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World Violins East to West
World Violins East to West
Big Fish Audio World Violins East to West A beautifully recorded collection of violin melodies from across the world. Description World Violins: East to West captures the heart and soul of violin from around the globe. Including influences that range from South Asia to the traditional West, this library...
$17.50
Worra's Prophet
$10.00
X-Productions Mad Kits
$7.50
X-Static Goldmine CD 1
$10.00
X-Static Goldmine CD 2
$10.00
X-Static Goldmine CD 3
$10.00
Xsample Vol.12 - Woodwinds II
Xsample Vol.12 - Woodwinds II
Xsample Vol.12 Clarinet - Bassethorn - Bassclarinet Clarinet B flat: Standard (3 velocity splits), staccato (3 velocity splits), flatter tongue (2 velocity splits), special fx. Bassetthorn: Standard (3 velocity splits), staccato (2 velocity splits), flatter tongue (2 velocity splits), special fx. Bass...
$10.00
Xsample Vol.13 - Flute, Piccolo, Bottles Flute
Xsample Vol.13 - Flute, Piccolo, Bottles Flute
Xsample Vol.13 Flute - Piccolo - Bottles Flute: Standard sustained, vibrato, (3 velocity splits), staccato (3 velocity splits), flutter tongue, air fx, special fx. Piccolo: Standard sustained, vibrato, (3 velocity splits), staccato (3 velocity splits), flutter tongue, air fx, special fx. Bottles: blown bottles.
$10.00
XSynth Library
XSynth Library
XSynth Library For Reason V.3.0 * XSynth Library comes with roughly 1100 mixed files in 31 categories where the majority is Combinator Patches. The directory structure is similar to the XSynth Free Refill which is 134 Patches in 18 categories. I recommend you try the XSynth Free Refill before you decide what to do.
$10.00
Xtreme Analogue
Xtreme Analogue
"The Xtreme Analog CD-ROM for the EXS24 and EXSP24 is designed to let your Emagic sampler or sample player be used as a state-of-the-art synthesizer. Based on expertly sampled analog synthesizer waveforms, sounds of the highest quality have been programmed ready to play, at the same time surpassing the...
$10.00
Xtreme Digital
Xtreme Digital
Sample Collection As with Xtreme Analog, the first product in this series, the most important goal was to create the fattest, deepest sounds possible, covering stacked sounds and complex sound variations. Xtreme Digital provides sounds of unparalleled richness, as most of the stereo multisamples equate...
$10.00
Xtreme HipHop [2 CD]
Xtreme HipHop [2 CD]
With Xtreme HipHop, Emagic and King Tech have compiled the most comprehensive resource available for the types of sounds, loops and performances demanded by the distinguished HipHop artist. It will transform your EXS24 or EXSP24 into the ultimate instrument for HipHop, R&B, and Pop production. In contrast...
$17.50
Xtreme House
Xtreme House
Following the success of Xtreme House Vol 1 Tekniks presents the long awaited sequel. Producer John Mercer has created another cd of high quality Beats, Filtered loop, Pulsating basses and funky synth grooves. No construction kits on this cd just pure loops. On cd2 you will find all the loops of CD1 in .
$10.00
XX Large Analogue Dreams AKAI
XX Large Analogue Dreams AKAI
Another monstrous collection from Germany's Best Service. 2-CDs with OVER 3000 samples! Analogue Dreams is a comprehensive collection of hard to find classic synths and analog drum machines - Prophet 10, Matrix 12, Matrix 6, Synton Syrinx, Elka Rhapsody and Synthex, OB-8, Korg Mini-700, Memorymoog.
$10.00
XX Large Bass Akai
XX Large Bass Akai
This compilation contains over 2200 samples, including 800 single hits and 200 multisamples. This great collection includes the most powerful bass sounds from Moog, Arp, Sequential Circuits, Roland (101,202,303), Oberheim, Yamaha etc. There are also hundreds of real, electric, acoustic, fretless and slap bass samples on this CD.
$10.00
XX Large Extreme 5 - Drum & Bass/Hardcore
XX Large Extreme 5 - Drum & Bass/Hardcore
Volume 5 is the latest offering in the monster XX-Large series. This CD includes 1200 stereo drumloops, percussion and add-on loops (142-175 bpm) especially for the faster musical styles like Drum’n Bass, Hardcore, Jungle, Breakbeat, Speed Garage, House.... All drumloops are tuned accurately and arranged...
