The Drum Machine That Changed Electronic Music Forever The introduction of the TR-909 in 1984 transformed the landscape of electronic dance music permanently. If the 808 defined the sounds of the early 80s, the 909 was the next logical step in the evolution of...
Inject Authentic 909 Grooves into Your Production The 909 does not need (or want) an introduction...But it's going to get one anyway! From Madonna's "Vogue" to Inner City's "Good Life," it is the OG pillar of house, techno and modern pop....
The 909 Sampled into the SP1200 The SP1200 is one of the only samplers that can actually make the 909 sound better - or at least, different, in a way that may suit your productions better. Originally, I sampled my 909 as a means of...
909 TUBE KIT - SAMPLE JOURNAL FROM MARS
909 one-hits recorded cleanly, and through a REDDI tube DI at various levels, to demonstrate how volume can affect tube DI saturation.
All The Classics - Together At Last! TR From Mars is a bundle of our classic TR packs - the 505, 606, 626, 707, 727, 808, and 909! With this bundle you'll never run low on inspiration - the TR machines are...
Get Every Samples From Mars Pack in Existence All The Samples From Mars is a 75 GB collection of 88 sample packs, created over the past 12 years by extensively sampling our favorite (often rare and vintage) drum machines, synthesizers,...
A Collection of Modified Drum Machines Modded From Mars is collection of our Modded 505, Modded 606, and Modded 707 samples. There are not your ordinary drum machines, but have had modifications done on the actual units before sampling. The 505...
Get Every Drum Sample From Mars Get every single Samples From Mars drum sample ever made, including our best selling Vinyl Drums. Purchase of this pack does not include future releases. Please see each product page for specific details. 101 DRUMS...
Get Everything we Sampled This Year 2019 From Mars is a collection of everything we've sampled this year - it's a collection of our most recent and best sounding sample packs. From super rare drum machines like the Bohm and MPC1,...
Modern Drums From the Classic MPC Making its debut in 1994 during the golden age of hip hop, the MPC3000 was the second and last collaboration between Roger Linn and Akai. It expanded on the MPC60 most notably with stereo, 16...
The Fattest & Warmest 12bit Drum Sampler Designed by Roger Linn in 1988, the MPC60 is one of the best sounding samplers of all time and, (along with the SP1200), has shaped the sound of classic 90s hip hop, R&B...
Classic 12bit 80s Drum Machine Percussion Developed in 1985, the 727 is the latin percussion version of the 707 and is the perfect add-on to any drum machine or sample collection. Like the other TR series, it has defined various genres...
Real Hardware 808 Presets for Serum 2 Analog 808s From Mars is a Serum 2 preset collection of 808 subs, kicks, and drums built entirely from analog hardware. While most 808 packs are created from software, every sound here was...
Drums, Keys, Textures & Vocal FX From the Iconic, Late 80s Sampler Classic and glitched out drum hits, subs, basses, pianos, keys and warped vocal FX from Akai's hefty and excellent sounding S950 sampler. Sounds have been sourced directly from: drum machines, vinyl, movies,...
The Jackin' Drum Machine - Modified & Sampled Through the SP-1200 Born in 1985, the 707 was a digital drum machine resembling the 909, but was much more affordable. It featured a combination of Linndrum, LM1, and 909 style sounds,...
Gritty Grooves & Hard-Hitting Drums From the Analog-Digital Hybrid The Perkons HD-01 is a powerful, four-voice drum machine featuring wavetables and digital oscillators fed into multimode analog filters, overdrive, and an analog bucket brigade delay. It can deliver everything from...
A Pocket Sized Drum Machine Mangled into Oblivion You don't have to break the bank for punchy, hardware sounds anymore, and this little pocket sized drum machine is a great example of that. But instead of just sampling it, we sequenced it with FX...
A Rare, Early 80s Analog Drum Synth The MPC1 is a rare drum synth and sequencer developed in 1982 by MPC Electronics. In contrast to Akai's more famous line of digital MPC samplers, this MPC is a short-lived, 100% analog drum synthesizer that sounds something...
One of the Biggest and Most Characterful Analog Drum Synths Released in 1981, the Simmons SDSV was the world's first electronic analog drumkit and still remains the biggest and most characterful Simmons to this day. The oscillators sound ridiculously big, with almost an...
40 Drum Machines Cut To Vinyl And Sampled Vinyl has quickly become our (and your) favorite medium to process sounds with. In our first endeavor, we explored how our acoustic kit could be transformed by pressing it to a record, and with this pack, we dive...
Get Everything we sampled in 2025 2025 was not only our most productive year for sample packs in the past seven years - it was also one of our most creative and exploratory. We leaned hard into musicianship and acoustic...
The Legendary Sampler, Pressed To Vinyl The SP-1200 is an iconic, genre-defining, 12 bit sampler from 1987 known for its crunchy, almost vinyl-like sound and brilliant, "fairy dust" harmonics. It adds a magic texture to anything that you sample into...
One Shot Drums Created From the Depths of Modular Synthesis Modular synthesis has been around for decades, but has only recently experienced a massive resurgence, most notably in the Eurorack format created by Doepfer in the mid 90s. With over...
Punchy & Agressive Analog Synth Drums The 101 is a single oscillator, monophonic analog synth developed in the early 80s. Its lightning fast envelopes, self-oscillating resonance and inherent overdrive make it the perfect synth for creating fresh and unique analog synth drum...
The Classic 80s Analog Drum Machine - Modified & Re-Sampled The 606 is an analog drum machine from 1982, originally built to accompany the TB-303. The original drum machine's sound is similar to an 808, but perhaps a little more unique. The...
Factory & Custom Drums From the Drumtraks Younger Brother The Tom, also known as the Model 420 (😉), is an 8 bit drum machine released in 1985. It is the younger sibling of the Drumtraks, and offers up the same style of crunchy, early digital drum...
The Fattest & Warmest 12bit Drum Sampler The Free MPC60 From Mars is the free, miniature version of the MPC60 From Mars. It features 3 of the kits that come with the full version and 1 groove template. Designed by Roger Linn...
Explore the Raw Power of this Legendary Semi-Modular The 2600 is a three oscillator monster that's blazed a trail of sonic mayhem through countless genres for the past 40+ years. And despite only 3,000 units ever produced, the impact this synth has...
Analog Drum Hits Synthesized from Scratch Jupiter Drums From Mars is a collection of raw, analog drum hits synthesized from scratch using the Jupiter 4 synthesizer, and captured cleanly through an API 1608 console with no processing or layering whatsoever. Released in the late...
Everything we Sampled in 2020 2020 From Mars is a collection of everything we've sampled this year, and includes our latest and greatest: The Wendel, the MPC2000, the MPC 3000, Modular Drum Loops, the Dr Sample, and our most recent release, the TOM. ...
How Drum Machine Volume Affects Tube DI Saturation
We run all of our drum machines through DIs before we hit our consoles' mic pres, to minimize noise (via the ground lift) and balance the audio to a mic level signal. For our traditional sample packs, we opt for clean,...
Justin Strauss and I just finished our official remix of "Okay" by Holy Ghost! for DFA Records. The remix, which was featured on Pitchfork , features both the 808 and 909 From Mars. Update: both remixes are on vinyl and you can...
