The story
It’s hard to remember now, but I think it started with a pair of plastic egg shakers I bought from the fishbowl they were in at the front counter of a local music store. I started developing a great love for tiny percussion instruments, musical toys, and fun noise makers which would allow me to “move some air” and get away from using samples. It is therefore rather ironic that I sampled almost every instrument in the top five drawers of the Ikea MALM dresser which houses my collection.
Over the years, the collection has grown to include cowbells, shakers, rattles, whistles, blown instruments, a few ethnic percussion items, a couple of toy xylophones, toy noisemakers, desk bells, and even a plastic bottle. I didn’t sample every last thing in the drawers. However, this collection contains samples of 87 instruments. Creating it was a fairly massive undertaking. Which allows me to say what I’ve been dying to say for a few weeks now… you want to see what’s in my drawers, don’t you?
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Genius!
Just a brilliant gem of a library. So many useful and quirky little percussion sounds and I love the melodica. the whistles and the ocarina. The GUI and design is so delightful and fittingly retro flavoured, the content so versatile and the revised version is even more convenient and easy to navigate. Highly commendable and super impressive piece of craftsmanship which will be so useful I'm sure to many music makers.
The best house-sfx library?
This library is now better than ever! The enormous bundle of instruments and sound effects is now perfectly organized with the addition of a well-thought and nicely made GUI inspired by the nostalgia feels of the past.
Sam's Drawers was always a good library, but now it's simply great. It's a massive pack of incredible, high quality sampled sounds, and now everything is well organized and easily accessible. Sam pretty much took the biggest flaw of this insturment and turned it into something very creative and useful.
In addition, the two mic knobs along with all the depth settings on the bottom makes this library even more versatile and fun to play with. It is guaranteed that you will find something unique for your compositions! Highly recommended, and also be sure to check Sam's other instruments as well!
I may need medication to stop using this instrument
The sounds in this sample pack are so versatile I find myself using them way more often than I should be. In fact, I've probably used this free instrument more than most of my other paid sample libraries. There are plenty of round robins for realism, and the samples work really well with effects. It doesn't matter what kind of music you make; nine times out of ten you need Sam's Drawers... until you realize you probably should stop using Sam's Drawers.
Very creative library!
I was amazed with the amount of files that you can choose from!! Bells, blocks, many interesting sound to explore. It has many choices that you can play for a long time.
A quaint collection...
It reminds me of several NI libraries featuring toys and other small percussion instruments, but I personally like this one better. All of the instruments have something interesting to add and are well-sampled. Really gets the creative juices flowing. Fabulous work!