$10.00
XX Large Most Wanted
$10.00
XX Large No Kick
XX Large No Kick
Unique: a huge drum loop collection with more than 1500 ad- on-, percussion- & effect- drum loops without bass or bass drum. you decide, which bass drum (out of the big bass drum pool) and which loops you use. 85-160 bpm/ any loop tuned x-actly.More than 1500 Add-on, Percussion & Effekt-Drumloops... (85-160 bpm).
$10.00
XX Large No Kick 2
XX Large No Kick 2
Volume 2 of the very popular drumloop collection with over 1500 hot new stereo ADD-ON, PERCUSSION and RHYTHM EFFECT loops without bass drums and low frequencies. These loops are the "Groovemakers" for every modern dance production. Additionally, XX-Large "No Kick 2" includes a big new collection of really kickin bass drums.
$10.00
XX Large The Killer
XX Large The Killer
750 synths, chords, organs, voices, pads... analogue classics, vocoder, up to date dance synths, techno and dance hooks, dance chords, organs and organ chords, 250 basses (complete mini moog multisamples), SH101, Microwave, OB-MX, FM-DX, MKS-50, Korg 700. Mono and stereo basses. 750 drum loops - exactly...
$10.00
XXL Hip Hop Drums
XXL Hip Hop Drums
Prime Loops XXL Hip Hop Drums [Multiformat CD]Genres Hip Hop Formats Wav, Akai MPC, Reason Refill, FL Studio/Fruity Loops, SFZ, Halion, Kontakt & many more! Contains Hip Hop Drum Samples/HitsXXL Hip Hop Drums is a mammoth collection of beefy, hard-hitting Hip Hop Drum Hits. Designed to pack a serious punch.
$10.00
XXL Hip Hop Horns
XXL Hip Hop Horns
Vibe XXL Hip Hop Horns [WAV / Kontakt] Horn section hooks & turntable licks. Description XXL HIP HOP HORNS is a virtual instrument created for Kontakt 5.5 and above, designed specifically for Hip Hop producers, DJs, and beat-makers who want to add Royalty-Free solo horn hooks and horn section hooks to their productions.
$15.00
XXLarge CLUB 1
XXLarge CLUB 1
XXLarge Club Edition 1 Classic HIP HOP, Classic RnB, POP 850 Drumloops and 350 various sounds (60-120 bpm) Chords, Synths, Hits, Basses, Guitars and Guitar licks, Brass Hits & Stabs, Effects, Pianos... All drumloops are perfectly timed and sorted in bpm groups.
$10.00
XXLarge CLUB 2
XXLarge CLUB 2
Club Edition 2 New RnB, SOUL, HIP HOP 800 Drumloops and 400 various sounds (60-120 bpm) Chords, Synths, Hits, Basses, Guitars and Guitar-Licks, Effects, Organs, Pianos... All drumloops are perfectly timed and sorted in bpm groups.
$10.00
XXLarge CLUB 4
XXLarge CLUB 4
XXLarge Club Edition 4 2STEP, GARAGE, FREESTYLE 1300 Drumloops and 400 various sounds (115-140 bpm) Chords, Synths, Hits, Basses, Guitars and Guitar-Licks, Orchestral Effects, Organs, Pianos... All drumloops are perfectly timed and sorted into bpm groups.
$10.00
XXLarge Production Effects
XXLarge Production Effects
production effects is designed for movie-, commercial-, multimedia and dance producers. over 800 add-on effects / beginning & endings / dance-fx / drum`n bass/ science fiction / nature / scratches / noises / alarms / voice fx and many atmospheres (ready looped on cd rom).
$10.00
Yamaha AN-1X
$10.00
Yamaha DX-7
$10.00
Yamaha Electric Grand Piano CP-80
Yamaha Electric Grand Piano CP-80
Prominy Sound Library Yamaha Electric Grand Piano CP-80 The true sound of a Yamaha Electric Grand Piano CP-80 recorded as 96kHz/24bit samples. Featuring: 1. Recorded at 24bit ultra high resolution, Up to 20 various velocity levels. 2. Natural resonance and reverberation during note-off periods featuring trigger release function.
$25.00
Yamaha Grand Piano (Gigapiano)
Yamaha Grand Piano (Gigapiano)
The GigaPiano is the worlds first gigabyte-sized instrument designed specifically for the Nemesys GigaSampler and ships for free with the GigaSampler Full Edition. Featuring a Yamaha Concert Series Grand with real ivory keys. Yamaha stopped using real ivory a few years ago when they realized that the...
$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.