Hi friends! I'm mainly looking for royalty free high quality clean one shot vocals to cut up and play around with, atmospheric backing vocal loops, dubs, tools and so forth. But also interested in reasonably priced lesser known talented singers for custom one liners to use in House/Techno songs. If ya care to share, what are some good sources to check out in 2023?

 

Most vocal sample packs contain 90%+ junk and they take a lot of listening time to audition them to weed them out. Melodyne can be helpful to change some decent phrases to fit a track; should you find some. If you want to pay for a vocalist; they are of course all over instagram, twitter, fiverr, and upwork. AI, Vocaloids, Kontakt lib releases, or even East/West are others to look into. Also, you can use Acapellas, adlibs, or a De-Mixing tool like RipX or RX.

I would like to say there is an easy way, but there really isn't. People can tend to be tight-lipped about these, because they are literally actual work to find.

 

Thanks for the reply and suggestions. Agreed, 99.99% of whats out there is junk and precisely why I am asking this question here. Are there no singers on this board? No singers anyone has worked with in the past worth checking out? Any worthy new players in the 2023 sample pack market? Any solid sample pack companies that offer custom jobs?

I have a few people I regularly work with (through a label) but was hoping to find some new outside talent to add to the pool or possibly just some new lesser known (as in not on Splice, Loopcloud or whatever) but quality sample packs for the bread and butter type vocal stuff. Yes, I have tried all of the above to little, no or absolutely awful success. Completely "ripping and flipping" samples is not ideal for what I am trying to do now. I suspected it'd be a longshot, but if ya don't ask, well...

I'll come back and share any I stumble across along the way.

 

I agree with clone's assessment of the modern vocal sample market, where it can boil down to needing to hire an actual vocalist just to find the right sound. I would suggest Spectrasonics' own Vocal Planet collection. There's also it's older brother, Symphony of Voices, but it's a lot more broad in terms of vocal samples (choir voices, general vocal sounds), whereas Vocal Planet is a lot more vast and "international" to say the least. It's pretty high-quality, at least for the time it was made, but it should serve you well.

To save you the trouble, I made a conversion of the whole library awhile back for Kontakt, but it's been converted so the patches are seperated (but assigned, no additional configuration necessary) from their corresponding samples incase you only want the wav files directly! Hope this helps!
The Library (via archive.org)

 

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@MokuseiFolf13 That was very kind of you, thanks! Downloading it now and will see whats what inside. I don't use Kontakt so yeah WAVs would be ideal, you say those are somewhere in this download package?

 

Thank you for this

 

Oh, they're in there, you just have to navigate through the instruments folder and the patches should be mostly organized, saved for Vol. 2 was it? I couldn't find proper track listings for it. If you were wondering too, the WAVs already have loop data embedded in them if you wanted to use them in samplers and stuff! Apologies for the late response.

 

You are quite welcome ^w^

 

I think many vocalists have just hopped on the Splice bandwagon. The packs you can find going around seem to be relatively standard fare, but with maybe vocalists who are into some of the more edge-y styles of music. Maybe if you audition the samples they turn out as the same stuff that is not useable on top of your material; but you could identify a few that have a good sound that you like, and then figure out how to contact them.

If you are just looking for practice material, there are lots of "remix contests" and remix packs, like the ones they had on remixpacks.ru types of websites. If something tuns out really well, you could try to get clearance later. At least you know they will fit on something, but you also know they have already been used.

Normally, I make my track and then start thinking adding a vocal might be a good idea. So the trick becomes finding a vocal that will go well with the track (which is the hardest part) and do some "fixing". I have been considering doing the opposite and writing a track to some pre-selected samples instead; and maybe using this Midi plugin called AudioCipher. You type in a text phrase and it generates midi data and it has some rudimentary modifiers like root, scale, melody/chord generator, randomize rhythm and note durations.

There have to be some better options than hiring a vocalist or just relying on dumb luck.

@MokuseiFolf13 I'm going to try out the Omnisphere pack. Thank you

 

You're welcome!! I wonder if Eric would be able to perhaps include them in Omnisphere 3... Or at the very least make it so RR/Multisample soundscources can be constructed. I did my best to keep at as faithfully organized to its AKAI directory listing ^w^

I'm planning to convert more popular sound libraries such as that of the Roland L-CD1 Factory Library as well as the other 1st party Roland sample collections!!

 

My greatest apologies, upon inspection, I realized I had compiled the library to mainly have monolith files, meaning everything is contained in an nki file. However I will make an update where it's only the samples without the patch data. There hasn't been internet for awhile in our area so I'll have to depend on my phone. Please stay tuned!!

 

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I'll have to provide a different source as doing this without an internet connection (other than using my phone's hotspot, thanks ISP for being so unreliable.) I'll prove difficult. For now I'll be providing links of the already converted library bellow:

https://archive.org/download/90s-sample-cds/ILIO - Vocal Planet VOL-1 - Gospel.zip
https://archive.org/download/90s-sample-cds/ILIO - Vocal Planet VOL-2 - Blues & Soul.zip
https://archive.org/download/90s-sample-cds/ILIO - Vocal Planet VOL-3 - Jazz & FX.zip
https://archive.org/download/90s-sample-cds/ILIO - Vocal Planet VOL-4 - R&B & Dance.zip
https://archive.org/download/90s-sample-cds/ILIO - Vocal Planet VOL-5 - World Voices.zip
https://archive.org/download/90s-sample-cds/ILIO - Vocal Planet VOL-6 - Data Disc.zip

NOTE: The data disk (Vol. 6) contains an AKAI listing PDF, which should help you navigate and choose which sample banks you might be interested in.

I most certainly and sincerely apologize for the rather rushed conclusion (thus far, I'm hoping things'll improve in the mean time on my end.), I hope this helps!

 

Last edited: Jul 1, 2023