Free samples from Karoryfer
We've been making free sample libraries for years before our first commercial release came out, and we keep making them. Click on the name of each for a more detailed description and demos, or just click Download if you already know what you want.
- Black And Blue Basses: Two 5-string bass guitars. Download
- Big Rusty Drums: 1980s drum kit made in Poland. Big and rusty, indeed. Download
- Unruly Drums: A drum kit with three snares in various sizes and a kick which also has snare wires. Download
- Swirly Drums: Brushed drums and percussion. Download
- Frankensnare: Collection of snare drums from tiny to oversized. Download
- Sneakybass: Very quiet double bass pizzicato. Download
- Black And Green Guitars: Two hollowbody electric guitars. Download
- Horse Pulse: Bass tagelharpa played pizzicato. A bonus freebie created while working on our Three Tagelharpas. Download
- Virtuosity Drums: Made in collaboration with Versilian Studios, a jazzy drum kit and General MIDI percussion. Download
- The Hat With The Phat: Two ride cymbals adding up to a giant hi-hat. Download
- Caveman Cosmonaut: Analog Polish keys from the 80s, sampled and given modern controls. Download
- Squidpipes: Bagpipes made using a squid instead of a squig. Of course. Download
- Gogodze Phu Vol II: A variable fidelity drum kit - lo-fi, hi-fi or anywhere inbetween. Download
- Gogodze Phu Vol I: A percussion collection with five bobobo drums from Ghana and a cajon recorded in Poland. Download
- Marie Ork: A voice bank for Plogue Alter/Ego. Capable of growling, singing, and many strange sounds. Download
- Bear Sax: A baritone saxophone made in 1926 by Conn. Download
- War Tuba: Over 1000 samples of folk-punk tuba. Download
- Meatbass: Our most popular freebie, this double bass is more folk/pop than classical. Download
- Karoryfer x bigcat cello: A flexible cello. Also with NI Kontakt version. Download
- String Cyborgs: Part violin family, part machine. Subtractive synthesizers using looped samples of bowed strings instead of synthesis. Download
- Weresax: Tenor sax samples. Download
- Scarypiano: Piano samples passed through scary effects. Download
- Shinyguitar: Shiny black archtop guitar. Download
Earlier libraries with no graphical user interface
- Pastabass: Squier Bass VI samples recorded by Space Coyote - Download
- Growlybass: A bass guitar with lots of character - Download
- Swagbass: A very hip-hop bass guitar - Download
- Fashionbass: A fashionable looking bass guitar - Download
- Emilyguitar: A cute guitar - Download
- Ergo EUB: An electric upright bass including very low detuned samples - Download
- Cowsynth: A subtractive synthesizer made from replica medieval bagpipes - Download
- Zamenhof Stickmusterstuch Error: A double library of glitches - Download
- 272 Merry Orks: Female death metal vocals - Download
- D. Smolken's first double bass library - Download
All our free sample libraries are under a Creative Commons Zero license. Older downloads may include a less permissive license, but we changed that and now they are all CC0. Only Marie Ork has a different license, as she uses a different technology which uses monolithic voice bank files which cannot be open sourced.
The Nathan Sheeran samples we've hosted in the past are now available on his own site.
Most of the above libraries are also open source and can be reused in the creation of other libraries or forked on GitHub.