Samples & Sampling Resources Flame Studios have some free guitar Gigasamples. Wavosaur is a very useful free Windows sound editor supporting wav and mp3 files as well as VST. https://ytmp3.cc/ provides free conversion of YouTube videos to MP3. Audacity is free digital audio recording and editing software for Win, Mac and Linux with VST support. See Synth Zone's Soundfont Page for links to sites providing .SBK files and related software.

Sampling Related Software

Acid Music	Sonic Foundry's Acid Music provides advanced loop editing capabilities for digital audio production. Also see AcidFanatic for links to Acid resources.
ATRip	ATRip is Windows CD audio ripper software from Voice Crystal designed for sampling musicians.
Awave - FMJ Software	Author of the audio format converter Awave for Windows This is a great tool for any PC & sampler owner. Huge list of supported formats including Midi SDS Dump, Akai .SND files and much more.
Cool Edit	A very capable wave editor for Windows.
Digidesign	Makers of Sample Cell sample RAM hardware for the Mac & PC. New PCI See Support for support & software updates.
D-SoundPro	Professional shareware sound editor for the Mac. Supports AIFF & midi standard sample dump. Demo version can be downloaded for a 15 day trial period.
Extreme Sample Translator	Extreme Sample Converter is a multifunctional audio program, browser, player, and program editor with advanced conversion between different sample formats. It supports most sample formats including Giga, Akai, SoundFont and Halion. Also provides an autolooping function.
Gigasampler	Sick of trying to loop sampled instruments ? Nemesys present software polyphonic sample playback for Win95 that supports samples up to 2 GB in size. See Sonic Control Gigasampler Users Networkand the Gigasampler Users Site for more info & support, as well as Worra's Place which has sounds and a message board for Gigasampler users. Also check Glasstrax for sampling tips and Bigga Giggas sample CDs. AudioHeadz also provides sample packs in Gigasampler format. There is also a Yahoo Nemesys Group for discussion of Nemesys products.
GoldWave Digital Audio Editor	Another very good Windows audio editor
GrooveMaker	Real time remixable groove-generator using random combinations of loops using pre-arranged studio-ready sample collections. Includes Techno, Trance, Dub, Progressive Hardcore, House, Jungle etc. Also see Virtual Synth Arpeggiator and the virtual DJ V-Mix software. And now new sample libraries just available for the GrooveMaker, the IG Interactive-Groove series.
Infinity	Antares presents DSP looping tools for the Mac. Highly rated in reviews, Inifinity takes all the pain out of finding/creating that seamless loop. A very unique product.
Mellosoftron	Software sampler for Windows. Download free to try it out. Turn's any WAV file into an intrument you can play from your midi keyboard.
Mixman Studio	Presentation software that allows you to build & mix a CD audio track. Libraries of source material avilable including hip hop, dance & techno etc. Great for DJ mixes and includes tempo matching and more. Demo available. Also see Mixlab.
Rramm Drrumm	An archive of Sisusoft's freeware Rramm Drrumm for Windows is a dedicated tool for playing drum (and any other one-shot stereo) samples via MIDI. It can be used as a drum machine with a sequencer.
SampleCalc	UCSoft presents their shareware Win9X program to perform calculations on sample rate to BPM and vice versa. Also includes a time/tempo sample stretch rate calculaor.
Samplifier	A Midi/SCSI transfer utility for the Mac that supports MIDI Sample Dump Standard.
Sample Tank	Windows software that provides all the features of a hardware sampler. 100's of sounds available.
Sample Wrench	Dissident's sound sample editor which supports SDS, SMDI and other samplers. Available for Windows 95/NT and Amiga.
SMIDI	SMDI is able to exchange samples between your Mac and your SCSI equiped Sampler.
Sound Forge	Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge sample editor (demo available) Available for the PC, with full plugin support this is a heavyweight sample editing application and a must to check out. Now includes CD mastering facilities.
Translator	Sample Tranlator will convert between many different sample file formats including Akai, Roland, EOS & Kurzweil. Some retrictions still apply on which conversions are available.
Tuareg	A Win9x software device called "interactive phrase sampler". Demo available for download. It is a sequencer/loop-composer/remixer that creates tracks out of the loops, samples and short sounds you feed it.
Unity DS-1	A full featured software sampler for Win95 and Mac platforms.
Wave Extractor	Wave Xtractor is a handy Windows audio tool which lets you extract RAW sound data (.Wav) from popular File formats including Sound Font 2, Korg PA and Yamaha Tyros series.
Wave Surgeon	Wave Surgeon for Win95 is a breakbeat splitting and loop finding tool , which allows you to change a breakbeat`s pitch without changing speed + vice versa.
Wavosaur	Wavosaur is a free Windows sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing, processing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files. Has VST and Asio support.
Xloop Converter	Free Windows sampling calculator. Enter one field: BPM, number of samples, number of bytes or duration and Xloop Converter will calculate the other fields.
Zero-X Seamless Looper	Windows software with SCSI support for creating sample loops.
Zero-X Groove Editor	Atari software with SCSI support for creating drum grooves. Support for AKAI S900 & up, Ensoniq EPS & up, EMU, GEM, Kurzweil K2000 & up, Roland S7xx, Yamaha and any sampler that supports Standard MIDI Sample Dump.