15,884+ Free Vocal Samples: The Best Packs and Libraries in 2026

A good vocal can carry a track that’s otherwise pretty rough. People listen differently the second a voice comes in, which is why the fastest way out of a stuck loop is often a sung phrase you didn’t write.

You don’t need a singer for that, or a budget. There are thousands of free vocal samples online, and plenty of them are good.

The catch is that free packs go stale fast. We went through and updated everything below in September 2026, so every pack here is current.

Our own two free packs come first, with direct downloads and no email. Everything after that is someone else’s, sorted by what you’re making.

Free doesn’t always mean you can release it

Downloading a vocal costs nothing. Putting it on Spotify depends on the license, and vocal licenses get messier than drum licenses because a real person’s voice (and sometimes someone else’s song) is involved.

Four things worth knowing before you build a track around one:

• Royalty-free still means copyrighted. The maker keeps the copyright and licenses the sound to you for your music. You can’t resell the raw samples or put them in your own sample pack, and almost every license on this list says so.
• Community libraries are only as clean as the uploader. The community sites further down let anyone upload, and nobody can fully confirm the uploader owns the vocal. Looperman’s acapellas are personal use only unless the uploader says otherwise.
• Some free tiers are personal use only. Vocalfy’s and Slooply’s free downloads can’t go on a commercial release, which is why neither made this list.
• A cover is still someone else’s song. A cover vocal needs a mechanical license before it goes out on streaming services. DistroKid and the Harry Fox Agency both handle that for a few dollars a release.

If a pack doesn’t say, email the maker and ask before you release.

Pick by what you need

• A full acapella to remix or write around: Kate McGill’s Pursuit of Happiness Cover or the Ghosthack Free Vocal Packs
• Chops and one-shots for melodic and EDM tracks: Hyperbits Ethereal Vocals, Cymatics Euphoria, Function Loops Free Vocals or GowlerMusic Chordal Vocal One-Shots
• Ad-libs and spoken phrases: SampleRadar by MusicRadar
• R&B and hip hop vocals: Barbie Mak Soft R&B Soul Vocal Pack, Beats24-7 Chants or WAVS
• House and techno: Function Loops VOX Reloaded or the Antidote Audio Free Vocal Pack
• No signup at all: our two packs, SampleRadar, StayOnBeat and Volterock
• Texture and weird stuff: Freesound or 91Vocals Sexy Whispers

Every entry lists what’s inside and the signup it asks for. The license line sums up the maker’s own terms, and a heads-up line flags the catch when there is one.

Part 1: Our own free vocal packs

Obviously we weren’t going to leave ourselves off. These are the two vocal packs we give away, and neither one asks for an email.

1. Hyperbits Ethereal Vocals

These are all Kate McGill’s vocals, produced by Zach (Syence) and me, and we put them together as a free taste of Opus, our paid vocal pack with her. The one-shots and loops are named for melodic tracks, and they sit comfortably in house, future bass and anything built around big chords.

Start with the loops. Drop one in at its labelled tempo and check the key against your track. That’s a topline sketch in about a minute, and chopping it up is where it starts to feel like yours.

Download Hyperbits Ethereal Vocals (116 MB zip)

Best for: melodic producers who want a vocal texture under the drop before they’ve written a topline.

2. Kate McGill’s Pursuit of Happiness Cover

Kate recorded ten covers for Opus, and this is one of them.

You get a complete performance with every breath and phrase ending intact, which makes it a good way to practise how a lead vocal sits in a mix. Mix from the dry take, and use the wet one as a reference for where it’s headed.

Download Kate McGill’s Pursuit of Happiness Cover (69 MB zip)

If you want more covers, Opus has the other nine Kate recorded, including Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love” and Coldplay’s “Yellow” (they’re in the Premier tier).

Best for: practising a lead vocal mix on a real performance, when you don’t want to write the melody as well.

Part 2: Free libraries with clear licenses

These are big catalogs run by companies that license the sounds themselves, so one license covers every file. Most of them want a free account.

