User guide

AS Free Collection

The AS Free Collection is a bundle of 5 free instruments: 3 Drum libraries, a Vibraphone and an Upright Bass.

acousticsamples.net/as-free-collection November 2026

Overview

The AS Free Collection is a bundle of 5 free instruments.
This package does not require an iLok key, but bear in mind that other paid libraries will need one.


TinySnare The TinySnare is a 12' wooden snare drums, We recorded it with a lot of different hits, separated left and right hands. There is even two mcrophones,, one up and one down.	UDU Free UDU Free is a Nigerian side hole pot drum, it is (a tiny) part of the Percussiv library.


DrumTAsteFree The DrumTAsteFree is a Rick Marotta Signature Hipgig drum set with paiste cymbals.	Viby The Viby Vibraphone is a three octave Yamaha vibraphone. It has one sample per note.


Kontr Kontr is a small upright bass library.

Technical specifications

TinySnare

60Mb sample bank, no loops, snare only

150 samples 75 for right hand and 75 for left hand

recorded with a Neumann KM184 pair one up, one down

no equalization or treatment has been applied

UDU Free

130Mb of samples recorded at 24 bits, 88.2khz downsamples to 24bits/44.1khz.

Carefully recorded with all of the possible strokes, bass, bass muted, side, fingertips...

4 Cycle round robins.

Detailed instruments: Up to 15 velocity layers per round robin.

DrumTAsteFree

80Mb of samples recorded at 16 bits, 44.1khz.

Custom mapping, you can assign every element to any key from the interface.

Mappings presets: GM, V-DRUMS, IMAP, NSKIT (NDK) or default one.

cc# controlled Hihat that features automatic closing sound.

2 Cycle round robins.

Sensitivity button to adjust the response.

Detailed instruments: 6 velocity layers per round robin

Viby

112Mb,

One sample for each note

Kontr

105Mb, 190 samples.

2 Velocity layers for the sustain.

Release samples.

Harmonics, ghost samples.

Sample player

VSTVST3AUAAXStandalone

AS Free Collection plays in UVI Player (formerly UVI Workstation), UVI's free sample player. We provide it with every library you buy, so you don't need an expensive sampler to use our products. It works on Mac (macOS 10.14 or later, Intel or Apple silicon) and Windows (10 or later), standalone or as a plug-in (VST / VST3 / AU / AAX), in 64-bit only. More about it here.

Copy protection

We use the iLok system to protect our products and you can choose to register your license to your computer or to an iLok dongle. If you decide to use an iLok dongle, both V1 and V2 are compatible with our products. You can activate your license on up to 3 computers or iLok dongles at the same time and you can deactivate one and activate another as many times as you want.

Registration

Once your order is complete, you will be provided with a serial number. You will then be able to register it to your iLok account from our website on this page (you need to be logged in to access this page). The whole process is described in the FAQ (instructions + screencast).