Samples & assets

The best-aggregated asset layer in the chain, with one dominant subscription player and a long tail of pack sellers. Clearance is still the weak spot: check the license terms on anything you plan to release.

ADSR — Budget presets, samples and courses in one storefront.
Airbit — Beat sellers wanting lower fees than BeatStars.
Andrew Huang — Creative experimentation and sound-design inspiration.
BeatStars — Selling beats where the buyers actually are.
BOOM Library — Producers, composers and sound designers who need polished cinematic and post-production assets.
Cymatics — Free starter packs for hip-hop and EDM.
ELPHNT — Ableton and Max for Live power users.
Freesound — Artists and sound designers who need unusual or free sounds and are prepared to check quality and licensing individually.
Ghosthack — Electronic producers and media composers who want large themed bundles with straightforward royalty-free licensing.
L.Dre — Lofi producers learning the streaming-artist playbook.
LANDR — One subscription covering mastering, samples, plugins and distribution.
Looperman — Beginning producers and beatmakers who want free material, collaborators or inspiration for sketches.
Loopmasters / Loopcloud — Sample diggers wanting cloud browsing inside the DAW.
Mr. Bill — Deep Ableton technique and experimental workflow.
Native Instruments — One deep ecosystem of instruments, sounds and hardware.
Producer Loops — Producers who want a broad marketplace where they can compare assets from many sound-design labels.
Production Music Live — Melodic house and techno producers wanting templates plus courses.
Reid Stefan — Entertaining vocal-production and mixing tutorials.
Sonic Academy — Artists seeking genre-specific How To Make full-track walkthroughs.
Spitfire Audio — Cinematic and orchestral color in productions.
Splice — Producers who need fresh sounds constantly.
Tracklib — Sampling real released records with clearance handled.
Venus Theory — Sound-design thinking and preset-economy insight.