Sample Links


FindSounds.Com - Search The Web For Samples
This is a brilliant samples search engine. Type in anything from 'maniac laugh' to 'snare brush hit' and you'll find what you want.
Pete Thomas
Well-known sax player and producer Pete Thomas has some wonderful EXS sample instruments including a really nice ambient Gretsch kit. The audio files will also be usable for this using a different soft sampler.
Download acoustic drum loops and drum samples preformed by Jim Dooley
Echomethod
Lots of drum and percussion samples from Michael Lapers. Pay for download or sample CD - free ambient kit available
Music Boot Camp
Samples 4U Network
Lots of samples and SoundFonts
Numerical Sound
Sounds Online
East West's online royalty free sounds site
Ontology,com - free EXS24 samples
SampleNet - FutureNet's big big sample archive
HammerSound
Free Soundfonts
Loopasonic
MeanBeat
Phatso's Place: Free Funky Drum Loops & Samples
Analogue samples.com
SoundCentral Main Page
SAMPLING ZONE
Synthzone.com's audio & sampling resources pages
Hovercraft samples
Free Mellotron samples
Top 100 Audio Samples Sites
Plugin Links
Neotec's Cetone VST Plugins
Windows only. Several synths and a virtual organ. Donationware.
CloneEnsemble.com
A range of freeware and shareware VST and DirectX plugins for Windows from Australian programmer Trevor Magnusson.
Digitalfishphones
Crazy name, crazy guy? This is the personal site of Sascha Eversmeier, whose day job is working for respected German software developers MAGIX. Very interesting plugins, definitely. Blockfish, for example, is a very useable compressor with character, which most digital compressors don't have.PC VST, Mac AU and VST for OS X.
VST Central
Useful online database, but doesn't have everything
Camel Audio Plugins (VST/AU)
'Award winning instruments and effects which include Cameleon5000,CamelPhat and CamelSpace.'
That's their official link text. I can tell you as a user that their CamelPhat and CamelSpace plugins are a real joy to use, sound fabulous and really help the creative process!
Airwindows plugins in AU format. There are some interesting shareware plugins here at the top of the page at very reasonable prices, but persevere to the bottom of the page and you'll find a very generous number of free AU plugins too - 19. There are also some impulse responses for convolution reverbs.
Moog Filter for Mac
Bojo Software
Freeware and commercial Windows plugins
iZotope Home Page
K-v-R - VSTi Resources - a great site for tracking the latest VST 2 instruments for all platforms
SinusPlugins for PC
JX Plugins

Silverspike plugins by Hans Stadtherr
RoomMachine 844 - a nice attempt at an accoustic environment simulator, complete with moveable stereo mic positioning, for Windows.
RubyTube, a tube/valve overdrive plugin - I have found it very nice on Hammond organ patches and drums. For Windows & Mac.
Big Tick Software
Here we find Big Tick Software's Dual Delay - a very nice stereo delay plug and NastyShaper, a nonlinear distortion plugin using waveshaping algorithms. Both highly recommended.
Linplug
Free and commercial software of quality - their FreeAlpha synth has some ace sounds
Spin Audio Software
Windows format - a range of commerciual plugins and a free Lite version of a VST Wrapper allowing use of VST Plugins in DirectX applications
IndyGo Audio
Windows format Delay, Gate, Tremolo VST Plugins
A0 Digital Audio
Smart Electronix plugins for Mac &PC
Check out each developer's page - this is a programmers' cooperative
PSP Professional Sound Project
Many fine commercial plugins, but also check out their wonderful free PianoVerb
Maxim Digital Audio
A huge collection of really useable MDA plugins for both Mac and PC
Macintosh VST Plugins by Greenoak
dB audioware
Dave Brown's excellent plugs
NorthPole
Get the justly famous free North Pole low/bandpass filter plugin here, from a couple of the guys who write Prosoniq's excellent commercially available plugins
S & C DEVELOP
Windows format VST Instruments - virtual sampler and analogue-style synths
DSound- free and commercial plugins