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Sample Squad
Lightweight, royalty-free percussion and sample sets for iOS and desktop productions.
Sample Squad launched in December 2005 with a simple goal: creative, royalty-free sample libraries at a painless price. Today it specializes in unusual percussion and drum libraries that stay small on memory, so they drop quickly into an MPC-style sampler or a mobile device for making beats on the go.
The idea
Quality samples don’t have to come in a bulky, expensive library. Each pack is a small, focused collection with its own flavor and purpose, the kind of spice a track needs, priced like a couple of beers.
Packs and tools
- iOS Mega Pack: presets for Beat Maker 2 and NanoStudio, plus 16-bit mono WAV files.
- SpaceAge, OWL, and Sound Station: the brand’s software side: a microDAW, a browser-based DX7 patch designer, and a sample discovery and auditioning app. See the SpaceAge and OWL pages.
The iOS Mega Pack includes Beat Maker 2 & NanoStudio presets + 16 bit mono WAV files in 8 packs (128 unique samples in total) with presets for both Beat Maker 2 and NanoStudio. The folder structure includes the samples for each preset type, so you won’t have to do any extra work to use them in either app.
The packs are derived from exotic hand drums, metallic objects, and a bit of studio trickery on a few of them:
- Bodhran
- Frame Drum
- Dumbek
- Brass Vase
- Aluminium Bowl
- Metal Grate
- Metal Strikes
- Resonant Metal Tube
The demo uses all eight packs, but does not use every sample from every pack. It just gives you an idea of what’s inside, not anything near an exhaustive display.
Listen
Get it
iOS Mega Pack
$10 US · 8 packs, 128 samples, mono WAV at 16-bit 44.1 kHz
Delivery is a special download link sent by email. There is no automated process yet, so it won’t arrive instantly, but it rarely takes more than a day and usually comes within a few hours of purchase.
Sample Squad was my second brand. The first was my texture collection.
Licensing
Licenses apply only to individuals, not to companies or production teams, and they aren’t transferable. Additional seats may be purchased at a reduced rate; contact me for details.
Your royalty-free license lets you use purchased Sample Squad packs in commercial music. The exception is derivative products: you may not include the samples in other sample sets, loop packs, or synth presets, or use them for additive resynthesis “impressions” that borrow their sonic properties.
Sharing a project with a collaborator is allowed and encouraged. If you write with partners in distant places, it’s fine to zip up your project along with the samples you used, so that a writing partner can open your song file and play along to what you wrote. That doesn’t mean your partner is free to compose with the samples, though. They need their own license for that.
If you’re unsure whether something is covered, ask. I may be willing to make special graces for your situation or needs.
No redistribution is allowed beyond the collaboration scenario above. Please refer your friends to SampleSquad.com instead.
When you buy Sample Squad products, your money goes straight to the developer who made the samples, with no middlemen beyond the necessity of PayPal. I appreciate your business! Please don’t illegally share my hard work. Thank you!
Support
Questions or trouble with a download? Use the contact form. Please write from the same email address you used to pay through PayPal. I add that address to my safe list when your payment arrives, and a different one means I can’t easily tie your message to your order. Also check that the download email didn’t land in your spam folder.
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