81 Free Sample Packs That Will Make You Boss It As An Electronic Music Producer
Hooking you up with the best samples that cost nothing
When you start out as a new electronic music producer, it is a daunting stage. Everyone seems to have all the hardware, software, VSTs and samples and you don’t know where to start.
Before you are crushing it and earning a living from your music, a good place to start is providers of free sample packs.
This is where I began my musical journey and it took me forever and a day to find all of these sites.
The good news for you is they are all in one place…below!
Enjoy the samples and let me know in the comments if they helped you as a music producer.
Cymatics — Apex One Shots Vol 3
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Analog synthesizers can produce some of the richest and unique sounds that VSTs just can’t quite emulate.
Build your own melodies from the ground up or sprinkle in melodic textures, using these incredible one shots from hard to access synths.
This collection was created using legendary synthesizers from the past 40 years such as the Moog One, Prophet 6, and more.
Apex One Shots Vol. 3 specs:
- 100 samples
- 91.3 MB
- .WAV (works in any music software)
- 100% royalty free
Ghosthack — Free 2021 Starter Pack
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2020 was a tough year for everybody, so let’s make 2021 your best year ever! A unique selection of free samples, loops and SFX for music producers and filmmakers.
This freebie contains full drum loops with STEM files, nice percussion loops, catchy vocal loops, lush atmospheric pads, crispy drum one-shots, live recorded foley sounds, percussion and awesome sound effects.
All sounds are 100% royalty free and can be used for commercial projects.
Black Octopus — Stay Inspired Vol 2
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During times of crisis, and in this case a pandemic, we all know the best way to overcome and endure is to come together and find like minded inspirations to help one another get through. Black Octopus wants to give back to its community of creatives, musicians and artists, and have therefore put together another bundle built by its elite artists; Stay Inspired Beats. This is the follow up to the earlier pack “Stay At Home Beats”, released earlier in 2020.
Stay Inspired Beats is made by artists, for artists. Built with top shelf premium quality samples, one shots, presets, and much more. This will keep you moving along and creating your own artistic vision while the world heals and becomes one! Artists that helped make this pack include: Greg Oerlemans, Dennis Sheppard, Killsam, Jackson Frost, Diamaudix Audio, Everyman, Veela, Nick Tourbis, & Michael Misch!
This is the definitive sound library for all styles of productions, providing you with inspiration for years to come.
Jon Sine — Free Deep House Sample Pack
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This free Deep House sample pack contains 72 analog synth shots, which have all been tuned to C, so you don’t need to spend any time figuring out the right key. They’ve been rendered in multiple octaves and went from hardware synths straight through an analog signal chain. Jon processed some of his favorite Deep House drum hits using the same gear. The drum kit contains classic 909 sounds, but also some modern stuff. Deep House Essentials is mainly based on old equipment, so it’s a great fit for genres like Deep House, Classic House, or basically everything House-related. The download is 100% royalty-free and free to download.
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- 60 Drum Shots
- 72 Synth Shots
- 100% royalty-free
Function Loops — Trends 2021
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- Over 300 files completely free to download (770MB unzipped).
- Royalty-free so you can use in commercial projects, no strings attached!
- Drums, Basslines, Melodies, Synths, FX, Vocal Acapellas, MIDI.
Ghosthack — Coriolis Effect
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“Coriolis Effect — Cinematic Dimensions” is a royalty free cinematic sample pack infused with high tension & drama for music producers and filmmakers alike. And the best thing is, it is 100% FREE!
W.A Productions — 10GB Collection
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WA has handpicked a huge collection of some of their best sounds and put them together to bring you ‘What About: Free Anniversary Collection Volume 7.’
No matter your preferred genres or taste, this collection has plenty to get excited about. With samples covering Dubstep, Hardstyle, Lofi, Synthwave, G House, Bass House, Trap, Electro, there’s truly something for everyone. Included is a wide range of Drums, FX, Synths, Vocals, Basses, and countless other sounds to make an impact on your collection.
If you’re in need of an instant inspiration boost, look no further than this incredible pack.
Product details:
- 10 GBs of content (Uncompressed)
- 2000+ Files
- Construction Kits
- Presets for Serum, Sylenth1, Spire, Massive
- Melody Loops and Synth Shots
- Drum Loops and Drum Shots
- FX
- Vocal Loops, Acapellas and Vocal Shouts
- MIDI Loops
- 100% Royalty Free
Black Octopus — Stay At Home Beats
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In times of crisis, coming together as a community in support of one another is necessary. An elite team of artists at Black Octopus Sound have built a premium quality and highly diverse sample pack. The following artists have teamed up to deliver some of their best material you can enjoy fresh inspiration while you are staying at home:
Basement Freaks, Veela, We Bang, Dennis Sheperd, Protoculture, Chop Shop Samples, Tommy Studiolife, Killsam, Cyborgs, Marc Haven, Qdup, and Blamers.
