The ultimate list of best free drum kits in 2022. The new year is here! If you didn’t get the chance to equip yourself with a library of free quality drum samples in 2021, or if your library is in need of some fresh sounds, we are back with another massive list of free drumkits available this year, in 2022. We can’t stress enough just how important it is for modern music producers to have access to high-quality drum samples. After all, you can only work with what’s at your disposal. For those of us who have less money to invest, no need to worry. There is still an abundance of free drum samples offering the same, or in some cases, even better quality compared to paid or branded ones. No need to spend hours searching the web on sketchy websites, or going through Reddit’s free drumkits posts. The gems you’re looking for are exactly what we have selected for you.
As we did last year, we have selected a diverse lineup of drum samples to make sure that any genre is supported. So whether you’re on the search for Hip Hop drum kits, Trap drum kits, R&B drumkits, Afrobeat drumkits, EDM loops, or even Future drum kits, we gotchu!
Free drum kits by Musiciangoods
Since our free drumkits have been so well received by you guys, we decided to create a few more! These are free drum kits, royalty-free, and compatible with any DAW.
Free Drill Drumkit: Skimask
Genre: Hip-Hop/Trap/Drill
Size: 53MB Uncompressed
If you’re one for trends, you should definitely pick up this totally free UK Drill drumkit. UK Drill is a genre that originated from Chicago Drill, but influences also come from Grime and UK Garage. Similar to trap beats, Drill beats usually have a high tempo (70-80 or 140-160 bpm) with sliding sub-basses or 808s, and hard knocking kicks with hi-hats programmed in a 3/16th pattern.
Containing 208 files, adding up to 53 MB:
- Kicks
- Hats
- Trap Snares
- Crashes
- Vox
- 808s
- Open Hi Hats
- Rims
- Extras
Download this free Drill drumkit here
Free Lo-Fi Drumkit: Twilight
Genre: Hip-Hop/Lo-Fi
Size: 17,3MB Uncompressed
Lo-Fi is short for Low Fidelity, which, if you didn’t know, refers to a low-quality sound. That’s why you’ll often hear audible imperfections such as deliberate mistakes, background noises, and record static fx. LoFi Hip Hop has become increasingly popular over recent years. Introduced to the world in 2010, the gritty but chilled sound is the perfect sound to vibe or study to. J Dilla and Nujabes are considered the “godfathers” of the Lo-Fi sound. If you make Lo-Fi beats, be sure to pick up this free Lo-Fi sample pack.
Containing 288 files, adding up to 17,3 MB:
- 16-bit foldere
- Kicks
- Hi-Hats
- Vo
Download this free Lo-Fi drumkit here
Free Hip-Hop Drumkit: Crate Diggers
Genre: Hip-Hop/Neo-Soul/R&B
Size: 13,5 MB Uncompressed
Crate diggers, as the name suggests, is a free boom-bap hip-hop drumkit that comes loaded with an excellent selection of gritty hip-hop drum samples. If you love creating sample-based boom-bap Hip-Hop this kit will provide you with a ton of sounds that will last a lifetime. Even if boom-bap is not your style, the sounds included in this free drumkit can also be used in other similar genres like Neo-Soul, R&B, and even Trap. Why? This free boom-bap drumkit is packed with a plethora of quality kick drums, snares, hi-hats, shakers, rims, tambourines, and much more. Download it now!
Containing 288 files, adding up to 17,3 MB:
- Tambourines
- Kicks
- Hi-Hats
- Snares
- Crashes
- Open Hi-Hats
- Rims
- Rides
- Percs
Download this free Boom-Bap drumkit here
808 Trapstep Volume 1 – Free Trap Drumkit
Genre: HipHop, Trap, R&B
Size: 35,6 MB
Everything you need to get started making 808 heavy trap, hip hop & future bass. Just add your favorite synths, Nexus, and sound fonts. Get creative and go beyond. All samples are free to use in your Productions.
- Kick drums
- 808 basses
- Claps/snare drums
- Cymbals
- Vocal chants
- FX Instruments
Download this free sound pack here
808 Trapstep Volume 2 – Free Trap Drumkit
Genre: HipHop, Trap, R&B
Size: 35,6 MB
This sample pack contains, sampled, synthesized, and mangled 808 + 909 drums to create the classic trap sound. Trapstep Vol 2 contains nearly all the sounds you need to make today’s HipHop, Trap, Future & much more. You only need to add some quality soundfonts and your own midi to forge your next hit. Drums and Samples are organized and named in easy-to-use folders to quickly find what you’re looking for.
