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One Up Loops · Live Percussion Library

Live Percussion. Every Tempo. Performed, not programmed.

Real performances at the exact tempo your track needs, no time-stretching, no MIDI. Recorded through 19 legendary microphones.

Trusted by producers for Adele, LCD Soundsystem, Taylor Swift and Massive Attack

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Since using it, I’ve put One Up Loops on half the tracks I’ve produced.

Dan Wilson

Adele, Taylor Swift, Celine Dion, John Legend

Dan Wilson — Adele, Taylor Swift, Celine Dion, John Legend

Here's how percussion gets done today.

We're here to offer a new approach.

Record It Yourself

Setting up mics, getting a good room sound, and nailing the performance takes time. You're getting one sound, not options.

Hire a Session Percussionist

Spending $100+/hour on a demo that might not leave your hard drive is a hard sell.

Search Sample Libraries

They're all pre-mixed with no raw mic options, the feels are inconsistent, and you can't seamlessly orchestrate from one pattern to the next. 

Program It With MIDI

Programming hi-hats, shakers or tambourines that sound good? They don't sit on a grid. If you want it to groove, MIDI isn't the tool.

Kill the groove and you kill the song.

We built what we wished existed.

It started during COVID. Two drummers living four houses apart.   All the gigs gone overnight.

You know what I always wanted? Real hi-hat loops at every tempo. Because whenever I program hi-hats, they just sound fake.

— Spencer Cheyne, Co-Founder, JUNO award-winning mixing engineer

So we did it. Months of recording. Months of editing. Then we realized hi-hats weren't enough, so we recorded shakers and tambourines too. Every tempo from 60 to 220 BPM. Four feels. 19 legendary microphones. Half a million files.

ZERO TIME-STRETCHING.  ZERO MIDI.  JUST REAL PERFORMANCES THAT LINK TOGETHER INTO FULL ARRANGEMENTS IN MINUTES.

No more rummaging, I have beautifully recorded percussion at my fingertips.

Bryan Carter

Multi-Grammy Winner, Wynton Marsalis, McCoy Tyner

Bryan Carter — Multi-Grammy Winner, Wynton Marsalis, McCoy Tyner

Don't take our word for it.

Hear it in action. 

That's the difference a real performance makes.

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Find it. Drop it. Done.

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Pick your instrument & tempo.

Hi-hats, shakers, tambourines and more. Choose your feel: straight, slinky, swung, or 6/8.

2

Audition mics against your track.

Preview loops while your DAW plays. Tens of thousands of dollars of microphones at your fingertips.

3

DRAG, DROP, GROOVE.

Download the WAV file. Drag it in. Under a minute from search to session.

Switch instruments? It remembers your tempo.

Jump from shakers to tambourines and the site stays at your BPM. Because you're building a full arrangement, not starting over.

One Up Loops is an integral part of my workflow now. I am forever changed.

Tim Goldsworthy

LCD Soundsystem, Massive Attack, DFA, UNKLE

Tim Goldsworthy — LCD Soundsystem, Massive Attack, DFA, UNKLE

Every Tempo. Every Feel.
Every Mic.

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Loops, Grooves & One Shots

Plus thousands of kick, snare and cross-stick one shots. A massive collection of Zildjian cymbals. And a growing library of full-kit grooves.

Why every tempo matters.

Time-stretching thins transients and introduces artifacts. But beyond the sonics: the human body plays differently at different speeds. A shaker at 72 BPM is a fundamentally different performance than a shaker at 140 BPM.

19 Legendary MicrophonesMics.

We surrounded each instrument with up to 23 microphones simultaneously. Then ran every signal through SSL, NEVE, and API preamps. Every loop exists in every mic option — select between stereo and mono.

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AKG 414

Versatile workhorse. Crystalline top end.

AKG 414

Coles 4038

Dark. Detailed. Heavy.  

Coles 4038

Telefunken 251

Lush, airy presence. Expensive shimmer.

Telefunken 251

Neumann U87

Studio Standard. Every detail. 

Neumann U87

RCA 44

Thick. Intimate. Velvety warmth.

RCA 44

Neumann U47

The most legendary mic ever made.

Neumann U47

Plus 13 more:

AKG C12 · AKG C451 · Beyerdynamic M160 · Neumann KM54 · Neumann KM184 · Neumann M49 · Neumann M269 · Neumann U67 · Neumann U87 (Vintage) · RCA KU3A · Royer R-121 · Shure SM7B · Sony C-800G

Flesh & Blood in the era of AI

I never have to record, time-stretch, or edit percussion loops again. It’s crazy!

David ‘Dwave’ Thomson

Lady A, Trisha Yearwood, Lights, High Valley

David 'Dwave' Thomson — Lady A, Trisha Yearwood, Lights, High Valley

Built For Artists Who Hear The Difference.

