Sample packs allow you to take sounds that already exist, and make them into something completely different. However with hundreds of thousands of packs available, at varying price points, where do you even start?
Worry not, we’ve got you covered. Here are our top picks by genre to get the engine running on your new mix.
Lo-Fi - Calmness - Cloudy Samples
Calmness is a collection of five outstanding chillstep/chillout construction kits, perfect for your next chilling, relaxing production.
These kits also fit awesomely into pop, rnb, cloud, chilltrap and hip-hop genres. Just drag and drop perfectly crafted WAV loops. You can also chop and splice them to play on your mpc or keyboard. In addition to that, you will find all MIDI Files corresponding to every melodic part in the kit and all Reveal Sound's Spire, Keyzone Classic and Sonatina Orchestra presets used to build these beautiful melodies. That means, you can recreate every melodic part to your own exact requirements. You can change the tempo without pitching effect and even change the key.
Ambient - Ambient Toolkit 2 - Cycles and Spots
A toolkit within a toolkit, you say? I’m interested.
Cycles & Spots drop 1.41 Gigabyte of superb loops for Ambient productions, giving you atmospheric and rhythmical content at 90 beats per minute. The Wav files reach up to 16 bars to offer variations and modulations for a live ambiance feel.
Expect synthetic pads, atmos, arpeggios, hits, drones and percussion sequences at a high quality production level. Use single loops or combine multiple ones to create huge soundscapes or arrange chillout songs or even speed up the content for danceable music genres.
Hip-Hop - Classic Hip Hop Horns - Digit Sounds
Classic Hip Hop Horns is inspired by New York 90’s Boom Bap Hip Hop and artists such as Mobb Deep and Dj Premier. The horns players over at Digit Music have blessed tracks for Shy FX. Craig David, Celeste, Digital Farm Animals, and the list goes on.
These horns are so fire that they can work as a stand-alone basis for a track or can be added on top of your tracks to make them a professional sounding hit. In this pack, there is an enormous variety that will fit your every need. Classic Hip Hop Horns contains. 30 full ensemble loops, 120 individual loops, 120 one-shots, 50 FX horns plus 10 free Boom Bap drum beats! Every option has been carefully thought out so you can use the full ensemble loops or load the individual instrument samples into a sampler you can! Load them into your DAW and you have an instant classic!
Electronic - Utopia - Saint Idiot
Do you want your music to sound like it's coming from the future, just not that same old dirty, darkly, worn out one every sci-fi movie lately seems so bent on?
Do you want to build worlds absolutely dripping with chlorophyll and chirping with life from this planet and beyond?
Conjur the future you actually want—the Utopia sound pack is an eclectic collection of sounds siphoned straight out of a star gate, replete with ambiences, arcana, creatures, percussion, elemental & textural sounds, and rhythms out of a future that’s got one foot in the door of a techno-utopia and the other planted firmly in the rich, black soil. Utopia is for mixes exploring a horizon every bit as alive and meaningful as it is darkly, mysterious, and adventurous, whether traversed by foot, anti-grav, or clairaudience.
Techno - Ware Techno Berlin - Easy Sounds
Pure Warehouse Techno designed for the epic moments on the dancefloor. Sounds inspired by the main Techno artists of the moment like Amelie Lens, Charlotte the Witte, Adam Beyer & Chris Liebing.
You will have at your hands 160 different loops structured in categories to build-in easy and intuitive way any track you propose... Raw & analog toms, strong hi hats, heavy kicks and some of the darkest basslines to create hard tunes inspired on Berlin Techno sound.
With the 75 drum hits you will add to your sound library some of the highest level samples with which you will be able to start from 0 your most elaborate and personal productions. You will find all the necessary elements for it. All the sounds are carefully recorded and treated with a first level processing equipment.
Also you will find more than 20 bonus items with FX, One shots & midi files to give special character to your own productions.