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FREE Samples – Sound Effects, Loops, Grooves, Drums, Voices and Instruments – for The Children of the World. This huge and continuously expanding collection of new and original samples have been donated to Dr. Richard Boulanger @ cSounds.com specifically to support the OLPC developers, students and XO users. They are free and available for downloading and use in your music and activities.

from The Berklee College of Music

Selections from The Berklee College of Music

(OVER 2400 SAMPLES!)

The Berklee College of Music, in Boston, MA

A collection of sounds that have been selected, organized and prepared for OLPC by Dr. Richard Boulanger (a.k.a. Dr.B.). From 1999 - 2007, these samples were recorded in The Berklee Studios and on location in and around Boston under the supervision of Associate Professor Michael Brigida by over 250 Music Synthesis majors taking his Advanced Sampling Class at The Berklee College of Music. Editing and trimming these original, long, and often meandering recordings into usable individual samples was done by Music Synthesis students - Diane Douglas (v2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,15,16) and Colman O'Reilly (v1,11,12,13,14).

Berklee SFX, Voices, Instruments and Grooves V1 (312 samples)
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Berklee SFX, Voices, Instruments and Grooves V2 (51 samples)
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Berklee SFX, Voices, Instruments and Grooves V3 (34 samples)
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Berklee SFX, Voices, Instruments and Grooves V4 (121 samples)
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Berklee SFX, Voices, Instruments and Grooves V5 (291 samples)
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Berklee SFX, Voices, Instruments and Grooves V6 (129 samples)
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Berklee SFX, Voices, Instruments and Grooves V7 (80 samples)
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Berklee SFX, Voices, Instruments and Grooves V8 (159 samples)
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Berklee SFX, Voices, Instruments and Grooves V9 (76 samples)
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Berklee SFX, Voices, Instruments and Grooves V10 (117 samples)
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Berklee SFX, Voices, Instruments and Grooves V11 (204 samples)
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Berklee SFX, Voices, Instruments and Grooves V12 (137 samples)
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Berklee SFX, Voices, Instruments and Grooves V13 (136 samples)
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Berklee SFX, Voices, Instruments and Grooves V14 (205 samples)
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Berklee SFX, Voices, Instruments and Grooves V15 (228 samples)
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Berklee SFX, Voices, Instruments and Grooves V16 (136 samples)
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Sounds from 28 Music Synthesis Alumni from Berklee

(OVER 1330 SAMPLES!)

A collection of original samples and synthetic sounds recorded and created by current Music Synthesis Majors and Music Synthesis Alumni from The Berklee College of Music.

Jonathan Bailey (67 samples) – upright bass
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Lee Barkovich (32 samples) – synthetic robots, acoustic gunshots, synthetic explosions
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Jean-Luc Cohen (79 samples) – acoustic drumkit and organic textures – rainstick, didgeridoo, bubbles
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Matthew Davidson (33 samples) – synth, techno and electro loops at 100, 104, 112, 120 and 132 BPM
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Mike DiMattia (42 samples) – loops, pads, bass, percussion, ethnic, techno and more at 77 and 88 BPM
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Mark Dorflinger (31 samples) – drumloops, trombone, knives, scissors, bottles, fx
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Diane Douglas (21 samples) – processed piano strums and smashes, csound fm chaos
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Glen Forsyth (26 samples) – kalimba, drumkit, drumloops, breathy-bottle
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Flavio Gaete (405 samples) – viola, string orchestra, guitarloops, bassloops, vibeloops, synthloops, drumloops, complete tracks from original songs – BNGA, HLC1-4, SIK and TFS1-2
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Flavio Gaete & Tony Diodore (121 samples) – drum, bass, guitars, vibes, synthpads, synth and percussion loops from original songs – Better and No Escape
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Jonathan Hakakian (16 samples) – drumloops, cellphone, printers, microwave oven, and other textures
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Jacob Joaquin (88 samples) – baby talk plus eurorack, serge and csound synth sounds
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Adam Keshen (78 samples) – beatbox, bucket street percussion, synth fx
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Matt Lange (38 samples) – glitchy drum kit, synthetic laser sounds
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Lisa Lim (29 samples) – didgeridoo, tabla, koto, harp, oud, shakuhachi, framedrum, shekerra, hammered dulcimer
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Colman O'Reilly (85 samples) – squeeky dog toys, csound processed guitars, stutter edits, swells, assorted noises, distorted guitar progressions at 80 BPM
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Joo Won Park (22 samples) – fly, cricket, frogs, footstep, storm, mouthsounds, vocal drum
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Gabriel Pulido (14 samples) – beach, cat, celloloop, goovyseeds, windloop, piano and vibes
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Sandro Rebel (8 samples) – piano comping at 110 and 116 BPM
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Chen Sokolovsky (47 samples) – female background singing voice, vocal drum, beat box, assorted sound fx
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Andrew Sorkin (47 samples) – skateboarding, bubbles, speech, kickdrums, drones and synth fx
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Gregory Tripi (41 samples) – atmospheres, pads, cello loops, processed cello, harmonics
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Nils Van Ottorloo (73 samples) – bass clarinet, tabla, world percussion loops, frogs, birds, oceanwaves, and synth textures
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Elaine Walker (1 samples) – desert rain
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Jeremy Zuckerman (9 samples) – funky guitar licks, loops, comping
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Sounds from 2 Music Synthesis Faculty at Berklee

