Lo-fi is no longer obscure. Nor does it merely refer to a genre. It’s officially a buzzword. And that means it's quickly infiltrating every genre out there, even if it's just subtle lo-fi effects on specific instrument tracks.
Every beatmaker, composer, songwriter, rapper, and producer are now actively seeking out that warble, warmth, dust, grit, and vintage vibe, across an array of musical styles and genres. Though there is little doubt it shines in chillout genres of all kinds, including ambient, downtempo, jazz hop, and many others.
Trying to figure it all out yourself and purchasing expensive outboard gear is generally not the path to gratification or enlightenment. The perfect starting place for most will be pre crafted and processed samples and loops, and in this guide, we look at the best lo-fi sample packs and loops.
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Lo-Fi Lounge by Aim Audio
Inspired by the likes of A Tribe Called Quest, Gil Scott-Heron, and Incognito, Aim Audio’s Lo-Fi Lounge features an array of lo-fi, jazz, and hip hop keys, as well as bass and brass loops.
With complex neo-soul jazz harmonies and grooves, this collection is tailor made for hip-hop and lo-fi lounge projects.
You'll find plenty of great variations for many of the loops, all of which have been processed through vintage gear. There are many possibilities to explore here, whether it's jazz, hip-hop, trap, or lo-fi.
There are a total of 353 24 bit / 44.1 kHz WAV files, including keys loops, brass loops, bass guitar loops, and effected variations of each.
And I’ve got to tell you – these sound super slick!
This highly rated pack comes at a nominal fee, but there’s also a taster pack for those who want to try before they buy.
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Lo-Fi Beats & Cuts by Sample Diggers
Sample Diggers’ Lo-Fi Beats & Cuts features lightly lo-fi flavored melodies, basses, and melodies.
The 100% royalty free collection comes with over 1 GB of content, created especially for hip-hop, lo-fi hip-hop, downtempo, neo soul, and others. It’s made up of drumbeats, percussion loops, keys, and bass.
To round out the kit, Sample Diggers included brass, guitars, harp, and vocals to help you find and create memorable hooks.
The loops are set somewhere between 70 to 85 bpm, and all files were recorded at 24 bit / 44.1 kHz. This collection includes a total of 463 files.
I’m loving the jazzy vibes of this one!
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Lo-Fi & Retro Soul by ODD SMPLS
Lo-Fi & Retro Soul features 100% royalty free elements, like flowing keyboards, soulful melodies, gritty drum loops, and ethereal guitars, all with an authentic vintage feel.
There’s 860 MB of content here at 24 bit / 44.1 kHz, and a total of 397 files. The content includes drums, kicks, snares, hi-hats, guitar, piano, synth, string, vocal, music, and more. There's a great variety of audio material in this wonderful package.
I find these sounds quite hypnotic and immersive.
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Woozy Lo-Fi Guitars by Tone Kitchin
The 100% royalty free Woozy Lo-Fi Guitars collection is loaded with ethereal, hazy, nostalgic, and emotional guitar parts.
It’s represented by over 190 MB of content at 80 to 110 bpm. Of course, it's all been graced with an atmospheric, lo-fi quality. Take advantage of these for your hip-hop, lo-fi hip-hop, downtempo, trip-hop, ambient, and other projects.
There are a total of 150 24 bit / 44.1 kHZ guitar files in the Woozy Lo-Fi Guitars collection. There are also 50 soft sampler patches for Kontakt, EXS24, NNXT, and SFZ included.
The guitars certainly have a subdued quality, some wobbly, some synth like, some with a piano or keys like tinge to them. Very interesting!
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Terra: Synthetic Lo-Fi by Famous Audio
Terra: Synthetic Lo-Fi comes with syncopated drum rhythms, arps, melodies, snares, percussion, basses, and a great deal more. These have a very trippy, psychedelic quality to them. Use these for lo-fi, RnB, chill, hip-hop, and other styles.
There’s quite a bit of content here, represented by 452 MB of 99 loops (at 70 / 80 / 90 bpm), and 101 one-shots. The collection gives you access to arps, basses, drums, synths, melodies, and much more.
Loops and samples in Terra have all been key and tempo labelled. There is a total of 200 files in this collection.
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Lo-Fi Jazz Hop by Singomakers
The Lo-Fi Jazz Hop collection comes with flutes, guitars, jazz pianos, with basses and sound effects.
