Early Patches
Samples from rare old acoustic instruments.
Free-Loops.com Free Loops & Sample Directory
100% Free Loop & Sample Directory Free-Loops.com provides free loops and audio clip downloads to the music production community.
Kalava Drum Archive
High quality drum samples
Philharmonia Orchestra Sample Library
High quality instrumental and orchestral samples.
Soulmachine
Free downloads of drumloops, musicloops, pianos, drumkits, guitars, base sounds and pads.
Soundcentral
Ensoniq and Korg samples.
SoundTransit
Online database of free sounds contributed by users.
The Freesound Project
Colection of various samples and sound FX.
UCSD
Patches for Casio, Ensoniq, Kawai, Korg, Roland, Yamaha synths.
Akaidisk
Akai sample disk reader for Windows & DOS.
It can read S900, S950, S1000 and S3000 disks, and convert samples to WAV format.
Audacity Sound Editor
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
Awave
Audio file-format converter and player for Windows.
A very handy utility, reads more than a hundred audio file format.
If you're into sampling, you probably need it.
FlexiMusic Wave Editor
Audio Editor to Create, record, edit, draw, add effects & play MP3/audio files.
Convert wav to mp3, mp3 to wav, wav to wma, wav to snd and raw files
GoldWave
Digital audio editor for Windows.
RemPro
Free MIDI Software.
