Free Garageband Ethnic Samples

When you're looking for some inspirational sounds that ignite your creativity, it's always worth checking out our free Garageband ethnic samples from all over the world. From sitar to mandolin, dhol to tabla, give these apple loops a chance to impress you and possibly take your songs in a whole new direction.

From 'Sitar Essential Ragas'

The sitar is a mystical sounding instrument with a hypnotic quality and is able to conjure a truly spellbinding atmosphere. These live sitar loops and samples stay true to that magical sound and offer a truly inspirational collection of loops that should enhance your song writing and production.

To download these apple loops click on the download links in the table below.

From 'Dhol Loops'

When you want that huge Bhangra beat sound you've simply got to include live Indian Dhol loops in your percussion tracks.

The Dhol is a drum that adds power and excitement to any beat with a unique sound hypnotic rhythms.

To download these apple loops click on the download links in the table below.

From 'Indian Tabla - The Guru'

These Indian Tabla loops were expertly played into a stereo pair of Sure SM57 dynamic mic's with a slight compression added to take care of the dynamics. The blistering performance resulted in some stunning Tabla rhythms which are both grooving and hypnotic.

To download these apple loops click on the download links in the table below.

From 'Latin Grooves'

Get the hottest Latin drum loops and fills for your beats and add some spicy Latin flavour to keep things interesting. These love acoustic drum loops capture the very essence of Latin grooves that could make your beats Sexy!

To download these apple loops click on the download links in the table below.

From 'Mandolin Magic'

These live mandolin loops will have you bursting with acoustic song ideas. download these Apple Loops, import and be inspired. The mandolin is a truly magical sounding instrument that adds some instant 'folk factor' to your beats ans songs.

To download these apple loops click on the download links in the table below.

Downloading Instructions

Click on the download buttons above to choose the style of Garageband Ethnic loops that you need. All of our Garageband Ethnic samples come with a commercial license for our paid members. Each file that we offer is an Apple Loop which has been specially formatted to work with Garageband and Logic.

Apple loops are specially formatted AIF files which contain meta data. This information ensures that your free Apple Loops will contain transient points, key and tempo references and other useful data within the file itself.

Importing Instructions

You can load all of our free Garageband loops by dragging and dropping the unzipped .AIFF files from your local folder directly into the loop browser within Garageband. To import the files to the iPad version of Garageband you'll need to do that via iTunes.