It’s often been said that modern music (especially pop and EDM) is simply made up of synthesizers and drum loops. To an extent, this is true, but there are many nuances that make it all work, and your beats aren’t going to sound like big club hits without a little help.
Of course, you could invest in expensive soft synths and sound design tools. Or you could turn to sample packs and loops, which teach you the ins and outs of the genre while giving you audio material you can drag and drop into your Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) for immediate use.
In this guide, we look at the best EDM sample packs and loops.
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Swedish House by Loopmasters
This monster pack features 1.23 GB of content that will make you want to get up and dance all night long!
Swedish House features sounds from Andy Lee, fusing together electro, tribal, progressive, tech, and house. This pack was inspired by the likes of Thomas Gold, AN21, and Avicii, among many others.
Only the best recording gear was used in developing this pack, whether Neve, SSL, Apogee, Moog, Roland, Korg, Oberheim, Dave Smith Instruments, or otherwise.
Inside the Swedish House mega pack, you’ll find bass loops, drum loops, lead loops, drum hits, FX hits, VocalPerc loops, and a great deal more.
Have a listen to the audio samples – this material is simply unmistakable, and it could come in handy for a variety of electronic applications.
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Guitar Effex by Loopmasters
The guitar is simply undeniable. And while you won’t find it used widely across electronic genres, it can add a nice, organic touch to your productions, whether it’s chords, textures, riffs, melodies, hooks, or otherwise.
The Guitar Effex pack is equally at home in rock, electro, breaks, indie dance, house, and more.
While some of the guitar sounds are instantly recognizable, others are not. And the “over” processing is intentional. This is partially to make the guitar sound more electronic, and partially to provide you with new, innovative sounds.
Guitar Effex comes complete with almost 100 guitar loops at different tempos (120, 130, and 135 bpm).
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Synthetic Sequences by Loopmasters
The Synthetic Sequences loop pack represents a treasure trove of synth loops you can use for electro, minimal, breaks, trance, techno, and more.
The Novation A-Station, Steinberg Prologue, and Access Virus A synthesizers were used to create a mix of synth, arpeggio, bass, and vocoder loops that will add everything from a glitchy and robotic vibe to atmospheric and spacey feel to your productions.
The package includes 162 club ready loops, along with a drum kit soft sampler patch and 57 individual drum samples.
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Swedish EDM by Loopmasters
Loopmasters’ Swedish EDM is another massive pack, featuring over 1 GB of Swedish dance content. Inspired by the top talent in the scene, this selection includes many of the sounds that have come to be associated with the genre.
Inside this selection, you will find both straight and swung loops, including bass, drop synths, drums, melodic loops, SFX shots, and a bunch of other goodies like soft sampler patches, MIDI files, and Rex2 files.
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Maximum EDM by Loopmasters
Loopmasters’ Maximum EDM is just begging to be your go-to source for the freshest, cutting-edge EDM content. This is evidenced by its 1.14 GB footprint, which is significant to say the least.
Created for 2016 and beyond, the Maximum EDM pack features content in 128 bpm with synths, leads, percussion, basses, one-shots, FX, risers, vocals, and a whole lot more.
This pack was inspired by the likes of Hardwell, W&W, and Dannic, among many others.
Maximum EDM is another essential for all producers looking to the future of the genre.
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EDM & Progressive House by Loopmasters
Another entry by Loopmasters in-house producer Andy Lee, EDM & Progressive House is an insane sample collection made exclusively for the dancefloor.
All content in this pack has been tuned, equalized, and processed for mix ready efficiency.
The weighty pack comes in at 1.37 GB, with one shot samples, bass loops, drum loops, synth loops, drum hits, SFX, and much more.
For creating Thomas Gold, Tim Mason, and Axwell style EDM and progressive house tracks, this pack is a must have.
As a fan of progressive house (especially during the mid-2010s), I like this pack a lot.
