Drones & Mood Sound Effects

Atmospheric drones and ambiences – light and dark, beautiful and eerie, lively and serene

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects AXmos_Cinematic Guitars Play Track 150 sounds included, 68 mins total $30

Need to create suspense, tension and movement in your production? AXmos Cinematic Guitars is great for you.

Atmospheric elements, crazy chords, impacts, movements, reverses, soundscapes, distorted melodies, musical sound design and transitions are some of the things you will find in this collection, produced using a stratocaster type electric guitar. For that reason the sounds have a deep and musical feeling with such versatility that you can use them as effects or to enhance musical productions, generate a sound design musical moment and even compose tracks.

Apart of being a great library for Horror or Sci-fi games and movies, this collection is great for trailers too.

Sounds included:

Atmospheric elements (designed, distortion, high, low and tremolo) • Chords (evocative chords, dark arpeggios and fantasy) • Impacts • Melodies • Movements • Pads • Reverses • Soundscapes (surreal and tension) • Transitions

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Bells & Bowls Play Track 86 sounds included $17
Bells & Bowls – a collection of 86 files/100MB glass & ceramic bell sound effects in 24bit/96kHz mono – all UCS-compliant.

I give you 14 different bell-like objects, each multi-sampled for maximum expressiveness, tuned to the nearest musical note and ready to drop into your favorite sampler and play away. Ranging from only slightly complex sine waves, to strange wobbles and beat frequencies, these actual physical bowls, plates and vases had some pretty amazing musical sounds in them. Many of them took surprisingly little pitch-alterations to reach a musical note – almost as if some glassware factory wanted them to be struck with mallets and recorded!

You get:
- Clean, high quality sounds
- All sounds tuned to nearest musical note
- All files trimmed to start, for ease of use in samplers
- Several variations per recorded object = organic and expressive productions
- UCS-file names
- Metadata included in CSV and ODS (OpenOffice) formats
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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Signal Return Play Track 250+ sounds included $24

Signal Return is a performable Kontakt instrument and soundset designed to create a wide variety of interesting and textured sounds.

All of the source material comes from recordings of various devices feeding back into themselves either electrically or acoustically. No software based speaker emulators or distortions were used in the creation of these sounds. Comes with 250 .wav files – more than 2 hours of recordings + 22 Kontakt instruments (these require the full version of NI Kontakt 5.0 or higher).

Note: Can be used without Kontakt too! All Kontakt instrument libraries include fully unlocked and accessible metadata tagged .wav files. You don't need any version of Kontakt to use these files as a standalone sample library.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Annihilation – Dark Drones & Horror Ambiences Play Track 100 sounds included, 199 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$35

With Annihilation sound library Sound Response brings you a versatile, high quality, dark cinematic ambient sound arsenal ranging from massive, bassy, braam-like drones sound effects, creepy, otherworldly, organic, alien-like soundscapes and tension-building atmospheres, to the eerie, resonating, hair-raising, horror ambience sounds that will easily find a way into your next movie, game, trailer, video, music track, and more!

Perfect for any production involving dystopian and post-apocalyptic scenes of destroyed futuristic cities, deserted towns, haunting, eerie spaces and landscapes, huge, abandoned underground facilities, creepy halls, corridors, tunnels, and devastated, gloomy, industrial-like areas, this professionally designed sound library will provide you with a vast variety of drones, soundscapes, atmospheres, textures, and horror ambience sounds that will bring a sonic perspective to the scenes and images of the day after a doomsday event and it’ll sonically immerse your audience into a dystopian, post-apocalyptic, sci-fi world!

Annihilation sound library contains 100 drone sound effects (6.45GB) in 24bit/96khz Stereo WAV format, embedded with metadata to speed up your workflow.

If you like the sound of Annihilation sound library then be sure to check out Ominous Drones, Into Abyss and Dystopian Drones for even more post-apocalyptic soundscapes, atmospheres, dark textures & horror ambiences!

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Dreamcatcher Play Track 175 sounds included $35

The Sound of dreams and magic.

This sound pack is aimed at media producers who want to take their audiences down into the mystic world of dreams and wishful thinking.

