Vocals help your tracks to connect to the audience on an emotional level. They're the part of the music that really – literally – speaks to people, bringing new levels of humanity to otherwise clinical, artificial setups. But finding the right vocal to sit on a track is just like finding the right singer: you can look for a lifetime and still know it's somewhere out there. 

In this article, we'll run down the best and most notable collections of royalty free vocal sample packs in the Loopmasters catalogue. From dancehall divas to the spoken-word, from tribal chants to vintage movies, there's something for everyone in this rundown.


Vocals With Attitude

Loopmasters // 130 Samples// £24.95

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This 1GB collection of both male and female vocal lines contains some of the most no-brainer vocal lines you’ll find. Arranged into five ‘song kits’, Vocals with Attitude brings you five logical collections of lyrics, but also breaks things down into adlibs, phrases and other vocal hits that could find a home as FX or incidental sounds in other tracks.

Variety is the key here. You won’t just find a single singer riffing on a theme – you’ll find multiple sources of inspiration, whether you’re looking for lyrics or just cool sampling fodder. The vocals are presented both dry and with effects added, so you can take your pick.

You can find these vocals to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.


TD Audio – Vocal Pop

Industrial Strength // 189 Samples // £29.95

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Here you get five whole kits of entire female vocal lines, presented by the creators TD Audio as five entire songs. Not only do the vocals come as part of the bargain, you also get the individual stems for the songs themselves.

In this royalty-free pack you’ll find five separate vocal stems, dry and wet, to inject into your projects, as well as a couple of dozen vocal loops that could find a home in any modern, loud genre or track.

You can find these vocals to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.


Soul Funk Acapellas

Vital Vocals // 108 Samples // £34.95

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This one breaks it down into 10 separate lyric tracks, with its female vocal lines given in a variety of deliveries. If one vocal track here doesn’t capture the mood you’re going for, simply turn over to another.

There’s 1.44GB of content here, with acapella tempos between 99 and 124bpm to suit a number of styles – although keen producers will be able to spin things out into slower or faster versions for creative results.

You can find these vocals to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.


Deep Melodic Vocals

Sample State // 49 Samples // £19.95

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With its five full male top lines ready to slot into your tracks, this is a soulful yet sultry pack to inject a real mood into any track you care to throw it at. Gone are the aggressive, in-your-face tones of some sample packs, as SampleState have recruited Keiran Fowkes to lay his emotional, dusky vocals down for this pack.

There’s also a separate folder of cuttings to use elsewhere, and the entire pack is presented in both WAV and Apple Loops formats. This is something a little bit different, and very special.

You can find these vocals to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.


Maasai Tribal Textures & Vocals

EarthMoments // 388 Samples // £29.95

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Tanzania’s Maasai tribe are the subject of this excellent-and-exotic pack. If you’re looking to bring a raw, honest and powerful sound, what better than a chorus of tribal chants and solo singers to get things going?

The pack is presented with vocal-only samples, but the vocal tradition of the Maasai tribe themselves mean some of the samples are more akin to textures, atmospheres and totally unique soundbeds that have to be heard to be believed. Check out the demo loops on the main store page to get your ears around them.

You can find these vocals to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.


Speakin' & Preachin'

Loopmasters // 282 Samples // £19.95 

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Another left-field pack that could find its place slap-bang in the middle of any electronic tune, this one contains 282 phrases and snippets of the spoken word. As you’d imagine from the title, speech is covered, as is the more impassioned, animated side of the spoken word. A pack of straight sung acapellas this is not.

This one’s more than worth a browse to get some inspiration for a breakdown, and intro, or a hook to build a song around. With male and female attitude and preaching phrases, vocal FX, and spoken word samples, you could come to this one time and time again and manage to find something new.

You can find these vocals to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.


Iconical Vocal Acapellas

Loopmasters // 89 Samples // £24.95

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With four vocalists across seven songs, presented as dry and wet loops to arrange how you see fit, Iconical Vocal Acapellas gives you a huge toolbox to put together fully-formed lyrics in your next track… or simply a massive collection of creative sampling and mangling opportunities.

The male and female vocals are used in various tracks, each complete with detailed lyrics, and some double-tracked for extra effect. You won’t find any vague phrases or a pack full of hits and adlibs here – this is a singer-songwriter pack, with you as the songwriter.

The songs are available individually or as a whole in WAV and Apple Loops formats.

You can find these vocals to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.


Killer Acapellas

Monster Sounds // 199 Samples // £34.95 

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A pack of eight separate songs between 129 and 140bpm, which are also available to buy individually, Killer Acapellas presents you with both male and female a capellas that you can take as whole tracks, rework into new arrangements, or simply sample the heck out of.

