I need samples !!!!

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paulm72
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I need samples !!!!

Post by paulm72 » Thu Jun 29, 2006 6:33 pm

Can anyone help me please ?

I want to start using samples in Ableton but don't know where to start.

I have run through the live library but there's not much on there.

Can anyone advise what I need to do, I want to obtain drum loops, noises, acappella's, but haven't got a clue what to do or where to get them from ?

I have garage ban which has some useful loops but I don't know how to import them into live - can anyone help ?

Any recommended sites for plug ins would be gratefully receieved\

Thanks

DeadlyKungFu
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Post by DeadlyKungFu » Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:22 pm

drag and drop files from the browser into a clip. hit play, enjoy.

the manual is very good, open the .pdf and use the search function.

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Post by paulm72 » Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:39 pm

Thanks for the response mate

Sorry what I meant was getting hold of new samples - vocals and stuff to then use in live.

I know how to drag the included samples into the track view - if I am misunderstanding you sorry I'm new to this kinda thing !!

DeadlyKungFu
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Post by DeadlyKungFu » Thu Jun 29, 2006 8:07 pm

search the web. you can also just sample from your mp3 and CD music library, make a loop from a song and run it through a few FX and you can make something completely new from it.

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Post by Michael-SW » Fri Jun 30, 2006 12:13 am

Every issue of Computer Music magazine comes with a DVD full of samples. They are usually themed though, so if they are doing an industrial noise issue it won't help you make house.

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Post by hambone1 » Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:36 am

From Futureproof:

MUSIC SAMPLES (beats etc.)

http://www.sampleswap.org/filebrowser-n ... b4a66258c1 da2bb520dfa4
SampleSwap – both music and FX samples

http://www.killerbeats.com/sounds.asp?intMainId=3
KillerBeats

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusicdat ... ndex.shtml
BBC collection –quite good ! Watch the categories date …

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~spufus/
Loopasonic – well organised site. Login (free) required.

http://www.tplm.com/samples/boucles/groove/home.htm
Tout Pour La Musique ! - Beats labelled with BPM but not style.

http://www.djsamples.com/djsamples/free ... &CFTOKEN=3 6022132&samplepack=
Djsamples.com – big collection, SEARCHABLE.

http://www.dorumalaia.com/
Doru Malaia World – free sounds and useful links lists

http://www.superloops.com/listen.htm
Superloops : check those crazy categories

http://meanbeat.cjb.net/
Mean Beat – click “Samples”

http://www.breakbeatsonly.com/preview1.htm
Breakbeats only.com – prof site with some freebies.

http://www.zero1media.com/samples.htm
ZeroMedia – Short hits & some loops

http://www.naturalstudio.co.uk/
NS Kit - acoustic drum kit and other instruments, high quality and mega MB

http://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/MIS.html
Uni Of Iowa- ‘Classical’ instruments

http://www.sonichound.com/
SonicHound - drums and synths samples

http://www.electronisounds.com/Wav_CDs.html
Electronisounds – prof. Sample CD site with demo packs.

http://www.hollowsun.com/vintage/index.html
Hollow Sun – vintage keyboard and synth sounds

http://www.modarchive.com/waveworld/
The Mod Archive – synthesiser focus.

http://www.loopmasters.com/WAV-Downloads.asp
Loopmasters

http://www.dorumalaia.com/links.htm
Doru Malaia World - samples, soundfonts and more

http://www.manytone.com/downloads.html
Manytone Music - some drums and percussion

http://www.proloops.com/freeloops.asp
Proloops - professional site with some free loops

http://www.analoguesamples.com/
Analoguesamples.com

http://www.meinlcymbals.com/cymbal_seri ... eries.html
Cymbal samples

http://www.angelalanis.com/freedownload ... e/wavaiffs ounds.php
Classic drum machine samples

http://www.akaipro.com/int/mpc1k/arc_kotw.html
Classic beatboxes (AKAI)

http://cosmod.em411.com/show/blog/2942
Cellos

http://www.glooped.com/
Guitar samples

http://www.herman-witkam.com/raw/
R.A.W. - unusual instruments

http://www.dancemusicshop.com/software/ ... mples.html
DMS free sound samples

http://www.studiothirteen.com/Sample_Page.htm
Studio 13 – ecelectic collection

http://patternbased.com/samples_drums.html
Pattern Based drums

http://www.loopmasters.com/WAV-Downloads.asp
Loopmasters

http://www.djsamples.com/djsamples/freesamples/
DJSamples.com


MUSIC SAMPLES - LINK/SEARCH SITES

http://www.audiofill.com
AudioFill - search for soundfonts, WAVs etc.

http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Mu ... es_and_Loo ps/
Google Directory link page – BIG !

http://dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Sound_Files/ ... and_Loops/
Dmoz - really really big list

http://forum.midiaddict.com/viewtopic.php?t=31429
Biggerer and biggerer list on a Computer Music forum

http://www.loops.net/
Loops.net - good link site, also for software

http://www.midiworld.com/sounds.htm
MIDIWORLD Links list

http://ln.hitfm.ua/~nekrasov/tps_module ... _links.htm
More!