An acoustic soundscape and a special collection of samples and synthetic transformations featuring the vocal talent of Oral Moses.

Michael Bierylo (106 samples) – Gamelon, Electric Sitar, Bass-Baritone "Oral Moses" Vocal Samples, assorted SFX
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Stephen MacLean (2 samples) – An Acoustic Soundscape - Frogs on a California Coast
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BONUS – Berklee Shares – Free Online Courses from Berklee

Berklee Shares lessons come from Berklee Press books and DVDs, online music courses and online college-level accredited certificate programs at Berkleemusic.com, the online extension school of Berklee College of Music. Here you will find free music lessons that you can download, share and trade with your friends and fellow musicians.


from Open Path Music

OLPC Sample Collection from Open Path Music

(OVER 350 SAMPLES!)

Open Path Music, in San Jose, CA

A collection of sounds that were recorded specifically for OLPC by some of San Jose's top studio musicians at Open Path Music for use in Tam Tam and other XO Activities.

The Open Path Music Collection V1 (113 samples) – drumKits, drums, tablas, congas, timbale, cymbals, shakers
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The Open Path Music Collection V2 (54 samples) – flute, altoFlute, clarinet, tenor & bari sax, trumpet, flugelhorn, shenai
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The Open Path Music Collection V3 (66 samples) – acoustic & electric guitars and bass, banjo, mandolin, ukelele
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The Open Path Music Collection V4 (30 samples) – acoustic and electric piano, harpsichord, clavinet, organ, toy piano
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The Open Path Music Collection V5 (163 samples) – singing and speaking voices, laughter and other vocal sound effects
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from Tam Tam

The Original Samples, Percussion Sounds and Drumkits from TamTam

TamTam Drumkits (95 samples)
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TamTam Original Sample Set (125 samples)
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from Csounders Around the World

Samples From the Worldwide Community of Csound Developers, Teachers and Users

(OVER 325 SAMPLES!)

Michael Bechard (24 samples) – metal percussion
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Andrés Cabrera (20 samples) – tipple
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David Cronkite & Phil Hornsey (63 samples) – bowed crotales and glockenspeil
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John ffitch (37 samples) – selected soundscapes from India, Cuba, France, Spain, Sweden, Singapore, England
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Eshan Khadaroo (126 samples) – beatkitchen - synthloops, drumloops, drumNsynthloops at 56, 80, 84, 87, 100,110, 111, 120 BPM
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Anthony Kozar (28 samples) – speech phonemes, time-stretched vocals, chimes
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Jay Leboeuf (34 samples) – rock and jazz drumkits
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Dave Phillips (13 samples) – physical models
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Mihir Sarkar (10 samples) – tabla
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from Dr.B.

Dr.B.'s OLPCsound Collection

A collection of synthetic sounds that were created by Dr.B. specifically for the OLPC XO using Csound.

System Sounds and Machine Noises (22 samples)
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Dr. Boulanger's Original XO Startup Sound featuring "The OLPC Motive" (3 versions)
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Colette Boulanger's Animal Sounds – cat, duck, sheep, horse, rooster, chicken, tigress – bonus dB laughter and dB's pet dog Sophie (11 samples)
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Selected Samples from The Csound Book

Some Csound Book Samples (26 samples)
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Dr. B.'s TamTam Replacements

A huge collection of sampled and synthetic sounds that were collected, edited, sampled, designed, synthesized as a substitution and expansion bank for the TamTam activities by Dr.B.

TamTam Replacement Sounds (460 samples)
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Selected Sound Effects (87 samples)
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