Ready to use sounds, from short accents via dissonant pads to never-ending seamless drone loops. The sounds were created using a variety of sound sources: Synthesizers (analog and digital), a real harp, windchimes and small percussions and a cello.

Game designers, app developers, or video creators: This is the sound effect pack that gets you a broad variety of dreamlike, mysterious sounds. In this sound pack you will find a total of 175 sound effects, all royalty free and mastered in 48kHz/24bit or 44.1kHz/16bit for direct use in your next project:

88 Accents (Harp Glissandi, Bells, Chimes, etc)

28 Drones (19 Evolving, 6 seamless loops)

13 Melodic Drones (Rhythmic Bells, Melodic Ambiences)

46 Pads (Synthesizer Pads, Cello Pads, etc)

All sounds provided by the Dreamcatcher Sound Pack have been carefully produced, selected, edited and tested. The sounds are royalty-free.

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Metal Sound Effects Harmonics Play Track 168 sounds included $29

HARMONICS is a new designed sound collection that explores the inner beauty of resonating metals to create an extensive set of inspiring sonic material for sound design and film scoring – proudly presented by SampleTraxx.

Metal happens to have the right combination of speed of sound and decay. Different metal shapes produce a broad spectrum of soundscapes and tones.

HARMONICS investigates this hidden magic by designing and layering these unique timbres.
The result is an extensive set of designed evolving textures and designed metal elements which are great to create sound cues in minutes, metal hits, passby-reverses and evolving drones.

The nature of this soundpack doesn’t call for compressor or maximizer. Close attention has been paid to preserve the original dynamic excursion of each sound and fully enjoy its natural vibration and evolution.
Having a wide dynamic range guarantees more freedom in layering and arranging different elements to create endless variations.

The sonic material contained in the pack is all presented in a designed fashion and different levels of design are provided: from simple elements to evolving multilayered soundscapes and textures, all based on metallic sources. No external sounds apart from metals have been added to the mix.

Features:
86 Designed Textures and Elements (dur. up to 1’10″)
37 Hits (Hi and Low Designed Hits)
10 Drones
26 Pass-by Reverse
9 Tibetan Bowl (Raw Recordings)
9 Kontakt Instruments -Kontakt 5.5 full required for these (free player not supported)

Note: the WAV themselves files can be used without Kontakt

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects unEarthly Ambience Play Track 74 sounds included, 82 mins total $39

UnEarthy Ambience features 74 designed ambiences ranging from eerie organic textures, thick industrial machine rooms, and futuristic sci-fi atmospheres.

Add a polished layer of subtle tension, evolving textures, otherworldly roomtones, complex soundscapes or natural environments twisted into new spaces. UnEarthy Ambience gets you 2.8 GB of dark, futuristic, organic, designed drones and soundscapes from original field recordings and modular synth sampling in total.

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Horror Sound Effects Affright Play Track 208 sounds included, 45 mins total $30

“Affright” is a collection of 208 sounds (Wav, 24 Bit / 48 kHz) aimed to induce tension, fear and urgency in horror productions.

You will find looped percussive elements (clocks, metals, hits, alarms, musical elements and more at 75 bpm), designed rhythmic elements (75 bpm) and fx (atmospheric elements, reverses, noises, risers, drops).

If you are a musician who wants to define the building blocks of an intense horror track or maybe you are a sound designer who needs to create a musical moment in a scene from a sound design perspective, this library can help you to achieve those things.

Metals, vinyl noises, voices, ukuleles, flutes, guitars and clocks were used to create this intense pack of 164 loops and 44 Fx.

Check the main demo!! It was created very quickly using only the sounds of the pack with NO ADDED EFFECTS, only mixing the levels of the sounds and shows you the intensity of what you can create with this library!!

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Bowed Cymbals Play Track 49 sounds included $25

Bowed cymbals are one of those sound effects that just never get old.

Perhaps it's the chilling sound of bow on bronze that puts us on the edge of our seat that we love so much. Or maybe it's the hauntingly beautiful tones that ring from a large ride cymbal with a large bow.

