Ze Frank asked his extended community to leave voice mail describing their pain & suffering. Then he asked some DJ’s and audio freaks to convert those voicemails into a set of percussive, loopy & twisted samples. Now he’s asking you to make music with these 60+ MB of sounds…
Superb free Ableton Live template – Psychedelic trance
Ahoy, Ableton Live users! Tom Cosm of Ableton Live training fame (http://www.cosm.co.nz) has put together an outstanding tutorial / fun / psytrance jamming template for Live based entirely on free sounds from Sampleswap.org. Check out Tom’s video to hear what this template can do:
12 exquisite Ableton Live templates coming soon
SampleSwap has teamed up with Tom Cosm – Ableton instructor extraordinaire — to produce a whole year’s worth of creative sampling tools for Ableton Live. Tom writes: Starting on the 1st of May 2012, I will be releasing a monthly Ableton Live Session View jam template, with the help from www.sampleswap.org who kindly offered their 7+ [...]
BEEPLE: Mind-bendingly insane 3D techno rendering
Mike Winkelmann (AKA Beeple) makes mind-bending insane 3D rendered videos that bring techno to life like you’ve never seen before. Words don’t do his work justice. Watch/listen below…
700MB of brand new samples available (March 2012)
AT LAST! 18 months worth of your uploads to SampleSwap have been organized and folded into the main collection. That’s 700MB of brand new loops, spoken word, instruments & FX — bringing the entire collection to a whopping 7.5 GB. Come and get it!
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How to download beats (Give me beats for free!)
Give me beats, dammit! Here’s a quick step-by-step primer (and 90 second video) to show you how to use SampleSwap to download free beats. Register for a free account, confirm your email address, and login. Explore the drum loops & breaks collection. The 2,500+ free loops in this section are mostly organized by BPM range. [...]
Completely absurd music education record
Thus begins this fairly hillarious set of five tracks from an oldskool (elementary school?) music education record. Ten years ago, I used one of these samples to launch an epic drum ‘n’ bass DJ set up on top of a mesa in northern New Mexico. Hope you find some good use for these too.
Why it’s so hard to find public domain sound recordings
For those of you who are interested in music & copyright issues… check out this page which explains how there are virtually NO public domain music recordings in the USA, including stuff recorded at the very dawn of recording technology. Even recordings that ARE in the public domain in other countries are not PD in [...]
31MB sneak preview of forthcoming SampleSwap update
If you’re a long-time visitor on this website, you’ve probably noticed that the main sample collection only gets updated every year or so. The last major update was in May 2010. Since then, You People have uploaded tons of new samples. Just this past week, I’ve finally gone through and reviewed, cleaned up, and organized [...]
Robotic cats and dogs, oh my!
These weird quotes come from an even weirder story on NPR about robotic seals.
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