SOUND FX SEARCH SITES

http://www.findsounds.com/
FindSounds.com – good search engine. Try 16 bit 44100 kHz if possible/

http://www.musicrobot.com/cgi-bin/windex.pl
Music Robot : “Let music robot find your sounds” POPUPS

http://WavCentral.com/search.htm
WAV Central : ‘FX’ section and ‘search’ section are useful.

http://www.audiofill.com
AudioFill

SOUND FX LINK SITES

http://www.stonewashed.net/sfx.html
Stonewashed : Link site for various SFX sites. POPUPS

http://www.soundhunter.com
Sound Hunter : Click “Sound Effects Links” for the link page.

http://thefreesite.com/Free_Sounds/Free_WAVs/index.html
The FreeSite : Links to free WAV sites

http://www.echovibes.com/Autorank/autorank.html
“Echovibes Top 50 Sound Sites” Let the popups begin

SOUND FX SITES

http://www.grsites.com/sounds/
Absolute Sound Effects archive

http://www.hollywoodedge.com/the_acb/we ... Page_ID=16
Hollywood Edge : Some free effects - good quality MP3s

http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.html
Partners In Rhyme : Has sound effects section.

http://www.soundamerica.com/
Sound America : ‘Sound effects’ section is low quality, but where else are you going to find a vomiting cat ? MAJOR POPUP WARNING

http://www.acoustica.com/sounds.htm
Acoustica - smaller collection

http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com/noflash.htm
A1 free sound effects

SPECIALIST SOUND SOURCE SITES

http://nauticom.net/www/mudhut/game.html
Some gaming FX
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/index.html
Classic speeches from the History Channel
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/38 ... ounds.html
English tube underground voices – “Mind the gap”
http://www.dailywav.com/
Daily WAV - TV dialogue etc
http://www.thebotsonline.com/GWBushSampleArchive.htm
George Bush samples
http://www.archive.org/
Archive.org – open-source movies, speeches etc.
http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php
Prelinger Archives – educational films etc
http://www.open-video.org/
The Open Video Project
http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/space-audio/
Sounds of space

JONAS THE PLUGEXPERT's list
from a November 2003 kVr post, I haven't checked these

