The Freesound Project is a user-driven, collaborative database of Creative Commonslicensed sounds, samples, noises, glitches, pops, vocals, crashes, booms and just about anything else you can possibly imagine . The samples are tastefully and painstakingly tagged for easy navigation. 

Users can browse the Freesound library using a variety of intuitive methods, includingTag Clouds and the very cool ‘sounds like this’ matching engine.

In addition to the oddball ‘found sounds’ and organic recordings, the library contains a large assortment of percussive elements, classic synthesizer samples, and a large collection of user-compiled ‘sample packs’.

-Beatportal