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That Sound Organic Drums [DVD]
That Sound Organic Drums [DVD]
That Sound ORGANIC Drums [DVD] Stomps / Claps / Kicks / Snares This huge collection of over 800 unique natural samples, ranges from claps, stomps, bangs, clacks, snaps, kicks, snares, toms, toys, slaps, swells, and more. The concept was to record these most used and needed samples in various spaces....
$19.90
The Afterparty: Hip Hop Club Kits
The Afterparty: Hip Hop Club Kits
Big Fish Audio The Afterparty: Hip Hop Club Kits [Multiformat DVD] Welcome to the Afterparty. We all know the real fun gets started at the afterparty, so get ready to get your swag on with these club bangers. Inspired by the hottest hits being pumped throughout all the most elite clubs around, these...
$17.50
The BIG Reason Refill
The BIG Reason Refill
Zero-G The BIG Reason Refill [DVD 4.5 Gb] THE BIG REASON - 7 Fantastic Brand New Sample Libraries Rolled into One! The Big Reason is seven brand new sample libraries, over 6500 samples and over 4Gb of material, all for the price of one library. "Big by name and big by nature... it's hard to fault this collection.
$35.00
The Cathedral Organ
The Cathedral Organ
A complete church organ with 11 register combinations, featuring all manuals and bass pedals. Each register superbly recorded in stereo, multisampled in thirds. More than 900 mono and stereo samples, over 200 programs ! All sounds perfectly looped. Sophisticated mono programs with added reverb (Akai S1100 and S3200 only).
$10.00
The Chill Out Room [2 CD]
The Chill Out Room [2 CD]
This collection delves deep into the darkest recesses of synthesis - ideal for ambient or soundtrack projects. Atmospheres, Sequences, Loops, Single Note Synths and Dub & Synth FX are all included. A wide range of synths are utilised - SCI Prophet V, VS, ARP2600,Roland Jupiter 8, MKS80, Yamaha CS80, TX816.
$15.00
The Denny Jaeger Private Collection
The Denny Jaeger Private Collection
Audio quality and patching that belong in the 21st century. Proven in high-end record, TV and film production. A comprehensive collection of high power, high utility sounds featuring keyboard pads, powerful orchestral string stabs, lyrical English horn and bassoon, vocal sounds, SFX & percussion.
$10.00
The Disney Ideas Sound FX Collection
The Disney Ideas Sound FX Collection
A super CD of over 150 digitally recorded sound effects created by the recording professionals at Disney i.d.e.a.s., the elite post-production facility on the backlots of the Disney MGM Studios in Florida. This is a must have CD of ambiences, animals, sports, transportation, machinery, cartoon sounds, and special effects.
$10.00
The Drum Sample Broker International Breaks 10
The Drum Sample Broker International Breaks 10
The Drum Broker is back with the 10th volume of the most Popular Breakbeat Sample Library of all time! International Breaks Vol. 10 is another must have for anyone who is a drum aficionado. These drums are perfect for chopping, layering, and looping in your production. We guarantee you'll find some...
$5.00
The Electro Jazz Retro Funk
The Electro Jazz Retro Funk
This CD contains a wide range of vintage instruments (such as Wurlitzer & Rhodes pianos) as well as a plethora of slammin' drum loops, colorful effects loops and much more. In addition to offering convenient construction kits, there's a huge variety of tasty Wurlitzer & Rhodes chords that make it easy...
$8.33
The Electro Set
The Electro Set
SONY The Electro Set The Electro Set collection is a complete construction kit for making propulsive electronica by blending and interacting with a multitude of layerable rhythmic components. Inside this library you’ll discover scores of interlocking music creation elements. Build a foundation with...
$10.00
The Heavy Hitters Greatest Hits
The Heavy Hitters Greatest Hits
Three stellar drummers; Tommy Lee (Motley Crue), Alan White (Yes), and Jim Keltner (studio legend). Multiple dry/ambient hard, medium and soft hits. CD-ROM versions offer modular patching allowing easy kit construction. Recorded in world-class drum rooms like A & M Studios & Ocean Way.
$10.00
The Holy Grail Piano
The Holy Grail Piano
The Holy Grail Piano [GIG Format] The quest is over...You have been searching your entire life for a sampled piano that you can actually use in many different situations. Q-Up Arts & Alpha-Omega have created an exciting new proprietary method of sampling called Virtual Model Sampling, (V.M.S) Two years...
$10.00
The Immersion 5.1 Surround Sound FX [7 DVD]
The Immersion 5.1 Surround Sound FX [7 DVD]
Sound Ideas The Immersion 5.1 Surround Sound FX [7 DVDs Set] Immersion 5.1 Surround Sound Library - the ultimate ambience collection from Point One Sound that places you right at the centre of the action. This royalty free library offers more than 220 ambience tracks - and they were all recorded, edited...
$197.50 $99.95
The John Rekevics Saxophone Library - Alto Sax
The John Rekevics Saxophone Library - Alto Sax
The John Rekevics Saxophone Library - Alto Sax 2nd CD of The John Rekevics Saxophone Library. Over 600 megabytes/ 36 Instrument Presets (18 Stereo + 18 Mono) 4 Velocity solo instrument including Smooth, Vibrato, Staccato, Sforzando, Growl, Flutter and Falls. Special Crossfade Giga Presets allow easy...
$10.00
The John Rekevics Saxophone Library - Tenor Sax
The John Rekevics Saxophone Library - Tenor Sax
The John Rekevics Saxophone Library - Tenor Sax The John Rekevics Saxophone Library: Bigga Giggas Tenor Sax. This cd is the first volume of a 4 part complete solo sax library: Baritone, Tenor, Alto, Soprano. All instruments are classic, vintage Selmer Mark VI model played by John Rekevics. These are...
