10 Resources for Free Sounds
If you’re digging through the web for free sounds, here’s a list of 10 sites that will keep you busy. Most are music focused, and some are more general huge databases of sound effects with music sections. Enjoy!
- Free Sound Project – Huge collaborative database of user uploaded Creative Commons licensed sounds. They emphasize sounds only and not complete songs. Geared towards music.
- Find Sounds.com – Search engine for all kinds of sounds, not just music related sounds.
- Sound Snap.com – “Online sound library and community for sound designers and producers.” Houses all types of sounds with music loops and music samples being their largest categories.
- ccMixter – A site focused on remixing and sharing. Huge collection of samples and user created songs.
- Sample Swap.org – Forum with over 4.6 gigs of drum loops, melodic loops, instruments, vocals, and remix tracks.
- Flashkit.com – Site geared towards Adobe Flash developers, but also has a great collection of sounds that can be downloaded in .wav, .mp3, or flashtrak format.
- Synthmania Famous Sounds – Interesting compilation of loops and instruments used in popular songs. Includes loops like James Brown’s overly sampled funky drummer and 808 drums. Great for chopping up.
- Historical Speeches – Pretty big archive of speeches in mp3 format. Great place for finding quotes in sound format.
- Synthzone.com – Huge list of links to site with drum and rhythm loops for download.
- Elektron-users.com – Electronic music site with a download section containing samples and loops.
andreaus said
am June 12 2008 @ 1:06 pm
WOW
andreaus said
am June 12 2008 @ 1:06 pm
SWEET I LOVE THIS SITE
andreaus said
am June 12 2008 @ 1:07 pm
LIKE FOR REAL I JUST WANT TO DOWNLOAD STUFF
andreaus said
am June 12 2008 @ 1:07 pm
LIKE FOR REAL I JUST WANT TO DOWNLOAD STUFF SO WHERE CAN I GO
DrumsAndSounds.com said
am August 1 2010 @ 4:06 pm
You can get some really good free drum kits from the Step Ya Game Up Drum Samples at http://drumsandsounds.com/free-drum-sounds/ There are also some beat making tutorials using logic.
dwight calloway said
am August 30 2010 @ 11:34 pm
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Yevgeny said
am May 1 2011 @ 12:53 am
I love this list, i am using from this sites a lot, and I have to add this one: http://www.vst4you.com/free%20samples.html
which offers great free samples packs for download, the samples sounds design by ruben hymov, and
Really great of selection to work with.