MGF Audio is a free sound library by the Sydney-based sound designer Martin Peploe, who kindly offers this unique collection of experimental samples for free download via 99Sounds.
The free download link is located at the end of this article.
The Library
MGF Audio focuses largely on raw analog and digital tones, as well as cloudy ambient textures, often with a lean towards 90s electronica and “IDM” such as Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin.
This free sound library comprises a collection of multi-sampled instruments, one-shot samples, and a set of 50 presets for the Ableton Operator virtual instrument.
The included sounds range from warm tones of the Roland Juno synthesizer that was recorded to VHS tape to harsh digital noises, Yamaha DX21 glitches, and organic percussion sounds.
The glitch one-shots were made by using Max MSP to modulate the parameters of a Yamaha DX21 and Arturia Moog Modular V. Martin used some relatively simple but versatile mathematical sequencers while automating several parameters.
After recording a jam, he would crop all the sounds into one-shots or loops. The beefy field recordings were made by running found percussive sounds through certain compression and limiter effects to increase the otherwise quick decay time.
The Artist
The pack represents a small fraction of Martin Peploe’s sound design work.
To hear more of Martin’s samples, you can check out his Bandcamp page, which features dozens of hardware synth multi-samples available for free download (with optional donations), and his Tumblr for more sounds, Max and Reaktor patches, VSTs, and anything else audio-related.
For more info about the MGF Audio sample pack and a bit of insight into Martin’s sound design workflow, check out his official website.
Technical Details
MGF Audio contains 120 audio samples in 24-bit WAV format, Ableton Operator presets, and instrument patches for Native Instruments Kontakt. The contents are sorted into folders for easy browsing. The download size is 132 MB (ZIP archive).
19 Comments
Nice one!
Thanks!
Thanks Martin!
Thanks!
I’m still using your samples from the contest almost all of my crazy unusual tracks have some of the 99sounds in them. I like plugging them into some different samplers. Alwasy find something unusual with them. Thanks Martin.
Thanks for your work! Really exclusive sound!
Thank you so much for these awesome sample packs! Great work!
lol, i do not know how to open a .rar file, can somebody help me?
Thank You Martin
Hi! Can some one please tell me how to use these wonderful samples on a DAW. Like I have Ableton Live 8 and Cubase 5. How do I import these sounds into the library of sounds. There are no dll. files. So how do I use these samples? Drag and drop or how? Please help me and guide me.
Hi Kavdhi, these are just WAV files which you can drag and drop into your project or load them in a sampler instrument (One Small Clue’s Grace is a great freeware sampler).