3. BandLab Sounds

If I were pointing a beginner at one free vocal library, it’d be BandLab Sounds, which most people only know from the browser DAW. The packs come from labels and working producers, and BandLab licenses them directly, so you’re never guessing whether an uploader owned the vocal.

Preview in the browser, then pull what you like into your project.

Best for: your first vocal download, if you’ve never read a sample license.

4. LANDR Samples

The free vocal collection leans pop, R&B, trap and EDM, and it’s small enough to audition in one sitting.

The labels save more time than you’d expect. Filter to your track’s key and whatever you drag in is already in tune, which beats pitching it by ear.

Best for: pop and R&B producers who want a tidy, labelled set without trawling a huge library.

5. Noiiz Free Packs

The Noiiz free section is bigger than you’d guess from all the subscription banners. Start with Free Female Vocals: 50 loops sung by session vocalists including Natalie Major and Angie Brown, covering pop and soul through to EDM.

If you make jazzy hip hop or R&B, get the Joshua David Vocals freebie as well. It’s small (11 MB) and dates from 2018, but the phrases are smooth and easy to chop.

Best for: pop and soul producers who want professional singers and don’t mind making an account.

6. Ghosthack Free Vocal Packs

Ghosthack has 48 free vocal packs up, which is a lot of email addresses if you want them all.

Start with Free Female Vocals (75 phrases and chants from four singers, each in dry, wet and FX versions). For a whole song to work with, the Advent 2024 acapella by Alley comes with dry and wet stems, harmonies, lyrics and MIDI, at 120 BPM in F minor, and the Ultimate Vocal Library 3 teaser gives you another acapella with its melody as MIDI.

Best for: EDM and pop producers happy to trade an email for a full acapella.

7. SampleRadar by MusicRadar

These two are still the biggest no-signup vocal downloads I know of, and they’ve been sitting on MusicRadar for years.

The female vocals pack is the sleeper. Every line comes in soft, medium and hard takes with two harmony parts, so you can stack a full chorus out of free parts. Grab the ad-lib pack too if you make hip hop or pop, because decent free ad-libs are weirdly hard to find.

Best for: anyone who wants a big pile of vocals right now, with no account.

Part 3: Community libraries, where licenses vary by upload

Anyone can upload to these, so they’re enormous. Read the notes on anything you plan to release, because the uploader sets the terms.

8. Looperman

New vocals land on Looperman every day. It leans hip hop and drill, but search by key and you’ll find a bit of everything.

The loops and the acapellas run on different rules, and that trips people up. Loops are cleared for release. Acapellas usually need the singer’s OK first, and some singers want a credit on the release in return.

Best for: hip hop and trap producers who want volume and will read the fine print.

9. Sample Focus

Three downloads a week sounds stingy, and it is. It also changes how you use the site: you stop hoarding and go looking for the one vocal hit a track actually needs.

The license certificate is a nice touch if you pitch music for sync, where a music supervisor may ask where a sound came from.

Best for: producers who already know exactly which vocal sound they’re after.

10. WAVS

The vocal chops here are properly usable for hip hop and R&B, and every one was made by a producer.

The royalty tags are the thing to understand. They’re fair enough, since you only owe anything if the song does really well, but that’s a conversation you want to have before a track takes off.

Best for: hip hop and R&B producers who filter carefully.

11. Freesound

Freesound is a huge shared sound archive run out of a university research group in Barcelona, and it’s where I’d go for vocal texture. Choirs, breaths, whispered words and strange vocal FX that no commercial pack bothers with.

Keep the CC0 filter on and the license stops being a question. Stretch a sung note into a pad, or slide a breath in before the drop so the track sounds like it was recorded in a room.

Best for: ambient producers building a breakdown out of breaths and room noise.

Part 4: Packs for melodic, pop and EDM tracks

12. Cymatics Euphoria

Out of everything in the Cymatics free vault, Euphoria is the vocal pack I’d take.

