Photo Credit: Flocowa
Warm Up Your SFZ Sampler/Player with these free string samples! These work nicely if you mix them underneath other string samples, thicken it up. Warm Strings SFZ:
Download Stats:
We wanted to take the time to look back at the most popular synthesizer related downloads here at PatchArena for 2013. It’s been a great year for virtual instrument releases, updates, and downloads. The same goes for Hardware based synthesizers and samplers. You should be able to utilize the sfz samples here if you don’t have them already. Top downloads include presets for CronoX, Alchemy, Toxic Biohazard, Guitar Samples, String Samples, A freeware download pdf list, and More.
The first list that we’ll go through is the Top 10 2013 download list ordered by download hits.
Preset Design: PatchArena
Total Download Hits – 3330
– Kalimba recorded with homemade contact microphone plus SPACE reverb! Intended for film-score percussion and other textures. Use with your favorite SFZ player or sampler. Special sounds can be achieve by either exaggerating or cutting out the reverb decay on this sample set. Enjoy!
Download – Contact SPACE Kalimba
Preset Design: PatchArena
Total Download Hits – 3360
Free Sample Pack of synth string samples sampled from the strings preset of a vintage Siel analog synth! 9 samples recorded 44.1k 16bit, weighing in at just less then 30MB compressed in zip. Use as SFZ sample food for your favorite SFZ based virtual instruments, or drag and drop the samples into your other samplers!
Download – Studio Strings Nebula
Preset Design: CHE
Total Download Hits – 3995
2 Collections of Trance Presets, 79 Sounds Total. FXP, FXB, and FL Studio Formats.
Download – Universe Trance Vol 1 & 2
Preset Design: CHE
Total Download Hits – 3997
The Rainbow Spectrum Soundset for the Camel Audio – Alchemy VSTi. Format in ACP, AAZ, and .WAV. 54 Experimental Presets in 8 Categories.
Download – Rainbow Spectrum Soundset
Preset Design: Korg Users Shared
Total Download Hits – 4058
24 Banks of M1 sounds from various sources over the internet. Check out the modified dates for their creation or last edit times.
Download – Korg M1 Collected Presets
Preset Design: CHE
Total Download Hits – 4715
100 Free Presets for Image Line – Toxic Biohazard. Includes 100 FXP and 600 waveforms.
Download Toxic Planet
Preset Design: Oderion
Total Download Hits – 5015
Acoustic steel string guitar by chords in sfz format. Sampled chords from my steel stringed guitar into a sfz file! First octave gives you the chords in major and second in minor. If you hit the notes hard its a down stroke, and softer gives an up stroke.
Download – Oderions Guitar Steel Chords – SFZ
Download Author: CHE
Total Download Hits – 5430
This PDF includes All Free Virtual Software Synthesizer for Digital Audio Workstation’s & Sequencer’s. (No MIDI Apps & Standalone’s) As Example :
– PRESONUS – STUDIO ONE
– IMAGE LINE – FL STUDIO
– STEINBERG – CUBASE
– CAKEWALK – SONAR
– ABLETON – LIVE
– MORE
EASY TO READ PDF with Color Images, Short descriptions, and Manufacturer Links
Download – Freeware Index PDF
Preset Design: CHE
Total Download Hits – 6560
Harmor Soundset with 100 Single Presets in FXP Format. Including Arps, Leads, Pads & Bass. Excellent use of Timbre mixing and combinations.
Download – E-lec-tro Sounds
Preset Design: Philippe Favré
Total Download Hits – 12649
A piezo electro acoustic guitar. Sampled and programmed for LinPlug Crono X. Featuring 34 RealGuitar presets. Metal an rubber hammers, Plectrum, thumb, pizzicato actions,
Background noises.
Special thanks to everyone for sharing their sounds this past year. Looking forward to a wonderful and exciting 2014. Special tip of the hat goes out to CHE for making the top 10 list multiple times!
If you are interested check out more download statistics here:
http://patcharena.com/downloads/misc.php?action=toplist
Wishing you a happy and musically productive 2014!
Presenting The MiniBrute MultiSaw Samples In SFZ Format:
Download Includes MultiSaw Samples in looped in SFZ Format. Original sampling of the MiniBrute by Kriminal. Sample chopping, looping, and sfz mapping by PatchArena.
Also includes bonus Rapture Programs that utilize the SFZ files!
Download MiniBrute MultiSaw SFZHappy New Year!
More info and link here:
http://www.patreon.com/share?hid=135617
This freebie SoundFont works well with the wonderful Plogue Sforzando virtual instrument:
A sampled tubed bass instrument for you! Presenting the sfz Tubed Bass!
Photo Credit: neistridlar
Featuring:
Download:
Tubed Bass SFZWe recommend that you load within:
Cakewalk Dimension Pro
Calkewalk Rapture
Plogue Sforzando
Garritan ARIA Player
Camel Audio Alchemy
Or another sfz player of your choice! Enjoy.
Cello Image via Steven Depolo
Presenting new free sfz instrument. Download the solo cello sfz:
Solo Cello SFZIncludes individual sfz instruments for:
Plogue proudly presents a free cross-platform sfz sample player for 2012. Presenting sforzando!
sforzando is also a name given for a sudden change in music dynamics which, in musical notation has the “sfz” symbol. The SFZ Format is widely accepted as the open standard to define the behavior of a musical instrument from a bare set of sound recordings. It was created by René Ceballos founder of RGC Audio™ and is now maintained by Cakewalk™. Being a royalty-free format, any developer can create, use and distribute SFZ files and players for either free or commercial purposes.
The goal behind the sfz format is to provide a free, simple, minimalistic and expandable format to arrange, distribute and use audio samples with the highest possible quality and the highest possible performance flexibility.- René G. Ceballos
The things I really like about the Plogue sforzando is that it’s a free sfz player built for 2012.
You can also drag and drop SoundFonts (SF2), DLS, and ACID wav files directly onto sforzando to load. They will be converted to a new sfz instrument which you can then tweak, edit, and re-save.
With the help of partners and friends, Plogue also released the first ARIA Engine Free Sounds Pack! This is a great place to start with Plogue sforzando for a basic soundset.
http://ariaengine.com/forums/index.php?p=/discussion/5783/free-sounds-for-aria-engine
Don’t have enough sfz instruments? Here are a few more free sfz instruments to try out:
This release could not have come at a better time. Musicians looking for a platform to share and play custom sampled instruments have a clear and easy solution.
Plogue has deployed a forum dedicated to the SFZ format to help users support each other. All technical support for this product will community driven at ARIAEngine.com.
http://www.ariaengine.com/forums/
See you there.
Our friend Oderion has shared his first sfz sample set. It includes acoustic guitar chords from his Epiphone.
I sampled chords from my steel stringed guitar into a sfz file! First octave gives you the chords in major and second in minor. If you hit the notes hard its a down stroke, and softer gives an up stroke:)Download Guitar SFZ
I’m not the best guitar-player, and this is my first sfz ever, but if you’d like a campfire guitarfeeling i think it might work very well!
Presenting the Contact SPACE Kalimba! – free sfz sampled Kalimba instrument
Suggested use within these sfz synthesizer/samplers:
– Garritan ARIA Player
– Cakewalk Virtual Instruments
– Camel Audio Alchemy
Please let me know if you run into any issues.
– Kalimba recorded with homemade contact microphone plus SPACE reverb! Heavy reverb usage intended for filmscore percussion and other textures.
– Use CC1 to increase the sample offsets to soften the attack.
Grab it here:
Contact SPACE Kalimba