The 100% royalty free 836-file collection is frankly insane, at 1.5 GB of 24-bit WAV samples at 90 BPM.
The content includes piano, bass, drumbeats, flute, synth, guitar, and other fantastic goodies.
Trippy, jazzy, and just a tad glitchy. These sounds are sure to immerse and get stuck in your head.
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Lo-Fi Trap Aura by IQ Samples
IQ Samples’ Lo-Fi Trap Aura is the perfect tool for creating lo-fi, soulful RnB, chill hip-hop, chill trap, and similar genres.
It comes with 290 130 bpm loops – you'll find various bass, drum, and melody loops, in addition to a solid chunk of one shots and MIDI files.
The loops are all royalty free. I think they’re best suited to more modern, upbeat genres, but you will find plenty of wobbly, vintage sounding instruments here too.
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Future Wave Lo-Fi by Alliant Audio
Alliant Audio’s Future Wave Lo-Fi bundle is filled with material influenced by the likes of Flying Lotus and Samiyam – instruments, drum loops, hits, and FX.
You get 252 samples and 675 MB of content spanning drums, instruments, one-shots, hats, kicks, snares, and FX.
The samples range from 80 to 92 bpm, and are perfectly suited to lo-fi, hip-hop, R&B, and other genres.
There are some crunchy, warm, trippy sounds in this collection.
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Lo-Fi Piano by House Of Loop
Ideally suited to lo-fi, jazz hop, hip-hop, and chillhop, the Lo-Fi Piano collection features various piano and key loops and one-shots. And honestly, who doesn't need lo-fi keys? It's a match made in heaven.
There are a total of 150 key- and BPM-labelled files, representing chords and solo material.
For all your mellow keys needs, Lo-Fi Piano is well worth a look. This collection can also be found on Loopcloud.
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Cozy Lo-Fi by IQ Samples
IQ Samples’ Cozy Lo-Fi comes with a hypnotic collection of sounds for lo-fi hip-hop, jazz hop, chillout, cloud trap sounds, and so forth.
The package is delivered with 300 files – music loops, guitar loops, vocal loops, one-shots, and more.
IQ Samples encourages us to use these loops creatively, as they can be applied to a variety of other styles and genres. So, get cozy with these!
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Lo-Fi Chill Guitars by House Of Loop
Mellowed out guitars with a jazzy feel dominate House Of Loop’s Lo-Fi Chill Guitars collection.
Whether lo-fi beats, jazz-hop, trip-hop, or acid house, if a chill mood is what you’re looking to create, you will love this pack.
There are both acoustic and electric guitar sounds onboard, with chords, solos, and leads.
In total, you get 200 files, represented by various chords and solos.
These guitar sounds should blend nicely with just about any other instrument. Perfect for creating calming, relaxing moods.
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Chillhop Lo-Fi Beats by House Of Loop
Chillhop Lo-Fi Beats is a huge collection of material for creating lo-fi moods and textures, between 69 to 95 bpm.
This compilation comes with a total of 414 files. You'll find drum loops, textures, bass shots, kick shots, foley shots, bass loops, music loops, and a whole lot more. From percussion to instruments to music loops, this is a versatile pack with a ton of potential.
There’s a total of 414 files included, so you’re sure to find some compelling fragments to work with here.
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Lo-Fi Emotions by IQ Samples
The Lo-Fi Emotions sample pack features modern lo-fi sounds, emotional and pure. Use these for lo-fi, chill hop, chill trap, future RnB, hip-hop and related genres.
This collection comes with 498 MB of 24-bit WAV samples at a variety of tempos – 69, 70, 73, 75, 79, 83, 85, and 100 bpm.
The 132-file collection consists of guitar loops, drum loops, melody loops, chord loops, vocal loops, horn loops, and a great deal more.
This is a 100% royalty free collection. To me, this audio material sounds delightfully crunchy and jazzy.
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Melodic Lo-Fi Worx by Bingoshakerz
Bingoshakerz Melodic Lo-Fi Worx comes with lo-fi beats, keys, sub grooves, and soulful melodics, tailor made for lo-fi, ambient, and downtempo applications.
The 450 MB collection comes with 10 fully mixed construction kits. Convenient MIDI files are also included.
The files come in WAV and Rex2 formats, perfect for dragging and dropping into your DAW or sampler.
These sounds are great for creating moods and atmospheres you can get lost in. Lo-fi, after all, is all about the subtle, gentle immersion.