This multi genre pack includes Construction Kits, Snappy kick drums for all genres, snares, cymbals, percussion, bass one shots and loops to fill out your low end, Serum wavetables, Synth/Instrument samples, MIDI files, and vocals.
Pack size: Over 800MB with 438 Sounds
- 2 Construction Kits
- 164 Drum Samples
- 150 Synths & Instrument Samples
- 22 Serum Wavetables
- 44 FX Samples
- 22 MIDI Patterns
- 15 Vocal Samples
MyLoops — Free Psy Trance
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Looking for a solid free psytrance sample pack? Myloops offers over 600MB of Psy Trance Samples, WAV loops, and psy trance MIDI files for FREE.
All of these sounds are 100% royalty-free which means you can use them in your own productions. These sounds will work in every sequencer on the market: Ableton Live, FL Studio, Cubase, Logic Pro, Reaper, Studio One, Acid, and many more.
The pack is great for classic psytrance, progressive psytrance, and goa.
Cymatics — Odyssey EDM Sample Pack
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EDM has proved its place in the top genres of music, dominating the scene for many years now.
With some of the most notable names of music in general, artists like Skrillex, Zedd, and Diplo are steadily making waves with their genre bending and cutting edge sound.
Each sound inside was carefully designed by experts to give you full control when choosing the vibe and direction of your next track.
Odyssey Sample Pack specs:
- 300+ samples
- .WAV (works in any music software)
- 100% royalty free
Cymatics — Pharoah Free Sample Pack
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• 169 premium .WAV samples
• 808s, Claps, Snares, Hi’s + much more
• MIDI sequences included
• Includes Egyptian-style trap melodies
• 100% Royalty Free
Cymatics — Cobra Hip Hop Sample Pack
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After connecting with some of the world’s best artists in the Hip Hop space, it seems that a lot of their songs always have that “IT” factor that make them successful.
And after analyzing thousands of songs and working with top people in the industry, Cymatics realized the KEY ingredient is: Great artistry and musicianship.
They have been doing studio sessions nonstop for months so you can get professional recordings of guitars, flutes, pianos, and more — all 100% royalty-free.
The “COBRA” Hip Hop sample pack captures these sessions by giving you an authentic collection of flute & guitar recordings, melody loops, drum loops, drum one shots, MIDI, and more.
Each of the guitar & flute loops were professionally recorded by session players who flew out to work with them.
And the MIDI section of this pack is divided into “Hihat MIDI”, “Melodic MIDI”, and “Essential Chord MIDI” — giving you useful MIDI for interesting hi hat patterns and chord progressions alike.
Not to mention, every melody loop and drum loop was also carefully constructed by our team of passionate, experienced writers and producers.
- 350+ premium samples, loops, 808s, and studio session recordings
• Flute & guitar recordings, melody loops, drum loops, drum one shots
• MIDI sequences
• Professionally recorded by session players
• 100% Royalty Free
Black Octopus Ultimate 2.5 GB Collection
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Huge library of samples over a range of genres, including sounds from:
• Future Funkstep
• Organic Elements
• Wicked Drum Kits
• Monster Kick V1
• Leviathan
Victek Music — 420 Free Techno Sounds
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• 24 bit 44.100 Hz WAV format
• Kicks, snare, Hi’s + much more percussion
• Synth loops, basslines, drops, risers
• 100% royalty free
• Note: Email address required for download
Mode Audio — 800 MB Sampler
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• Loops, drum & SFX samples, synth presets, MIDI loops, field recordings
• Electric guitar riffs, pulsating analog synth loops, percussion samples
• 100% royalty free
• .wav format for the loops & samples (44.1kHz/24 bit)
_david Samples Vol 1
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This pack contains 156 samples including a variety of percussive one-shot samples and loops as well as eclectic instrument and vocal recordings.
• 60 (12 x5) Tuned 808 Kicks
• 7 Standard Kicks
• 10 Snares
• 41 Percussive Loops / Fills
• 17 FX Shots / Risers
• 10 Vox Chops / Phrases
• 11 Other Samples
AKAS DNB Essentials
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AKAS DNB ESSENTIALS ia a DNB tool kit with everything you need to make drum n bass in one sample pack.
