The Best Free Samples, Serum Presets, Plugins, Resources and Tutorials in 2018

WOOHOO!!!  🎉⚡️🔥The end of 2018 is here and it’s been a fantastic year for Gravitas Create.

Some of our highlights include Au5 and Psymbionic hosting music workshops in Denver, Austin, Grand Rapids, and Indianapolis, 10 production challenges where you all kicked some major ass, releasing Wolf-e-Wolf’s Alien Energy Sample Pack which hit #1 on Beatport Sounds and Prismatic’s Vitality Serum Presets.

We want to thank you all for being a part of this growing community and as a thank you, here’s our favorite samples, tutorials, presets, and resources from 2018.

Free Sample Packs

• Animal Sound Pack
• Defunk’s Breathless Sample Pack
• Bassgorilla’s list of Free Sample Packs
• Effin Bass Glitches
• Hydrophone’s – Underwater Sound Recordings
• Volo’s Drifter Future Bass Sample Pack

Free Downloads

• Supersillyus’s Owen Wilson WOW Sampler
• Radiohead’s Groove Pack
• Modular Patch Garden Presets and Wavetables for Serum
• Catalyst – 120 Free Serum Presets
• AfroDJMac’s Round Wavetable Ableton Live Pack – 32 Free Wavetable Presets From 7 Producers

Production Resources

• Dark Matters Ableton Live 10 Skin
• Music Theory Cheat Sheet
• Song Production Workflow
• Ableton Live Keyboard Shortcuts
• Goal Setting for 2019
• Music Release Checklist

Plugins

• Icon Collective’s List of Free VSTs
• Binaural VST, Anaglyph
• Infected Mushroom’s Wider
• Valhalla Freq Echo
• Bedroom Producers Free VST Plugins Roundup

Tutorials

• Noisia’s Production Tutorial
• Au5 discusses Music Production, Philosophy, and Balancing his Personal Life
• 10 Tips for Mastering if You’re Not a Mastering Engineer
• 35 Best Youtube Channels for Electronic Music Production
• Kill The Noise on Making Drums with Serum
• Wolf-e-Wolf’s Fundamentals of Dubstep
• Exploring Odd Time Signatures in Ableton w/ Supersillyus
• Advanced Automation in Ableton Live
• In The Daw with Bassline Drift