Music Sample Libraries
Alternatives to BandLab Sounds
BandLab Sounds is a royalty-free source for loops, samples, and one-shots, with more than 160,000 loops and one-shots advertised. You can browse packs, preview sounds, save favorites, and drag downloads into BandLab Studio. My Sounds stores external uploads and organizes them with custom tags. Access spans Android, iOS, and the web. The free plan provides 20 weekly claims; Pro and Max raise that allowance, while claims refresh weekly without rolling over. Sounds can be used in personal or commercial compositions when they form part of a larger work.
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Function Loops Free plan Web8.7 Visit Specs - 02
Orchestral Tools SINE suits composers, producers, performers, and sound designers seeking acoustic virtual instruments on a Mac or Windows computer.
Free plan Web · Windows · macOS8.7 Visit Specs - 03 ProjectSAM
It suits composers and production studios making scores for film, television, and games, as well as musicians seeking orchestral or related sounds.
Free plan Windows · macOS8.6 Visit Specs - 04 Soundiron
It serves beginners through professional creators working in film, television, advertising, games, recording, and other music or media projects.
Free plan Windows · macOS8.5 Visit Specs - 05
AudioHero From $9.99/mo Free trial Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.4 Visit Specs - 06 Samples From Mars
It suits music makers looking for sample libraries and software instruments based on vintage machines, with downloads for offline use.
Free plan Windows · macOS8.4 Visit Specs - 07
99Sounds 99Sounds suits music, video, game, podcast, and sound-design creators seeking free sounds and instrument plugins.
Free plan Web · Windows · macOS8.3 Visit Specs - 08 Wave Alchemy
Wave Alchemy suits music producers looking for drum-production tools, instruments, effects, or sample packs.
Free plan Windows · macOS8.3 Visit Specs - 09
Arcade by Output It suits producers using Mac or PC DAWs who want a large sampler and instrument library with MIDI and custom-sample kit creation.
From $10/mo Free trial Windows · macOS8.2 Visit Specs - 10 8Dio Windows · macOS8.1 Visit Specs
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It suits music producers seeking downloadable samples, plugins, presets, courses, or compatible DAW tools.
From $13.92/mo Free trial Web · Windows · macOS8.1 Visit Specs - 12 EastWest ComposerCloud+
ComposerCloud+ suits music creators working in music, film, television, and games who need a large virtual-instrument collection.
From $5.75/mo Free trial Windows · macOS8.1 Visit Specs - 13 ModeAudio
ModeAudio suits music producers and sound designers seeking downloadable loops, samples, MIDI files, or synthesiser presets.
Free trial Windows · macOS · iOS · Android8.1 Visit Specs - 14
Cinesamples Cinesamples suits composers and music makers creating film, television, game, or trailer music.
Free plan Windows · macOS8.0 Visit Specs - 15 Filmstro
Filmstro suits filmmakers and visual creatives who want to adjust human-composed cinematic music to a video edit.
From $11.92/mo Free trial Web · Browser extension8.0 Visit Specs - 16
Splice Sounds Splice describes the platform as serving musicians, producers and sound designers.
From $1.08/mo Free trial Web · Windows · macOS · iOS8.0 Visit Specs - 17 Heavyocity Free trial Windows · macOS7.9 Visit Specs
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Noiiz Noiiz suits music makers looking for loops, samples, presets, instruments, and connected music software.
From $7.99/mo Free trial Web · Windows · macOS7.9 Visit Specs - 19
Loopcloud Loopcloud suits music producers who want to organize personal samples alongside a royalty-free catalog and audition sounds in sync with a DAW.
From $6.67/mo Free trial Web · Windows · macOS7.8 Visit Specs - 20
Black Octopus Sound From $7.33/mo Web7.7 Visit Specs - 21
Ghosthack Web · Windows · macOS7.7 Visit Specs - 22 Samplephonics From $8.25/mo Free plan Web7.7 Visit Specs
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Freshly Squeezed Samples From $12.99/mo Web · Windows · macOS7.6 Visit Specs - 25
LANDR Samples It suits music producers looking for royalty-free sounds to use in recordings, including commercial releases subject to LANDR’s terms.
Web · Windows · macOS7.5 Visit Specs - 26 Vienna Symphonic Library From €9.99/mo Free trial Windows · macOS7.5 Visit Specs
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WAVS WAVS is aimed at music producers working in DAWs who want to license samples, loops, stems, presets, or MIDI files.
From $8.99/mo Free trial Web · Windows · macOS7.5 Visit Specs - 28 Zenhiser
It suits music producers, remixers and film scorers seeking downloadable sound material.
Web · Windows · macOS · iOS7.3 Visit Specs - 29 Goldbaby Web7.2 Visit Specs
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Choosing instead of BandLab Sounds
Switching may make sense if you need desktop plugins, a larger catalog, instruments, orchestral material, or different editing and discovery tools. BandLab Sounds limits individual My Sounds uploads to one minute and 2 GB overall, and standalone redistribution or resale is prohibited. Compare each alternative's platforms, formats, licensing terms, download-credit rules, and workflow. Some options focus on DAW integration or downloadable files; others add sequencers, synthesizers, samplers, effects, MIDI, presets, or specialized orchestral libraries. The right choice depends on whether BandLab's mobile access and Studio connection outweigh those alternatives' focused tools.
BandLab Sounds, head to head
- BandLab Sounds vs Function Loops
- BandLab Sounds vs Orchestral Tools
- BandLab Sounds vs ProjectSAM
- BandLab Sounds vs Soundiron
- BandLab Sounds vs AudioHero
- BandLab Sounds vs Samples From Mars
- BandLab Sounds vs 99Sounds
- BandLab Sounds vs Wave Alchemy
- BandLab Sounds vs Arcade by Output
- BandLab Sounds vs 8Dio
- BandLab Sounds vs Cymatics
- BandLab Sounds vs EastWest ComposerCloud+