Site Changelog 11/28/22

The free instrument lists have been updated for the end of 2022. I’m trying out the latest Text Fragment URL Technology™ to make some download links more useful for viewers in Chrome and Safari.

What’s new in free instrument world:

• Spitfire’s BBCSO is now available to download without needing to complete a survey and wait two weeks.
• Jon Meyer Sounds has moved from Selz to the Pulse Audio store. Relevant links have been updated and now require Woocommerce checkout, a Pulse account, and the Pulse downloader.
• Atom Hub instruments have moved to Loot Audio and now require a free account.

Some organizational changes:

• “Moody guitars” is now “Clean guitars,” and contains “Funk guitars” as a subsection. “Metal/rock guitars” is now “Distorted guitars.”
• Natural (valve-less) horns and trumpets have been moved out of “Horns” and into their own section. Western horns and trumpet sections have been labeled “orchestral” for clarity.
• Some of the double bass entries have moved to the new “Jazz bass” subsection.
• Body percussion and cheek pops have moved to “Found sounds.”
• Dan tranh is now under “Zithers” instead of “Guitar-likes/lutes.”

…And now for today’s stats!

• 11 new instruments: bukkehorn, bronze lur, citera, khim, kolintang, solo male throat singing, spinet, steel frothing mug, talempong, toy trumpet, toy xylophone
• 4 new articulations: lyre glissandos and body percussion, tenor trombone harmon mute staccatos and tenutos
• 22 new format options:
  • VST/AU: ensemble female vocals
  • AAX: ensemble female vocals
  • Ableton Sampler: Hammond L-102
  • Decent Sampler: body percussion kit, child solo vocals, clean electric guitar, found objects kit, honky-tonk piano, vintage kit, Wurlitzer 200
  • EXS: djembe, found objects kit
  • Free Kontakt Player: solo female vocals
  • NKI: clean electric guitar, lyre
  • SFZ: celesta, marimba, Rhodes Mark I, upright bass, vintage kit, Yamaha CP
  • WAV: birch trumpet
• 7 new glossary definitions: shake/lip trill (added to trill), scoop/bend/doit (added to glissando), grace note/appoggiatura, ghost note.
• 3 definitions updated: portamento, rip/fall
• 24 links fixed, most notably those for BBCSO and Monster plug-ins
• 5 instruments replaced: Uncle John’s banjo for Hugo Kant’s, MG Sweet Uke for UkuleleGuitar, Larry Seyer’s drum kit for SM Drums, Christian Henson’s Mixing Bowl for Rob’s Dinner Plate Special, and Kalimbascope for FreePats Kalimba
• 5 instruments removed to streamline the list: Numa Player EP-Mark I, CGC Shaker, Kontr, Box Violin Swells, Orchestral Evo Pad
• 2 instruments lost to the void and/or capitalism: Stingray Instruments Kitchen Percussion, Flamenco Dreams Guitar