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Lo-Fi Rhodes by House Of Loop
The Rhodes electric piano is a staple and practical necessity for lo-fi beats. Its dreamy, lush, warm tone is legendary, and virtually no one will ever grow tired of it.
Whether in pop, rock, soul, R&B, or other genres, the Rhodes always adds and never takes away. Even in lo-fi hip-hop and electronic music, there are plenty of applications.
The Lo-Fi Rhodes collection comes with sounds from the Rhodes Mk I and Mk II, each featuring different tonal characteristics.
If you need to build out your collection of electric piano sounds, this is it. It comes 101 sounds at two tempos.
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Lo-Fi Lab by Black Octopus Sound
Black Octopus Sound’s Lo-Fi Lab lets you become a mad lo-fi scientist with crunchy, dirty, gritty sounds.
This pack begs to be your go-to, with a huge collection of samples, loops, and one-shots spanning an array of drums, instruments, FX, vocals, and more.
Altogether, there are 557 files. There's a ton of material to explore! No wonder they call it Lo-Fi Lab. It's time to set up an experiment.
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Nu Lo-Fi by EDM Ghost Production
EDM Ghost Production’s Nu Lo-Fi was inspired by ethereal, celestial, extraterrestrial soundscapes. It comes with an insane 1.17 GB of content for relaxing lo-fi hip-hop projects.
Pianos, synths, guitars, deep basses, various groove loops, and diverse percussion adorn this collection.
The 100% royalty free pack with 24 bit / 44.1 kHz WAV files was designed for lo-fi, chill hop, jazz hip-hop, trip hop, chillstep, chillout, downtempo, and ambient.
There are a total of 650 files in the Nu Lo-Fi collection. You'll find melodic loops, bass loops, drum loops, drum one-shots, and more content to keep you busy.
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Abstract Lo-Fi 3 by Bingoshakerz
Bingoshakerz’ Abstract Lo-Fi 3 consists of five construction kits (with MIDI files) at 600 MB of chill grooves for ambient, downtempo, and lo-fi.
Complete with live bass loops, tape-saturated melodics, keys, vintage lead and synth sounds, ambient sounds, and more, the construction kits are powerful tools for developing lo-fi grooves of all kinds.
The files come in WAV and Rex2 formats.
Overall, this collection is trippy, soulful, and groovy.
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Lo-Fi Soul by UNDRGRND SOUNDS
Walk right into a smoke cloud of the yesteryear with a mix of electronic R&B and soulful hip-hop beats. Because UNDRGRND SOUNDS’ Lo-Fi Soul will instantly transmute you to funkier times.
Riffs, vocals, instruments, old school hip-hop beats, and sexy guitar licks make up this essential collection.
In total, you get 364 24-bit WAV loops and 240 24-bit one-shots / four custom kits.
This one is seriously funky.
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Dope Lo-Fi by Sample Diggers
The Dope Lo-Fi collection features 100% royalty free files with nostalgic hip-hop qualities. This pack was influenced by lo-fi hip-hop, and it comes with synth loops, guitar loops, vocals, processed drums, and more.
Dope Lo-Fi is sure to come in handy, whether you’re making lo-fi hip-hop, downtempo, or chill hop.
The loops have been situated between a relaxed 70 and 97 bpm, and there is 404 MB of content, all of it recorded at 24 bit / 44.1 kHz.
Inside this pack you'll find drum loops, bass loops, synth bass loops, percussion loops, and a ton of other fun goodies. Also included are 50 soft sampler patches for Kontakt, EXS24 / Sampler, NNXT, and SFZ.
This collection is also Loopcloud ready.
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Crunchy Lo-Fi House by OST Audio
For old-school house and techno lovers, there’s the 100% royalty free Crunchy Lo-Fi House collection.
With 147 samples in total, you'll find drum loops, bass sits, one-shot samples, and other crunchy lo-fi files. The melodic content has all been key labeled, so you won't need to guess.
For house, lo-fi house, lo-fi RnB, lo-fi hip-hop, future soul, techno, and other danceable electronic genres, this compilation offers a solid jumping off point.
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FOCUS: Lo-Fi Techno by Datacode
FOCUS: Lo-Fi Techno pack features twisted synth loops, glitchy top loops, dirty percussion loops, lo-fi shadow loops, distorted kick loops, and a great deal more.
This 295 MB pack consists of 100 24-bit samples, with all loops set to 125 bpm. You get synth loops, bass one-shots, kick loops, percussion loops, and more.
