SampleSwap
Audio samples and mischief for music makers & DJ's

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Do you want to upload an original song? (Go here instead.)

Upload a single file to Sampleswap

Use the form below to upload a single sound, or a .zip / .rar / .sit archive containing lots of sounds.

ONLY UPLOAD SOUNDS WHICH YOU MADE YOURSELF (or sampled yourself from a record, etc.) Please don't upload sounds that came from commercial sample libraries. The best things are snippets from songs you've abandoned, or loops cut out of things you've been working on. THANKS!

To upload a file from your hard drive, first click Browse... Then Submit.

"I don't have anything worth uploading..."
     ... Sure you do!

  • Have a song you abandoned? Bounce a few isolated loops or chunks of it to disk so someone else can make a remix...
      
  • Do you live in a place with some interesting radio? Grab 30 seconds and upload it. No interesting radio? Surf around in the AM bands in that in-between space and record those weird swooping sci-fi sounds.
      
  • Sing into a microphone. Vocode it. Pitch-shift it. Use it as a sidechain to gate a second recording -- maybe your blender making a fantastic margarita?
 

HOW TO UPLOAD LOTS OF FILES AT ONCE:

Feeling generous? Want to give up your 88-key multisample of Tasmanian nose flute recordings? Here's how:

Windows INTERNET EXPLORER Users: Click here.

Mac OS X Users: Click below to download our custom SampleSwap upload application. Once it's installed, just drag any file(s) or folder onto the app. Holy crap! Cool! Presto!

SampleSwap Upload 1.0 (321 KB)

SUPER NERDS: if you know how to use FTP, then FTP your files anonymously to ftp.sampleswap.org into the /incoming folder.

ftp://anonymous:nobody@ftp.sampleswap.org/incoming

If you'd like to know more about FTP, click here for some quick instructions.