OK, here’s a zip file with 22 hihat samples (right mouse click on a Mac to download), 11 are open hihat ones and 11 close hihat ones. They are packetized as an Ableton Live 6.x project, but inside you should find the samples themselves as AIFF files, as well.

They are 24-bit 44.1kHz samples, most of them are four-bar long samples. The reason is that I usually create variated four-bar drum loops, and then with various loop points and edits I could make more variations from the same material.

I also edited the blog tags, so now all my free samples are available from the Audio Samples tag, or via this link.

Have fun with the material! The loops I selected are not exactly of the normal kind, so it might inspire you trying to use them.

In case you are intested, I uploaded 22 effects from my own sound library, here in a zip archive format (right mouse-click). They are in 24-bit 44.1kHz AIFF format (40Mb), in an Ableton project folder, but you could get access to the files inside the project folder, too.

It’s a bunch of effects I’ve used in various songs (and some of those effects are wacko). They are released under the Make people happy with these effects license. Its also a thanks to you all who read and support this blog, so I will upload more material. Use them for strange DJ transitions, starting points in mixes, your own new music — but I’m always curious so in case you use it somewhere and it’s audio, let me know and I could check it out.

In case you missed, I also gave out a set of kick samples — the info about that is in this posting.

I still think the original Linndrum kick was the best electronic kick sound I ever heard.

Anyway, I went through my collection of kicks tonight — every time I finish a project, I just stuff aside the sounds used into my sound bank, and it becomes after a while very non-organized. I wanted to classify them and also go through with Ableton Live and check the sound qualities.

The classification was interesting, I ended up with just four sub-folders, one with house music kicks, one electro/techno ones, one with experimental kicks, and then a dedicated folder for any non-steady four-beat bars. The techno kicks were mostly synthetic, dry, or otherwise dark kick sounds, for example.

When going through the samples, I noticed that the kick sound was in many cases very different between Ableton beat and complex modes. Since the early days we always warped drum sounds with beat mode, complex was not around, and beat worked just fine with non-tonal material. Anyway, I was really surprised to hear that complex warp mode (introduced in Ableton Live 5), actually made some old drum sounds much better, more subtle parts showed up. In other cases the beat mode made the kick sound punchier. Sometimes just one or the other sounded wobbly. So that was another operation I had to do, anyway this is good to know in future.

I also put aside twenty kick drum sounds, they are here in a zip archive format (right mouse-click), and actually in Ableton Live 6.0 project format, but in case you don’t have 6.0, you could get the samples from inside the folder itself. Permission is granted to freely make excellent music with them (but not to redistribute them as a package). I added a set of normal and also experimental kicks for more fun with your music productions. The samples are 24-bit 44.1Khz AIFF and WAV files.