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Hi All,Quick question. Is it alright to buy industrial drum samples and use them in a track and submit them?I'm just looking around for interesting drum samples to create some tracks as my "creating drum beats expertise is very limited" and was wondering if this is ok?As usual, your responses will be greatly appreciated!!!B

Hi Bshure you can, pros do that constantly. You can use them in the context of your own music, so it's no problem to submit them in your tracks. RegardsFrank

Hey Frank,Thanks a lot for the info!!! Thank goodness, coz I've found some pretty awesome royalty free samples that I wouldn't mind using!!!Take CareB

read the license agreement that comes with the sample cd.it's pretty much explained there what you're allowed to do and what not. some libraries don't allow their samples used in tracks that end in music libraries.

Quote:Hi Bshure you can, pros do that constantly. You can use them in the context of your own music, so it's no problem to submit them in your tracks. RegardsFrankYou have to read the licensing agreement prior to buying the samples. Most companies post the agreements on their websites or would probably be happy to send it to you on request.A couple of examples I've come across: Big Fish audio sells "construction kits". Last time I checked, you can't use the construction kits in any library music. East West allows their loops to be used in library music as long as 2 or 3 (can't remember the exact number) other elements are present at the same time. Spectrasonics has no library restrictions.As you can see it's all over the map so "buyer beware" and do your homework. Just because it says royalty free doesn't mean there aren't some restrictions. I suggest acting as if your music is going to be licensed and use "clean" samples in all your music. Mazz

thank you very helpful

Hi all,I have to pick up this issue again, because I don't want to tell nonsense to anybody.First I totally agree to check the license agreements from every sound librarie you purchased before submitting any peace of music.But I thought we are talking about samples - not loops! This is a different. I take it that samples are used with an soft- hardware instrument to create a drum track (BFD, AD, EZDrummer etc.).The restriction from East West and BigFishAudio (Mazz mentioned) are correspond to loops and the construction kit (these are loops wich sounds like a fully produced song). So the common license statements for samples are that you can use them in a musical context for your own music. But anyway, good to placed it here and read before you buy RegardsFrank

Quote:Hi all,I have to pick up this issue again, because I don't want to tell nonsense to anybody.First I totally agree to check the license agreements from every sound librarie you purchased before submitting any peace of music.But I thought we are talking about samples - not loops! This is a different. I take it that samples are used with an soft- hardware instrument to create a drum track (BFD, AD, EZDrummer etc.).The restriction from East West and BigFishAudio (Mazz mentioned) are correspond to loops and the construction kit (these are loops wich sounds like a fully produced song). So the common license statements for samples are that you can use them in a musical context for your own music. But anyway, good to placed it here and read before you buy RegardsFrankthat's right - samples are not the same as loops, but often discs contain both;)besides that, the license agreement for drum-samplers like ez drummer, bfd, drums from hell etc are quite the same (as far as I know):material that is made of these samples MUST be combined with other sounds. it's not allowed to produce a drumtrack with eg. ez drummer if there are no other instruments involved (but this won't be of any issue I guess).

I tend to use the term sample to mean both loops and instrument samples. That's probably not the best way so in the future I'll try to remember to make the distinction. I think I got the idea from hip-hop which tends to use the term as sampling, which I think means, in hip-hop to grab a short snippet from a previously recorded song and use it (loop it) as the basis for their song. So in that context, a sample can be anything from a James Brown horn hit to 2 bars of Superfreak.But as Martin said, even with sample libraries (like a library of drum hits, not loops!) it's important to read the license.Hope I didn't add confusion here!Mazz

From reading the fine print, I thought the gist was that you can use loops and samples to create songs for whatever use you like. But you can't use the loops as they are and sell them to music libraries.I haven't used free loops, but I would recommend looking for the fine print. Good thread.