LOFI
SKATE
A lofi MIDI instrument with recorded skate foley, textures & transitions. Free on Gumroad. No Widen Island newsletter signup required.
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Add it to a MIDI instrument track and play a key. Recorded skate foley and generated lofi textures follow your notes and envelope. It is an instrument, not an insert effect for processing your drum track.
Built-in sound bank
Recorded skate foley, procedural lofi textures and transition one-shots — install and play. Prefer plain files? There's a separate free sample pack below.
Textures + transitions
Play recorded skate sounds on C1–B1, sustained textures on C2–B2 and transition hits on C3–B3. The signature board drop sits on C4.
Reverse mode
One toggle rebuilds the whole bank backwards — crashes become reverse swells, hits become builds into the drop.
Lofi character controls
Crackle density, texture mix, saturation, lowpass filter, reverb and a full ADSR — all automatable in your DAW.
Use your own samples
Drop .wav files into a folder and they replace the built-in bank, mapped across the keyboard automatically.
Actually free
The plugin is free. Downloads are handled by Gumroad; joining the Widen Island newsletter is optional.
Find your sound
Octave names use C3 = middle C. If your DAW labels octaves differently, use the MIDI note numbers below. Check the current download's README for installation details.
Recorded skate foley
C1–B1 · MIDI 36–47
Recorded board hits, rolls, scrapes and pushes.
Lofi textures
C2–B2 · MIDI 48–59
Sustained vinyl crackle, tape hiss, rain, wind and other lofi beds.
Transitions
C3–B3 · MIDI 60–71
Risers, sweeps, impacts, vinyl and tape stops, and sub drops.
Signature board drop
C4 · MIDI 72
The recorded board-drop one-shot on the top key.
No plugin? Take the WAVs
A separate WAV collection of lofi textures, transitions and skateboard one-shots recorded on the street. Drag them into any DAW, sampler or phone app.
Get the Sample Pack — Free
13
Skate one-shots
Pops, tail taps, ollies, pushes, slides, rolls and The Drop — a real board, recorded on the street.
12
Lofi textures
Vinyl crackle, tape hiss, rain, room tone, wind and cassette warble — the plugin's C2–B2 row.
12
Transitions
Reverse crashes, risers, downsweeps, vinyl and tape stops, sub drops — the C3–B3 row.
37
Reversed
Every sound flipped, rendered as its own file. Reverse swells without touching a waveform.
Standard
All 74 WAVs above — one-shots, textures, transitions and the reversed set.
Extended
Adds all 67 full-length skate takes from the street session, in 7 categories — rides up to 14 s.
Made for real artists
Widen Island exists to support the humans making lofi and bedroom pop — the bedroom producers who deserve to be heard. Lofi Skate is our small contribution: a tool anyone can use, whatever their budget.
If it ends up in one of your tracks, send it to us — we'd love to hear it. And if you want more free tools, grab the Free Lofi Drum Pack too.
Get Lofi Skate — FreemacOS (AU / VST3 / Standalone) & Windows (VST3 / Standalone). Current release and install instructions on Gumroad.
Just want the sounds? Get the free Sample Pack — lofi textures, transitions and skate recordings as WAVs, no plugin needed.
