Producer Essentials - Percussions

Knocks, smacks, taps, dings, rattles, scrapes, bonks and plonks. Spice up your rhythms with percussion! The Producer Essentials - Percussion collection features 100 percussive one-shot samples you can use to create deep and immersive grooves. Ranging from real to synthetic, these little guys really come to life when you throw them into a sampler and start twisting knobs. Using them as-is is totally fine, don’t get us wrong. But once you start to fiddle with the delivery of these sounds, you’ll unlock a vast potential that can be tapped into for years to come.

Increasing complexity in rhythm to conjure catchy grooves can mean many things. Introducing timbral variety is one of the easiest and inspiring ways to get things moving in the right direction. To transform a boring four-on-the-floor beat into something irresistible can be as simple as adding a few percs that can dance around those main elements in just the right ways. From fleeting fills, transitions and accents, to polyphonic patterns that allow beats to evolve over time. Short, percussive sounds are easy to fit into an arrangement and can have a far greater impact on a track than their biggest and loudest counterparts.

Whether you want a more interesting and engaging rhythmic foundation, greater dynamics and movement, more textural depth, genre-specific grooves or just something new to experiment with creatively, the Producer Essentials - Percussion collection is a solid addition to your sonic arsenal.

All sounds in this sample pack are 100% royalty-free and cleared for use in your projects. If you like the idea of small curated packs like this one, be sure to check out the rest of our Producer Essentials series! These affordable collections let you build your own custom production library at your own pace.