Good free samples?

[88fingers]

I'm looking for some good-sounding, free samples of grand piano, electric bass, electric guitar, saxaphone, and drums.... any advice?

[ssscientist]

Sample CDs have come WAY down in price.

I'm sure you could Google a 'general sounds' or 'rock music' CD for $50 or so.

BTW - did you ever download the Tracktion demo?

[88fingers]

Yes I did, thanks for your help in that! I've been tinkering around with it, but have been unable to find decent sounds to use with it.

[ssscientist]

You can get free VSTi plugins that work seamlessly with Tracktion here:

http://www.kvr-vst.com/

I think I've given you this link before, but that was before I realized that Adobe Audition was a VST fx only app...

I recommend Synth One, Superwave8, and Triangle II to start with - just download and unzip them into the 'Tracktion/plugins/VST' directory.

And as far as Piano goes, there's a fairly good sounding one that comes with Tracktion - MDA piano. Should be under 'third party plugins' in the 'filter' menu.

[ssscientist]

Here's something that may be of interest from the K-v-R website

http://www.kvr-vst.com/index.php?s=main#news2600

If you can't get this link to work, EastWest and Zero G have a free 650 meg CD called 'Virtual Instruments' that includes cutdown versions of NI Kompakt and Intakt and requires no registration...