Some of the piano loops in this pack are quite dramatic, emotional, uplifting and also some of these piano loops are quite dark, there is a wide mixture of different piano loops, making this MIDI pack quite versatile!

Yes! I have created these to help any modern hip-hop and trap producers, who are looking for some creative, and royalty-free piano melody (MIDI) loops.

This pack contains;

• 10 x (A-Minor) Trap & Hip-Hop Piano Melody Loops (MIDI).
• 10 x (G-Minor) Trap & Hip-Hop Piano Melody Loops (MIDI).

Overall I have so much fun creating these amazing melody loops, which come in MIDI format, these can simply be imported into any major DAW.

My MIDI Loops can be easily imported in DAWs such as FL Studio, Cubase, Pro Tools, Logic Pro etc...

Are these free piano midi loops royalty-free?

Yes all 20 of these piano MIDI import file loops are 100% royalty-free, the MIDI pack comes with a full copyright license files, so I recommend users to read that if they have any questions.

It took me around 2/3 hours to compose all of these piano MIDI loops, and I hope you guys will enjoy them! If you have any questions, drop them below this topic and I will do my best to reply! Also drop me some suggestion on what kind of MIDI packs you would like to see in the near future!

Have fun using my royalty-free piano MIDI loops!

I have used A minor scale because this is quite a versatile melody scale which can be used for dark and mellow kind of rap beats, I have designed this mainly for hip-hop and modern trap style genre productions.

This is my first MIDI melody loops packs, I have kept the melody loops within 1/2 bars, so they can be easily adapted and edited.

It is royalty-free? YES! It's 100% royalty-free!

I hope everyone will enjoy these melody loops for general modern music production.

This melody kit includes;

1. (A-Minor) Melody 01
2. (A-Minor) Melody 02
3. (A-Minor) Melody (Chord) 03
4. (A-Minor) Melody 04
5. (A-Minor) Melody 05
6. (A-Minor) (Chord) Melody 06
7. (A-Minor) Melody 07
8. (A-Minor) Melody 08
9. (A-Minor) Melody 09
10. (A-Minor) Melody 10

Yes, I have designed and produced all of these myself, I hope everyone will enjoy these! They can easily be imported into any major DAW. (There is an online PDF guide on how to import MIDI files into any DAW, check it out if you guys have any issues).

I might make another midi melody loops pack in different scales, let me know below which scale would you like me to use for another MIDI release of free melody loops, thanks for your future suggestions.

Instant Download Link Below (attachment);

When it comes to hip hop production, midi files can help in achieving some outstanding melodies and melody chord progressions.

Personally I have used midi files many years ago, in fact almost over a decade ago, and there are many great music production resources online which can help when it comes to composition. 

1. Midiklowd - 8 Free Midi Packs

8 different trap and hip-hop royalty-free midi file packs, which all contain different styles of midi melodies and chords designed for modern music producers. I have downloaded the Trap Midi Melodies myself, and it comes with some outstanding modern compositions.

I did have to enter my email, where I received my secure downloads, and it all worked flawlessly! I also imported the midi files into FL studio, and they all loaded up as they should.

2. 4 Drum Midi Packs for Hip-Hop Producers by ghost-audio-factory

When it comes to modern hip hop drum Midi Files, ghost audio factory have instant downloadable midi files which preload instant drum pattern into the piano roll, the only downside to this is the piano roll midi drum pattern will need to be correctly positioned within the piano roll. I would recommend this for any hip hop producers who are looking for live industrial drum patterns, as well as modern midi drum patterns.

To be honest, the collection could be a bit bigger when it comes to drum pattern selection, but these are free to download, so well worth checking out!

3. Free Hip Hop MIDI Pack with 80 free midi files

Yes! These are very good melody, drum pattern and chord progression midi files for hip hop producers, I have personally registered, and downloaded the midi files to try this midi files pack out, all I can say is that the download works well, but you will need to register and create a free account with essential midi, I tried to enter my email to download these, and when I received the file, I couldn't download them, because I had to create a free account, but once I created a free account the download was flawless, so this works 100%!

4. Hip Hop Beats 1 (10 free hip-hop drum midi file)

If you scroll down the page their provided list of free to download MIDI files which are instant download, no registration is required, they have a MIDI files called "Hip Hop Beats 1" which are free to download and free to use, some nice and simple hip hop drum pattern compositions, will need to be imported into the piano roll within the DAW. I have personally tested the download, and it worked correctly and as it should, was instant. 

