Is Looperman safe for commercial use?

What Looperman's “royalty-free” terms cover

Looperman's terms say the uploader grants registered users a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to incorporate a loop into a new recording and release that work commercially. They do not permit redistributing the raw loop as your own sample. Looperman checks many submissions against its upload guidelines, but says it cannot fully vet their rights.

“Looperman does not itself provide licences to use content uploaded by users”— Looperman loops FAQ

That does not mean Looperman loops are unlicensed: the uploader grants the license through the site's terms. The remaining question is whether that uploader owned everything in the sound. For a commercial release, save the loop page, uploader, download date, and the terms you relied on. If its origin is unclear, ask the creator before using it. An audio match check can flag a known recording, but a clean result cannot prove ownership or clear the sample.

Selekt takes a different route: catalog sounds come with a documented source and license certificate, with fingerprint screening for selected sources. That's useful evidence to keep with a release, not a promise that no claim can ever arise. Processing your own upload in Selekt does not change its rights.

Where each platform wins

What Selekt adds when documentation matters

• Documented source: Selekt accepts CC0, public-domain, and CC-BY material with a recorded upstream source and rejects restrictive licenses at ingest.
• Checks where needed: open-upload and Internet Archive material is fingerprint-screened against a database of 150M+ recordings and rejected on a match. Authoritative public-domain archives are admitted through documented source attestation instead of pretending a fingerprint scan is the only form of evidence.
• Provable, not “trust us”: every download carries an Ed25519-signed, SHA-256 hash-chained certificate you can verify in your browser with no account. Watch one auto-verify live →
• Build with your sounds and ours: decompose any track — ours or your own upload — into useful parts where the audio supports them, then recombine them in any direction in the browser. Your uploaded audio remains yours; processing it does not relicense or certify it as catalog material. Stem Lab · Beat Builder.

The creative difference: build with your sounds and ours

A sample library supplies reusable ingredients. Selekt's catalog adds production-ready parts where applicable — stems, MIDI, chords, and one-shots — and its tools can separate audio you bring in, so catalog material and your own files can meet in the same workspace. You choose the combination and shape the export instead of stopping at the source loop.

Say you want a beat no one has heard. Pull the drums from one public-domain break, take the guitar from a different cleared track, drop your own viola or violin line over the top, then spin in random cleared textures until it clicks. Use the separate parts to chop, tune, and arrange a combination you choose, then export the beat you built.

And that's just one recipe. The mixing and matching goes in any direction: your melody under a cleared break, your vocal over a public-domain guitar, your drums swapped for a vintage kit, our bassline beneath your chords — any part from our catalog or your own files, in any order. Spin in random cleared textures and one-shots at any point. The combinations don't run out, and you choose how the finished arrangement sounds.

Catalog ingredients retain their documented CC0, public-domain, or CC-BY provenance. Files you upload remain your audio and are not silently relicensed or represented as cleared catalog material. That separation keeps the proof honest while still letting the two sources work together creatively.

Feature comparison

Questions to settle before using a loop

These are not reasons to avoid Looperman. They are checks worth making before any commercial release using material supplied by someone else.

Frequently asked questions