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

[peter]

I’ve just added a bunch of additional libraries in the past couple days and added a lot more sample library demos. After I’m done refining the free sample libraries for Kontakt page, I’ll go to the other list of freebies for other sample players. My goal is to have the best resource on the web for finding the best free sample libraries. I also want it to be super convenient for people to find exactly what they want. I haven’t found any site doing a great job at all of that.

A lot of lists, including NI’s lists, are all over the board quality-wise. They have some excellent freebies on the list and then they have some very questionable libraries. Other lists you find in Google are even worse with really low-end sample libraries created a decade ago that don’t hold up well today. I’ve found that there’s enough high quality freebies out there that there’s no need to put up the not-so-good ones. The list now has high-quality sample libraries for a wide range of interests. It took a lot of time to find and try everything out — and 90+% of what I’ve found wouldn’t make the lists I’ve created, but the fact is, there are some excellent free libraries out there, they’re just in a ton of different places, so finding them, trying them out, and putting together one resource that brings them all together is the benefit to the community here. I found that the NI subreddit folks are big fans of the list.

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