These guys also have;

• Chilled beats midi files suitable for many chilled tracks.
• They also have different genre midi files for pop, rock and funk, in case anyone is interested.

Looking for full Hip-Hop songs Midi Files?

Also, If you're looking for full hip hop song melody style midi files, which should be used to gain inspiration in my perspective since they provide full melody, which has already been using within the music industry. Nonstop2k provide 5 free midi downloads per day for free accounts. I tested this and registered with them and downloaded my 5 free midi files, they all work correctly and as they should.

Premium Extras

Also, there are some premium options for midi files which are located on Sloppy 

Hope you like my hip-hop MIDI selection!

Personally, I have tested all of these listed above and they all work correctly, the download is secure either direct or secure with email, of course I was able to locate lot more online, but this is my selection which I would redeem safe and mainly useful for modern hip hop and rap music producers.

Also, if you are interested I have created my first 10 melody MIDI kit with 10 melodies for hip-hop and general trap genre style of modern music producers, check it out!

Being a modern music producer for over a decade and producing many hip hop instrumentals which you can check out on BeatStars, I would like to share some crucial information which I have learned from the past.

If there's anyone asking themselves on what should I use? Claps or Snare samples?

Then I have the answer for you based on being a hip hop music producer for over a decade. My simple answer is, it's all based on what style of hip hop track you are trying to produce!

Yes, it's as simple as that, to be honest at a point I used to mix claps and snares at the same time, overlapping them for dirty south style of genre beats when I was producing back in 2014, these were a big inspiration within the music industry.

But when it comes to selecting Claps or Snares, I would recommend the hip-hop music producer to ask these question listed below.

• The sub-genre of hip-hop beats which you are trying to produce, what is the usual sample within this genre, is it a clap or a snare?
• Depending on the sub hip-hop genre you are producing, if you listen to 10 different tracks/songs online within the genre you are producing what do you hear? Snare? Or a clap?

Now depending on the results above, you should stick to a similar style of clap or snare.

This helps allot when trying to produce sub-genre hip-hop beats, because these sub-genre hip hop composition usually have a certain patterns and structures, which uses certain instruments, certain kicks, certain snares, certain claps and the list goes on.

Here is a list of some hip hop sub-genres.

Personally, In my opinion, it all about planning the actual sub-genre which the music producer is producing, you see each sub-genre for example, trap beats, dark trap beats, UK drill beats, mellow story telling beats, boom bap beats, 808 beats and artist inspired style of beats. All of these have a sub-genre (within hip-hop) which has a certain type of tempo, instruments, drum pattern layouts and virtual instrumental patterns.

So listening and gaining inspiration from similar hip-hop sub-genre compositions, is not only crucial for all music producers in my opinion, but also important when someone is trying to produce a certain type of hip-hop beat. This is my personal opinion.

I hope this will help all upcoming hip-hop producers make the correct choices when it comes to hip hop production. Best of luck in your hip-hop compositions!

I mean this plugin will allow the users to add all their vocals, with vocal layers, and then sync and align these either based on timing, strength or pitch.

This process is completely automatic and can be modified with on-screen modulations, I mean it able to align certain pitch within the vocals within the stack to match other pitch tracks. Easily change the pitch of vocals.

Check out the video below which shows more features in real-time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9TVE5TiDC4

My personal opinion about Vocalign VST Plugin!

Personal opinion I prefer using the traditional way of mixing and mastering vocals, and that's by using manual tools, playlist and moving the vocals into place.

This is something which has been done for centuries, and also most certainly, this is a process which has consumed some time to perfect, and some time to get everything aligned correctly.

I guess the times have changed, with so much automation and artificial intelligence, its seems like we have got lazier when it comes to music production and deeply depend on automation tools. But, I guess it has its perks of quicker working, quicker vocal sync, and less struggle trying to align the vocals into the correct position.

But, yes! I am quite impressed with how quick and easy it is to align the vocals with the show match options with different styles and input attributes of the vocals, with so much less effort.

What can Vocalign be used for?

• Easily align multiple vocals to match each other within the vocal stack.
• Alter or change the pitch of vocals.
• Comes with build in presets for quick and fast vocal mastering.

I wanted to know what you guys think? Is Vocalign the way forward for vocals to be mixed and mastered, I mean it's being used by many professional companies, I guess these guys would use it to align vocals when it comes to TV and game design. 

I can also see how professional music producers working with artist would use this to get a professional vocal alignment within their composition, comes with multiple matching options and multiple vocal timing attributes.

This is awesome news to start off 2026!