• 25 Bass one-shots
• 20 drum loops
• 15 kick drums
• 15 percussion samples
• 16 snares
• 16 pad/drone samples
r-loops — Free Trap Melodies
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• Trap, Hip Hop, and RnB samples
• 48 Trap melody loops
• 21 Drum loops
• WAV format
Blvck — Trap Stems
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Free Trap Stems from FXRBES BEATS is a collection of 203 sounds that are intended to build Hip Hop, Trap music.
The sample pack consists of carefully prepared samples of instruments such as Piano, Electric Piano, Grand Piano, Guitar, Bell . This library was inspired by top musicians, including Travis Scott, Juice WRLD, London on da Track.
• Claps, Snares, 808s, Kick drums, Guitars and more
• 100% Royalty-Free
• Download Size: 670mb
• Format: 16bit 44.1k WAV
• Note: Email address required for download
MyLoops — Progressive House
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• Progressive house synths, basslines, FX, drum loops and one shots
• 400MB of Progressive House Samples
• 24bit 44.1 kHz WAV
• 100% Royalty free
• BPM / Key Information written in each filename
• MIDI files provided with each melodic loop
MyLoops — Synthwave
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• WAV 44.1 kHz seamless loops
• 300+ MB content for FREE
• 20 Synthwave Spire Presets
• 3 Templates for Ableton Live, Cubase & FL Studio
• 100% Royalty free
• BPM / Key Information written in each filename
UpstreamSquad — Twilight Chill
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- Dreamy, elegant chillstep / ambient sounds
- 36 Drum One Shots
- 36 Melodic Loops
- 10 FX
- 22 MIDI Files
- Free signup needed to download
Loop Cartel — EDM Remix Tools
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DJ Puzzle is a producer with over 20 years in the industry creating EDM packs, EDM samples, and EDM loops.
He has produced for some of the industry’s biggest labels including Sony Creative Software, Acoustica Mixcraft, Presonus, Retronymns, and Loopmasters.
He has also produced well over 200 EDM sample packs in his time and is still producing them to this day.
• 318 loops, 111 Drum one-shots, and 55 synth shots.
• Contemporary EDM samples
• Includes Mixed Beats, Complextro Synths, Side Chained Basses
• Organs, Pads, SFX, Hard Basses, Hard Chords, Triplet Synths
• Leads, Kick Drums, Beat Tops, Percussion, Hi Hats + more
Cymatics — Uzi Hip Hop Sample Pack
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Lil Uzi Vert has had an absolutely meteoric rise to fame over the last few years. Huge songs like XO Tour Life and The Way Life Goes have made him a familiar name to just about every Hip Hop fan out there today.
They worked meticulously to capture the melodic elements that Lil Uzi Vert is known for, and this resulted in a collection of amazing melody loops that can be used in many different genres outside of Hip Hop as well.
Not to mention, the drums are crisp and high quality, and the FX are perfect for creating unique ambience.
You’ll have everything you need to make professional-sounding beats.
• Hip Hop Sample Pack
• In style of Lil Uzi Vert
• Full drum loops, melody loops, FX
• Drum one shots + more
AudioSample — Free Tech House Effects
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• Wav format — 44100Khz 24 bit
• 180 Texture / FX samples
• Sweeps, uplifts, bubbling FX, ambience, soundbeds
• Perfect for techno / tech-house
About Noise — Techno Sample Pack
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• Organic, dark elements
• Groovy loops, drum loops, percussions, stunning vocals
• Amazing textures, top loops and kick loops
• .Wav files.
• Dark techno, minimal techno etc.
Audiovat — Trance Vocal Sample Pack
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- High quality trance .WAV loops
- 31 loops
- Includes, vocals, bass, chords, drums etc
- Requires sign-up but you get access to more free samples
- 100 royalty-free
- Signup needed
Loop Cult: 9 FREE Sample Packs
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• Disrupt: Dubstep samples
• Rebel: Future Bass / Trap
• UNIT: Vintage Drums
• Colors: House samples
• Vortex: Experimental samples
• Arachne: Drum and Bass samples
Free Sample Packs: Drums / Percussion Only
Ghosthack — Unique Drum Collection
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• 300 Drum One-Shots and Loops
• Glitch percussion loops, foley percussion
• Inspiring drum loop stems and fills
• 808 kicks
• 44 FX Samples + 15 Vocal Samples
• 22 MIDI Patterns + much more!
