Reply To: Major Update for LinkedMusicians “Best Free Kontakt Instruments” List

[peter]

On RSMcGuitar said

Thanks for keeping up this valuable resource. I feel like there are years worth of instruments there.

I’m very happy if people use it and it brings them joy. It’s great to find an inspiring library that doesn’t cost anything, and I want to include as many of those as I can.

The ones that really deserve all of our thanks are the generous people who labored over making libraries that weren’t doing it as a promotional tool, but just out of love — like a bunch of the folks at Pianobook who aren’t using free libraries to promote paid ones. I’ve always tired to persuade sample developers that there’s a huge benefit to releasing high quality FREE libraries, as it keeps their name in the public (awareness of their brand) and gives sample users a taste of what they do at no risk. It also helps greatly from an SEO standpoint to have a bunch of sites linking to their sites (it boosts their rank with Google and other search engines, and these days, AI).

I will often seek out great freebies when I have the urge to buy another sample library AKA GAS. A lot of what I did in the most recent update was to go through my hard drives to find my favorite free libraries that I’ve never gotten around to adding to the list. I knew there were a bunch and there’s still more. It’s really just a matter of spending the time to open up and play a library on one of my drives, and then if I think it’s worthy of being on the list, track down if it’s still available or not (I did have to exclude some that are no longer available). My next plans for the list is to have audio links for each library — where possible — and then link to each category to allow people to preview a library instead of having to click on every link to do that. Of course, that will save users a lot of time.

LinkedMusicians Founder. Your friend who keeps the beat.

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