last sleepless night i have convert my drum machine library to renoise instruments (xrni).
The pack includes over 130 files from various classic drum machines.
I found it myself here and in the faq i found this:
Q: Is the download legal ?
A: Yes, you can freely download all sounds. They are royalty free / Public Domain.
All Samples are coming from the Web and were freely downloadable without
any restrictions, or are contributions from Visitors.
But most of the original Source Websites are gone forever, because i am collecting
now for about 13 Years and anytime good sources are dying.
i love it when people do this stuff. i know exactly what kind of sleepness nights you are talking about and, even though it is quite a tough and strenuous (is that right?) job, how much fun it can be to do this and how satisfying the feeling when you finish up. thanks a lot for going one step ahead and sharing this.
Is there a method to how the individual samples are arranged per instrument?
A while back I was banging my head against figuring out what the most versatile layout of an octave would be; even in the sense of using a real keyboard to jam.
The kits start at C-3 and up on every single key. In a very few times i must go down to C-2 if the kit has many samples.
Sorry. I have not sort the huge amount of samples to categorys like: kicks on C-1 and up, Snares on C-2 and up …
Note: downloading the full pack from the website requires a 10 euro fee.
PS: I honestly think these samples are really poor quality. Most of them, at least… They’re still very useful if you’re looking to quickly assemble a project to have some fun. Or if you plan to use distortion and other processing. I do not recommend using them “as is”, though… there’s some clicking and zero crossing issues with some of them.
The samples order in the XRNI is also not optimal so you’ll probably have to change it.