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Free Good Orchestral Sample Packs.
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 6:40 pm
by Assassin
http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/thesounde ... s/library/
I was originally searching for some samples.
If anyone has any Orchestral String or Choir samples I'm interested. But I am pretty happy with this find so I thought I'd share it.
Re: Free Good Orchestral Sample Packs.
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 6:46 pm
by gnome
Is there a giant zip file for all the samples anywhere?
Re: Free Good Orchestral Sample Packs.
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 6:51 pm
by alphacat
You, sir - you win the prize today. Nice one!
If the interface confuses you, just go to
http://slib.soundex.co.uk.
Re: Free Good Orchestral Sample Packs.
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 6:52 pm
by Assassin
gnome wrote:Is there a giant zip file for all the samples anywhere?
If you go on the instrument, it will give you an option above the list to download the zip file.
Re: Free Good Orchestral Sample Packs.
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 7:03 pm
by Assassin
Also for your sampling pleasure, this site is pretty handy.
http://freemusicsoftware.org/category/free-samples
Re: Free Good Orchestral Sample Packs.
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 7:22 pm
by alphacat
I foresee a wave of DSF producers abandoning dubstep and suddenly spewing out massive amounts of neo-classical tracks...
Re: Free Good Orchestral Sample Packs.
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 7:27 pm
by EDN
Waaaayy ahead of you son...
I haven't listened to the samples yet, but blatently good find!
However mp3 files... oooerrr
Just all buy East/West symphonic orchestra!
Re: Free Good Orchestral Sample Packs.
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 7:39 pm
by alphacat
EDN wrote:Waaaayy ahead of you son...
I haven't listened to the samples yet, but blatently good find!
However mp3 files... oooerrr
Just all buy East/West symphonic orchestra!
Yeah, and 64 kbps at that. For some things that doesn't matter as much (certain percussion sounds w/o a lot of overtones) - and there's always re-amping, bitcrushing, etc etc. But hey, whaddya wan' fi nuttin'? Wonder if the Kontakt formatted files are higher resolution...
I've got a buddy who bought the East/West stuff to do little accents on his Black Metal project and wound up doing stuff that all sounds like film scores. Heh.
Re: Free Good Orchestral Sample Packs.
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:18 pm
by EDN
Yeah, I got it to make my dubstep cool and epic...now just film music pretty much...
http://soundcloud.com/edn/sets/orchestr ... ore-songs/
Re: Free Good Orchestral Sample Packs.
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:36 pm
by amphibian
Kontakt 4 Orchestral and Worldly instruments - no need for any other samples like this ever again. They are freakin' amazing - and the way you morph the sounds so they sound epicly natural, is fucking fantastic.
Not to mention the choir samples... holy moly.
Re: Free Good Orchestral Sample Packs.
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:16 pm
by EDN
Have to check them out.
I think I have used up my sample library quota for the century though, having got East/West Symphonic Orchestra gold, RA and colossus all last year o_O.
In fairness most modern sample libraries sound good if you are willing to fork out the dollah.
They wouldn't make any money if they sounded shit.