Cleared Lo-Fi Samples for Commercial Use
Public domain, CC0 & CC-BY — with a license certificate per download
Lo-fi lives on texture — dusty Rhodes, vinyl crackle, mellow jazz chords, and soft drums. The aesthetic leans on old, warm source material, which is perfect: a lot of that material is old enough to be public domain, or comes from CC0 contributors.
Hear cleared lo-fi samples
What “cleared” means here
Every lo-fi sample in the Selekt catalog comes from a named, verified source — public domain, CC0, or CC-BY — not an anonymous “royalty-free” upload. Each download ships with a license certificate naming the source, the exact license, and any attribution required, and samples from less-authoritative sources are fingerprint-screened against 150M+ commercial recordings. So you can make the chill, sample-heavy beats the genre is known for from documented, cleared jazz, soul, and ambient textures — with documentation you can keep, not just a label that says “cleared.”
How to flip lo-fi samples
Cleared source is only half of it. Every track is analyzed for BPM, key, and mood, separated into stems (vocals, drums, bass, and more), and ready for the free browser tools — chop it, re-pitch it, build a beat in the Drum Kit, or re-voice a melody in Stem Lab. And modifying melodic loops is good practice anyway — it lowers the odds of an automated Content ID match (more in our guide to avoiding Content ID claims).
Browse cleared lo-fi samples
Listen, filter by BPM and key, and download with a license certificate per track.
How to verify lo-fi samples before release
A few minutes of due diligence saves headaches later: how to verify a sample is really cleared, royalty-free vs public domain vs CC0, and screen your finished mix against 150M+ commercial recordings for a signed audit log.
