Making Electronic Music from Samples (Creative Commons)

**TheEmptyCell** · #1 01-14-2007, 11:51 AM

So, I'm interested in producing some electronic music and hip-hop tracks in hopes of recording a hip-hop album this semester. I'm wondering if anyone knows the best places to find samples of all kinds of instruments, mostly drum beats and such.

I have Fruity Loops, but if I could do most of my work with just a recording program, I'd be ecstatic. I'll probably add some of my own bass and guitar tracks. I was looking through the Creative Commons website, and got lost trying to find what I wanted.

Anyone do this kind of thing? Any help in pointing me in the right direction?

bongomania · #2 01-14-2007, 06:08 PM

Ableton's "Live" is a very powerful and popular program for sample playback, looping, and multitracking. As far as where to get samples, there are scads of sample CDs and libraries out there; just search on Ebay for example for "samples" or "sound libraries". If you are trying to get sounds for free, try Limewire and search on "wav".

Magical_Max · #3 01-15-2007, 04:01 PM

Not really sure if its what you're looking for but both are free:

http://www.djsamples.com/djsamples/f...0By%2CCategory

http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php this one has some quite unusual samples

The bottom one is better IMO.

E-bay is a good place to look, some cheap sample cd's to be had there.