For the raw, analog, overdriven sounds of early lo-fi techno, this is your pack.
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Rosewood – Organic Lo-Fi by Production Master
As the meeting place of jazz, hip-hop, chill-hop, and ambient, Rosewood – Organic Lo-Fi is perfect for laid-back lo-fi soul or beats to study to.
The assortment of guitars offers access to the realms of jazz and lo-fi hip-hop, with clean strums, acoustic picking, lightly distorted electric guitars, and reverb drenched chill melodies.
There are also a ton of crunchy drum loops, influenced by classic chill-hop, ambient, downtempo, and other organic styles. You’ll find vintage breaks, dusty kick drums, punchy snares, bright hi-hats, and even crisp tops.
They’ve also thrown in an authentic field recording folder with live-recorded landscape foley.
Altogether, Rosewood gives you access to a world of atmosphere loops, guitar loops, drum loops, soundscapes, bass loops, key loops, and one-shots.
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Lo-Fi House 2 by UNDRGRND SOUNDS
UNDRGRND SOUNDS returns with another lo-fi house collection in the form of the highly rated and much purchased Lo-Fi House 2.
With a warm, fuzzy, saturated, and woozy vibe, this collection offers access to loops, grooves, hits, keys, polychords, and basslines, all gritty, dirty, and dusty.
This selection was created using vintage analog synthesizers, tape, and MPC sampling, as well as outboard pedals and effects.
Whether it’s beats, bass, keys and synths, percussion and top loops, FX and textures, drum hits and kits, or melodic one-shots, your bases are practically covered here.
The 100% royalty free compilation measures in at 1.11 GB, with a total of 83 24-bit WAV one shots / 3x custom kits, and 323 24-bit WAV loops.
Lo-Fi House 2 gives you access to a variety of bass loops, abstract textures, synth loops, bass loops, drum loops, and other amazing goodies.
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Ethereal Lo-Fi by LP24 Audio
LP24 Audio’s Ethereal Lo-Fi opens the door to 273 loops and 295 one-shots. With multi-dimensional sound design at its core, this collection offers up a set of inspiring sounds and musical ideas to kick start your creativity.
In terms of beats, you’ll find both tight drum clips to sloppy rhythmic beats, with standalone samples to full drum sections. These were created using found sound objects, samples, and synths.
It also comes with bass lines, chord progressions, leads, mono and poly sequences, Boards Of Canada style pitchy synths, glitchy bits and bytes, organic instruments, atmospheric, sonic objects, synth lines, and more.
As the meeting place of modern and vintage, Ethereal Lo-Fi is truly an inspired collection. You'll be introduced to a whole world of chord loops, FX loops, pad loops, lead loops, chord hits, bass loops, and a great deal more.
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What Does Royalty Free Mean?
When samples are royalty free, it means you don't owe any money on the samples you use in your projects, even if they are officially distributed and released to major platforms like Spotify.
Samples, after all, are someone else's creation. If they are original creations, the creator is free to do with them as they please. They are not obligated to make them royalty free. That's really a service they're offering.
Most if not all sample packs and loops with price tags, however, are royalty free. But it's always worth checking before you begin using them on your projects, especially projects you intend to release commercially.
Even when sample packs are royalty free, it's well worth checking the terms. Does the creator require you to seek out permission? Do they require attribution? And if the samples aren't royalty free, what do you owe the creator when you use them? Further, is the content original or was it taken from somewhere (if it was taken from somewhere, you would need to seek clearance for use on a commercial project).
Again, if the samples aren't original, it's quite unlikely the creator would charge for them, so there isn't too much to worry about there.
Basically, the ideal situation for most producers like you is to be able to take advantage of royalty free samples with no strings attached.
Top LoFi Sample Packs, Final Thoughts
There are so many great lo-fi sample packs and loops out there, we’ve barely even scratched the surface. If there’s something you’re looking for, chances are you can find it. No matter your goal, or what type of lo-fi project you have in mind, or what style or genre, you’ve got everything you need, right at your fingertips, to make your creative visions a reality.
Once you've got the hang of things, be sure to experiment. This is where a lot of the fun happens. Mixing and matching samples across different collections, mangling the sounds using your favorite processing and effects, editing the MIDI files to come up with fresh derivations on inspiring ideas. This, to me, is where the real juice is.
But no matter your approach, the main thing to remember is to have fun!