers who buys a lot of expensive equipment. They can also be used by an amateur, who just starts his music experiments. Sample libraries are provided in the digital file-sets that can be easily downloaded from the web. Simple sets are usually free or cost not much. So getting them is not much of a problem.

There are a great variety of computer programs which use sample libraries and can substitute synthesizers. One of good examples is FruityLoops. It has its own collection of software synthesizers. There are more than 20 various synthesizers and 2 samplers available. They can be used for making one's own sample libraries. But it needs a lot of time and experience, so amateur musicians often use already-prepared sound sets, combining and mixing them together, adding some effects and environmental sounds. FruityLoops sample library can be easily expanded with other libraries. The friendly interface will help to make such an expansion easy and fast. FruityLoops is rather professional music production instrument with a lot of different options and possibilities. But there is another program to work with sample libraries that is called SoundForge.

SoundForge, developed by Sony Creative Software, is a suitable platform for an amateur musician. Its restricted version, Sound Forge Audio Studio, is a nice instrument to start with. It's price is pretty good and it has all the functionality to start home experiments with sample libraries. SoundForge has a set of instruments for fast editing and creation of new sound pieces. The program helps to remaster and clean old records, put filters and effects and create master-discs. This program will be a good start to making your own sample libraries.

Great collection of sample libraries for any taste

It's clearly seen that producing samples is not an easy task. Luckily, there is a great variety of special sample libraries available on the contemporary music market and there's no need to make them yourself. One can find practically any sound he or she needs.

Our site provides a solid collection of sample libraries in various formats, including WAV, AKAI, GIGA, SF2, Reason refills etc. They can be used for making industrial, house, trance and other kinds of compositions. Our library is being constantly developed and updated. We are glad to present you a variety of choice for making your own music masterpieces.