- Kick Drums
- 808 basses
- Snare drums
- Claps
- Percussion
- FX Chants
Download this free sound pack here
Organic Drum & Foley Percussion – Free Percussion Drumkit
Genre: Any
Size: 35,6 MB
If you are searching for raw and organic percussion sounds, look no further. This free percussion pack features 352 unique experimental sounds made from nature. You can expect all types of organic and exotic kits such as bay leaf sounds, broken tree branches, foot step textures, and even hunter gun fire recorded in the middle of the forest. The creator has also included samples from recordings made in the studio cabin. Vocal beatbox percussions recorded from a friend’s mouth, water drum sounds sampled inside the studio bathroom, or even crunchy broken glass foley samples and effects such as pen and paper writing noises.
- 22 NI Maschine groups
- 18 Ableton drum racks
- 352 samples
- 18 MPC kits
- Percussion
Download this free percussion pack here
Organic Drum & Essential Percussion Hits – Free Percussion Drumkit
Genre: Any
Size: 35,6 MB
Essential Percussion Hits is a large collection of 315 individual percussion hits built into a highly versatile VST instrument and WAV sample pack. Hits include cabasas, castanets, claves, cowbells, egg shakers, guiros, maracas, rainmakers, tambourines, temple blocks, vibraslaps, wind chimes, and woodblocks. A wide range of different percussion instruments have been selected for this instrument bank, making it a highly useable VST instrument.
- 15 unique percussion banks
- 315 24bit WAV samples
- Wide range of percussion
- 2 different guiros
- Multiple tambourine hits
Download this free percussion pack here
Vintage Drum Machines – Free Drum Machine Sample Pack
Genre: Any
Size: 260 MB Uncompressed
This huge free sample pack contains samples from some of the best drum machines ever built. As a music producer, this is something you should definitely get your hands on. This free drumkit feature sounds from over 120 drum machines, including the Akai MPC-60, Roland CR-8000, and Yamaha CS6 just to name a few.
- WAV format
- Bit rate: 44.1khz
- 16 Bit sample resolution
- Stereo and Mono samples
Download this free percussion pack here
VCO Drums VOL1 – Free Drum Machine Sample Pack
Genre: Hip-Hop/Electronic
Size: 28,3 MB Uncompressed
VCO Drums VOL1 is a free drumsamples pack with more than 140 sharp, deep and punchy samples made using analog synthesizers. Characterful filters, raw oscillators, vibrant modulations, it’s all here! It was released to help musicians have fun while staying at home during Covid quarantine (and will still be free afterwards).
- Bass drums
- Snares
- Hi-Hats
- Cymbals
- FX
Download this free percussion pack here
Ghosthack – SPRING FREEBIE PACK
Genre: Hip-Hop/EDM
Size: 38,9 MB Uncompressed
This awesome freebie pack in equipped with some fresh snares, claps, sound fx, and ambient sounds. All sounds are 100% royalty-free and come as 24bit high quality .wav files useable for every music or video program.
- Snares
- Claps
- FX
- Ambient sounds
Download this free Ghosthack pack here
Golden Samples – Free EDM sample pack
Genre: EDM/House
Size: 50 MB Uncompressed
Golden Samples presents a new series of products, ‘Kick Ass’. This is absolutely Free Sample Pack. ‘Kick Ass’ contains 100 kick drum samples that are ideal for the production of genres such as EDM, Big Room & House.
- 100 Kick Drum Samples
- 24-Bit/44.1 kHz Audio Quality
- Format: WAV
- 100% Royalty-Free
- EDM
- Jumpstyle
- Big Room & House Styles
Download this free EDM drumkit here
99 sounds – Free sample pack
Genre: Any
Size: 200,9 MB Uncompressed
Massamolla is a freely downloadable collection of royalty-free one-shot drum hits, foley percussion sounds, and abstract sound effects created by Smhertz, a gifted sound designer and the mastermind behind the Silence+OtherSounds label.
- 99 audio samples
- 24-bit WAV format
- Organized into four folders
- 100% royalty-free
Download this free EDM drumkit here
99 sounds – Free sample pack
Genre: Any
Size: 5.38 MB Uncompressed
Kick drum contains 120 analog-style kick drum samples. The samples are available as WAV files and Kontakt patches. The provided patches are already mapped across the keyboard, making it easy to match the selected kick drum to the key of your project. Simply choose the kick patch, play the desired MIDI note in the piano roll and you’re done.