$10.00
The Loop Loft Indie Rock Drums Vol.1 [DVD]
The Loop Loft Indie Rock Drums Vol.1 [DVD]
The Loop Loft Indie Rock Drums Vol.1 [DVD / Multiformat] We get it.  You're an indie artist and you're not looking for over-produced drum loops that sound like outtakes from a 1987 Bon Jovi session.  You'll never book a show in Brooklyn with that kind of schlock on your tracks. ...
$12.50
The Lucasfilm Sound Effects Library [6 CD]
The Lucasfilm Sound Effects Library [6 CD]
The Lucasfilm Sound Effects Library [6 CD]Lucasfilm, the world's greatest innovator of sound design and Sound Ideas, the world's largest creator of sound effects, have joined forces to produce an unique six CD sound effect collection. Now, for the first time ever, you can have Academy Award winning sound...
$42.50
The Mix III Broadcast Music Library - Production Elements
The Mix III Broadcast Music Library - Production Elements
Sound Ideas The Mix III Broadcast Music Library - Production Elements The Mix III Broadcast Music Library offers a superb package of almost 1,000 production elements of virtually every description. Featuring a wide variety of music clips and sound effects tracks, Mix III was designed specifically for audio imaging use.
$35.00
The Network Sound Effects Library [2 DVD]
The Network Sound Effects Library [2 DVD]
The Network Sound Effects Library [2 DVDs Set] 77 Audio CDs compressed into MP3 320Kbps Looking for an unusual sound effect? You’re almost sure to find it among the almost 10,000 digitally mastered tracks in the Network Sound Effects Library. From the blast of an acetylene torch to the zzzippp of a zipper.
$49.00
The Rain Piano
The Rain Piano
The Rain Piano: A serious Upright piano with character. Sometimes a Grand Piano is simply too much or lacks personality. Rain Piano is professionally detuned to add character while staying in tune with your other instruments. A true 8 velocity X2 (pedal Up / pedal Down) The extra velocities provide smooth...
$10.00
The Sound Of Toolroom Vol 2
The Sound Of Toolroom Vol 2
Toolroom Academy proudly presents the second instance of "The Sound Of Toolroom", a comprehensive collection of beats, basslines, melodic synth loops and one shots ready to be utilised as building blocks for your next mainstage Tech House banger. Produced, curated and tested by upcoming Toolroom-artists...
$10.00
The Sounds Of Revealed Vol. 2
The Sounds Of Revealed Vol. 2
The Sounds Of Revealed Vol. 2 is a collection of 5245 samples and 320 presets - dedicated to give you the ability to replicate existing and future Revealed tracks. It is the next step in a new journey to deliver the highest calibre of sounds in the most advanced sample library for Big Room and Progressive to date.
$10.00
The Studio Grand
$10.00
The Warner Bros. Sound Effects Library [5 CD]
The Warner Bros. Sound Effects Library [5 CD]
The Warner Bros. Sound Effects Library Now, for the first time, Warner Bros. brings you, on 5 side-splitting CDs, over 1400 hilarious digitally remastered sound effects that have helped make Warner Bros. cartoons so unforgettable for so many years. Each authentic sound effect selected from the Warner Bros.
$37.50
Theatral SFX [7 DVD]
Theatral SFX [7 DVD]
Network Music Theatral SFX [7 DVD] Sound Effects for theatre shows production.
$122.50
Thermal Future Rave Sample Pack
Thermal Future Rave Sample Pack
Future Rave Is Taking Over Future Rave is a genre that has taken over the festivals in the past 2 years thanks to artists such as David Guetta and Morten. Currently, Future Ravee is heard at every festival thanks to these Pioniers. If you want to take over the festival scene with entrancing Melodies and powerful Basslines.
$10.00
Thomas Penton Essential Drums & Percussion 24Bit
Thomas Penton Essential Drums & Percussion 24Bit
Thomas Penton Essential Drums & Percussion 24Bit Thomas Penton is a internationaly established music producer, composser, & engineer in the dance music industry. And now he brings his trademark sounds available for everyone to use. The audio samples on this cd can be used in a wide arrange of music productions such as dance.
$10.00
Thomas Penton Essential Loops & Effects 24bit
Thomas Penton Essential Loops & Effects 24bit
Thomas Penton Essential Loops & Effects 24bit Over the past fifteen years, Thomas Penton has established himself as a premier DJ and producer in the electronic music industry. His works have earned strong support from some of the world's biggest DJs, including Paul Oakenfold, Sasha, John Digweed, Dave Seaman.
$10.00
Thomas Penton's Essential Series Vol. 3
Thomas Penton's Essential Series Vol. 3
Thomas Penton's Essential Series Vol. 3 Thomas Penton's Essential Series is a three-volume series. This third volume ("2008 Update") includes kick drums, hi-hats, filler loops, claps, snares, fx, synth stabs and 49 bassline loops. These files have been normalized, eq'd, compressed and truncated...
$10.00
Tidy Bits and Pieces Vol.1 [DVD]
Tidy Bits and Pieces Vol.1 [DVD]
Tidy Trax Tidy Bits and Pieces Vol.1 [DVD] [WAV / MIDI / REX / Sylenth] About LIbrary Tidy presents Bits & Pieces, the brand new music production sound pack for the harder generation. Presented by the worlds number one Hard Dance Music label, Tidy’s eye for detail and reputation for releasing...
$15.00

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.