http://www.futurewaveshaper.com/
http://go.to/samples4u.net
http://www.sonomic.com/
http://www.stormtronic.co.uk/loopfish/ *
http://www.samples.de/
http://www.looperman.com/
http://www.samplecity.net/
http://www.analoguesamples.com/
http://loops.net/
http://www.djsamples.com/
http://www.oneshotsamples.com/
http://www.samplenet.co.uk/
http://www.sectionz.net
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Sound_Files/ ... and_Loops/
Loops for Acid -
hxxp://wxw.sonicfoundry.com/loop_libraries/default.asp?cid=-1
Anologue Samples - http://www.analoguesamples.com/
Findsounds - http://www.findsounds.com/ISAPI/search.dll
Synthzone - http://www.synthzone.com/
Wavcentral - http://www.wavcentral.com./
Wavsamples - http://www.wavesamples.cjb.net/
Samples to download -http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/index.shtml
Analog Bank - http://users.chariot.net.au/~lucas/bankflash.html
Analoguesamples - http://www.analoguesamples.com/
Apocalypse Sound - http://www.apocalypse-sound.com/
Audiowerkstatt - http://members.liwest.at/web/audiowerk/apw.htm
Bass and Trouble -
http://bassandtrouble.com/sounds/wavs3000/wavs3000.htm
Bass Culture - http://www.bassculture.org/
Cybergroove - http://www.cybergroove.de/e_index.htm
Breakbeats.co.uk - http://www.break-beats.co.uk/
Deltaz Samplez - http://www.deltaz-palaze.de/
Digital Improvization - http://www.digimpro.com/samples.html
DJ Acid Underground -
http://members.tripod.com/adm/interstitial/remote.html
Dogbeats - http://www.dogbeats.co.uk/
Dooley Drums - http://www.dooleydrums.com/
Looza - http://www.hgb-leipzig.de/~ajoscht/...oops/loops.html
Drum Loop Central -
http://www.geocities.com/~junebugtd7/drum_loop_central/
Phat Drum Loops - http://www.phatdrumloops.com/old_site/
Echo Vibes - http://www.echovibes.com/
E-Drummer - http://www.e-drummer.net/
E-Lab - http://www.e-lab.se/
Electronisounds - http://www.electronisounds.com/
Factory 42 - http://www.cpaterson.clara.net/
Findsounds - http://www.findsounds.com/
Soundwaves - http://tilt.largo.fl.us/samples/free.html
Funk Station - http://x-stream.fortunecity.com/kingsrd/58/
Future Wave Shaper - http://www.futurewaveshaper.com/
Ground Loops - http://www.groundloops.com/archive.htm
Hello Synthesizers - http://hello.to/synthesizers
Ignite - http://www.geocities.com/ignite_music/
Kalava Drum Archive - http://hem.passagen.se/lej97/kalava/
Loopasonic - http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~spufus/
Mean Beat - http://meanbeat.cjb.net
Moonman's Synth Place - http://synthplace.freeservers.com/
Musical Drugstore -
http://www.skip.informatik.gu.se/~a...store/menu.html
Music Machines at Hyperreal -
http://machines.hyperreal.org/samples.html
Musiksamples.de - http://www.musiksamples.de/
Nexus - http://digilander.iol.it/Geecko1/Index.html
Orchestra Samples -
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/p...eng/sampls.html
Pinknoise - http://www.soundbank.hu/
Raw 42 - http://www.raw42.com/samples/
Rob Papen Sound Design - http://www.robpapen.com
SampleNet - http://www.samplenet.co.uk/
Dysmusax' Samples - http://www.dysmusax.cz/eng/
Skevens Music - http://titan.spaceports.com/~upbeat/
Sound Central - http://www.soundcentral.com/
Soundsproz - http://www.soundproz.com/
Speakerboy - http://www.thespeakerboy.com/
The Sample Shack - http://www.wyze.com/sampleshack/sampleshack.html
Tribe - http://mp3-tribe.com/
US r*ves - http://us-r*ves.com/
Waveform.dk - http://www.waveform.dk/
WaveSamples - http://www.wavesamples.cjb.net/
Wave World - http://www.modarchive.com/waveworld/
Joor - http://www.joor.com/
Drummachine.com - http://www.drummachine.com/newpages/sounds.html
Bizarre Ambient FX - http://sonikmatter.com/sounds/
Korg Wavestation Sounds -
http://sonikmatter.com/sounds/wavs/cowzar_Jan01/
Hakachukai's Samples -
http://www.members.tripod.com/hakachukai/samples.html
Innards - http://perso.respublica.fr/innards/...es/samples.html
Jaspertronic Synthesizer Sounds -
http://www.trayfulloflabmice.com/synthsound.html
Mellotron Samples -
http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/aphex/113/index.html
Maldoror - http://vulcan.spaceports.com/~maldoror/
Oberheim Matrix-12 Samples - http://matrix-12.tripod.com/home.htm
Oneshot Samples - http://www.oneshotsamples.com/
Reelsounds.com - http://www.reelsounds.com/sounds.htm
Samples4U - http://go.to/samples4u.net
Zoolab - http://www.zoolabmusic.com/
Xelenio - http://www.xelenio.com/
http://www.littlemusicclub.com - Nice "real" soundeffects
http://biobonsai.com//exs24/exs242.html
Mr Nigel's vocal samples:
http://www.cruelcutz.com/samples/mr_nigel/download.html
http://www.dorumalaia.com/
http://www.samplerealm.tk/

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Post by littlepig » Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:04 am

hambone1 - awesome list!

Here's another site for effects and stuff:

http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/

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Post by DeadlyKungFu » Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:11 am

Cheers Hambone1 ! That list is Sticky worthy. :D

This thread had lots of good free plug-in sites

hambone1
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Post by hambone1 » Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:19 am

Don't thank me. Thank Futureproof. I just nicked it from him!

DeadlyKungFu
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Post by DeadlyKungFu » Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:25 am

hambone1 wrote:Don't thank me. Thank Futureproof. I just nicked it from him!
Thanks to Futureproof and his knickers.

exz0rb
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Post by exz0rb » Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:31 am

nice list!

you know I was after a various sample for months, and I couldn't quite make out what kind of sample it was. It was a reversed percussion sound whatever it was.

Then some dude told me what it was (reversed kick sample) so I reversed a good kick in live and sure enough.... :D

this is great for an attack into different scenes.

paulm72
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Post by paulm72 » Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:34 pm

BLIMEY been away for a few hours and bam !

Absolutely brilliant response - thanks for the massive list of referrals.

exz0rb
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Post by exz0rb » Fri Jun 30, 2006 10:52 pm

:D

You could always make or modify samples aswell, live's effects can make some pretty sketchy results. I recall watching some crazyyyy video with some dude who placed a microphone on the floor and stamped his foot right next to it, recorded that sound and turned it into a kick using processing effects haha

also, vengenace make some fine extensive samples, but unfortunetly these are not free. If you fork out abit of spare cash for some sample cd's, you shouldn't run into a problem. Plenty of high pro samples around. Zero-g make some great samples also, but I guess ideally you are after free samples

:)

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Post by -Spooky- » Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:25 pm

Nice Collection :)

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