Good sample libraries?

[alex1fly]

Can I get some recommendations? The basic sounds of Live are, well, a bit flat and digital sounding. I know there are loads of ways to improve these sounds and program your own, but I mainly use Live as a composing tool... I don't want to program my own sounds. I would like to just have some flat-out great sounds all ready for my use.

Totally willing to buy sounds, though free is good too. I have a number of keyboards and midi controllers, and I'd prefer to write my own songs with the sounds over mixing them DJ-style.

Mainly what I am concerned with are drum sounds and bass sounds. I want to make huge, fat sounding beat-drive music ala Bassnectar, Glitch Mob, Rusko, Gorillaz... dubstep, hip hop, reggae/dub, big bass stuff. Wonky bass lines as well as just straight fat funky stuff. But without programming my own fat bass sounds!

Can this be done, or am I destined to have to create my own?

Much appreciated,

Alex

[kev herb]

vengeance.de are very much preferred by the pros as they are eqed and processed so they re ready to go. they also do synth preset packs for some synths.

[Akshara]

Highly recommend Soniccouture for quality sample libraries in native Live format. They are affordable, with great design and flexibility.

For drums, consider Abstrakt Breaks 1 & 2, Konkrete 1 & 2 and Tremors. For bass, if you have Kontakt or are willing to buy the full version, Abstrakt Bass. Right now is their holiday sale, buy one get one free, and each week they will be putting a selection of classic libraries at 50% off. If Tremors goes on sale, grab it.

Native Instruments' Kore SoundPacks are a great value too.

[IP]

chack http://www.wavealchemy.co.uk/
these guys r making quality material ...

each of the products has a small pack free for download... (like a more fair demo)

[Klauser]

Yea vengeance.de have a great range of sublime sounding samples. They're all so crisp and well eq'd. Love them

[cmreal04]

Equipped samples, yep.

[alex1fly]

Awesome. Thanks all. There are just so many samples and VSTs out there that I wanted to get some experience-based opinions. Will definitely be looking into these.

[Seadweller]

I would recomment Sounds2Sample ... They have a variety of samples and very specific sample packs as "deep tech stabs"

[v00d00ppl]

I would recommend kontakt 4 for bread and butter sounds and copping a few breaks compilations.

The breaks compilations I own are :
all the breaks: 300 of the most sampled breaks
super duck breaks vol. 1 and 2 (great battle style hits)
Detroit drums ( do you like slum village music? EQd by Waajeed from the slum village family)
boom kacka boom (a drum break collection of sample replays)

I'm about to get the Paul Nice Drum library volume 1-6. Since a lot of his drums sound like the golden era of mobb deep, it is a must have for me.

In terms of tweaking after that I do light EQing and maybe compression and corpus to get it a dark sound like you'd hear on the first gorillaz record

[leedsquietman]

loopmasters, big fish audio, g-force, etc are also big hitters in the loops/samples market.

[glitchrock-buddha]

For Bass:
Trilian (all sample based)
Massive (not samples but better)

[Rationalizer]

+1 for sounds/to/sample. Great quality libraries for decent price.

[dazzer]

Not sure if OP is still following this thread, but if so, 2 quick tips for EXACTY the sounds you're after:

NI KorePack "Massive Threat" (Massive soundset, totally awesome, just needs free KorePlayer to play))

and

BHK samples (check out the label on producerloops.com, cheapest place I've found) for beats, hits and stuff.


You're welcome.

[Bagatell]

Tune. Done.
I do feel a bit dirty though. Should I?

Well whos tune is it?

[wehkah]

a LOT of very inspiring stuff: http://www.freesound.org

have phun
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