Loopport is a new company — currently in private beta — entering the royalty free audio sample space, but with a professional subscription spin. In a nutshell, DJs, musicians, bands, and producers will pay a monthly fee (though I’m not sure what that fee will be) to have unlimited access to an ever-renewing library of professional-quality royalty free samples, loops, effects, and patches.

Courtesy of Loopport, the first 100 GarageSpin readers who click here and use beta code “loopport09” will get a free private beta account.

I wandered through the service myself the other day, and made a few observations:

• The audio quality of the samples and loops is quite good, especially compared to the many royalty free audio download sites currently in market.
• The samples and loops are offered in every file format available, and should be compatible with every DAW (Logic, ProTools, Cakewalk, Garageband, you name it).
• Samples are organized ito “Bitpaks“, which are awesome.  You can download all the samples in a Bitpak loop, or just specific instruments.  (For example, you like the symbol sound, but hate the bass drum?  No worries, just download the cymbol.)
• The service is hosted in the “cloud”, and the promised quick download times are indeed pretty quick.
• What will the subscription fee be?  I’m not yet sure…
• There isn’t a ton of content on the site, yet, but it’s early, and the plan to add more fairly frequently.   Love the idea of not being stuck with a stack of sample CDs you never use.
• The site itself, visually, could be improved.  But I suppose it’s purpose is to please the ear, and not the eye, so that’s a lesser issue.

Anyway, if you check it out, share your thoughts — what do you think?  Did any particular samples or service features impress you?