Free sound samples
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!)
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).
Sounds from 20 Music Synthesis Alumni from Berklee
(OVER 600 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.
- Lee Barkovich (32 samples) – synthetic robots, acoustic gunshots, synthetic explosions
- 44.1K, 22.5K, 16K
- Jean-Luc Cohen (79 samples) – acoustic drumkit and organic textures – rainstick, didgeridoo, bubbles
- 44.1K, 22.5K, 16K
- Matthew Davidson (33 samples) – synth, techno and electro loops at 100, 104, 112, 120 and 132 BPM
- 44.1K, 22.5K, 16K
- Mike DiMattia (42 samples) – loops, pads, bass, percussion, ethnic, techno and more at 77 and 88 BPM
- 44.1K, 22.5K, 16K
- Jacob Joaquin (88 samples) – baby talk plus eurorack, serge and csound synth sounds
- 44.1K, 22.5K, 16K
- Lisa Lim (29 samples) – didgeridoo, tabla, koto, harp, oud, shakuhachi, framedrum, shekerra, hammered dulcimer
- 44.1K, 22.5K, 16K
- Colman O'Reilly (85 samples) – squeeky dog toys, csound processed guitars, stutter edits, swells, assorted noises, distorted guitar progressions at 80 BPM
- 44.1K, 22.5K, 16K
- Joo Won Park (22 samples) – fly, cricket, frogs, footstep, storm, mouthsounds, vocal drum
- 44.1K, 22.5K, 16K
- Chen Sokolovsky (47 samples) – female background singing voice, vocal drum, beat box, assorted sound fx
- 44.1K, 22.5K, 16K
- Gregory Tripi (41 samples) – atmospheres, pads, cello loops, processed cello, harmonics
- 44.1K, 22.5K, 16K
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
- 44.1K, 22.5K, 16K
- Stephen MacLean (2 samples) – An Acoustic Soundscape - Frogs on a California Coast
- 44.1K, 22.5K, 16K
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!)
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
- 44K, 22.5K, 16K
- The Open Path Music Collection V2 (54 samples) – flute, altoFlute, clarinet, tenor & bari sax, trumpet, flugelhorn, shenai
- 44K, 22.5K, 16K
- The Open Path Music Collection V3 (66 samples) – acoustic & electric guitars and bass, banjo, mandolin, ukelele
- 44K, 22.5K, 16K
- from Tam Tam
The Original Samples, Percussion Sounds and Drumkits from TamTam
- TamTam Original Sample Set (125 samples)
- 16K
- from Csounders Around the World
Samples From the Worldwide Community of Csound Developers, Teachers and Users
- 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.
Selected Samples from The Csound Book
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.