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Crow Hill Company creates VAULTS – ACID SYNTH as an homage to the revered Roland TB-303

Freeware and Samples TechMarch 19, 2025March 19, 2025

The Crow Hill Company has announced the availability of VAULTS – ACID SYNTHas the latest entry into its lengthening line of free and accessible virtual instruments arising from company co-founder and composer Christian Henson effectively opening…

Plastikman’s iconic track “EXhale” now available for exclusive interactive remixing

Freeware and Samples TechNovember 20, 2024November 21, 2024

The iconic Plastikman track “EXhale” from creative visionary Richie Hawtin is now available within the groundbreaking new entertainment platform KOR Protocol. As part of the inaugural interactive release, the drop of “EXhale” – originally conceived as part…

Function Loops releases free Psytrance Bass VST Instrument

Freeware and SamplesJanuary 4, 2024January 4, 2024

Function Loops has announced the release of Psytrance Bass, a free virtual instrument plugin featuring 40 professionally designed bass multi-sampled presets. Psytrance Bass is perfect for adding rhythmicity, depth, and richness…

Baby Audio release a new free Plugin – Beat Slammer

Freeware and SamplesDecember 21, 2023December 21, 2023

Some compressors are designed to be subtle. This one is not! We set out to make the ideal compression plugin for smashing and squashing drums, beats or entire mix busses….

Free giveaways from Native Instruments – Ozone 11 EQ and Komplete Start

Freeware and Samples TechNovember 1, 2023November 1, 2023

Native Instruments today kicked off their season of deals with two special giveaways for anyone making music. The Ozone 11 EQ plugin and a brand-new version of the Komplete Start production suite are now…

Melodics and Roland announce new partnership

Freeware and Samples Tech NewsMay 4, 2023May 4, 2023

Roland, and professional video products, and online music education tool Melodics, announce new partnership, the Beat Maker Sample Pack x Melodics Series. This series features professionally crafted sample content from…

Function Loops offers FREE Label Sampler

Freeware and SamplesMarch 28, 2023March 28, 2023

Function Loops has announced the release of Label Sampler 2023, a free sample pack containing hand-picked samples and loops for a wide range of genres. The team at Function Loops is…

FREE Commodore 64 Synthesizer VST Plugin

Freeware and Samples TechFebruary 20, 2023February 21, 2023

Bedroom Producers Blog has released BPB 64, a freeware Commodore 64 virtual synthesizer for Windows and macOS. BPB 64 is a sample-based virtual synthesizer that brings the sounds of the legendary…

Time to kill? have a play with the HTML 5 Drum machine emulator

Freeware and Samples TechJanuary 16, 2023January 16, 2023

We get it, it is Monday, the weekend is far away and you can’t be bothered working. We have the perfect solution – The HTML 5 Drum machine emulator. Created…

Function Loops “Vocal Pack by Lokka” sample pack free for a limited time

Freeware and SamplesDecember 22, 2022December 22, 2022

Function Loops is giving away free for a limited time its Vocal Pack by Lokka collection of vocal construction kits (usually $17.90). Edvin from Function Loops told us:“This is our…

Function Loops Releases FREE Samples

Freeware and SamplesMarch 21, 2022March 21, 2022

Function Loops introduces the upcoming Producer’s Vault 2022 sample library with a free taster pack of royalty-free sounds. Here’s what they told us: ‘Producer’s Vault 2022’ will be a complete production suite,…

Have you visited the BBC Sound Effects Archive?

Freeware and Samples Tech NewsDecember 21, 2020December 21, 2020

The BBC Sound Effects Archive is available for personal, educational or research purposes. There are over 33,000 clips from across the world from the past 100 years. These include clips…

Native Instruments kicks off its ten years of MASCHINE celebrations

Freeware and Samples Tech Tech NewsAugust 19, 2019

2019 marks a decade of Native’s flagship beat-making and pro-production instrument MASCHINE. Launched in 2009, MASCHINE’s first incarnation represented a breakthrough in hybrid hardware/software technology by uniting the intuitive workflow…

Introducing DLYM – Free Delay Modulator effects plugin for VST/AU

Freeware and Samples Giveaways News TechMarch 8, 2018

We’re delighted to bring you some exciting news this week; a new effect plugin from Imaginando, for FREE! Without further ado, we proudly present our latest product release: DLYM –…

Point Blank Plugin Of The Week: Eventide Blackhole

Freeware and Samples TechMay 21, 2017

Point Blank’s plugin crash test dummies JC and Carly are back with a brand new Plugin of The Week, this time diving into the otherworldly, galactic reverb ‘Blackhole’, created by…

Point Blank Plugin of The Week: Audiothing Outer Space

Freeware and Samples TechApril 19, 2017

The folks at AudioThing have created an affordable emulation of the Roland RE 201 Space Echo, an iconic tape echo introduced in 1974. Point Blank’s resident plugin test-dummy JC Concato…

Marc Houle presents his latest technology project including Buji Tek for Ableton Live available as a free download

Freeware and Samples TechDecember 14, 2016

Techno producer Marc Houle has been performing live sets the world over for more than a decade. Often working with unreleased and hence unmastered material, there were times he felt…

Hungarian duo The Gomb release their debut LP with a free Kontakt instrument used in the making of the album

Freeware and Samples NewsOctober 27, 2016

Almost six years in the making, the first album from veteran songwriter Ambrus Tövisházi (aka Erik Sumo) and Kristóf D. Hajós, singer and lyricist of “The Unbending Trees” dives deep…

Check out this cool Roland synth emulation, the PG-8X

Freeware and SamplesJune 20, 2016

Originally as a 61-key polyphonic, analogue synthesiser in 1984, the JX-8P was marketed by Roland as the best of both worlds. It opened up the possibilities to classic analogue synth…

NASA has released the full recordings sent into space with the Voyager Spacecraft

Freeware and Samples News TechJune 13, 2016June 13, 2016

Reported in Chart Attack recently, NASA has uploaded all the sounds they sent to space during the Voyager mission to their Soundcloud page. Launched in 1977, the two Voyager spacecraft were…