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EDM Ultra Pack by Singomakers
Singomakers’ EDM Ultra Pack is one of the biggest selections on this list. At 3.3 GB, it’s no mystery why this baby has been dubbed an ultra-pack.
This selection features all new material – one-shots, melody loops, drum fills, drum loops, MIDI files, sound FX, and a great deal more, like video tutorials, Massive presets, Spire presets, Sylenth presets, and mastering templates.
EDM Ultra Pack even strikes the perfect balance between substance, quality, and price. You’ll be hard pressed to find anything this good for this little.
If you’re a fan of Nicky Romero, Steve Angelo, Zedd, and others, you will find EDM Ultra Pack an inspiring entry indeed.
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Supercharged EDM by Singomakers
Supercharged EDM follows in the footsteps of several best-selling Rezone EDM packs, be it Swedish House Mega Pack, Explosive EDM Arsenal, or otherwise.
The content featured here is positively catchy, edgy, hard-hitting, innovative, and memorable. The pack was inspired by the likes of Martin Garrix, Thomas Newson, and Firebeatz, among many others.
The 1 GB of content is made up of bass loops, synth loops, drum loops, drum shots, vocals, SFX, and more. Also expect to find MIDI files, Rex2 files, soft sampler patches, and NI Massive presets inside.
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Leviathan by Black Octopus
Black Octopus spent over a year and a half developing the titan EDM pack, known only as Leviathan. With over 5,000 sounds, this monster selection weighs in at 4.13 GB. It’s honestly hard imagining needing much else to make your next chart-topping EDM hit!
With techniques spanning the last several decades, you’ll find legacy and modern audio material at 110, 128, and 140 bpm.
Inside Leviathan, you’ll find kick drums, percussion, rising and falling FX, drum loops, music loops, chord stabs, synth stabs, short FX, drum fills, and much, much more.
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EDM 2019 by Singomakers
With EDM rising once again to explosive popularity in 2018 to 2019, Singomakers set out to create a collection that incorporates a mix of classic and modern sounds. It was inspired by the likes of Sick Individuals, Blasterjaxx, and Jewelz & Sparks, among others.
EDM 2019 comes with all the essentials you need to build your own modern EDM tracks, including drum fills, drum loops, melody loops, one-shots, vocal shouts, SFX, MIDI files, soft sampler patches, and more.
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Explosive EDM Arsenal by Singomakers
Singomakers’ Explosive EDM Arsenal is indeed explosive, with 1.19 GB of audio material, including drum loops, bass loops, drum samples, impact FX, melody loops, synth loops, NI Massive patches, and more.
This fat collection is sure to soothe your ache for more inspiring EDM material to light up your tracks with. Explosive EDM Arsenal was inspired by the likes of Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Dyro, and Steve Aoki, among others.
These sounds are positively hot!
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EDM Hooks and Drops by Loopmasters
Created in collaboration with Dan Larsson, EDM Hooks and Drops comes with 10 full kits for creating your own EDM epics.
With over 1 GB of material, melodic hooks, drop synths, percussion, SFX, and more, are but a click away.
This selection was inspired by Calvin Harris, Ummet Oczan, and W&W, among others.
Inside, you’ll find drop loops, hook loops, SFX loops, drum loop stems, snare build loops, synth build loops, snare samples, tuned kick loops, and much more.
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EDM Drop Vocals – Hooks, Screams And Shouts by Push Button Bang
Vocals can sometimes make or break an EDM track. That being the case, having access to various drop vocals is sure to help you find your flow. That’s what EDM Drop Vocals – Hooks, Screams And Shouts is all about.
You will not find any sung loops in this collection, just screams, spoken phrases, shouts, and exclamations. Honestly, many of these would be perfectly at home in dub genres too. But they can be used for aggressive EDM, electro, house, trap, drum and bass, and even hardstyle.
Inside the pack, you’ll find a variety of content, whether it’s Sci-Fi shouts, deep pitched vocals, screams, whispers, creature snarls, poetic phrases, group yells, vocal FX, or otherwise.