Studio Owners & Mixers

You know what a C12 sounds like. You need loops that save hours without compromising your sound. Drop them in, pick your mic, move on.

Songwriters & Composers

Focus on the song. We'll handle the pocket. Drop in a tambourine that actually breathes and write to a groove that's already alive.

In-the-Box Producers

You don't have a live room. You have a laptop. Real performances, dropped into your session, that make your tracks sound like they cost $10k to record.

Artists & Bands in the Studio

Track your own rhythm section, but drop in a shaker or tambourine with the character of a $300/day session player. Without booking one.

Pop Country Singer-Songwriter Indie EDM Hip-Hop R&B Worship Film & TV

The secret click track.

Use our loops as feel-based click tracks for live sessions. Lock into a swung tambourine instead of a sterile metronome.

Hear It From the Pros.

Award-winning artists share why One Up Loops changed their workflow.

6 Years in Development

500,000+ Loops, Grooves & One Shots

Iconic Signal Chain

Less Than A Single Hour With
A Session Player.

A Session Percussionist: $100+/hour.
A single sample pack: $25–$50.
Hunting through sample-pack libraries: Priceless hours lost. One Up Loops: Unlimited Access to Everything

Start with the free trial

Full library access. 14 days. 10 downloads. No credit card. Hear the difference in your own track first.

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$15 USD/month

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Full access. Unlimited downloads. New content constantly. Cancel anytime.

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Any Questions ?

Splice is a marketplace — millions of sounds to dig through. One Up Loops is a purpose-built percussion instrument: one instrument at a time, perfected, at the exact tempo your track is already in. Splice is where you go for inspiration. We’re where you go to finish. Most of our users keep both.
AI can generate a texture. It can’t generate the feel of a human hand working a shaker — the micro-timing, the accents, the thousands of beads shifting - captured by a stereo pair of Coles 4038 ribbons at the exact tempo of your track. Every loop here is a real performance, played live, through 19 legendary microphones. You’ll hear it in the first bar.
Shimmer Shake Strike is a sampler, great for programming a part from scratch. One Up Loops is the opposite: finished performances at every tempo, no MIDI, no grid. Drop a WAV in and it’s in the pocket immediately. Play the same pattern from each, side by side — ours doesn’t sit on a grid, because a human played it.
Absolutely! If you can play, it's always the move. If not, do you have a world-class percussionist on call? A treated live room? 19 legendary microphones running through SSL, NEVE, and API preamps? We spent thousands of hours building exactly that, once, so you don’t have to set it up again every time you need a shaker at 96 BPM. If you’ve already got all of it, you don’t need us. Most people don’t.
Plenty of our users said the same thing, until they heard a stereo shaker through two Coles 4038s sitting under their own track. It doesn’t sound like a loop. It sounds like a player you booked for the afternoon.
A year of unlimited access is $99, that’s $8.25 a month. That’s less than a single hour with a session percussionist, and you get every instrument, every tempo, every mic, every feel. Everything you download is yours forever, and you can cancel any time and keep it.
Everything you download is yours. Royalty-free, no expiration, forever. Cancel any time and keep every loop you’ve already pulled. No clawbacks, no “license expired” email. What’s on your drive stays on your drive.
Yes. Every download is royalty-free for commercial releases, sync, client work and live use, forever. The only things you can’t do are resell or redistribute the loops themselves, or use them to build a sample pack.
Plans aren’t refunded for partial periods, which is exactly why the trial needs no card: test everything first. Cancel any time before renewal and keep every loop you’ve downloaded.
No. The free trial is genuinely free: 14 days, 10 downloads, full library access, no card, and nothing to auto-charge when it ends. Get inside, drop a few into a real session, and hear the difference at zero risk. If it’s not for you, do nothing and nothing happens.
No caps on a paid plan. Trying ten options on a track to find the one that makes it breathe is the entire point, and we don’t meter that. The only limits are fair-use ones that stop bulk-ripping the whole library, not real sessions. The free trial includes 10 downloads so you can test it first.
Live hi-hats, shakers, and tambourines at every tempo from 60 to 220 BPM (hi-hats up to 160), in straight, slinky, swung, and 6/8 feels. Plus thousands of kick, snare, cross-stick, and cymbal one-shots and full-kit drum-break grooves. These are all recorded in the same room, through the same mics, so everything sits together effortlessly. Over 500,000 loops, grooves, and one-shots in total, with more added constantly. Every new product will be added at no additional cost to you. 
24-bit, 48 kHz WAV. Drag them straight into Pro Tools, Ableton, Logic, or anything else. Because they’re recorded at the actual tempo, there’s no time-stretching and no artifacts. Every loop exists in every mic option, in both mono and stereo, plus the raw individual mic files if you want to build your own blend.

Your Tracks Deserve A Real Percussionist.
Now They Have One.

Try the full library free. No credit card. 10 downloads on us.

No card. Nothing to cancel. Every download is yours forever.