• 100% royalty free
BVKER — Pierre Bourne Type Drum Kit
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• 15 key-labelled 808’s
• 11 kick drums
• 17 claps
• 9 Snare Drums
• 42 cymbals
• 6 Percussion
• 100% Royalty Free
Warm 808 Bass Samples
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• 500 808 Bass Samples
• 1.5 GB
• 100% royalty-free
• 24-bit WAV format
99 Sounds — Massa Molla
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• One shot drum hits, foley percussion sounds and abstract sound effects
• 100% Royalty free
• 99 audio samples
• 100% Royalty-Free
• Digitally processed and transformed
99 Sounds — 120 Kick Drums
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• 120 key labeled bass drum samples
• WAV format
• Also includes SFZ and NKI patches for each kick
• Traditional kicks, subby kicks and minimal kicks
The Ultimate Amen Breaks Pack
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• Wav format samples in 16+24 bit, 44100–96000, mono+stereo.
• 800+ free amen drum loops
• Sampled and remixed loops
• 1.13 GB of sounds
Orange Tree Samples — Jazz Funk Drums
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• Download Size: 102 MB
• WAV samples + Kontact files
• Kick, snare, two toms, and two cymbals
• Excellent tone suitable for jazz and funk
Drum Depot: Brute Drums
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• 24 DrumBrute drum kits.
• 288 Samples, properly named and sorted by category.
• Color coded pads for Battery and Maschine.
• Full engines with patterns and samples for Geist.
• 100+ MIDI Drum Patterns.
Kontact Libraries / Patches
Output — Signal Free
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• 25 unique instrument presets
• LFOs, step, arpeggiator and looper controls
• Evolving atmospheric pads and textures
• Intuitive, easy-to-use interface
ProjectSAM — The Free Orchestra
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• HUGE library of orchestral samples
• Strings, brass clusters, symphonic percussion and ambient, dystopian pads.
• 14 high quality instrument presets
Keep Forest — Ferrum
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• Unique, percussive sounds
• Powerful snares, cavernous impacts and shimmering cymbals.
• Perfect for cinematic, epic sounds
• Can modulate the filter, pan, and pitch
Project Exodus — Kontakt Library
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• 127 instrument patches
• Soundscapes, instruments and sequences
• Cinematic pads, huge soundscapes, drones, drum loops
• 24-bit stereo WAV files also included
• NKI patches
Embertone Ancient Voices For Kontakt
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• FULL Version Kontakt instrument
• Professional All-Male Chamber Choir
• Legato/Poly mode
• Close/Stage mic settings, Reverb option
Sonixinema Medicine Man — Tongue Drum Kontact Patch
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• Unique atmosphere layer
• Pristine sound quality, flexible and easy to use interface
• Requires the FULL version of Kontakt 5.8.1 +
TAQSIM — Kontakt Middle Eastern Instrument
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• Fully-playable NI Kontakt Middle Eastern instrument
• 19 Sounds included
• Requires the FULL version of Kontakt 5.8.1 +
Other Packs
Sounds Of Life — Ocean Swift Synthesis
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• Field recordings of everyday sounds
• Contains manipulated, strange edits of these sounds
• 594 Files
• 904MB total
• 24-bit — 44100hz .wav format
• Percussive glitches and voice glitches
99Sounds — Space Divers Mini
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• 49 sound effects
• High-quality 24-bit WAV format
• 455 MB
• Space and underwater exploration FX
• Sci-fi movie FX
99Sounds — Garage Foley
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• Field recordings that were captured in a garage
• 100 Foley Samples
• 32-bit WAV Format
• 44.1 khz Stereo
• Free NKI patch for Native Instruments Kontakt
• 40.2 MB download size
Ghosthack Cinematic Sound FX — 50 Free Samples
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• High-quality foley hits, abstract layered impacts
• Heavy bass sound fx and outstanding sequences.
• 24bit .wav files
• 70MB
• 50 sounds
GhostHack — 100 Free Cinematic Sounds
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• 100 free cinematic / atmospheric sounds
• Atonal effects, drones, hits, synth sounds and whooshes
• Perfect for film-makers / adding foley / atmosphere
EDMProd — EDM Starter Kit
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- 700+ samples
- Drums
- Loops
- FX
- Serum presetes
- Our best educational resources
Sample Radar
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Over 68,445 samples and growing daily.
Samplephonics
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Brought to you by the makers of the sample subscription service Noiiz these guys also have a bunch of free sounds you can grab on their website. They vary from trap, to D&B, and to tropical bass.
