Resources for composers - Large list of free sound libraries

[Maurice]

Hi! Looking for free sounds can be very time-consuming. To safe your time, here you have a list of decent free instruments and sounds sets. I hope it will help. If this post breaks any rules in this forum I don't mind if you delete it. : )

Guitar sounds

Pettinhouse Guitars - Pettinhouse, the place to find your guitar samples: Acoustic guitar, warm jazz guitar, classical guitar …
Power Guitar - Wavesfactory’s Power Guitar
Trash Guitar - Power chords, palm muted power chords, single strings palm muted …
Flamestudios - Great collection of guitars and bass guitars: FS Fender Telecaster, FS Seagull Steelstring, Gibson Les Paul (SFZ)

Bass Guitar Samples

Pettinhouse Bass - And more of Pettinhouse: Direct Bass
Flamestudios - Great collection of guitars and bass guitars: FS Washburn Acoustic Bass Guitar and FS Ibanez Electric Bass Guitar (SFZ)

Tuba- Pretty awesome sounding tuba samples. A present from the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Philharmonia Orchestra Sample Library - The Philharmonia Orchestra offers a wide ranged sample library for free! Almost an entire orchestra!!! Only restriction: They give them away as loose samples. You have to create the instrument for Kontakt or other samplers yourself.
Cello for Kontakt - Pocketblakus solo cello for Kontakt
Sonita Symphony - Complete SoundFont orchestra 440MB of size Highly recommended
Linux Sampler Project - piano, violin, cello and at the very end the open orchestra
BedroomProducer - Collection of free Kontakt instruments: Cinema Strings, Warm Pentode Brass and other non orchestral instruments
Intimate Strings Lite - Nice sounding string instrument with several expressions

Keys and Piano Samples

Soni Musicae - Soni Musicae specialized on harpsichords, organ and piano samples. Check out their freebies.
Armore Grand Piano - Great sounding piano for ballads and more
Precisionsound - Precisionsound is awesome! It offers organs, toy pianos and more toy pianos
Rock-Si-Chord - From Soniccouture
Magnus Chord Organ - A 1970′s reed organ
Tape Loop Organ - Sounds interesting. Check out the description for more information
KVR Audio - Piano One, amazing the VST piano
Retrosampling - Some electric pianos and other piano instruments free to download on retrosampling.se
Supertone Babypiano - VST for Windows with samples of a baby piano (toy piano)
UVI - Analogic Piano 09 (electric piano)
Hugo Kant - Another Toy Piano

Free Drum and Percussion Sounds

Mildon Studio Marching Army - For Windows XP, Vista and 7. Also check out their free Bongos
Waves Alchemy Drum Tools Teaser - Drum sample packs for electronic productions
Free Sidsonic Libraries - X-mas special. 1 GB full of surprises.
Pettinhouse Drums - And even more from Pettinhouse: Several Vynil Electronic Drumkits
Obscure analogue drumbox - 26 WAV loops
Meditation Bells - One last time Precisionsound gift
Wavealchemy - Wavealchemy gives away several different sample banks like: Club Kicks, FX’s, 606 Drums, 808 Tape, Wired Electronics
Tongue Drum - Asian idiophone that sounds like TH’s Whale Drum.
Drum Sample Library - If someone is patient enough to download all these samples. You are welcome
Acoustic Drumkit - NSA Custom Series Drumkit by Dean aka “Nekro”
Perculiar Percussion - Wooden Door, Wooden Railing, Metal Lid, Trowel … like their samples like their name: Sample Oddity
MASSIVE Drumcomputer Library - 282 Drum Sets / 24.331 WAV Samples / 2.87 GB
Worlds Percussion - Check out this site! Plenty of free stuff (not only drums)
Jackie FX Bank - 81 free fx sounds
Big Mono - Free acoustic drumkit
Bits and Beats- Kero’s Bits and Beats
Total Composure - African Slit Drum
XLN Audio - Addictive Drums demo version
3amnoise - 6 Drum Kits and FX hits
Audiowarrier- Djembe for Kontakt

Synths and FX Samples

Hollow Sun Kontakt Samples - Check out those free sample libraries. Hollow Sun is giving away 11 different treasures from PolyMoog Strings to the Novachord
Electronic Loops/Samples/FX’s - Hip-hop, Dubstep, RnB; Soundsondemand.com
Modularsamples - Pretty interesting page with allot of free stuff
Protone Elements - Dirty 808, Analog LoFi Bass, Virus Hypersaw, Synthetic Guitars, …
Nord Modular Samples - Free Nord Sounds; A collection of great Clavia Nord Modular G2 multisamples from Wavescape Studio
Free Arp Odyssey For Kontakt - Vintage analog synthesizer from 1972
Retrosampling - Oscillator pak – sampler synth elements v1.0 (VST instrument that uses waveforms for experimental synth sounds)
BedroomProducer - Vintage synthesizer and samplers
Fairlight CMI IIx - Fairlight CMI IIx for Kontakt. Fairlight is the mother of all samplers
Noizefield- GameBoy and Nintendo samples
Durk Kooistra - Extreme Bass FX Samples

Other Instruments

Ocarina - Nice sounding Ocarina with articulation keyswitches. Comes with versions for Halion, Kontakt, Esx24 and Soundfond8
Bolder Sounds - Unbelievable! They give away 23 Instruments for free: Bavarian Zither, Buffalo Accordion, Electric Sitar, Harmonica, Mini Sax, Thumb Piano and many others. Check it out!
Sonivox - Free soundfont samples from flutes to synths a colorful collection
Tonehammer Bees - Tonehammer is no more but these bees seem to be still online (direct download)
Votox - 4 selected demo instruments
Music Maker - I love toy instruments
Kong Audio - Get the china feel!
Cinematica - Check out these massive sample library containing several instruments like Xylophone, Metallophone, Electric Guitar, Piano, Organ, Bass, Steel Drum
Digitalsoundfactory - Don’t know exactly what you can get here but it sounds promising
Tekit-Audio - Soprano recorder! Everyone needs a recorder in his instrument library!
Solo Guitaret - Nine Volt Audios Guitaret. Strange instrument but pretty interesting as well
Embertone - Four free instruments: Atmoraffe, Kitchen Sounds, Jug Drum, Intimate Strings
Brendanjhogan - Some Kontakt instruments with strange names: FlyinaBottle, CardboardTube, WarpedKalimba
Rekkerd - 9 World Instruments for Kontakt

Sample Players and Instrument Collections

Kontakt 5 Player + 50 Instruments - Native Instruments gives away the Kontakt 5 Player for free + 50 of their instruments
Cakewalk SFZ Player - Simple and free high quality sfz player with additional effects (Windows)
Paax - Paax is a powerful VST sampler. It is free but has many features and effects you also find with professional samplers
Prodyon - Prodyon Soundfont Player
SampleTank - Virtual instrument and sound workstation with several sample libraries
Alchemy Player + Instruments - 1GB sample library with 200 sounds
Beat Zampler - Sfz Sample Player
Free Sound Samples - Huuuuge sample library! 8 GB and over 8000 samples of all kind!
SFZero - Simple Soundfont Player for mac


I found that list on some blog and copied it to notepad. Now I can't find the source so i put everything there. (: