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Timbalicous Drumz vol.1-2-3
Timbalicous Drumz vol.1-2-3
Timbalicous Drumz vol.1-2-3 Ever ask yourself "Where did Timbaland get that killa style?" or "Where can I get a PhD in beat-making like he's got?" If so, then immerse yourself in the Timbalicious Drumz Collection. Have a professional arsenal of sound at your disposal, all modeled after Timbaland.
$10.00
TL SPACE Registered User IR Library
TL SPACE Registered User IR Library
The Ultimate Convolution Reverb Impulses for Pro Tools TL Space is the ultimate Pro Tools reverb for music and post-production applications. From the largest concert hall to the densest plate reverb, TL Space delivers the pristine sound of natural reverb spaces with the familiar controls used in high end hardware reverb units.
$10.00
TM Century Dallas Winning Score radio broadcast music jingles production library
TM Century Dallas Winning Score radio broadcast music jingles production library
TM Century Dallas Winning Score radio broadcast music jingles production library [DVD][MP3 Format] Ideal for a jingle freak, hospital or internet radio station. Original 62 (sixty two) CD production library made by TM Century of Dallas in 1992 were packed to MP3 128 kbps. The files are broken down into...
$30.00
Tonsturm Volume 2 - Electricity Sound Effects [2 DVD]
Tonsturm Volume 2 - Electricity Sound Effects [2 DVD]
Tonsturm Volume 2 - Electricity Sound Effects [2 DVD] This soundpack is all about high voltage. We risked our lives to serve you highly unique and exciting electricity sound effects. All sounds are recorded, edited and mastered in High Definition Audio @ 24 Bit, 192 KHz. With TONSTURM 02 | Electricity...
$35.00
Toolbox Samples Nu-Disco Drums
Toolbox Samples Nu-Disco Drums
This nu-disco drum sample pack contains an exciting and fresh collection of loops and one shots for producers looking to create dance floor vibes. With a range of punchy drums, disco-inspired percussion, and funky basslines, this pack will help you inject some groove into your tracks. Whether you're...
$5.00
Toolroom Academy Tech House Essentials Vol 2
Toolroom Academy Tech House Essentials Vol 2
Introducing Tech House Essentials Vol. 2, the latest addition to Toolroom's sample catalogue. Inspired by artists like Chris Lake, Martin Ikin, Claude VonStroke and Noizu, Tech House Essentials Vol. 2 provides you with everything you need to inject dance-floor ready quality and energy into your productions.
$10.00
Toolroom House Vocals Vol. 1
Toolroom House Vocals Vol. 1
Offering a wealth of toplines, hooks, one-shot phrases, and adlibs for all House productions; House Vocals Vol. 1 is an essential library of song starters with a focus on melody, presented in a variety of keys, fully processed and completely dry, offering versatility to your productions. Toolroom’s...
$5.00
Toolroom Underground House and Tech vol.4
Toolroom Underground House and Tech vol.4
Underground House & Tech Vol. 4, straight from the Toolroom Academy offers its newest and biggest collection of Tech House loops and one shots curated by a team of current Toolroom recording artists & DJs including label boss Mark Knight. A definitive collection of processed drum loops broken...
$7.50
Toontrack A.O.R. EZkeys MIDI
Toontrack A.O.R. EZkeys MIDI
FROM THE WEST COAST Classic rock songs with creative chord-runs, twists, turns – and an extra ounce of sophistication. With musical prowess, songwriting and big, lush productions as its biggest traits, bands and artists like The Doobie Brothers, David Foster, Steely Dan and Toto rose to international...
$5.00
Toontrack Alt-Rock Grooves
Toontrack Alt-Rock Grooves
GROOVES THAT CUT THROUGH Basic rock grooves that take the art of playing simple to a new level of complexity. Description On the surface, a lot of alternative rock grooves can sound seemingly basic. If you start scrutinizing them, however, you’ll realize there is a lot going on. In fact, for a...
$5.00
Toontrack Ambient Pop EzKeys MIDI
Toontrack Ambient Pop EzKeys MIDI
EZkeys MIDI inspired by ambient, electronic and atmospheric modern pop music.Merging edgy beats and cutting edge production techniques with evocative soundscapes and hypnotic hooks, ambient pop is an amalgam of electronic music styles unlike no other. In this MIDI pack for EZkeys, we explore both ends...
$5.00
Toontrack Backbeats
Toontrack Backbeats
AUTHENTICALLY AMERICAN Genuine meat-and-potatoes drums for classic rock, pop and country. Backbeats MIDI is a collection of drum beats and fills specifically tailored for the songwriter focusing on classic rock, pop and country compositions. “I based this pack purely on what I think a songwriter...
$5.00
Toontrack Big Band EZkeys Midi
Toontrack Big Band EZkeys Midi
BRING ON THE SWINGIn big band land, swing is king. And this collection of EZkeys MIDI has plenty of it to go around.The horns may be the most easily identifiable ingredient in the often busy sonic landscape of a traditional big band arrangement, but the unsung hero of the melodic rhythm section is undoubtedly the piano.
$5.00
Toontrack Blues EZkeys Midi
Toontrack Blues EZkeys Midi
A BLUES JOURNEYFrom the swamps of Mississippi to the smokey bars of Chicago and ending on a well-lit stage in Mainstream, USA.Not many music styles resonate as brightly through our musical heritage and play such an obvious role in the evolution of modern music than the blues. Still today, its impact...
$5.00
Toontrack Blues Guitar EZmix Midi
Toontrack Blues Guitar EZmix Midi
When blues guitar shifted from primarily acoustic to electric in the post-war 1950s USA, it was the beginning of a revolution. Since then, nothing has been more influential on the development of guitar-driven music than the blues. Pioneers like Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters and Jimmy Reed not only...