Other bonuses in this pack include harmony layers for certain lines, as well as adlibs and extras from the cutting room floor, ensuring that you get the full bang for your buck with this pack.

You can find these vocals to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.


Vintage Movie Vocals

Resonance Sounds // 833 Samples // £18.95

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Thanks to their Creative Commons license, the original movies from which these samples were taken are fair game to sample, and Resonance Sound have done it for you to create this absolutely unique pack (unless you count the sequels it spawned due to its success).

The classic, black and white American movies that these samples are taken from will put you in mind of tracks by the The Avalanches, but can be used in many, many more contexts. 

Across the 515MB that make it up, this pack is characterful, funny, and instantly cool – creative sampling at its finest, and you don’t even have to hook up your VCR!

You can find these vocals to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.


Ragga Vocals Vol2

Bass Boutique // 833 Samples // £34.95

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This 1.5GB of samples from the Ragga Twins is a no-brainer for royalty free male vocals with attitude. Thanks to the experience of vocalists Flinty Badman and Deman Rockers, this collection is chock full of huge vocals at many tempos – up to 174bpm, in fact.

Of particular note are the 141 long and developing samples – extended takes, some of which go on longer than 64 bars. In terms of sheer volume, this collection has to be a go-to, and the quality more than matches up to make this something extra special.

You can find these vocals to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.


New York Rap Acapellas Vol 1

Monster Sounds // 483 Samples // £34.95

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If you need royalty-free rap acapellas and you need them now, you can’t get much better than this pack of NY-flavoured male vocal samples. Five MCs take the reins, fronted by NineLives The Cat, who finds himself flanked by Telle Gramz, Pablo Pleeeez!!!, Johnny Nelson and Anton Glamb for this solid pack of rap fodder.

Within the folders, you’ll find 483 samples, consisting of 302 vocal loops and 181 one-shot vocal hits. Sample crafters Monster Sounds have also curated the collection into a group of samplers patches to run in NN-XT, Kontakt, HALion and EXS-24.

You can find these vocals to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.


Psytrance Mantra Vocals

Singomakers // 716 Samples // £29.95

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2GB of samples at 138bpm – now there’s a psytrance toolbox! These hypnotic toplines and disturbing undertones are just the thing to whip up a spell on any (willing) psytrance audience. 

In more detail, there are 56 Mantra vocals (plus 100 wet versions), 81 Shamanic voices, 54 gated vocals, 100 ad libs, which is already plenty to get your off the blocks. But then, though, there’s a wealkth of drums, basslines, synths and FX to push you into the psytrance stratosphere.

You can find these vocals to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.


Epica 2: Cinematic Vocals & Beds

Freaky Loops // 355

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This pack of vocals and beds should be enough to put your listeners to sleep… only joking – Epica II combines excellent (and excellently recorded) vocal performances with atmospheric pads, reverb-heavy piano lines, and other deeper-than-deep sounds. For those vocals, bewitching close-recorded female material is the prime draw here, giving you the ASMR chills to touch the listener where they least expect it.

There’s 2.6GB of content in Epica II, stretching across a broad range of loops, one-shots, and what developer Freaky Loops calls Inspiration Kits, which offer three full mixes and 26 stems to draw from and twist into your own creations. 

Cinematic, ambient, IDM, chillout, meditation… Epica II covers a lot of bases.

You can find these vocals to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.


Emo Vocals

Keep It Sample // 125 Samples // £29.95

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Feeling down in the dumps? Turn that frown upside down – and brush that fringe out of your eyes while you’re at it – and jump for joy that you’ve discovered this pack of moody, complainy vocals delivered by American twenty-somethings who can’t say their vowels properly. 

Creator Keep it Sample have gone in deep here, bringing to life a pack of 85-164bpm acapellas guaranteed to make you want to slit your wrists (we mean that in a good way, of course). Samples are presented both dry and with effects, including Auto-Tuned versions ready to plop into some moody, experimental electronica.

You can find these vocals to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.


Soulful Gospel Vocals

Vital Vocals // 216 Samples // £34.95

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London choir Get Gospels are the subject of this sample pack, and they’ve been captured in all their soulful glory by Vital Vocals. Across nearly 2GB of samples, you get five full songs to crib from or re-produce yourself, alongside 49 choral vocals, 134 adlibs, and loads more.

Available in both Apple Loops and WAV formats, and taking in BPMs from 90 to 125, this pack is a tour de force of well-recorded, meaningful, musical, and most importantly, eminently useable vocals.

You can find these vocals to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.