808 Drums

We sampled an original 808 through 5 distinctive and characterful signal chains in excruciating detail, providing you with one of the best and most versatile collections of original 808 drum samples you can own. Most 808 libraries record single hits for each drum, but they lack a distinctive part of the original drum machine which makes it such a classic… so not only did we record each drum, we recorded multiple variations of each hit. Kick tone, snare snappiness, cymbal decay, accents – you name it, we went there.

The end result is a library of samples that provides you with multiple options for swapping out different tonalities and decays from the original 808, rather than faking it. The 808 decay and accent controls, in particular, make a huge difference to the pitch envelope of the kick drum. We’ve also included multiple sampler instruments, all mapped to MIDI format so you can drag in your favourite MIDI loops and start jamming straight away.