$5.00
Toontrack Country Grooves
Toontrack Country Grooves
THE HEARTBEAT OF YOUR SONG Basic, sturdy grooves covering the essentials of country drumming. In a country song, nothing contends with the vocal. Probably more so than in any genre, it completely bathes in the center stage limelight. But just like in any kind of music, all instruments in a song work in each other’s favor.
$5.00
Toontrack Country Pop EZkeys MIDI
Toontrack Country Pop EZkeys MIDI
COUNTRY SONGS THAT POP A contemporary fusion of country and pop playing styles for piano. Already back in the 1970s, artists started deviating from the traditional country mold by incorporating obvious elements of pop music, both in terms of songwriting, instrumentation and production. It proved hugely...
$5.00
Toontrack Death Metal Guitars EZmix Pack
Toontrack Death Metal Guitars EZmix Pack
INSTANT DEATH50 guitar tones inspired by the past 30 years of death metal evolution.50 individually engineered guitar tones, all modeled after some of the most genre-defining albums and bands of the past 30 years of death metal. Welcome on board a wild round-the-world trip that’ll beam you back...
$5.00
Toontrack Disco EZbass MIDI
Toontrack Disco EZbass MIDI
EZbass MIDI inspired by disco and funk from the 1970s through to now.Although the bell bottom pants and jumpsuit days are long gone, disco is just as alive and well today as it was some 40 odd years ago – it just changed venues. Have a listen to Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake or Madonna –...
$5.00
Toontrack EDM EZkeys MIDI
Toontrack EDM EZkeys MIDI
THE INSPIRATION STATIONEZkeys MIDI inspired by modern electronic dance music.This collection of EZkeys MIDI features 20 individual “songs” inspired by a wealth of modern and hook-heavy electronic dance music where the keys, naturally, have a dominant role. Each song was broken down in three...
$5.00
Toontrack Emotional Ballads EZkeys MIDI
Toontrack Emotional Ballads EZkeys MIDI
AN OCEAN OF EMOTION Modern pop and rock ballads chock-full of drama and melancholy. From jazz to R&B, soul, pop and even metal – piano-based ballads have made lasting forays into all different genres over the years. It may be that the timbre of the piano adds another dimension of heart-wrenching...
$5.00
Toontrack Fusion EZkeys MIDI
Toontrack Fusion EZkeys MIDI
YOU TOO CAN WRITE FUSION Ever wanted that awesome fusion keyboard player, just lining up song ideas for you to build on? Here you go. The Fusion EZkeys MIDI pack presents a diverse collection of keyboard MIDI, all inspired by fusion music from then and now. Expect a seamless blend of rock, jazz and funk that takes technicality.
$5.00
Toontrack Fusion Grooves
Toontrack Fusion Grooves
THE SOLUTION FOR YOUR FUSION TUNES For songs where groove, technicality and that “session drummer” finesse is front and center. Fusion. “The process or result of joining two or more things together to form a single entity”. The general dictionary definition of the word applies...
$5.00
Toontrack Gospel EZkeys Midi
Toontrack Gospel EZkeys Midi
THE POWER OF PRAISEThe melancholy of the blues, the heartache of soul, the subtlety of jazz and the uplifting joy of the boogie – all encapsulated in the power of praise.A lot of modern music stems from gospel. It’s a melting pot of root music. It has the melancholy of the blues, the heartache of soul.
$5.00
Toontrack Hip-Hop EZkeys Midi
Toontrack Hip-Hop EZkeys Midi
BEAT IDEAS Three decades worth of hip-hop hooks for you to hone, mold and shape into your own music. Regardless of whether it’s new school, boom bap or trap – strip any hip-hop track of the vocal and you’ll notice that what often plays a central role is a keyboard part. Sampled or not.
$5.00
Toontrack Hip-Hop Grooves EZkeys Midi Pack
Toontrack Hip-Hop Grooves EZkeys Midi Pack
THE BEAT OF THE STREETAnything from boom bap to Detroit offbeat, old-school rap, trap and much, much more.Regardless if the drummer’s before, on or off the beat – it’s never by chance. The art of playing hip-hop drums is all about the feel, touch and vibe, all equally intertwined in...
$5.00
Toontrack Hip-Hop R&B EZkeys Midi
Toontrack Hip-Hop R&B EZkeys Midi
A MODERN MERGEEZkeys MIDI that merges hip-hop with that unmistakable soul-like flair of R&B.In today’s music landscape, the lines between genres keep getting more and more smudged – especially so when it comes to the likes of hip-hop and R&B. Collaborations, guest appearances, performing...
$5.00
Toontrack House EZkeys MIDI
Toontrack House EZkeys MIDI
HOOKS ARE IN THE HOUSEParts, hooks and loops inspired by a wide range of house styles.The House EZkeys MIDI pack rounds up an impressive collection of material inspired by contemporary house music. While most of the pack’s general ‘song’ content is categorized in common parts, it also...
$5.00
Toontrack Indiependent MIDI
Toontrack Indiependent MIDI
NO RULES APPLY From the Indiependent SDX comes a fearless collection of drum grooves. About True creative freedom is when only your imagination limits what you can do. When you dare go where no one else has gone and have no one to answer to but your own creative self. That’s the genuine, unbridled spirit of independence.
$5.00
Toontrack Metal Fusion
Toontrack Metal Fusion
A METAL MELTING POT A versatile collection of drum grooves and fills by Animals as Leaders drummer Matt Garstka. Matt Garstka of progressive metal pioneers Animals as Leaders is one of the most technically proficient and versatile drummers in today’s metal scene. With a degree from Berklee and...
$5.00

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.