So, if you need some in your face vocal content, you’ll want to check out EDM Drop Vocals – Hooks, Screams And Shouts.
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Dance Vocals Toolkit Vol 1 by Push Button Bang
Dance Vocals Toolkit Vol 1 features the voices of over 20 singers that have been cut up and processed for use in any EDM track.
This collection includes both male and female vocals, loops and shots, breaths, adlibs, FX, mixed words and phrases, vocoded shots, and more. All sounds have been set to 128 bpm.
If you’re looking to add a glitchy, percussive feel to your song, you’ll find plenty of stops, stutters, percussive shots, and a great deal more in this package.
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Sexy Club Vocals by Push Button Bang
If you’re looking to sprinkle your beats with some spice, Push Button Bang’s Sexy Club Vocals is well worth a look. This pack is just as it sounds – hot, sexy, steamy vocal parts you can add to your dirty electro, house, and club and dancefloor barnburners.
Two UK female vocalists were called upon to work on this selection, with plenty of simple vocal parts that turn up the temperature in the room.
Aside from various hooks, you’ll also find one-shots, improvisations, Ohhs and Ahhs, sexy moans and groans, and much more.
The audio material has been adorned with a balanced EQ and light compression, but the loops are dry enough that you can process them as you see fit.
This one is well worth a look for adding steamy vibes to your club beats.
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Essential EDM by Loopmasters
Loopmasters teams up with Rezone again to bring us Essential EDM, a toolkit weighing in at almost 1 GB.
This collection is well suited to energetic electronic anthems and hard-hitting house tracks to get the club bouncing.
It sounds like they had a lot of fun making this selection, taking advantage of analog rackmount gear be it the Manley Passive EQ, Avalon VT-747SP, or otherwise.
Within the walls of this garden, you should expect to find various music loops, bass loops, drum one-shots, SFX, multi sampled instruments, soft sampler patches, Rex2 files, and more.
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EDM Ultra Pack Vol. 2 by Singomakers
EDM Ultra Pack Vol. 2 rolls in the driveway with another dump truck full of bass loops, melodics, drop loops, one-shots, MIDI files, track templates, mastering templates, patch banks (with 200 presets for Massive, Sylenth, Spire), sound FX, Rex2 files, and even more stocking stuffers.
This ultra-pack comes with 3.56 GB of highly usable, original audio material inspired by Sander van Doorn, Ingrosso, Dyro, Henry Fong, and many others.
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Orchestro – Classical Complextro & EDM Loops & FX by Push Button Bang
Orchestro serves up new and innovative orchestral EDM based sounds on a platter. With classically inspired stabs, phrases, movements, and more, this kit is sure to throw you for a loop (pun intentional).
Inside, you’ll find a mix of big hits, choir cuts, FX, instrument hits, and a great deal more.
For glitchy orchestral EDM style tracks, this is exactly what you need.
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Power House Ultra Pack by Singomakers
Applicable to all types of house music, Singomakers’ Power House Ultra Pack is destined to become your go-to collection for building compelling EDM.
All the essential building blocks are here, be it one-shots, drum loops, vocals, sound FX, melody loops, or otherwise. Being that it is an ultra-pack, though, it also comes with other goodies – VST synth patches (Massive, Serum, Spire), sampler patches, templates, MIDI files, Rex2 files, and even video tutorials.
Whether it’s bass house, wobble house, future house, or otherwise, you can cover all the bases with this handy package.
Power House Ultra Pack was inspired by the likes of Don Diablo, EDX, Mixmash, Helldeep, and HEXAGON among many others.
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Top EDM Sample Packs, Final Thoughts
You probably knew that there were a lot of EDM sample packs and loops out there, but did you have any idea that these packs were so massive?
Truly, there has never been a better time to be contributing to the genre, as you’ve got all the building blocks and tools necessary to make the dancefloor light up, right at your fingertips.
Let us know how you do out there!