royalty free online sample resource?

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Member Since: May 09, 2004

I just had the most absolutely frustrating moment yesterday. Inspiriation hits like lighting, awsome song opening idea, and it absolutely requires a church bell. Lo and behold, after searching my entire sample library, there is not one to be found. Horrors! I have a sample of a guy vomiting, but no church bell?!? Preposterous! After a failed attempt to make one from osccilators, I had to give up out of sheer frustration. My question is, is there a good site with a comprehensive selection that has free downloads of royalty free samples, just in case of situations like that?

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Since: Apr 03, 2002


May 24, 2004 05:59 pm

Well, honestly, I feel your frustration, also, you get what you pay for...

I use the PowerFX Samples Portal linked in our main navigation...it's not free, you can browse and preview for free and buy one sample at a time.

Member
Since: May 03, 2004


May 24, 2004 06:05 pm

I've used some free samples, but most of them were pretty poorly produced. I can make you a church bell sample tonight if you want. You could try these (not all free), if you haven't already:

Analogue Samples: www.analoguesamples.com/
StoneWashed: www.stonewashed.net/sfx.html
SampleCity: www.samplecity.net/
SonicImplants: www.sonicimplants.com/
SoundIdeas: www.sound-ideas.com/index.html

Member
Since: May 09, 2004


May 25, 2004 05:55 pm

Found something that will suffice for now, but thanks for the offer, CompSem. It was a learning experince, too, I mean I found this one guy who basically spent his life recording church bell sounds. From that, to this: AN ANALYTICAL RESPONSE OF CHURCH BELLS TO EARTHQUAKE EXCITATION
I mean, wow. Yeah, that you get what you pay for thing can be a problem when you have no money.

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Since: May 03, 2004


May 26, 2004 07:21 am

Glad you got what you needed! I'll have to check out the church bells/earthquake excitation. Got the link?

Member
Since: May 09, 2004


May 26, 2004 02:49 pm

216.239.39.104/search?q=c...en&ie=UTF-8

Also, I came very close to making a church bell with oscillators last night. I was quite proud of myself.

Member
Since: May 03, 2004


May 26, 2004 03:10 pm

Hey thanks for the link! If you want the church bell sample I made, I uploaded it. High quality mp3:

www.threestrands.com/MP3/ChurchBell.mp3


Member
Since: May 09, 2004


May 26, 2004 03:20 pm

Wow, probably a lot better than the one I had. Thanks

Member
Since: May 03, 2004


May 26, 2004 03:28 pm

Cool...

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