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Strudel sample banks

Sample banks that Strudel and TidalCycles load from GitHub: ~70 classic drum machines, Dirt-Samples, the CC0 VCSL orchestral set and the Salamander piano, one file per listing.

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Licence: Set per sample
Pricing: Free
Direct download here: Yes
Sounds: Drums, Bass, Keys, Synth, Strings, Brass, Woodwind, Mallets, Guitar, Vocals, FX, Foley, Ambience, Other
How it is searched: A published catalogue of the collection, fetched once and cached
Listings (counted October 23, 2026): 7,244
By category: Drums 4,250, Other 1,176, Keys 325, Woodwind 265

Biggest categories: drums.perc, other, drums.snare, drums.kick, drums.tom, keys, woodwind, mallets, bass, drums.hat.closed.

What Strudel sample banks is

Strudel is a browser live-coding environment for music, a JavaScript port of TidalCycles. It loads sample banks from GitHub: classic drum machines, the Dirt-Samples set, the CC0 VCSL orchestral library, the Salamander grand piano and several others.

Best for

Drum machine hits (TR-808, TR-909, LinnDrum and dozens more) and sounds you want to play in Strudel straight away.

Licence and what it means for a release

It varies by bank. VCSL is CC0 and the Salamander piano is CC BY. The drum machine and Dirt-Samples banks state no licence, and many drum machine sounds are copies of the machines' own memory chips, so Sound Server marks them unclear.

How Sound Server searches it

From the banks' published sample maps, fetched once and cached; every file is one listing, named after the bank and its index in Strudel.