This Week’s #freesamplefriday Roundup

shockleewebpic_FSF99We’re back for another round of the best free audio tools around. Download these and get your music game up!

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This Week’s #freesamplefriday Roundup

shockleewebpic_FSF98In need of some new inspiration to get your musical ideas flowing? You’re in luck, here’s another installment of #freesamplefriday to get you through the week. If you’re in the NYC area come meet with us at Tekserve on Thursday May 9th for a special Ableton Advanced Users Meetup. RSVP’s are first come – first served!

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This Week’s #freesamplefriday Roundup

shockleewebpic_FSF97Some classic reverb, electric piano, guitar overdrive, pan modulations plus more in this double edition of #freesamplefriday – bringing you the free super hot audio tools weekly…hit us up with your links!

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This Week’s #freesamplefriday Roundup

shockleewebpic_FSF96Here’s the latest roundup of music making weapons for your arsenal. Get to these while they last!

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This Week’s #freesamplefriday Roundup

shockleewebpic_FSF95Get more tools…make more beats…here are the picks of the week. For more action, don’t forget to check us out on twitter @Shocklee & @TechCampNYC.

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This Week’s #freesamplefriday Roundup

Get the latest free music making sounds & plugins – this week’s roundup includes a Moog Slim Phatty sample pack and some glitchy baby grand piano samples from Afrodjmac. Get to work!

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This Week’s #freesamplefriday Roundup

For the music community, by the music community has been our motto since we brought #freesamplefriday to this site for our weekly roundups since January of 2011. Why? Because we love audio and we love the community that makes audio. It’s our thanks to you and hopefully adds a bit of inspiration to your music making.

Here are the latest picks – send us your dopest soundcloud links – we want to hear em!

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The Electronic Music Producer’s Best Friend, MIDI, Turns 30

In the early 1980s, Roland founder Ikutaro Kakehashi and Sequential Circuits founder Dave Smith had a dream—a simple interface that would allow all electronic musical instruments to communicate with each other and with computers. To make this dream a reality, these pioneers brought together an unprecedented coalition of manufacturers from the United States and Japan, and soon the Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or “MIDI,” was born. 30 years ago, the 1983 Winter NAMM Show hosted its landmark public unveiling, where Roland and Sequential Circuits demonstrated the first two MIDI-equipped synthesizers “talking” to each other via this new universal communication standard.

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This Week’s #freesamplefriday Roundup

This latest roundup contains a collection of loops, one-shots and virtual instruments for some experimentation including an effect unit modeled after the Alesis 3630 compressor, a house & techno favorite.

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