Image unavailableEVA Instruments - Kalimba
A sampled kalimba with separate tine/body layers and built-in reverb.
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Image unavailableNative Instruments - Massive X Player
A streamlined Massive X preset-playing synth with macro morphing, animation and randomization.
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Ternär Music Technology - Flechtwerk
A macro synthesizer with 24 engines based on Mutable Instruments Plaits.
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Image unavailableAudiolatry - LoQuest
A lo-fi instrument with sampled keys, pads, plucks and organs plus filters, modulation and effects.
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Image unavailableEmergence Audio - Infinite Collection
Ten evolving sampled instruments with over 80 presets, built around the lite Infinite Motion Engine.
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Image unavailableFracture Sounds - Blueprint: Textural Viola
An experimental viola library with long articulations, col legno, bends and an atmospheric layer.
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Image unavailableSonixinema - Ethereal Pads
Five evolving ambient pads made from processed orchestral and solo recordings.
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Image unavailableSoule DSP - Resonarium
A resonator-based physical-modeling synthesizer with excitation sources and effects.
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Image unavailableThe Crow Hill Company - Vaults Acid Synth
A sampled acid-synth instrument drawn from a Roland TB-303.
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Venus Theory - auras:veils
expressive string-based sample library that blends instruments like guitar, ukulele, and banjo into layered, cinematic textures. Perfect for crafting everything from delicate plucks to lush ambient pads with dynamic control and depth.
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Image unavailableFracture Sounds - Blueprint: Electric Strings
A Solina String Ensemble sample instrument with atmospheric layers and three-source blending.
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Image unavailableSomerville Sounds - Gentle Vibes
A sampled vibraphone instrument with tape-style pitch variation, filters and adjustable sustain.
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Image unavailableSonixinema - Emotive Brass
A sampled six-piece brass ensemble with expressive swells and phrasing.
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Image unavailableUniversal Audio - PolyMAX Synth
A vintage-inspired polyphonic synthesizer with modeled oscillators/filters, an arpeggiator and onboard effects.
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Image unavailableFracture Sounds - Blueprint: Textural Cello
An experimental cello library with long articulations, col legno, bend effects and an atmospheric layer.
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Image unavailableFull Bucket Music - Fury68
A software simulation of the Korg Poly-61 polyphonic synthesizer.
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Urban Kits - Bedroom Guitar
A sampled softly played nylon-string guitar with envelopes, modulation, filters and onboard effects.
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Image unavailableShearwater Piano Lite
Free edition of an upright piano recorded at Shearwater Studios in Dartmoor.
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TukImgSynth
Dynamic Image Wavetable Synthesizer that converts images into wavetables, allowing for experimental, evolving sound design through drag-and-drop image synthesis.
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Venus Theory - forms:piano
Piano library created for the free Decent Sampler.
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Image unavailableIllements - Drop The Bass
Bass instrument with sampled analogue-synth presets.
Windows · macOS
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Image unavailableNUSofting - Psicogramma Key
Single-oscillator synthesizer using waveshaping and FM.
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Image unavailableu-he - Tyrell N6
Compact synthesizer with two oscillators, noise and ring modulation.
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Venus Theory - auras:rooms
a free, expressive instrument blending experimental pedal chains, solo violins, synths, keys, and more, sampled from every room of Sweetwater’s campus in a single day.
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10 pluginsThe Sample Flipping Toolkit
Chop, stretch, pitch and rearrange your samples into something new.
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10 pluginsDust, Warmth & Wobble
Tape colour, sampler grit and pitch drift for sounds with a little history.
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10 pluginsSoulful Keys
Characterful pianos, electric keys and organs, with tremolo to bring them to life.
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10 pluginsMake Your Drums Knock
Shape the attack, add weight and glue your drums together.
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10 pluginsOdd Ingredients
Unusual instruments, unexpected textures and effects for your next happy accident.
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10 pluginsSpace & Atmosphere
Build depth and atmosphere with echoes, reverbs, granular textures and evolving pads.
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