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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.

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104 Comments

  5. Austin on

    First off, I am an amateur. I have been making music with a pirated copy of Ableton Live, a measly M-Audio Profire 610, and cheap midi controllers for a couple of years in my free time. My progress has been so slow because don’t do this full time. So take what I say with a grain of salt. If a studio engineer wants to tell me I’m full of s*** and not appreciating gold, please do.

    These too processed for my taste. I am not saying every drum pack should be completely raw, because Vengeance has some very cool processed sounds for example, but this collection is just a bit much. There are better ways to get “grit” and “punch” than by putting them on a cassette tape and ripping them back off. Some of the more gimmicky sounds are cute though, I guess.

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      99Sounds on

      Well, we all have different tastes! I’ve made these sounds so that they’re punchy and tight, according to my taste. I needed them to cut well through a mix without muddying up to the low end and they’ve been processed with these qualities in mind.

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      • Melissa van der Spuy on

        Brendan

        Thank you for these samples. I have every library conceivable and always come back to these. Super solid – love your work.

        Best,
        Melissa

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    • Daniel on

      Bro…are you kidding me lol.that was the most arrogant, ignorant…garbage i have ever read. You literally talk yourself down and then give negative feedback on a FREE sound pack. Lol people like you should just say nothing.please and thankyou

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    • Roman on

      so basically..
      “Hey, I suck at producing and don’t take it seriously. I don’t have anything to add to this but I’m going to talk anyway.”

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    • Darius on

      You’re probably recording a guitar that’s missing a couple knobs that you picked out of a dumpster, played through a lamp cord made into a guitar jack, cause it was free, so why complain about your drum sound?

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  11. rob mos on

    LOVE thank you free is wonderful… and to the nay sayer; just don’t; , you catch more bees with honey,,, you know?
    I believe the point here was QUALITY sound design,

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  13. Jacob on

    Awesome!! These are awesome for future music projects AND THEY ARE FREE. Thanks guys for a free giveaway on some quality stuff!

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  21. Joy on

    I’m having trouble figuring out how to install these. I get a .zip file and when I extract it, I get a .rar file. I’ve never installed anything like this, I usually just use what’s natively inside Logic so sorry if it’s a stupid question!

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      99Sounds on

      Hi Joy, you should download a file labeled “[99Sounds] 99 Drum Samples.zip”. After extracting the ZIP archive (there’s no RAR archive inside it) either load the provided WAV files in your DAW or use a sampler instrument such as NI Kontakt to play them via MIDI.

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  24. TANGO! on

    First of all, thank you so very much for the clap machine and the free sounds! I really, really appreciate them. I just wanted to get your attention to a typo, you wrote “enternal” where I think you must have meant “internal”.

    Thanks a million, again!

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  25. owloctogons on

    Was looking for drum samples, and I found this. Just what I wanted, and it sounds great! Just what I needed! Especially since my Nektar Impact LX25 has 8 little pads on it.

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  29. KUBE on

    Cheers guys! I’ve just started making electronic music ( I play instruments mostly) and these samples have been a great help, I can’t believe they’re free. Again cheers you guys rock!

    KUBE :)

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  31. andrew bates on

    thank you very much for this sample pack it exactly what i need to expand my dtxpress kit
    keep up the good work

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  34. Steve on

    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.

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  35. Phil McKraken on

    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.

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  39. tomas on

    greatt. one question how can i make a rythm using this samples i mean how can i record a mix of these samples.
    thanks

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      99Sounds on

      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.

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  40. david on

    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.

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  42. Tom on

    Firstly, thank you so much for the samples. I almost can’t believe that you offer so many on a pay what you want basis. You saved me on a current project (used in Structure Free) and I’ll be back to purchase more.

    I have a question that’s maybe off topic… I was impressed by how your digital download cart worked. I wanted to offer digital downloads on my site but I wasn’t sure how the confirmation email, link to the download etc. was set up. I can code a little. I was wondering if you could point me in the direction of how you guys set your downloads up? Is it custom coded?

    Anyway thanks again 99 for running an awesome site!

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  43. Whitney on

    These beats sound amazing! Question though: I’m learning to code, and want to use these samples to learn to build a fun web-based drum kit. Would this violate the License by using the samples as source material for a virtual instrument? This would only be for me to learn, but if I’m successful, I’d want to display it for user interaction on my personal website. I wouldn’t stand to gain from it, wouldn’t offer the ability to record beats, and would give credit to 99sounds for the samples. Would this use of you guys’ awesome product be okay?

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      99Sounds on

      Hi Whitney, thanks for asking. We will gladly allow you to use the 99 Drum Samples collection for this purpose. Please let us know when the instrument is ready and we’ll showcase it here.

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  45. Downloadming on

    Thanks for providing the drum samples. Can i use this to create commercial music and upload on my channel and my personal music site? Waiting for your answer. Who holds the rights for this samples?

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  53. Neychev on

    Excellent! Excellent! Excellent!
    Finally found well designed, sampled and balanced drums & perc samples!
    Well fixed, ready for use, clean as is / as was :) , directly from the good times …
    Thank you for this work and that you sharing with all the World!

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  55. Abby on

    Downloaded Garage Foley and I love the sounds so much!!
    However, I’m using Kontact 5 to run it into my DAW and it’s telling me that Garage Foley is a demo version and it’s expired…
    What do I do? Thank you!

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      99Sounds on

      Sorry about that. Most free libraries, such as ours, only work in demo mode in the free Kontakt Player. You need the full version of Kontakt to remove this limitation.

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      99Sounds on

      Yes, as long as the samples are used in a musical or another creative context (as in not just hosted elsewhere or posted on YouTube to download).

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  57. isaiah658 on

    Can these be used in music that will be licensed as Creative Commons? The reason I ask is because Creative Commons does allow for commercial usage and sampling. Technically someone could try and rip one of the instruments from a Creative Commons song and use it in their own VST or sample pack. Of course, I don’t think most people would do that considering how many layers of noises would be on top of it rendering the sample not as useful. Please leave a response. Thanks!

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  63. Shaun Borg on

    I love Techno hard German techno music I bought Maschine Mikro and to just be a part of it all just makes life worth living

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