Add some real bronze to your project today:

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Horror Sound Effects The Horrid Play Track 22 sounds included, 73 mins total $24

Looking for creepy ambiences? The Horrid delivers 4 dark ambient / industrial / horror compositions and their complete stem layers (22 files included – a total of more than 70 minutes of ambiences), for when you need to create a truly unsettling atmosphere.

Use a single track, or combine and remix your own variations. Rather than static tones, you will find significant, evolving themes here. Seamless loops, metadata included.

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Horror Sound Effects Nuances of Fear Play Track 582 sounds included $99

Summon twisted spirits from the dark realm with Nuances of Fear! A nuanced collection of scary sound effects, exploring the wide variety of different sub-genres of horror.

This exclusive library was designed by a team of sound designers, with credits including Disney+, Facebook, League of Legends, Ratchet and Clank, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, Ark: Survival Evolved, Oculus and many others.

Upgrade your collection with over 312 bone-chilling designed and 270 source sound effects. All sound effects come in 24bit 96kHz, including detailed naming conventions and rigorous Soundminer-embedded metadata.

All source sound effects were recorded with Sound Devices 788T and a LCR setup of two Sennheiser MKH 8040’s and one MKH 8050. The source audio was recorded in excellent conditions and post-processed additionally for crystal clear quality.

Library Review:

“RT Sonics’ Nuances of Fear library has some very innovative and detailed sounds that I find myself returning to again and again when I need some inventive elements and unique detail. Nuances of Fear is definitely one of my favorite horror libraries. Great work, guys!”

Angelo Palazzo

Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer. | Stranger Things 3, Frozen 2, Star Trek: Discovery, Alita: Battle Angel.

Nuances of Fear features:

Jump scares, Distorted SFX, Scary Resonances, Bowed Metal and Glass, Ominous Stingers, Distorted Screams, Metal Scrapes, Ghost Whispers, Psycho Stutters, Dark Magic, Reverses, Transitions, Scary Atmospheres, Psychological Drones, Pulses, Evil Vocal Growls, Granular Textures and much more

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Materials & Texture Sound Effects Old Stuff Play Track 237 sounds included $30

OLD STUFF is a collection of old and worn sounds that will help you define the mood of a scene or can be used for any kind of sound design process. The library includes hums, buzzes, whirs, creaks, squeals from many different sources: doorknobs, doors, elevators, fridges, freezers, speakers, toilets, fans, and heaters. A peculiar garage soundscape is also included. Most of the sounds included are used on a daily basis.

All these different nuances and hues make this library a worthwhile tool for both film and game sound designers.

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Industrial Ambiences Cement Factory Play Track 78 sounds included $25

The Cement Factory sound effects pack was recorded in a giant cement processing and rock crushing factory. It features perfectly looping ambiences that'll be sure to set a dark, industrial mood on anything that it's used on. Recorded with a Oktava MK 012 in MS Configuration.

The pack was recorded inside, outside and around various large machinery which gives you a lot of options when designing sounds with this pack. The sounds are also characteristically tonal and drone based and the ambiences are uninterrupted.

Includes sounds such as:

• Conveyor Belt Midrange Rattle (1 loop)
• Drone Bass (4 loops)
• Drone Bright (6 loops)
• Drone High Mid (2 loops)
• Drone Low Mid & Machine Clanking in Background (2 loops)
• Drone Midrange (19 loops)
• Drone Engine (8 loops)
• Drone Machines (14 loops)
• Rattle (4 loops)

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Dark SciFi Drones Play Track 116 sounds included, 232 mins total $16.80

SciFi Drones is a composite collection of very disturbing and scary futuristic spaceship ambiences, Sci-Fi Drones and organic, surreal alien-atmospheres.

Each drone is 2 minutes long, with very versatile variations in each file. And whether it comes to futuristic horror settings, abandoned sci-fi corridors, large spaceship halls, haunted basements or open space in an alien galaxy, this will set the right tone.
Fantastic for any sci-fi project – and will also set the tone equally well for other disturbing cyberpunk projects and scary industrial spaces.

