Sound Effects and Samples
Drum Samples
The following pages contain free drum samples you can download for creating custom drum kits using the BR's Tone Load feature:
- Pettinhouse
- sampleswap.org
click on "DRUMS and SINGLE HITS",
or "DRUMS (FULL KITS)", etc. - Dexter's Exotic Samples
- findsounds.com/
Type "drum", "cymbal", "tabla",
or whatever in the search box - The Freesound Project
- Free Wave Samples
- Tubab Muso Westafrican percussion
- SampleRadar
Free loops, hits and multis - samplenet
- Linn drum machine samples
- Oberheim DMX and DX samples
- Beats and Samples
- kara-moon.com
- autodafe.net
- dmoz open directory project
Links to many pages with various samples
Some cymbal manufacturers have samples of their cymbals on their websites. You usually can't download the
samples directly but you can record them with Windows Sound Recorder or any wave recording program
(Audacity, GoldWave, CoolEdit, etc.):
- Meinl
Try this link to download the MP3 samples directly: cymbal sounds
MIDI Drum Patterns
Here are some MIDI drum patterns which you can import into the drum machine of the BR-600/864/900 or the BR Rhythm Editor software:
