David Sample time!

People are uploading more and more reusable samples and we’re really excited about the potential this brings. Our hope is to see more interesting collaborations and creative use of the available content. Bring your talents as field recorder, sound designer, guitar shredder, vocalist, or beat creator and join the creative commons community by sharing Your sounds.

Here’s a few user- and group highlights for some inspiration on sample sharing plus a great guide on how to easily do sample uploads yourself!

Groove Criminals

Oli is a professional sample producer with over 6 years in the game, currently making samples for the future magazine’s monthly sample releases. This month though he releases a special one for the SoundCloud community and it’s free of charge. Sneak a peak below and find your favorite bit.





Calvin Cardioid

Calvin runs the CL516 BLOG containing free original sounds, photos, and videos of various synths and tools for creating music.

Check out some of the stuff Calvin’s been working on below:

Oliver Chesler


Oliver from Wire To the Ear has been posting a lot of great hardware samples plus some loops for you to download and play around with.

Tim Exile


Our favorite interactive musician. “I make active music… music that everyone’s invited to get involved with. My performances involve sampling the crowd and improvising tracks live with the sounds. If you’re coming to one of my shows, join the group for it and send me samples to use.” Nice! Stay tuned for more!

Get involved and upload your own! Here are a few groups to check out

CC Licensed Samples For sharing samples and fragments under the creative commons license.

Sampler Hardware Group Send them your hardware goodies and make sure to make them available for other to use.

Sample collections & instrument loops Group for samples and instrument loops.

Let’s share some samples!

Here’s a short tutorial on how to upload samples using the 3rd part app Scup.

  • Rick

    I'd like to see some way of including (or easily linking to) associated sample files, such as EXS24, Kontakt, Akai and so on, this would make large multi-samples much more accessible.

    Rick

  • Guestaccount

    You can download samples from http://www.groffi.6x.to

  • Ciaran

    Great stuff, but how do you find them without the ability to search by genre/type ?

  • Nils

    true. we'll be updating our search interface shortly including browse by license, track type, etc. proper tagging is a must for that to work out. stay tuned!

  • Gianluca

    Hi I like Sample Time initiative and I'd like to contribute. I'm a drummer and I started my channell on soundcloud uploading free drum loops and samples 'human played'. I'm also available if someone need loops and samples by request, for free. Better say: for the music :-)
    http://soundcloud.com/karmadrums

  • Nils

    glad to hear that! perhaps you should start a group? let's stay in contact. you'll find me over here nils@soundcloud.com

  • Nils

    if others have groups and or free creative commons licensed sample projects – let us know!

  • madtho

    Wow. I guess I uploaded my stuff to the CC Samples group at the right time. I've got acres of minidisc recordings from 5-10 years ago in NYC, so look for more weird sounds and characters. I don't seem to be doing anything productive with them, I'd love to hear what you folks do with my samples!

  • Captain ToiletShoe

    I like http://soundtransit.nl/ and http://soundtransit.nl/search/sounds.php for random sounds, though they tend to be more field recordings than radio-ready music samples.

  • Micah

    This is what Puremagnetik is planning to do – make a single downloadable file on SoundCloud with the programmed instruments for Ableton Live, kontakt and Logic available from the Puremagnetik site. It would be very cool if there was a feature to link directly to the programs.

  • Nils

    cool! a tip could be to use the “buy link” field to link to the file pack and modify the button when embedding the widget.

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    Circuit-bent musini for your sampling pleasure. Free!

    http://soundcloud.com/dept-7/sets/bent-musini

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  • Gianluca

    a group could be a nice place to share and discuss bout this stuff. ok, let's start something immortal :-)

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    Hey,
    Some excellent stuff here.
    Tim Exiles work is brilliant as usual.

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