Free samples from Voltage-Controlled

Hope everyone out there had a good Christmas and got all the music gear that you've been hoping for. I've put together an extra present for you, I've gone through my hard drive and collected all the samples that Haven't yet made it onto the site. There's lots of synth sounds in this one.

I've added tempo and key information to some of the files (where appropriate) so you should be able to easily fit them into your projects.

As always the samples are available free of charge but a quick donation to the site (see PayPal donate box in the right sidebar) wouldn't hurt. All sounds are royalty free so you don't have to worry about copyright.

Download the samples here (.RAR) - Rapidshare

Merry Christmas, 

Dan.

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Ableton Live Riser Device - Free Max For Live Download - Point Blank

Here's one for you Ableton live users with Max for Live. It's a free Riser effect from Point Blank, perfect for break-downs and build-ups in your tracks.



You can grab the device from Point Blank Facebook page here.

"Point Blank instructor and course developer Daniel Herbert has created this Max For Live custom device for creating rises and sweeps in Ableton Live. Perfect for breakdowns and buildups! Watch the video to see how it works, what makes it unique and and how to set it up.

We are giving it away absolutely free via the link above.

Check out Point Blank's range of Ableton Live Online courses here:http://www.pointblankonline.net/courses/ableton-live-courses.php

Watch more free tutorials on our sample course page:http://www.pointblankonline.net/sample-a-course/

Please subscribe to our channel to make sure you don't miss future exclusive tutorials from Point Blank Online school."

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Free samples: Animoog Soundscapes and FX

The Moog Animoog for iPad has got to be my favourite iPad synthesiser of all time. I especially love it for some of the weird and "out-there" sounds that it can produce. That's where the inspiration for this sound set set comes in, there's 95 sounds in this pack ready to be loaded into your sampler or DAW. The sounds are completely royalty free so you can use them in any project you like, free of charge.

Download the samples HERE (.zip)

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Free Polysix RE presets (pt.2)

The Korg Polysix RE is pretty much my new go-to synth in Reason. I've been playing around with it for sometime now and I've put together a small preset pack to share with you guys. I've used these patches in a few tunes already so I hope you lot can find a bit of use out of them.

The pack contains 36 polysix Rack Extension presets and 3 combinator patches.

Get the free Polysix preset pack HERE (.RAR)

NOTE: You will need ether Propellerheads Reason (6.5) or Reason Essentials (1.5) and the RE version of Polysix to use these. These will NOT work with the VST version of Polysix.

This isn't the first set of presets that I've uploaded to Voltage-controlled. I uploaded a set of 7 combinator files a few months back when the Polysix RE was first released. Here's a link.

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Free samples from Fine Cut Bodies

Thanks to Kevin from Fine Cut Bodies for getting in touch and sharing the free samples that he's uploaded to his soundcloud page. Click on the download option on the player below to get the samples for yourself.





"When I write new tunes, the first 1-2 days I always experiment with different sound design techniques, new plugs, etc...
And now started to clean all my temp folders for interesting sounds...

For these I used some of my field recordings and some acoustic instruments as upright bass... then processed them
with some granular stuff like Twisted Tools 's Reaktor paches, some of my own MaxMSP patches, and spectral processing
like Iris from iZotope.

I like the digitally processed sound of noisy organic samples :)"

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Grab the free Audio Damage plugins before they're taken down from the site

FuzzPlus 2 and Pulse Modulator are currently available from the free downloads section of the Audio Damage website. But not for long, they'll be taken down soon so be quick and grab the plugins before it's too late! This might be your last chance to get these awesome freebies.

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Free 1GB+ sample pack from Loopmasters

To celebrate LoopMasters releasing their 100th artist series sample pack they have teamed up with Computer Music magazine to offer their Facebook fans a free 1GB+ sample library featuring samples found in every artist series pack from LoopMasters.

You can download the free sample pack from the Computer Music Facebook page here.

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Free Kong drum kit samples

For this free sample pack I've been messing around with the analog modules from Reason's Kong drum machine. As I said in my last post, I use Kong for all of my drums when producing music.

This free sample pack contains:

• 4 one shot kicks samples
• 4 one shot snares samples
• 4 one shot hi-hats samples
• 4 one shot percussion samples
• 6 bonus loops

All the samples were made using the Kong drum machine and further processed with various VSTs in Ableton live.