This library is a hybrid-production; A symbiosis of organic original field-recordings like Room Tones, Construction Sites, Traffic, Zoo-Animals, Motors and synthetic elements. Lot’s of spectral and granular synthesis. And lots of sound designing, of course.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Production Elements: Designed Play Track 545 sounds included $20

We’ve raided the SFX Source vaults to bring you a 500+ sound collection of the best, most popular and most useful designed production elements to add to your audio box of tricks. Created for those moments when inspiration may be running dry, all of the sounds are ready to drop straight into your project to use as they are, or can be chopped, layered, mangled and processed to your liking.

A’mixed-bag’ sound library featuring deep tones, scary atmospheres, ambient textures, whooshes, transitions, loops, user interface sounds and much more. This one is really handy to have around, you never know what you may find to bring that idea to fruition!

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Sci-Fi Sound Effects Analog Synth Volume 1: Bleeps, Sweeps and Creeps Play Track 702 sounds included $29.99

This library was built primarily using two different modular synthesizer systems. One based on the Korg MS-20 and the other based on the Pittsburgh Modular Lifeforms 201. Included in this library you will find various one shots and hits alongside longer evolving textures and drones. The library was created in a very non-musical way and as such most of what you hear is noisy, gritty and a-tonal. The library can be used effectively for Sci-Fi Weapons, User Interfaces, Droids and Robots, Ambient Textures and many more possibilities.

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Hum, Buzz & Glitch Sound Effects ACM(E) Play Track 26 sounds included $15

This small sound library contains all the original CPU fan and hard disk noises emitted by the following vintage Apple MACs, each with its own unique texture:

• Power Macintosh 4400
• Power Macintosh 6400
• Power Macintosh 7200
• Macintosh Classic
• Macintosh Mac G4
• Macintosh Mac LC 475

The material contains a lot of mechanical noises and different startup chimes, plus a lot of boot sequences with all the hard drives/fans spinning and whirring.

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Metal Sound Effects Performed Orchestral Percussion Play Track 523+ sounds included, 505 mins total $119

Sounds for this library were recorded in amazing sounding film scoring studio and performed on orchestral set of top-end Kolberg percussion instruments. The intention was to perform organic sound effects resonated by musical instruments and not regular musical samples.

Sounds were generated with a few different rubbers, mallets and a bow. They were performed to be used for abstract sound design elements, as well as emotional big creatures vocalizations. You will find there many growls and moans, which can be used for example as designed whale vocalizations.

Recordings were done on microphones with extended frequency range: Schoeps CMC6XT, Sanken CO-100k and Trance Inducer (which also records up to 50kHz), which makes them ideal source for pitch-shifting.

Please note: Pitch shifted files in the demo are presented only to show potential of those recordings and aren't included in the library. No additional processing was done on all sounds.

Instruments used:

Timpanis • Taiko Drums • Gran Casa • Orchestral Toms • Orchestral Snares • Chinese Gongs • Chinese Wuhan Gongs • Chinese Opera Glissando Gongs • Burmese / Thai Gongs • Metal Plates • Vibraphone • Crotales • Bell Tree • Lion’s Roar • Ocean Drum • Rainstick • Ratchets • Vibraslap • Flexatone • Tibetan Bowl • Glass Chimes • Bamboo Chimes • Temple Blocks • Alpine Bells • Musical Saw

Gear used:

Schoeps CMC6XT MK41/MK8 MS kit • Sanken CO-100k • Sennheiser MKH-8060 • Trance Audio Stereo Inducer contact microphones • Sound Devices 702, 744, MixPre

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Desolate Atmospheres Play Track 66 sounds included, 189 mins total $14.99

Wind sounds are captured through various metal objects using a LOM Geofon .

Jack Hughes, audio craftsman at 344Audio in Manchester, has designed these into Desolate Atmospheres ranging from dark, ominous, textures to haunting, etherial, tones.

Perfect for adding atmospheric background sounds to your creative projects.