- WAV Files
- Pre-mapped Kontakt patches
Download this free kick drumkit here
LSD Sample Pack Vol.1 – Free sample pack
Genre: Hip Hop, Boom-Bap, Underground
Size: 35 MB Uncompressed
This free Hip-Hop drumkit features hand-picked drum sounds combined into a huge collection of complete drumkits designed for the boom-bap underground Hip-Hop sound. Inspired by producers such as Dilla, Madlib and DJ premier. If you’re looking for that raw, dirty and authentic sound, look no further and hit the download button below.
- WAV – 16bit/44.1kHz
- 120 samples
- Kicks
- Snares
- Hi-Hats
Download this free Hip-Hop drumkit here
The Ultimate Amen Breaks Pack – Free break loops pack
Genre: Hip Hop, Boom-Bap, EDM
Size: 1,2 GB Uncompressed
This amazing free break loop sound pack was sampled with different gear and then remixed and processed with various samplers and FX units. This process took 6 months and the result is a baffling 800+ loops all free to download! Some of the gear used to create this pack are the Akai S1100, Akai MPC1000, Roland VP-9000, Yamaha SU700, AU 176, Colours Audio VG1, DBX 160, Neve 2254, Roland RE-150, Sound Skulptor, TG Limiter, DIY Tube Saturator.
- WAV format
- 16+24 bi
- 44100-96000
- Mono+stereo
- 1220 MB
Download this free breakbeat drumkit here
Orange Tree Samples – Free jazz/funk live drums pack
Genre: Hip Hop, Boom-Bap, EDM, Jazz, Funk
Size: 102 MB Uncompressed
This free jazz and funk drum sample library were recorded using a live drum set similar to something a jazz drummer would play at a gig or low-key recording session. Skilled jazz drummers can make a single drum or cymbal sound very expressive, evoking a lot of character and personality with each hit. That was the creator’s exact approach when sampling this drumset, concentrating on fewer but higher quality kit pieces. The drum library features unique and rare drums, and cymbals and has an excellent tone suitable for jazz and funk. If you’re looking for free live drum samples, stop scrolling and hit that download button!
- Download Size: 102 MB
- WAV samples + Kontact files
- Kick, snare, two toms, and two cymbals
- Excellent tone suitable for jazz and funk
Download this free jazz drum library here
Drumdepot BruteDrums – Free BruteDrums kit
Genre: Electro, Techno & Minimal
Size: 122,97 MB Uncompressed
Brute Drums features a collection of 24 drum kits created with the DrumBrute analog drum machine. This free drumkit brings you the undisputed and raw sound of Arturia’s DrumBrute with eight kits in three variations each: Fat, Medium, and Soft, Just like a steak. The Soft versions host the original sound with only a few mixing corrections, as the hardware drummie sounds very harsh. Medium kits got some love from Marco’s TLA outboard compressor, while the Fat ones went through his whole arsenal of dynamics and soundgoodizers. Enjoy!
- 24 DrumBrute drum kits 288 samples, properly named and sorted by category
- Color-coded pads for Battery and Maschine
- Full engines with patterns and samples for Geist
- 100+ MIDI Drum patterns
- Supported formats: Battery 3+. Kontakt 5+. Ableton Live 9+, Maschine 2+ Geist & Geist Lite 1+. all SFZ & WAV compatible samplers
Download this free DrumBrute kit here
Beatowski – Free Boom-Bap Drumkit
Genre: Hip-Hop/Boom-Bap
Size: 1 MB Uncompressed
This free hip-hop drumkit is relatively small compared to some of the other kits listed here. But do not fall into the trap of underestimating a drum kit because of its size. This free drumkit features some of the best drum samples for the boom-bap genre you can find. So if boom-bap is your cup of tea, hit that download button.
- Hip Hop/Rap/Trap drum kit
- 16 Kicks
- 16 Snares
- 16 Hi-Hats WAV format
Download this free boom-bap drumkit here
Loopcult 808 – Free 808 bass sample pack
Genre: Hip-Hop/Trap/R&B
Size: 324 MB Uncompressed
Tired of searching for the perfect 808 one-shots? Looking to create the perfect 808s sample folder? Look no further, as Loop Cult has already put the folder together for you.