Get the samples here (.rar)

All the samples that are available here on Voltage-Controlled are available completely free of charge. They are also royalty free, which means that you can use them in any creative protect (commercial or non-commercial) without having to clear them.

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Creating a beat with Korg iElectribe + free iElectribe samples

The Korg iElectribe is a beast of a drum machine. It was the first app that I brought for my iPad but for some reason I've never really got around to uploading anything about it on Voltage-Controlled.

Anyway, here's a short video of me constructing a simple drum beat using the iElectribe, I love the sound of this app.

I've also uploaded some iElectribe samples for you lot. It's only a small pack, it contains 8 one shot drum hits from the custom drum kit I used in the video.

You can get your hands on the samples here (.zip)

Hopefully I'll get around to posting a bit more about the iElectribe on Voltage-Controlled soon.

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Broken sample links are now working again.

I mentioned in the last post that some of the sample packs on Voltage-Controlled were hosted on the file sharing site MegaUpload. As MegaUpload was recently shut down the samples were made unavailable for you guys to download.

I've just finished re-uploading the lost sample packs to minus.com and they are once again available for you to download free of charge. The sample packs that I've had to re-upload are:

• Voltage controlled sample collection vol.1
• Free FoundSound percussion loops and one shots
• Punished 909 kit (MC-303)

Luckily I haven't been using MegaUpload for long so only three of the packs were lost but it's still a bit of a hassle have to re-upload them.

Just to make it clear, all of the samples available from Voltage-Controlled are copyright free. I created them so that musicians, sound designers, film makers, etc. can use them in their productions and creations for free of charge.

If you have any other questions or problems then please get in touch with me at DanWeatherall@Voltage-Controlled.com

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Punished 909 kit (MC-303) - Free samples

OK, so they're not actual 909 samples. The samples here are taken from the 909 kit on my MC-303 groovebox (Which are recorded from an original 909).

The MC303 has a really nice gritty sound to it (especially when you turn up the low boost), to add to that gritty flavour I ran the sounds through some plugins (Drive, EQ and Compressor).

There are 17 one-shot samples in this kit in .wav format. As always the Voltage-Controlled samples are completely royalty free so you can use them in any project you want without having to clear them.

>>>Download the samples now (.zip)<<<

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Voltage controlled sample collection vol.1

If you didn't know, Voltage-Controlled offers a selection of royalty free samples and loops. Every now and then I'll upload a new sample pack to the site, the samples are completely free to download and you can use them in your own productions or music without having to worry about copyright or anything like that.

A few weeks ago my external hard drive decided that it was going to die on me, this resulted in me losing backups of older sample packs and music. So to make sure that this wouldn't happen again I've gone through the site and re-downloaded the samples.

While I was re-building my backup folder I thought it would be a cool idea to upload the whole thing to the site and give you lot the option to download all of the Voltage Controlled samples at once. So that's exactly what I did, I compressed the samples down into two .RAR files and uploaded them.

You can download the Voltage-Controlled sample collection Vol.1 (Part1) here (.RAR)

You can download the Voltage-Controlled sample collection Vol.1 (Part2) here (.RAR)

There's more than 1GB of samples in this collection including, drum loops, one shots, synth hits, synth waveforms, found sound and much more.

As always the samples in this folder are completely free to download and they're also royalty free.

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Free soft synth waveforms/ put NI Massive in your Reason rack

I love making music using Propellerheads Reason but the lack of VST support can sometimes get annoying. There are tonnes of top quality soft synths out there that sound amazing but if you're only using reason then your missing out on some awesome sounds. I often find myself making a few loops in Ableton (intro) and then dropping then into an NNXT sampler in Reason so I can build a track around them.

This technique works well if you already know what sort of track you're going to be making. But if you're like me then you'll find that the best work you've done often comes from pure experimentation. In this case you want full control over your sounds so that you're track can evolve and grow over time.

It would be great to drop an instance of NI Massive into your Reason rack but as of yet VST support is not available in Reason.

Another popular option is to import raw waveforms into reason and build your own instrument from that. Fair enough you're not going to be able to replicate your favourite soft synth exactly but it will open up doors to completely new sounds and ideas.