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My personal opinion and preference

As a music producer who has been producing for almost 20 years, well started when I was 16, so I let you guys guess my age, yes I am an old, in fact I have gray hair which has started growing on my face. Time has flown so quick, and..... yes, anyway dint start producing professional till over a decade ago.

I have always stuck to using sampled (WAV) style drum samples, and have never ever constructed an instrumental or a beat composition using any drum machine VST plugins.

Now I know this is bad, since I have fully loaded MPC on my midi keyboard and should be using it with drum machine VST plugins.... right?

The truth is, actually no, it's all based on personal preference for me, everyone has their own way of making music, it's a form of art, and it all depends on the users' preference in my opinion.

My personal choice

I mean I love using drum kits such as Unison, Loopmasters and Cymatics, since these are main game players when it comes to sampled kicks, snares, hi hats, percussions and etc, they have loads of great free drum kits and constructions kids with many great samples and loops to use for any style of projects.

But also there are some awesome drum machine style (VST) kits which I have used in the past but never actually composed a single track/project using them, drum machine VSTs from UJAM the beat maker series for instance, these were actually given to me by UJAM couple of years ago, a free promotion which I don't for them on my YouTube, in fact; they sounded phenomenal, but I found that using my own library of samples was a more comforting choice.

Will I ever use drum machine VST plugins?

The truth lies within the destiny of the future, I mean I am not too sure about this and still optimistic, I like the way I currently use sampled drum samples within construction kits, I tend to find these have higher quality and more manipulation editing options.

But there are some very cool drum machines which I wanted to try, but the sounds they provide are limited, and don't offer much versatility when it comes to editing them. Saying that, some of the newly developed drum machine VST plugin comes with tonnes of features, but they are quite expensive!

I wanted to see what other music producers think?

What is your choice? Drop a reply to this topic below, would be interesting to see what other music producers think and prefer!

I have used loopcloud and even have subscription for it which I have to pay each month, anyway i was wondering which other platforms do people actually use?

What do I find with loop cloud? Personal opinion here.

1. The samples are saturated
2. It's hard to find the correct melody loop or sample.
3. I have actually downloaded and tried to work with 20 different melody loops, but never used one in my compositions.

Which makes me think, why do I pay for the subscription?

The only reason which comes to my mind, is ideas, I generally like composing my own melodies, and have been for over 20 years, but when it comes to ideas, I tend to listen to the instrumentals, purchase them with points, end up not using these and then end up creating my own similar melody with different feel and instruments.

Which explains why I have kept loopcloud, they do have some nice samples, and I was planning on using some of the guitar melodies and piano melodies within some of my projects, but just had no time to do so as I have been very busy, but anyway it's on my to-do list! HAHA!

Would be great if you guys could drop some suggestions below! Would be great cheers!

I have been learning how to use JUCE (projucer) VST development plugin, it's been almost 6 months of learning.

What have I learned?

I must be honest, but creating a 3D based UI (user interface style) VST plugin is a lot harder than it looks!

Before I give you more info on the whole process and obstacles I have endured during my UI development of VST plugin, let's have a look at my previous VST UI design style, this was achieved using GIMP (free photo editing software), check out my UI designed which was 100% 2D design based, mainly based on graphical shadows, graphical design and effects. 

My previous 2D VST UI design shown below (image).

Now I have improved this into 3D style UI VST plugin, before I tell you the whole process, let me show the 3D UI design version below.

Current 3D VST UI design shown below (image). (Also, I have updated some of the features in my recent release) 

Now as you can see, it looks 100x better when the UI is designed in 3D software, it looks a lot cleaner, it looks lot smoother, and lot more professional.

What do I think about the process of making 3D UI style VST plugins compared to simple 2D plugins?

All I can say it very hard, it took me weeks and months to fully learn how to use Blender 3D, which is a free 3D software, designed for the public to use freely.

Whist using Blender 3D, I had to learn all of these obstacles below to design a pro style 3D UI VST plugin.

