99Sounds is proud to release 99 Drum Samples I and 99 Drum Samples II, two multi-genre collections of free drum samples.
The free download link is located at the end of this article.
Free Drum Samples
With over 450,000 downloads and counting, 99 Drum Samples I is the most popular 99Sounds sound library released to date.
Five years after the original, we are releasing 99 Drum Samples II, our new drum sample library that follows the footsteps of its predecessor.
99 Drum Samples is a two-part collection of free drum samples. It contains royalty-free drum sounds crafted from scratch using advanced sound design techniques and processed using internal and external audio gear.
The source drum samples come from various analog and digital synthesizers, acoustic drums, classic drum machines, and field recordings. We then used multiple onboard effects and studio gear to process the clean drum samples.
The included drum sounds cover various music styles, from hip-hop and trap to dubstep, electronic, synthwave, lo-fi, and pop. We imagined 99 Drum Samples as a must-have drum collection for all music producers, despite their favorite genre.
The same can be said about the sound design techniques we used to create these drum samples.
We used analog distortion, high-end preamps, cheap tape recorders, field recorders, guitar amps, a spring reverb, an old Tascam PortaStudio 4-track, a vinyl deck, and a vintage tape delay unit.
We even used a Game Boy to resample some of the sounds for added grit.
Here’s a portion of the gear list: Solid State Logic SSL 2+, Soundcraft Signature 12 MTK, Moog Minitaur, MFB 522 Drumcomputer, Jomox Alpha Base, Arturia DrumBrute Impact, Korg Electribe ER-1, Lell UDS, Yamaha DD-5, Golden Age Project Pre-73 MKIII, Nintendo Game Boy, Tascam Portastudio 244, Commodore 64, Dynacord Echocord Mini, and more.
The result is a unique collection of free drum samples that sound different.
Summary
The first part of the library includes 99 individual drum samples, and the second part contains 110 drum samples. All sounds are provided in 24-bit WAV format.
The included drum samples are carefully edited, trimmed, and normalized to -0.3 dB (except for some of the cymbal hits, which are peaking around -3 dB).
Content
99 Drum Samples I contains 99 files:
- 6 clap samples
- 1 cowbell sample
- 4 crash cymbal samples
- 11 closed hi-hat samples
- 26 kick drum samples
- 5 open hi-hat samples
- 10 percussion samples
- 2 ride cymbal samples
- 3 shaker samples
- 22 snare drum samples
- 9 tom samples.
99 Drum Samples II contains 110 files:
- 11 claps
- 13 hi-hats
- 37 kicks
- 13 percussion samples
- 36 snares.
All drum samples are provided in 24-bit WAV format.
111 Comments
thank you very much for this sample pack it exactly what i need to expand my dtxpress kit
keep up the good work
thanks alot for the pack
thanks you
I was just reading the comment from Austin. You offer him something for free, and he still manages to complain about it.
I think he is crying for help. He doesn’t want drum sounds. He wants somebody to teach him to make those drum sounds. If we do that for free, do you think then he will say thank you? Probably not.
Probably good for pop, RnB and hiphop.. but there’s nothing in the sample pack for replicating acoustic kit for indie, rock or alt.
Thanks for the free try though.
Awesome sauce, thanks!
I download this samples! Sounds good and i want to used. Thanks very much for this samples!
Cheers!
Will these samples work on a Alesis Sample Pad using an SD card and Audicity ??? Cheers
greatt. one question how can i make a rythm using this samples i mean how can i record a mix of these samples.
thanks
A good way to get started would be to download a freeware digital audio workstation such as Tracktion 5, MuLab Free or Podium Free and use their built-in sampler instruments to load these sounds and start sequencing beats. Search YouTube for “drum sequencing tutorial” and I’m sure you’ll find some decent videos to get you started.
great stuff, i was using the built-in modules in sunvox almost exclusively, and i like building my own thing with their basic building blocks, but i can only go so far with their signal processing, so i was happy to find this sample pack, i found some sounds that fit what i had in mind pretty quickly.