30 original designed files, 6 bonus designed files, 30 source files

Files are stamped with UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Ominous Drones – Horror Ambiences & Textures Play Track 100 sounds included, 146 mins total $35

Ominous Drones sound library features 100 high quality, dark cinematic drones sound effects perfect for enhancing the anticipation and suspense in any sci-fi, thriller, or horror movie, trailer, video game, music track, and more!

From dark disturbing braam-like drones, dynamic and evolving ones, to the subtle eerie horror ambiences and atmospheres, this tension-driven sound collection will provide you with the sounds to keep your audience on the edge of their seats. If you’re looking for scary post-apocalyptic ambient sounds, otherworldly and alien-like soundscapes, or dark and sinister dystopian textures, this sample pack is a must have!

Ominous Drones sound library contains 4.72GB (146 minutes total) of high definition 24bit/96khz Stereo WAV files, embedded with metadata to speed up your workflow.

If you like the sound of Ominous Drones sound library then be sure to check out Annihilation, Into Abyss and Dystopian Drones for even more doomsday soundscapes, atmospheres, dark textures & horror ambiences!

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Surreal Play Track 100 sounds included, 36 mins total $25

“SURREAL” is a collection of 100 Sound Effects for creating surreal moments in your productions and allows you to generate a bizarre experience to mess up with the listener mind.

The sounds were created using a great variety of sources such as: transverse flutes, kalimbas, thunder drums and electric guitars to give the effects a more meaningful and emotive feeling.

But if you are looking sounds to induce tension and suspense, this library is great for you too.

Sounds included:

Crazy atmospheres • Drones • Detuned piano: Atmosphere, rarities and reverses • Atmospheric guitars • Atmospheric kalimbas • Glitches • Whooshes • And much more

The sounds are great for any kind of production (games, trailers, movies).

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects No Input Feedbacks Play Track 56 sounds included, 72 mins total $17

No Input Feedbacks is a library of tones, drones, noises, and oddities generated with a matrix mixer and a series of guitar and bass stomp effects.

Gear Used:
Xiwi Electronics Passive Matrix Mixer, Electro-Harmonix Bass Big Muff Pi and Holy Stain, TC Electronic Flashback Mini Delay, Tech 21 SansAmp Bass Driver DI, Jim Dunlop MXR Auto Q, Moog Minifooger MF Ring, BBE Sonic Stomp Sonic Maximizer, TASCAM DR100-MKII.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Immersive Motion Vol.1 Play Track 50 sounds included, 250 mins total $50

‘Immersive Motion Vol.1’ features 50 atmospheric sound effects that are designed to add energy and detail to your soundtrack.

Ideal for backgrounds and atmospheres as they flow and swell in an organic nature.

The library is over 250 minutes in duration.

Please note that my sound libraries do not go on sale (this is so prices are fair all year round), and they are sold exclusively on asoundeffect. :-)

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Motion Textures Play Track 184 sounds included $48

Motion Texures is a broad library with a narrow purpose: to draw sonic lines and create gently moving sonic textures.

The concept is that consistent sound of friction will translate well to visual design elements that have CG and text movement on screen.

We recorded the friction sounds of dozens of small to medium sized props in constant motion. Major categories include metal, plastic, cloth, wood and skin. Some of the most interesting sounds came from the props that had small cavities such as the spray can lid and the water bottle. The constant changing of the cavity state relative to the mics creates strange vocal sounds.

Once the sounds were recorded we employed a proprietary smoothing process as a second pass to the sounds and provided them in addition to the original textures. These smoothed out sounds still have the organic quality of the original recordings, but with far fewer transient events. The end result are sounds that feel straighter than the more circular sounding original textures.

Inside of the Kontakt instruments we stacked layers and effects to create a broad base of deep and interesting textures. Many of the Kontakt presets mangle the sounds far beyond recognition of the original recordings.

Motion Textures features
• 92 unique original samples
• 92 smoothed samples
• 25 Kontakt unlocked design .nki files
• 22 Kontakt unlocked raw texture .nki files
• .nki files require full version of NI Kontakt 4 or higher

Note: Can be used without Kontakt too! All Kontakt instrument libraries include fully unlocked and accessible metadata tagged .wav files. You don't need any version of Kontakt to use these files as a standalone sample library.

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