Samples

tedthetrumpet has created a Tidal file listing all the existing samples and commenting them. Load that file to listen to demonstrations; here are the comments:

name	tedthetrumpet comment
808	6 mixc 808 sound
808bd	25 rather similar 808 kicks!
808cy	25 808 cymbals
808hc	5 808 high congas
808ht	5 808 high toms, bit noisy
808lc	5 808 low congas, noisy
808lt	5 808 low toms, noisy
808mc	5 808 medium congas
808oh	5 808 open hats
808sd	25 808 snares
909!4	just one 909 kick, but very nice
ab	nice subtle drum sounds
ade	various long samples
ades2	meh, short quiet noisy sounds
ades3	short noisy sounds, lowish pitch
ades4	short high pitched sounds
alex	two acoustic drum loops
alphabet	tts
amencutup	wisott
armora	probably useless low pitched noise
arp	two synth notes, low and high, both c#?!?
arpy	d2 $ slow 4 $ s "superpiano" <| n "c d f g a c6 d6 f6 g6 a6 c7"
auto	various effected drum sounds
baa	sheep sounds, why?!?
baa2	rather simlar to the above? same?
bass	four short bass sounds, nasty abrupt release
bass0	one highly distorted bass drum, plus?!?!?
bass1	thirty synth bass sounds, some long, f or c
bass2	five aggressive tonal kicks
bass3	eleven bass sounds, odd mix of pitches
bassdm	24 rather similar acoustic-ish kicks
bassfoo	same bank as bass0
battles	very reverb military snare, hit and roll
bd	lots of electo kicks, mostly quite similar
bend	four subtle noisy sounds
bev	eight bar vocal keyboard/bass loop (mono & stereo)
	(Lazard - 4 O’Clock In The Morning (Promise Me - Beverley Craven))
bin	yup, two dustbin hits, kind of ok, could be a snare
birds	chaffinches, nightingales etc
birds3	very short noisy sounds, highish pitch
bleep	rtd2 ish, loud!
blip	two short pitched sounds, minor seventh apart
blue	two spoken fragments, unintelligible
bottle	short sounds, might be a bottle
breaks125	two one-bar breakbeats
breaks152	one bar of amen at 152
breaks157	one bar break at 157
breaks165	one bar amen at 165
breath	one breath sound, pretty pointless
bubble	actually sound more or less like kicks
can	intersting percussive sounds
casio	just three cheapo ‘drum’ sounds
cb	omg what is that sound, so familiar! iya — nearly same as 808:0
cc	some loud reverby cymbals
chin	very quiet synthetic clicks
circus	three strange and pointless sounds
clak	two quiet typewriters clicks, or clock ticks?
click	four glitch sounds, maybe useful
clubkick	five similar very aggressive kicks
co	various hats
coins	very quiet coin chink
control	two synth notes, out of tune
cosmicg	strange mix of bleeps and loud noise
cp	two rather similar claps
cr	six ride cymbs
crow	two crow sounds twice
d	four misc useless sounds
db	hmm, pretty usable dry drumkit iya
diphone	tts
diphone2	tts
dist	16 highly distorted 1 bar drum loops
dork2	four sounds, nae idea, voices in a space?
dorkbot	people saying dorkbot, two variations
dr	loud midi drumkit, nasty cutoff at end
dr2	six clean electro drum sounds
dr55	four dr55 sounds
dr_few	eight loud drum sounds
drumtraks	loudish kit
e	8 short and quiet glitchy sounds, similar
east	9 ‘world’ drum sounds, ok
em2	six longer sounds, kalimba, flute, loon?
erk	voice ‘one two three hit it’
f	one short synth note, actually a bit below Eb
feel	quite nice bank of 7 drum sounds
feelfx	varied effected sounds, bit longer, ok
fest	voice saying ‘bling?’ or ‘berlin?‘
fire	longish sample of fire sounds, low ambience
flick	mix of 17 hits couple of long Cs
fm	whole bank of loops! inc ‘31 seconds…’
foo	every breakbeat evah
future	synthetic hits, mostly kicks
gab	bitcrushed hits
gabba	bitcrushed kit, four sounds
gabbaloud	wisott
gabbalouder	wisott
glasstap	three nondescript short dry sounds
glitch	iya Eb/Ab stab at 5
glitch2	same?!?
gretsch	acoustic kit, inc flams
gtr	three long C notes elect guitar
h	short baby sounds?