The acapella is the part I’d open first, since it’s the only full performance in a pack of 200-odd one-shots and phrases.

Best for: EDM and pop producers who want a labelled kit from a big sample label.

13. W. A. Production Female Vocal Loops

Straightforward sung loops with the harmonies already stacked, aimed at future bass and house.

It’s the pack I’d use to test whether a chord progression can hold a vocal at all.

Best for: future bass and house producers sketching toplines.

14. Function Loops Free Vocals

A solid all-rounder if you make house or pop and want a bit of everything in one download.

The short shots and ad-libs are where this one earns its spot. Some of the one-word “yeah”s land so cleanly on the grid you can drop them straight onto a snare.

Best for: house and pop producers who need ad-libs more than loops.

15. GowlerMusic Chordal Vocal One-Shots

For melodic producers, this might be the most interesting pack on the page. Every sample is a whole sung chord, so you can load them into a sampler and play vocal harmony stabs like a keyboard part.

It went up in August 2025.

Best for: ambient and pop producers who want vocal pads without hiring a choir.

16. StayOnBeat Free Vocal Samples

It’s tiny and it’s from 2013, but it’s one click and no account.

Pitched down with the top filtered off, the choir loops turn into an atmosphere you can sit under a breakdown.

Best for: anyone who wants a few airy choir loops in the next thirty seconds.

Part 5: Packs for R&B and hip hop

17. Barbie Mak Soft R&B Soul Vocal Pack

Barbie Mak recorded these dry and put them out in 2025. The dry part matters for R&B, where the space and warmth around a vocal are half your sound, so you want to add them yourself.

Put your own plate reverb and a little saturation on one of these and it sits in the track like you recorded it yourself.

Best for: R&B and trap soul producers who like processing their own vocals.

18. Beats24-7 Chants

Beats24-7 cut these for the space between bars: a “hey” on the four, or a chant that answers the hook.

Best for: beatmakers whose hook feels empty the second time round.

Part 6: Packs for house and techno

19. Function Loops VOX Reloaded

Function Loops remastered these from one of their older packs, and every file is a stutter or a chop built for house and techno.

Layer a glitch loop quietly under a groove and you get movement you’d otherwise spend an hour building with a gate and a sampler.

Best for: a house groove that’s locked in but still feels static.

20. Antidote Audio Free Vocal Pack

Antidote made this with Takeaway Sounds and Malarkey, and it’s full of complete vocal performances for dance music. The acapellas and pitched vocals sit at 126 to 128 BPM, right where house lives, and the ad-libs stretch from 100 up to 174 for drum and bass.

Best for: house producers who want full stems to arrange a track around.

Part 7: Whispers, screams and weird vocals

21. 91Vocals Sexy Whispers

Whispers are one of those small moves that make a mix feel close. Tuck one into a pre-drop, or pan a wet whisper hard to one side for a beat before the chorus lands.

Best for: pop and electronic producers adding intimacy to a build.

22. Volterock Vocal Hazard Pack Vol. 2

This one is for sound design. Volterock recorded it through a Neumann U87 back in 2014 (a nicer mic than most screams ever get).

Pitch a scream down an octave and bury it in a riser, or use the character voices for a horror-flavoured intro.

Best for: sound designers and bass music producers who want something ugly.

Frequently asked questions

Now go finish something with them

A folder of free vocals doesn’t do much on its own. A few habits that help:

1. Pick one pack and one vocal before you open anything else. Downloading six packs feels productive, and it usually isn’t.
2. Match the key before the tempo. A vocal a semitone off sounds wrong in a way no mix will fix.
3. Chop and pitch a phrase until you forget which pack it came from. If you can still name the pack, keep going.
4. Read the license line before you release. Every entry above spells it out.

When you want more than the free stuff, Opus is our full vocal pack with Kate McGill: 1,500+ royalty-free vocals across 10 genres. Getting a vocal to sit right is its own skill, and our guide to mixing vocals covers that part.

Know a free vocal pack that belongs here? Tell us about it.