Below I have uploaded a set of waveforms from 3 of my favourite soft synths; Massive, Firebird and Razor. There are ten waveforms from each synth so that's 30 samples in all. All the samples are pretty long so they should stretch out in your sampler giving you quite a decent range of playability.

Load them into your sampler and mess around with them add some effects and maybe a filter. You never know, you might come up with some pretty decent patches.

Download the samples here (.rar)

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iPad synth hits, free samples.

This sample pack contains synth hits taken from two of my favourite iPad synthesizers; the Animoog and Sunrizer.

The pack is completely free and you can use the samples in any way that you want.

Download the samples HERE

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Happy 100th

I started writing this blog back in august 2009, the main point of it was to promote my own music and write a little about what I was interested in (synthesizers and stuff). It wasn't something that I updated all the time and I have to admit that I forgot about it a few times.

About a month after I started the blog I recorded and uploaded a set of samples. The samples were really just some drum loops and bass lines that I recorded for a track I was working on (it never actually got finished). I thought it would be cool to upload them to the blog and allow people to download them to use them in their own productions. After a while I noticed that that one post with the samples had quite a lot of traffic, so I did a little snooping around the Internet and I found that I was being linked to from various websites and forums.

Soon, uploading samples here became a regular thing for me and the blog got more and more hits. Along side the samples, I also put up a few reviews and writings of my own and kept the blog running at a steady rate; posting updates, samples and reviews every time I got my hands on a new piece of music gear or software.

That seemed like ages ago but I still can't believe this will be the 100th post from me. Fair enough 100 doesn't really seem like a whole lot but when I think about all the time that I've put into writing the reviews and recording the samples I still find it hard to believe.

As I posted before, I'm in the middle of a re-imagining of this blog. The name will be changed eventually to something that relates more to the content of the blog (not just my name and a few numbers). There will also be some changes to the blog itself, I want to make it easier for new visitors to find their way around the blog and access older content without hassle.

To celebrate this milestone I've put together a new sample pack. The pack will contain synth hits taken from two of my favourite iPad synthesizers, the Animoog and Sunrizer.

You can find the new sample pack in this post.

-here's to the next 100, Dan.

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Analog acid/minimal bass stabs (multisample)

These multi samples were taken from my FreeBass FB383 bassline synth. It’s a rackmount analog bass synthesizer (clone of the Roland TB303).

The samples were recorded directly into Ableton live, I then added some EQ and compression to give the samples a bit more bite.

As always the samples are completely royalty free and available to download at no charge.

There are 13 individual bass hits in .wav format (notes C1-C2) ideal for loading up in any software or hardware sampler.

Download here (.RAR)

Hope you find them useful.

-Dan.

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50+ Free FoundSound samples

This sample pack contains 56 individual samples. The samples were made by recording various things from around my desk. The samples are completely royalty free, so you can use then in whatever production you want.

Download the samples here (.RAR)

Remember, the samples are completely free but if you wish to help out then any donation to the site will be most helpful (PayPal donations accepted in the side panel).

Happy music making.

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New Sample Pack 'Toys'

When you’ve downloaded the pack the samples will be in a .RAR file. Just unzip and load them into your favourite DAW or sampler and get making music.

The sounds in this sample pack are made to replicate the sound of old broken children’s toys.

Download the Samples HERE

This sample pack contains:

-5 Arpeggios

-10 Percussion Loops

-6 Noise/FX loops

-12 LoFi words

All the samples in this pack are completely royalty free so you’re free to use them in whatever project you want.

All samples are in high quality .WAV files.

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Free samples! Bassline + Lead + Noise

Free samples to use in your music productions.

This sample Pack contains:
-5 Bass loops
-5 lead loop to accompany the bass loops
-4 Random noise loops

Download the samples here (.RAR)

The samples are royalty free and recorded at 24bit, 44,100Hz

If you wish to donate a bit of cash and help out the little guy then you can go here and get the latest SKatterBrain EP (name your price) on Bandcamp.

Happy music making. =]

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Free hand played percussion loops

This pack contains 10 hand played percussion loops in .Wav format.
I'm not saying I'm the best percussionist in the world but I played these percussion loops myself.
These loops are an ideal way to give your track a little bit of human feeling.

All loops are played at 120 bpm.

Download the loops here (.RAR)

Happy music making and be sure to check back for future updates and more free samples. =]

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