UNIT 808 is an all-around beat-making powerhouse that entails all key aspects of Trap and Hip Hop production. It takes you for a journey through decades – from the very essential sounds of the little beast, raw and basic, across the evolution of electronic music, with notable exponential growth in tightness, punchiness, and aggression.
UNIT 808 is perfect for making track foundation of any genre under the Sun, as it has everything you might want from a drum kit: kicks & snares, cymbals & hats, toms & percussion, all masterfully processed and carefully delivered to you as both free 808 loops and one-hits, ready to use right off the bat.
- Kicks & snares, cymbals & hats, toms & percussion
- 44.1 kHz 24bit
- Wav Quality
- Key & Tempo Labelled
- 324 MB
- 110-180 BPM
- 132 Loops
- 191 One Shots
Download this free 808 basses drumkit here
SoundUWant – Free Tropical sample pack
Genre: Tropical/R&B
Size: 50 MB Uncompressed
The Ultimate Pack features 200 premium samples, helping you create the best beats you’ve ever created. Forget hours looking for a quality sample. This free tropical drumkit is what you’ve been looking for.
- 5 Kicks 4 Claps 4 Snares 3 Snaps 6 Hi-Hats
- Cymbals
- Tropical vox chops
- FXs + Kontact Instrument with all sounds
Download this free 808 basses drumkit here
Cymatics – Free Percussion sample pack
Genre: HipHop/R&B/Trap
Size: 50,3 MB Uncompressed
Bring your drum game to the next level with these incredible samples, recorded using Drew’s personal collection of world percussion instruments and rare microphones. There’s nothing that sets you apart from the crowd like finding a way to incorporate different types of textures/rhythms into your drum beats. Inside, you’ll find 100+ stereo percussion one-shots, from instruments such as bongos, gongs, djembes, jingle bells, and many more. All of the drum samples in this pack were recorded using the legendary Sony C800G Microphone and 2 Earthworks QC50 Microphones.
- 110 samples
- 50.3 MB
- .WAV
- 100% royalty-free
Download this free cymatics percussion kit here
Cymatics – Free Synth sound packs
Genre: HipHop/R&B/Trap
Size: 91,3 MB Uncompressed
Analog synthesizers can produce some of the richest and unique sounds that Vst’s just can’t quite emulate. Build your own melodies from the ground up or sprinkle in melodic textures, using these incredible one-shots from hard-to-access synths. This collection was created using legendary synthesizers from the past 40 years, such as the Moog One, Prophet 6, and more!
- 100 samples
- 91.3 MB
- .WAV (works in any music software)
- 100% royalty free
Download this free cymatics drumkit here
Cymatics – Free Trap sound pack
Genre: HipHop/R&B/Trap
Size: 293,3 MB Uncompressed
Every good producer keeps a collection of go-to samples that they always use in their production. This pack is a compilation-style collection of some of Cymatics’ personal favorite samples from a ton of different Cymatics packs released. Inside you’ll find everything you’ll need to produce a dope trap record, with some of Cymatics’ best melodies, drums, fx, and more. Inspired by records from artists such as Travis Scott, Young Thug, Lil Baby, Drake, Lil Uzi, and more.
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- 173 samples
- 293.3 MB
- .WAV (works in any music software)
- 100% royalty-free
Download this free cymatics trap drumkit here
Cymatics – Free Lo-Fi sound pack
Genre: HipHop/Lo-Fi
Size: 100 MB Uncompressed
This is a compilation pack of some of Cymatics’ personal favorite samples, hand-picked by their production team.
You’ll find everything you need for producing dope Lofi tracks in here, with drums, melody loops, fx, and more.
Get a taste of their best samples if you simply want to try out their best packs without having to get each one standalone. 154 samples
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- 100 MB
- .WAV (works in any music software)
- 100% royalty-free
Download this free Cymatics Lo-Fi drumkit here
Cymatics – Free Odyssey EDM sample pack
Genre: EDM
Size: MB
EDM has proved its place in the top genres of music, dominating the scene for many years now. With some of the most notable names of music in general, artists like Skrillex, Zedd, and Diplo are steadily making waves with their genre-bending and cutting edge sound. Each sound inside was carefully designed by experts to give you full control when choosing the vibe and direction of your next track.
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- 100 MB
- .WAV (works in any music software)
- 100% royalty-free
Download this free Cymatics EDM drumkit here