• I had to learn how to add cameras, move the cameras into position inside Blender 3D, critical for correct final image of 3D VST render. (Render is referred to final image of whole 3D VST model). 
• I had to learn how to add correct light and 3D main scene light, this took me weeks to perfect, I ended up adding 10 different lights with different intensities, to make the final VST render look perfect.
• I had to learn how to add use mesh modelling such as cube, plane and squares, then moving around in face, edges and vertex to model all my rotating sliders, features and the VST itself, this part took me the most of my time, learning how to move around in the 3D space, model what I need to make the VST plugin look professional and good took me weeks to learn, I had to research every single modelling technique, YouTube came in very handy for this. To be honest, I felt like a right newbie, but then again I was quite new to 3D blender. This part is the hardest to learn, for anyone wanting to make 3D style UI VST plugins, learning 3D blender features, UI and whole process is very time-consuming.
• I had to learn how to add HDRi's, this is light background reflection which affects the whole 3D scene, this was quite hard to understand but I managed to get it to work, and polyhaven's hdris came in very handy, they come at CC0 license meaning they can be used for any commercial or commercial product release including paid or public projects, it was a lot of work just for the correct light scene and reflections this part of making my VST plugin.
• When it came to adding textures and design colours and material to my 3D model, I designed some material and textures myself and also used some commercial free to use texture from polyhaven, as these are also the same free to use with CC0 (commercial license) and free for the public to use for any commercial projects or products.
• I also had to change the whole unit system of my 3D blender software and resize the whole VST to meet my 900 by 700px requirements or my other VST 800px by 600px, so when I exported my VST plugin, this was in units and had to change this to "PX" pixels. This was quite frustrating as my whole project had to be resized, took me a whole day to get this correct, so it all matched up with my Juve (projucer) VST design coding UI.
• I had to use a dummy plane as a background modelling reference, this was an export of my UI from juce VST plugin, without any background reference modelling the buttons and everything into the correct position would have been quite impossible. This is a very important feature for anyone who wants to model a 3D VST plugin, make sure you have a reference when 3D modding your VST virtual instrument.
• I had to learn how to switch between object mode and edit mode, texture mode and all other modes, to understand how this free 3D blender software work is quite overwhelming, there's just so much to learn and so many features, in simple terms, it can get very confusing and overwhelming.

There is so much to write on here, all I can say it's 100x easier to make 2D based VST plugins, I mean look at the 3D mesh of my 3D VST plugin below, so much going on it's highly technical, but super cool!

As you can see, there has been a lot of work involved to get a 3D style VST plugin texture.

I also wanted to design a VST logo for my VST plugins, which took me some time to design inside GIMP, I wanted to make this quite unique and personalized to my VST plugin development.

Check out my VST logo development below, this was designed inside GIMP. I am quite proud how unique this is and how cool it looks! Not going to lie, but going to college and university, studying a bachelor of artist course had helped me allot, this includes music/sound design, 2D/3D design and programming overall.

These skills came in very handy during the making of my VST plugin.

 The main hardest thing I came across, whist making a 3D style UI interface VST plugin?

• Modelling the 3D VST plugin elements. 
• Aligning everything into place so it matches up with the UI inside Juce, making sure it looks good.
• Post colour correction, 3D texture and 2D UI alignment is time-consuming.
• Using GIMP to create promotional VST plugin 3D images was also very time-consuming, many renders, exports, alignments, blending and so much more.

How long did it take me to learn how to create a 3D UI VST interface?

This took me about a week or 2, but I took some courses on 3D blender before which came in handy, especially when I was designing my VST plugin, it could well take a newcomer a whole month or even longer to fully learn how to use the 3D blender software, I do warn anyone reading this, It's very hard to learn how to use blender 3D, but well worth the time and patience.

Would I go back to making 2D UI instead of 3D style UI for my VST plugins after learning how to use blender 3D?

Never! The VST plugins look 100x better, so if anyone here is thinking about using 3D blender to make VST plugin UI and VST design, then don't even think twice, it will be the best thing you will ever do!

I mean, check the top 2 images of this forum topic, and simply look at the difference yourself, 3D VST plugin UI and VST design looks 100x better, in my opinion, looks lot more professional.

What I used to make this VST plugin?

1. Juce (projucer) VST plugin development.
2. Xcode and MS Visual Studio for (C++) coding the plugins and also for exporting VST3/AU plugin formats, my VST plugin was designed to support Windows and macOS.
3. Grok 3 & 4 (I have premium membership) for support of coding and precise preset development, this made the whole process 1000x faster.
4. GIMP for image colour correction, manipulation, resize and promotional final image edits.
5. 3D blender for 3D VST UI and plugin design.
6. Polyhaven for HDRi background light & reflection map, and for some HD textures.

I have to be honest, I have been learning how to design and develop VST plugins for over 6 months during my spare time, it's been a huge learning curve, there is so much to learn and so much to explore.

Now if you wouldn't believe me that my VST plugins were terrible 6 months ago, then this was my first ever VST design mock up which I designed 6 months ago, check it out below.

