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charlesism
I've wasted a lot of time in the past year searching the net for individual instruments with a "Creative Commons" license. This is brilliant.
SyneRyder
You've probably found it already, but you might also be interested in the Virtual Playing Orchestra, which is a compilation of various Creative Commons orchestra samples. It sounds a bit "General MIDI", but if you dive into the samples there are individual instruments and some usable stuff.

http://virtualplaying.com/virtual-playing-orchestra/

Mizza
If you're an Ableton user, I wrote a script that will create and install instruments from the CC-licensed Philharmonia Orchestra samples:

https://github.com/Miserlou/ADGMaker

superted
Awesome! Do you think the script supports windows as well?
monetus
Thank you for posting this. A clean, curated set of samples is a valuable thing.
puranjay
Check out Splice.com. It's paid but the range of samples is incredible. Most are also "production-ready"
vortico
This is an excellent archive. Although, I find it a bit funny that they warn "over 8GiB (!!) of space" for the entire page of samples, while most commercial single-instrument sample sets these days are often 25GB+, and a symphony composer will easily have terabytes. But I suppose this is for the One Laptop Per Child project, so 8GB would be pretty significant.
mnx
Is there any information about the license of these samples? Should I treat them like wiki content and assume CC Attribution?
eerwrq
The download link for each sample collection points to an entry on archive.org which lists the license of the samples.
jacquesm
If someone wants to take the time to torrent this I'll be happy to seed the torrent.
stef25
At the top of the page are various torrent links. The first is broken (they say) and they've posted a magnet link + a link on Torrage.
jacquesm
None of them work, as far as I can see.
christophilus
Has anyone tried these? If so, I'd love to hear some music created with them.
veli_joza
Unfortunately, the singing samples are very poor. Does anybody by chance know a good sample library of singer/choir with multiple samples per octave, with a license that allows re-distribution? Surprisingly hard to find.
tjr
I like this one for some things: https://realitone.com/realivox/
veli_joza
Sounds great. Unfortunately, samples are not redistributable.
tjr
My apologies, I apparently glossed over that item in your requirements list.
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