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Free Sample Packs
What is a sample pack?
Sample pack(in music) is a collection of sounds that are compiled together in a package to be used while creating music, sound scores and any form of usable audio. There are various different kinds of sample packs available in the market today. The most common way to segregate the sample packs is in terms of genres. Pretty much any genre you want to make today, you’ll find plenty of both premium and free sample packs online.
What are the contents of a sample pack?
A Sample pack consists of drum samples, synth samples, bass samples, live instrument samples, vocal samples, fx samples, MIDI, presets etc. A particular sample pack might have one or more of these types of samples.
What are some of the best free sample packs?
There are a bunch of sample packs online that you can have for absolutely no cost. Purchasing sample packs can be a slippery slope, especially when you are at the early stages of your music career. These free sample packs are a great tool to make your tracks sound professional and even provide inspiration for your tracks. We have compiled a list of the best free sample packs available in 2022 down below.
We Rave You Tech Sample Pack Vol. 2
- 15 Kicks
- 15 Claps
- 15 Snare
- 15 Melody Loops
- 10 Percussion Loops
- 11 Bass One Shots
- 10 FX
Evoque – Drums & Melody Loops – Sample Pack
- 58 – Drum Loops (Tagged by BPM & Genres)
- 10 – Melody Loops
- 25 – MIDIs
free download
Free Vocal Kit II
- 60 free female vocal samples including chants, one-words, short phrases, cuts and breath sounds.
free download
FREE FEMALE VOCALS
- 75 Vocal samples containing whole phrases, one-words and some melodic chants.
ULTIMATE VOCAL LIBRARY 3 FREE TEASER SAMPLE PACK
- 28 unique vocal files, including one full acapella and its appropriate melodic MIDI file.
free download
Free Guitar Samples
- 31 guitar one-shots and loops
free download
Free Cinematic Sounds
- 100 outstanding cinematic sound effects including atmospheric loops, atonal effects, drones, hits, synth sounds, and whooshes.
free download
Free Retro Synth Sounds
- 20 loops and 11 one-shots
free download
Free Trap Drum Loops
- 10 full Trap drum loops
free download
Free MIDI Files
- arps, leads, chords and basslines
free download
Free Foley Sounds
- bells,water bubbles, coins, crystal sounds, glass shatter, metal, paper, wine glass samples
free download
Free Synthwave Samples
- 44 Synthwave one-shots and loops
free download
Vocal Atmos Female – PML
- 300 professionally recorded and mixed female vocal phrases, loops, one-shots and loads of “oohs & aahs”
free download
Aperitivo Sample Pack – PML
- 100 Royalty-Free high quality one-shots and loops including kicks, toms, shakers, snares, FXs, percussion, claps, vocals, and more!
free download
Free Serum Presets
- 6 Lead Presets
- 5 Bass Presets
- 3 Chord Presets
- 3 Key Presets
- 2 808 Presets
- 2 Atmos Presets
- 2 Reese Presets
- 2 Pluck Presets
free download
Free Sylenth Presets
- 1 Bank File
- 25 Sylenth1 Presets
- 9 Bass Presets
- 5 Lead Presets
- 4 Arp Presets
- 2 Chord Presets
- 2 Key Presets
- 2 Pad Presets
- 1 String Preset
free download
Tunecraft Ethereal Chord Progressions Vol.2 Demo – Free WAV & MIDI files
- 20 chords progressions
Urban Pop Vol 1 Demo – Free Urban Loops
- 5 Construction Kits
BIG ROOM Complete Production Package Demo – Free Sylenth and Massive Presets
- 32 Massive Patches
- 32 Sylenth1 Patches
Dub Techno Loops FREE DEMO
- Includes Drums, Synths, Basses, Vocals, and Sound Effects
- 172 WAV Loops
- 184 One Shots
- 126 REX2 Loops
- 18 dubbed-out Synth Sampler patches
- 18 cone-melting Bass Sampler patches
- Ableton Sampler and Simpler formats
- 9 Dub Techno Kits
- 5 ‘Hit-Type’ Kong Kits
Techno Essentials Demo – Free Massive Presets
- 8 Bass Presets
- 2 Keys Presets
- 7 Plucks Presets
- 8 Synthetic Percussions Presets
- 1 Sub Presets
- 11 Fxs Presets
- 7 Sequences Presets
- 7 Synths Presets
FREE Tech House Samples – Tech House Ibiza Volume 1
- 19 tech house drum loops
FREE Tech House Effects Volume 1
- 180 effects inspired by Hot Creations, Emerald City Music, Relief, Mother Recordings, DIRTYBIRD, Material, Stil Vor Talent, 8Bit, Wow! Recordings, Snatch! Records, Exploited, Repopulate Mars, Diynamic.
FREE Vocal Samples – Vocal Dub Volume 1
- 72 vocal phrase and shots
- 62 vocal cut
FREE LO-FI House Sample Pack
- 15 x bass loops
- 31 x top & perc loop
- 14 x kick loops
- 10 x vox loops
- 49 x synth Loop (synths, piano, stabs, pads, seq)
FREE Techno Samples – Techno Volume 3
- Bass Loops: #10
- Drum Loops: #10
- Full Loops: #10
- One Shots: #150
- EFX: #10
- Lead Extra: #10
- Perc Loops: #10
- Top Loops: #10
free download
Trends 2021 – Function Loops Label Sampler
- Drums, Basslines, Melodies, Synths, FX, Vocal Acapellas, MIDI
free download
MAYHEM Trap Sample Pack – Cymatics
- 50 free trap loops
free download
Odyssey – Edm Sample Pack
free download
Light – Sample Pack by San Holo & Cymatics
Acoustic Drum Sample Pack
- 5 Acoustic Kick Drum Samples
- 5 Acoustic Snare Drum Samples
- 5 Acoustic Tom Samples
- 3 Acoustic Crash Cymbals
- 3 Acoustic Hi-Hats (Closed)
- 2 Acoustic Hi-Hats (Open)
- 2 Acoustic Ride Cymbals
- 2 Acoustic Drum Loops (Full)
- 2 Acoustic Hi-Hat Loops
- 1 Acoustic Ride Loop
- 1 Acoustic Splash Loop
MIDI lead melodies for EDM
- 50+ lead melodies
There are tons of websites as well where you can download royalty-free samples and loops for free. Some of them are:
1. Looperman
3. Free Sound
4. Noiiz.com
5. Sampleswap
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