RetroDrums One
by Tic Tok MenUploaded on Aug 24, 2015 (and last updated on Dec 23, 2015)
These are samples of old drum machines I've collected over the years. Not all recordings were done in house (but all are free use licenses).
The sample set consists of several drum machines (listed below). Each drum machines sounds are spread out over each octave from C1 to C7. There are, in some cases, sounds from some machines that have been grouped with others. This is because that machine had more then 12 sounds. But, the basic layout is the same on each.
C = Bass Dr...
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Non-free
Extra considerations:
These sounds are available for personal or professional use in musical compositions. You may redistribute the original zip files under the following conditions.
1) Samples must be redistributed FREE OF CHARGE. They are not to be sold without written permission of The Tic Tok Men.
2) The "read_me" text file contained in the zip packages must remain intact and unaltered.
With that, download away and go make some music.
TR-808 Drums Soundfont
by Thomas HammerUploaded on Jan 19, 2016
Yet another drumset from the legendary Roland TR-808 drum machine. The drums
have been organized into the GM format by Jeremy Arsenault. It contains 6 sets.
All have been set as percusive pools and melodic pools.
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HS R8 Drums Soundfont
by Thomas HammerUploaded on Jan 19, 2016
A drumset from the Roland R8 drum machine. The soundfont consists of two drumsets,
both organized as standard GM drumsets. Excess sounds (a couple of snares)
have been put in the octave below the GM bassdrum 1 (C1). This drumset was
based on samples freely available on the net.
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HS TB-303 Soundfont
by Thomas HammerUploaded on Jan 19, 2016
17 different 'instruments' sampled from the Roland TB-303 analog synthesizer.
This synthesizer is used a lot in 'modern' dance music / techno mostly for
bass-lines and arpeggiators. The 'typical' TB-303 sound has a closing filter
with plenty of resonance.
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Vintage Dreams Waves v 2.0 Soundfont
by Ian WilsonUploaded on Jan 19, 2016 (and last updated on Jan 31, 2016)
A huge collection of 128 instruments and 8 drumkits created by Ian Wilson.
The instrument sounds include emulations of Yamaha DX-7 and TX81Z, Roland D-50
and Casio VL-1 as well as a lot of other analog / vintage / synthetic sounds.
The drumkits emulated are Roland TR808, TR909 and CR-78, dnaloR TR-101 (Imaginary
Roland :-) ), Analog (Lots of Depeche, Yazoo stuff here), Electronic (Small
cheesy kit) and Kraftwerk (Small set of blippy drums).
Ian Wilson spent about a y...
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Roland TR606 (bdu/freesound) Hydrogen Kit
by KlaatuUploaded on Mar 05, 2016
Hydrogen drumkit put together from free samples by Klaatu as part of a Linux Multimedia Sprint. Read here for more information.
Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 International
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See https://data.musical-artifacts.com/99kits/licenses/ for licensing and attribution details.
All drumkits (naming schemes, GM-ification, Hydrogenization, and so on, are Creative Commons CC-SA. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US for more information.
If you believe there has been infringement, contact Klaatu. Also, go find a hobby.
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