Signup needed
Bass Gorilla
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Known for its great tutorials and resources, BassGorilla has a whole section on its website dedicated to free samples. Grab sounds from prolific artists like Koan Sound and MakO.
Mode Audio
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- 800MB worth of samples for free.
- This is split across 5 packs from granular FX to chill electronic loops, with a few massive presets thrown in too.
- Signup needed
SoundPacks.com
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Be careful not to infringe copyright as the freedom to upload also means the freedom to distribute paid packs illegally. Apart from that, this resource is a gold mine for any sort of sound, from staples to experimental.
WA Production
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“What About” loves free samples. Not only do you get 3.3GB of free sample and preset content when you sign up for their newsletter, but they also have a solid portion of their site dedicated to giving away free stuff packs that you normally have to join their subscription service to access.
The only catch is that these downloads are all through the Pump Your Sound fangate, meaning you have to follow them on Soundcloud. Not a big deal though.
SampleSwap
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This website has some weird and wonderful sounds (being around since 2001), some are more bread-and-butter, while others are definitely a mixed bag.
One of the cool features this site offers is the ability to download ‘random’ packs, so you don’t really know what you’re getting. This way you can get sounds you might not normally pick — great for inspiration.
Freesound.org
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This sound sharing website hosts a bunch of samples, not just for music production, but also for video games, video production and foley art, and a lot more. So the types of sounds you get on here are quite varied.
Simply make an account and you can search for any sound you like. You can get individual files, whole packs or even browse a certain uploaders catalog of sounds.
Reddit Subreddits
Once again, be mindful that some of these resources could infringe copyright, so be smart. Here are a few of my favorites:
- r/drumkits — A lot of producers upload their free kits here to download, typically containing drum loops and one-shots. Great for hip-hop oriented music
- r/hotsamples — A great resource for sharing music to sample. No downloads are linked for obvious reasons.
- r/samplesforall — Any kind of sample. Music. Drum kits. Drum machines. Audio. You name it, it’ll be there.
- r/youshouldsamplethis — For obscure non-melodic samples like film dialogue and random audio snippets.
- r/freesounds — Includes free sample packs among presets and other production freebies.
- r/samplehunters — For finding samples contained in other songs.
- r/vintageobscura — Very obscure record sharing. Lots of fun.
- r/vinylcollectors — Pretty self-explanatory.
Legowelt Free Packs
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Germany-based underground producer Legowelt is an industry stalwart of sorts, with a decent release catalog and a reputation for obscure sounds. In addition to these things, he’s also put out a number of analog sample packs over the years, all of which sound warm and fuzzy.
Sound 7
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Sound 7 have a nice variety of different samples (and presets for a bunch of different synths) available on their site.
Echo Sound Works
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A lot of great free samples and presets available from a solid rotation of talented sound designers. You’ll get everything from bread and butter sounds to weird and wonderful nuggets. Particularly good for that modern EDM sound, but also some stuff that’s begging to be used in fresh ways.
The Pro Audio Files
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The Pro Audio Files have a great free download where you get 100+ hand-crafted drum samples, loops, effects, transitions, impulse responses, reverb tails, synths, harmonies and more.
NASA Sound Library
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Want to create an esoteric, spaced-out aesthetic on your tracks? Why not use actual sounds from space! NASA has built a great library of recorded sounds from various interstellar activities over the years, and put them up on their Soundcloud and website.
Bedroom Producers Blog
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A haven for bedroom producers who have no money of their own when starting out in electronic music production. Not only do they have a knack for compiling high-quality free plugins and sampler instruments, but they also release their own free sample packs.
Samples From Mars
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Need some carefully curated, high-quality vintage drum sounds? That’s Samples From Mars’ specialty. You can find a few free packs on their website that are smaller versions of their paid packs. You do need to checkout in order to grab them, but hey, free samples are free samples.
Gratis by That Sound
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That Sound creates awesome samples that span beyond electronic music, including this free pack of 500 sounds. Whether you make hip-hop, pop, rock, or EDM, this pack will give you the sounds you need.
Jonas Aden Free Packs
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Like me, Jonas went through a lot with mental health challenges and had to take time off from his music career. He made great music production content detailing his journey as a producer and does great challenges and fun music things.
BBC Sound FX Library
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You gotta love the British. I was born there! So a gift from “The Beeb” has come in the form of this epic sound FX library. Note that while these sounds are free to download, you’ll need to purchase a license if you want to use them commercially.
Diode Eins “Hymenoptera” Techno Pack
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Making techno? You have to check this great free pack from the trio Diode Eins. In total, you’ll get 181 samples — not bad for $0.
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