Recorded drum credits

Thanks to the musicians and recording teams who shared these sounds.

Adaptations and licenses

These curated sample banks were assembled for Music Made Easy in October 2026. Selected recordings were resampled to 44.1 kHz, aligned with the original source onset offsets where provided, trimmed to preserve their attacks and useful decay, faded at the end, and packed into lossless 16-bit FLAC atlases. Matched microphones retain the source mapping’s relative mix gains. One gain per voice preserves the relative level of its playing strengths and alternate takes, including the original sampler’s velocity attenuation. No alternate strikes were fabricated. Big Rusty keeps three playing strengths for every voice and two alternate takes for close drums, hats and toms; its long cymbals use one intact recording per strength to fit the on-demand decoded bank budget.

Pearl Studio, Zeppelin Rock, Maple Bop and Maple Hot Rods are adaptations of Black Pearl, Red Zeppelin and Blonde Bop by Glen MacArthur / AVL Drumkits. Their adapted recordings remain licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, subject to the original author's produced-music exception. Read the original full license, original README and saved author licensing page. The adapted names distinguish these curated banks from the full original libraries. The sample-bank license is separate from the app's source code.

Sonor Session adapts Sam Greene’s Sonor Force 3001 recordings and kinwie’s SFZ/FLAC conversion. The curated recordings remain licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the original README.

Yamaha Recording adapts Wilkinson Audio’s Naked Drums recordings and kinwie’s SFZ/FLAC conversion. The curated recordings remain licensed under CC BY 4.0. Read the original README.

Garage Birch uses Alexander Holm / Rytmenpinne’s Salamander Drumkit recordings, dedicated to the public domain by their author on March 4, 2022. Read the author’s dedication and its saved original announcement, the saved original drumkit page and original README. The mirror’s historical CC BY-SA 3.0 license is retained for attribution and its sampler mappings; it predates the author’s public-domain dedication of the original recordings.

Big Rusty Sticks, Big Rusty Brushes and Big Rusty Mallets adapt Karoryfer Samples’ Big Rusty Drums under its original CC0 1.0 dedication. Unruly Sticks and Unruly Brushes adapt Karoryfer Samples’ Unruly Drums under its original CC0 1.0 dedication.

Live Jazz, Soft Brushes, Analog punch, FM rhythm, Pocket rhythm and Hand percussion use CC0 recordings. Read the Virtuosity license, VCSL license and original VCSL README, Karoryfer's free-sample dedication, and Frequency 303's sample dedication with its saved original page and original TX81Z README.

The classic synth, 808 and lo-fi kits are synthesized by the app.