VST4Free on holidays !

I'm on Holidays for a few days, so to continue recommending VST, I programmed a restrospective on tweeter !
This way you'll be notified each day, three time a day, of the free VSTs and soundbanks I previously reviewed ;)

So... Follow the bird, and see you again end august !


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Soundbank week day #6 : The biggest free classical instruments sounbank ever !

The biggest free classical instruments soundbank ever !

The university of Iowa, thanks to Lawrence Fritts, created in 1997 an instrument samples database that didn't stop growing since.

All the samples are pro recorded, in aiff format, 16 bit 44.1 khz.

Tons of samples, several GBs, believe me, you won't find this anywhere on the web, even if you pay for it ;)

Here are the technical specs of the recording :

The instruments were recorded in the Anechoic Chamber in the Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Center at The University of Iowa on the following equipment:

• Neumann KM 84 Cardioid Condensor Microphone
• Mackie 1402-VLZ Mixer

• Panasonic SV-3800 DAT Recorder

The recordings were digitally transferred to Macintosh Power PC 8500 though a Digidesign Audiomedia III interface (1997-1999) or to a Macintosh G4 through a Digidesign Digi-001 digital interface (2000-present).

The recordings were edited into soundfiles in Digidesign Sound Designer II (1997-1999) or Bias Peak (2000-present) consisting chromatic scales at three non-normalized dynamic levels, pp, mf, ff.

Each note is approximately 2 seconds long and is immediately preceded and followed by ambient silence.

Some instruments are recorded with and without vibrato. String instrument recordings include arco (bowed) and pizzicato (plucked). The only non-anechoic instrument is the piano, which was recorded in a small faculty teaching


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Soundbank week day #5 : Universal soundbank ! 12.000 + sounds, loops and effects.

Here's another cool free sounds archive for our Soundbank week : It's called Universal Soundbank !

The name can seem a bit pretentious, but this one is really huge : more than 12.000 sounds, loops and effects, all classified and easy to access, of very various kinds :)

With the integrated flash players, you can quickly brwose the archive with the top menu, and right click on any samples to download them.

The sounds are in mp3 but seems to be high bitrate, so I think they are totally usable for music production.


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Soundbank week day #4 : Peff.com, a huge reason free refills and patches library !

You're numerous to use Reason music production program, this one is quite famous due to its huge refills and patches library.

So just for you, reason users, here's a nice webstie proposing tons of refills and patches, but also very interesting workshops, tutorials and ressources links : Peff.com


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Soundbank week day #3 : SampleSwap (free electronic loops, kits and samples)

Free soundbank week day #3 !

Sampleswap is a cool database mostly dedicated to electronic musics (and derivates).

It features
"5.5 Gb of 100% free AIFF/WAV sounds, including 2,198 techno, hiphop, trance, and drum 'n' bass drum loops / breakbeats, 1,254 drum hits, 77 drum kits, 2,198 sound FX, 1,207 instrument sounds, 1,200 vocal samples, 1,047 melodic parts, fruity loops and more..."

These free samples are really great sounding !
You can browse to listen, but have to register (for free) in order to download the samples.

If you want to support SampleSwap, you can buy their 8 Gb DVD full of sounds plus lots of mp3 ;)


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(free) Soundbank week day #2 : The freesound project

Freesound project : a free online collaborative sound database !

It is impossible to make a free soundbank week without talking about the Freesound project !

What's freesound ? A collaborative database of Creative Commons released sounds.
It feature any (really) kind of sounds, a powerful search engine, and lots of collaborative projects around. A super nice place to get and share sounds, as you can (recommended) also upload your own sounds as long as they are not copyrighted.

Want to support them ? Make a donation or buy on of their cool tshirts ;)


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Poll #5 results : what kind of music do you produce ?

It seems that the readers of VST4Free are more into electronics, no surprise because in "Computer music" there's "computer"...
Anyway there's a quite decent amount of other kinds of music, I wish there were even more ;)





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Soundbank week day #1 : Applause, laugh, cheer... free audience sounds !

Okay, this is a new themed week, and this week's theme is (free) "Soundbanks" :)

For the first day, I choosed an audience sounds bank.
You'll tell me "having audience sound is something useless"...it is yep, until you need it and then... you lack it !
It's usually hard to find for free in good quality, hopefully, there's (at least) one place on the web : audiencesounds.com
All the sounds are royalty-free, and you can try them all with a funny button-interface before downloading (upper right tab "download").

Thanks to the creator of this page that can be useful for musicians, but also videogames and TV producers ;)


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