Free sound samples and soundfonts

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This is a list of useful soundfonts and sound samples.

URLs are accurate as of when this was posted. However, they can change over time. You can use a search engine or archive.org wayback tool to find pages that have been moved or backups of older versions of pages.

Ethan's Original Soundfonts
Royalty free soundfonts created by Ethan Winer.
http://ethanwiner.com/ewsf2.html

FreePats project
Original web site with sound samples
https://web.archive.org/web/20160310040553/http://freepats.zenvoid.org/

Freesound
Collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds
https://www.freesound.org/

MuseScore Soundfont links
SoundFonts recommended by the MuseScore project
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/soundfont

OLPC Free sound samples
Links to free sound sample resources.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Free_sound_samples

Philharmonia Orchestra Sound Samples
Creative Commons licensed sound samples
http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/explore/make_music/

PlopGrizzly
A collection of public domain soundfonts and instrument/sound effect recordings.
https://github.com/PlopGrizzly/PlopGrizzlySound

Titanic Soundfont
Public domain, high quality MIDI soundfont by Luke Sena.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/soundfont-titanic/

University of Iowa Music Instrument Samples
Freely available for use without restriction.
http://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/MIS.html