Cat Toy Drums: Lo-Fi Drums With Purr-sonality

Cat Toy Drums: Lo-Fi Drums With Purr-sonality

If you're a Lo-fi Hip-Hop producer looking for something fresh, characterful, and a little unexpected — Cat Toy Drums might be your new secret weapon.

This unique drum collection was created using recordings of actual cat toys, food bowls, litter bags, and other feline-related objects. These quirky foley sounds were carefully crafted into usable kicks, snares, claps, hi-hats, rimshots, shakers, and cymbals — perfect for mellow Lo-fi, Boom Bap, and downtempo beats.

🥁 What Is Cat Toy Drums?

Cat Toy Drums comes in two formats:

1. Virtual Instrument for Decent Sampler (Free Plugin)

The Decent Sampler version gives you a playable instrument with built-in effects and tweakable controls:

  • Individual control over pitch, decay, pan, and reverb send
  • Convolution-based reverb featuring spring and real-world spaces
  • Lo-fi Speaker Mix knob using small speaker impulse responses
  • Global Color knob for added tone, warmth, and saturation

Whether you’re laying down dusty backbeats or delicate swing grooves, the virtual instrument gives you everything you need in a single interface.

2. Royalty-Free Sample Pack

Prefer working with audio loops and one-shots in your DAW? The sample pack includes:

  • 150+ one-shot drum hits, effects & atmos (kicks, snares, hats, claps and more.)
  • Lo-fi drum loops and break variations
  • All loops labeled by BPM
  • Royalty-free for use in personal and commercial projects

Perfect for drag-and-drop beatmaking in Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, MPC, Koala, and more.

🐾 Why Use Foley-Based Drums?

Using everyday objects — like cat toys — adds organic texture to your productions therefore enhancing a human feel. These aren’t your standard drum machine samples. They bring a whimsical, playful energy that blends beautifully into the laid-back aesthetics of Lo-fi, Chillhop, and experimental beats.

Here’s what producers are saying about Cat Toy Drums

“The colour control is really nice… it really helps dial in the sound. Overall I'm really enjoying this fun sounding drum product for lo-fi. I could imagine it finding a place in many producers’ toolbox”.

“Wow! It is amazing…The overall look of it is perfect! Out of the box, it sounds nicely balanced and ready to use. I also like the midi files included. I took them for a test drive as well and it all sounds great! You did a fantastic job! I love this instrument!”

"One feature I especially appreciated is the Speaker Mix. Normally, I need at least four different plugins to shape the drums for a breakdown section, but this handles a lot of that heavy lifting right out of the box—it’s a real time-saver".

"I can easily see Cat Toy Drums becoming my go-to for lofi and hip-hop drums.”

🎁 Try Cat Toy Drums For Free

Want to test it out first? There’s also a FREE Edition of Cat Toy Drums available — fully functional with a curated selection of sounds and no time limit. All you need is the free Decent Sampler plugin, available for Mac, Windows, and iOS.

🚀 Where to Get It

You can download both versions of Cat Toy Drums directly from Tangerine Sounds:

Final Thoughts:
Whether you’re crafting sleepy Lo-fi tapes, jazzy instrumentals, or offbeat hip-hop grooves, Cat Toy Drums brings a dose of warmth, charm, and originality that stands out in any mix.

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