Percussion Palette

A collection of percussion instruments played in unusual ways.

The story

Here is a large collection of percussion instruments I have lying around. I recorded a lot of traditional drums from various parts of the world, often in a very untraditional way. I used snares on Djembes from Senegal, I ran an Udu from Morocco through an Eventide H3000, Talking drums with filters, shakers, kalimba (played on a snare drum) Frame drum, a Balinese Gong, a Bamboo Balafon and tons of random noise makers. I even sampled a dumpster that’s outside my house now. That may warrant its own instrument! Till then, get your groove on! 🙂

Reviews

  • Love it

    Simple, but great sounding percussion. And unlike many other Decent Samples, allows you to use pretty much most of the keyboard space. Sounds natural when quantizing MIDI clips to just about any beat type (1/4, 1/3, 1/12, etc.).

    Many thanks

    TC on 04 October 2025
  • thanks

    wonderful nice work ........................................................................

    memmed on 25 March 2026
  • Amazing collection of sounds all in one place

    These all sound incredible. There's all sorts of drum and other percussive sounds in here, drums from around the world. Some melodic (in particular there's one octave of melodic percussive sound mapped to the correct notes).

    Honestly the real value of this is that instead of searching for the perfect drum sound VST, you can just drop this in and have all the drums in one place - easy to experiment and can have a single "percussion" track in your DAW rather than a hundred separate tracks.

    Matt Giuca on 28 April 2026
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