hand	mix of quiet clap sounds, some longer
hardcore	12 synth drum hits
hardkick	6 rather loud crushed kicks
haw	6 odd short hits
hc	6 closed hats
hh	actually a mix of drum sounds, quiet, ok
hh27	another quiet set of electro drum hits
hit	strange hits, 04 one quite long
hmm	female voice saying ‘hmm’
ho	six open hats, same but of varying length
hoover	six loud hoover bass soundss
house	quite a nice kit, one pitched sound at 5 ~ Ebm
ht	16 syn toms, rather similar
if	five bitcrushed hits
ifdrums	kick, hat, snare
incoming	very electro kit, meh
industrial	iya mix of metallic percussive sounds
insect	three very quiet cricket sounds
invaders	space invaders sounds, varied lengths
jazz	totally not jazzy at all kit!
jungbass	mostly longish sub-bass kind of sounds
jungle	quiet ‘jungle’ kit, amen-ish
juno	lead/pad notes and chords, C/Cminor
jvbass	selection synth notes, black notes starting Gb
kicklinn	wisott
koy	two koyaanisqatsi long samples, more or less sample
kurt	vocal samples with telephone eq?
latibro	pentatonic selection of open 12th synth samples
led	two and a bit sample of drums plus intro bleed
less	four fairly extreme drum sounds, kind of cool
lighter	short quiet noisy hits high pitch meh
linnhats	wisott
lt	16 loud synth low toms
made	synthetic hits, not sure how to characterise!
made2	very nasty bitcrushed long sound!
mash	low synth tom sound and sort of glitch sound, why
mash2	longish low syntom sounds
metal	a tiny high metal tink at 10 pitches
miniyeah	very short glitchy sounds, better -24
monsterb	no idea
moog	long low synth notes, various pitches
mouth	iya short vocal sounds?
mp3	harsh noise hits, horrible
msg	subtle quiet hits
mt	16 medium synth toms
mute	random collection of french horn notes and doubles
newnotes	short high sine notes, black notes?
noise	short quiet noise burst
noise2	8 short noise hits, three much louder than the others
notes	same as newnotes, sines
numbers	female voice individual numbers
oc	open-closed hats in single hits at four tempi
odx	fairly aggressive kit, not very nice, new order apparently
off	single short glitchy bass note C#
outdoor	odd ambient hits, 2 is quite long, interesting
pad	four very assorted long sounds, not exactly pads
padlong	evolving m9 interval synth d2 $ s "superpiano" # up "[a2,g4]"
pebbles	very long, maybe pebbles on a beach
perc	ok set of hits
peri	collection of synth hits, ok
pluck	pizz cb notes various, 0 is B (ish)
popkick	kicks, but also tuned-ish in there
popkick	kicks, but also tuned-ish in there Bb, ok
print	dot matrix printer sounds, ok!
proc	two computer glitch sounds?
procshort	computer sounds edited very short, clicky
psr	odd mix of ?game sounds mostly short 0 is a kalimba
psr	odd mix of ?game sounds mostly short
rave	soul shout vocals ‘are you ready’ etc
ravemono	mono versions of rave shouts
realclaps	wisott
reverbkick	wisott
rm	two identical retro drum machine toms
rs	retro drum machine metro sound?
sax	chromatic collection of very long bari notes
sd	two very similar retro snares, not that great!
seawolf	noise hits
sequential	dry acoustic-ish kit
sf	kind of interesting collection of short hits, one C note at 0
sheffield	long ambience
short	elctro kit sounds meh
sid	ok, pretty usable sid sounds, melodic potential
sine	sines with blunt envelopes, some very low
sitar	longish sitar gestures
space	strange mix of long/short sounds
speakspell	short tts iya!
speech	male vocal fragments plus two short hits
speechless	bits of male tts
speedupdown	short fragments of sound inc one loud noise burst
stab	polysynth/fm hits, sort of pitched not really
stomp	mostly kicks
subroc3d	game sounds? some hits, one random melody
sundance	very quiet beeps and an explosion, useless
tabla	both hits and gestures
tabla2	multisampled single hits
tablex	male vocal fragments
tacscan	game sounds, some long
tech	quiet but moderately interesting drum kit
techno	hits, odd mix
tink	high metallic sounds, pitched down iya
tok	four kind of kick sounds
toys	kids toy & voice ‘classical music’ and ‘chimes’
trump	trumpet falls one phrase, thin eq
ul	sort of hits/kit, some character, verby, loud
ulgab	short bitcrushed hits, usable
uxay	one kick and two other sounds
v	6 mixed electronic sounds, kind of a kit
voodoo	actually quite a nice five sound kit
wind	actually filtered white noise hits
wobble	one subbass hit
world	three kit hits, meh
xmas	voice saying ‘merry christmas’
yeah	big selection of short clicks and pops, usable