What style of music? Any and all?
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F9 has a lot of good stuff (James Wiltshire has been at the production game for donkey’s years)
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pretty much, but to be freaked and used for hiphop
You can check Equipped Music - Breakbeat Jazz pack, Jack Antonoff, Origin Sounds, Cymatics.
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actually I use those antonoff samples often, haven’t heard of those others will check them out
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ahh Minta Foundry and beat butcher drums from the drum broker are nice
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Also free:
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You have an MPC, right?
I personally think it’s way more productive to have a smaller curated one-shot sample collection and manipulate/edit them to suit.
The MPC fx tools with Drum Programs are brilliant for this.
I also lose the will to live after scrolling through and auditioning anything after the 17th one. 
Pack wise, I’m going to put forward Elektrons own ones for the Digitakt, Rytm and OT that you’ll find on their site. I love Vitamin C in particular, and go to that often when I want character and dirge.
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I didn’t know that one. These sounds are really “in your face”! Full power high medium.
Any recommendations for a sample pack with interesting percussion sounds? I’m not looking for classic stuff I want weird sounds.
yes I have many smaller curated collections too many to count, and don’t need another sample but…
I love samples and sampling like bubba loves shrimp
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Lately I’ve been using cookin soul’s packs (vol3 and 4). NI packs are also great, even if you’re not in the ecosystem
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This sample pack of Richard Devine on Splice is pretty good for weird stuff: https://splice.com/sounds/packs/splice/devine-voltage-aesthetics-sample-pack
Off-topic
Though overall I find it a lot more productive and rewarding to make your own sample packs when it comes to weird stuff. A few tips:
- layer samples and process them with overdrive or a saturator to glue them together (fun to do this on the rytm as well)
- Record your sound when you’re playing around with effects (like pitch shifters, delay, chorus. saturators), or draw wild automations for the fx parameters. Then pick out the best bits
- Repeat step 1 and 2 with the output of step 1 and 2 until you’re satisfied
Sometimes I add some weird presets to the mix as well (e.g. massive x).
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Talking about samples, I remember having seen on this forum mention of a breakbeat directory with hundreds of samples (wav and mp3, mixed together) of classic breaks lifted from vinyl.
I’m not 100% sure, but it might have been a Google drive folder someone shared publicly.
Any help?
PS This might be an alternative option but downloading one break at the time from the browser is such a pain…
OK, I found it.
Just google Young Guru Breaks Collection.
About 500mb of vinyl breakbeats, mostly in MP3 format.
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I’m a big fan of the Vitamin C sample pack from Elektron, as well as the two packs made by Dälek/Oktopus, Hits and Soundscapes (I’ve been a huge Dälek fan ever since I dug their third album out of the slush pile at my brother’s old newspaper job based on the name alone).
Second the Blankfor.ms recco.
I’d go with Soundghost. More on the lo-fi/organic side of things, and it’s definitely a case of quality over quantity. Highly recommended. I like the fact that they come with Ableton racks (plus other formats too.)
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This is a good point. NI Komplete comes with a bunch of sample packs as well as loops. I just have a folder on my external HDD that Atlas points at. So when I want to see what is lurking in Komplete, Atlas does a great job of throwing random kits together. On the other hand I have a more curated collection of genres I like from Loopcloud. Sometimes I mash the two together in one giant map. All good fun.
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I’d like to reassurect this thread. What sample pack can you recommend which has a focus on tonal one shots/chords of almost everything. Synths, orchestra, piano and so on. No need for drums or percussions at this point