Lo fi: a hip hop beat in four tracks of five

This follows your Jazz rap note ("it should have rap drums"). The same fault was counted in the other mixed styles. Lo fi chose its drums from only two kits, and one of them was a brushed jazz kit, so half of all Lo fi tracks played a brushed snare and an open jazz kick. You described Lo fi as "very warm, tight with a hip hop beat".

Status: live since 1:36 pm, Wed 14 Oct 2026. Reload the groovebox once to get it. Every clip here was made on the very copy that is live.

Nobody has listened to these. They were made and measured by an agent that cannot hear. The counts say the brushed kit now plays in about one track in five. Whether the two new soft kits sound warm enough is yours to judge by ear.

What changed

	Before	Now
Kits	Lo fi tape and Dusty jazz (the brushed one)	Five: Lo fi tape, Dusty jazz, Dusty break, and two new soft kits, Soft groove and Soft dusty
In 100 tracks	The brushed kit in 52, Lo fi tape in 48	The brushed kit in 17. Lo fi tape 23, Dusty break 22, Soft groove 19, Soft dusty 19
From one track to the next	The same kit stayed 27 times in 80	The kit changes at every new track
Kept as it was	The speed, the swing, the beats, the bass, the keys, the pads and the top line. In 100 tracks read before and after, nothing but the kit differs. The brushed kit itself is not changed, it is only rarer

The same track on each of the five kits

The first 30 seconds of one Lo fi track at 78. Every note is the same in all five. Only the kit differs: listen to the snare and the kick.

Lo fi tape

The kit Lo fi always had, unchanged. The other kits were measured against this one

Soft groove (new)

The same dusty kick, a fat snare sat back and darkened, a quiet clap, foot hat

Soft dusty (new)

The same dusty kick and soft fat snare, with quiet finger snaps

Dusty break

The boom bap kit added this morning: the same dusty kick, a tight snare, finger snap

The brushed kit, now one track in five

Dusty jazz: brushed snare, open jazz kick. Left in as a colour, since you heard one on Waiting Room and did not mind the drums

By measure the two soft kits sit level with Lo fi tape (within 0.2) and are no brighter (within 0.5). The fat snare as it comes was 9 brighter than Lo fi tape, so it was turned down and darkened for these two kits only. The kick is the one Lo fi tape has. The brushed kit sits 6.6 quieter than Lo fi tape.

If you would sooner have no brushed kit in Lo fi at all, say so: it is one word to take out.

How far the fix has reached

Style	What the count found, in 100 tracks	Where it stands
Jazz rap	A brushed snare in 100	Mended, live this morning
Hip hop and boom bap	A brushed snare kit in 27	Mended, live at 12:58 pm
Lo fi	A brushed snare kit in 52	Now 17, live at 1:36 pm
Trip hop	A brushed snare kit in 17	Counted and left as it is: a brushed kit belongs in trip hop

No saved song changes. Every other style plays note for note as before.