As you can see, I have come a long way in design, development and I am still learning, this image above was taken 6 months ago, I wanted to share this to inspire anyone reading this, that you can do this too! If you do loads of research, watch YouTube videos and learn. 

Also, I wanted to point out, I never had anyone outline everything required in paragraphs as I have above. When I started, I had to learn everything and research everything myself, so I hope it will guide you guys in the correct path and make things much easier for anyone who's reading this.

Hope this will give you guys a lot more understanding of making a 3D UI style VST plugin and the process of what anyone can endure during the whole process.

If you guys have any questions, drop them below, and I will do my best to get back to you soon as possible.

For the programming side, I have used a combination of AI such as chat GTP, GROK, Microsoft Visual Studio, Juce v8 and a combination of Windows and macOS, where I also had to used Xcode for deployment of VST3 and AU for macOS. Of course some coding language knowledge come in handy, the main issue here is understanding the whole flow of the setup and deployment to most major DAWS.

I must admit, programming a VST plugin in C++ is quite hard, but after a while you will kind of get used to it. When I first started a couple of months ago, I could-not even get the text to change colour or size, which was quite embarrassing to be honest.

Before I show you my design below and process of how I developed the user interface for Phaser VST. I would like to outline some obstacles which I have come across when using Juce V8 and MS Visual Studio for programming the VST. 

• When I downloaded and started using juce v8 for developing my VST plugin, I simply had no idea where to start, it's essential to know the basics before you start in my opinion, look up some courses if you're looking into the development of VST plugins. 
• Planning, what sort of plugin you're going to use, as each plugin will require different Juce modules and settings, and features, trust me, I never knew there's 8/9 different styles of plugin (settings) layouts and formats, with tonnes of modules. Sticking to Audio Plugin instead of GUI based plugin made the process a lot easier in my opinion.  
• Planning on how you want the VST to look, I had no idea, when it came to this, I sketched few design months earlier, but in the end came up with my final design, which was far from the first mock up I have done. 
• Getting the VST plugging in your DAW can be very hard, especially if you have never developed a VST plugin. I had no idea where to start, but an online course on using JUCE has helped me allot, I did kind of stopped halfway through the course and decided to look at other YouTube tutorials and research certain features independently, ask AI bots questions and do thorough research into the topic and features I was looking at, so I can gain extra knowledge in the fields of what I was looking for. There's like 50 different ways to add a slider or a simple button, with different outputs and different features, it took me a while to find my style and my design theme. Of course, when it comes to design, this is quite endless, since a VST plugin can look like anything the developer wants.
• Exporting and testing VST plugin is hard, as it comes in share-code, standalone, VST. VST3 and if you need extra AU, AAX and other exporting features, understanding how deployment works took me weeks and weeks of learning, it's definitely something no one talks about, but it's harder than you think. 
• And again, no one ever told me that you will need to use same project on macOS, get Xcode, install mac version of JUCE and you will need to deploy the macOS version of your VST plugin on macOS, this took many hours of struggle, understanding. This process was quite hard at first as I had no idea what settings I need, also including the pip metadata for VST3 and AU exports, setting up my projucer project correctly, setting up x-code to export all the necessary files, it took me about 50 exports to fully get the correct version and understand the whole process correctly. Took me hours to find out which version to use in Xcode for VST3 and AU work correctly on all macOS versions. 
• There's, so much to write on here, there are so many obstacles when it comes to making a VST plugin, I almost gave up half way and took a few weeks break from it, as I simply could not get a VST3 export, it was that difficult.

Anyway, here is my design break down of how I developed Buzz Phaser VST

These are the background elements designed in GIMP.

This is the upper and lower tab space showcase design I made in Gimp. 

The UI buttons, which I have designed in GIMP. They look a bit fuzzy below, but they are higher resolution in original format, maybe because I had to resize them all for this showcase process. 

I then put all these together, and as you can see you get this below, (I also added a cool green spatial lines to make it look modern;

Everything else below was added using c++ coding, Juce v8 and MS Visual Studio.

This is how I designed and developed my first ever VST plugin, took me a few months to learn everything, but it was well worth it. Many hours of sweat, struggling, basically loosing my brain cells trying to figure out simple tasks, but in the end it was all worth it. I am now working on my 6th and 7th VST plugins, and the process is lot easier now as I understand the fundamentals and the whole algorithm of how this works. 

Hope you guys enjoy my post update on my VST plugin development process and how I made my first ever VST plugin. (Well, I say first, but this was my 2nd version, as the first design looked a bit cheap).