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Discover one of the biggest collections of bells ever recorded with nearly 6 hours of sound.
Beautiful Bells BUNDLE contains the solo ringing of 76 swinging bells and 135 stationary bells, captured in 62 bell towers, carillons, chapels, churches, cathedrals, basilicas and clock towers across France, with unprecedented quality. Most of the sounds were recorded inside bell towers.
Swinging bells are struck by a hanging clapper. They have a natural pitch modulation due to the Doppler effect, and a timbre modulation due to varying orientation. They produce a deep and lively sound and are mostly used to announce masses, religious holidays, weddings and funerals.
Stationary bells are struck by external hammers. They have a steady and rich tone, with a long sustain. They are mostly used as musical instruments in carillons, to indicate the hour in clock chimes or to alert the population in tocsins.
Every bell size and pitch is represented in this library, from huge 10 ton bourdon to tiny carillon bells weighing a few kilograms. You will find bells founded from 14th to 21st century with a great variety of timbres and tunings, over a range of more than 5 octaves. The sounds are sorted by note from D2 to G7.
The library contains 2 carillons with 54 bells and 10 bells, available as sound files and virtual instruments (NI Kontakt and EXS24 with round robin).
You will also get 15 peals of multiple bells, called plenum.
By sorting the solo sounds by location, you can recreate authentic bell combinations. You also have the freedom to create any custom combination or use the sounds as instruments in musical scores.
All the sounds in this library were recorded in bell towers or as close as possible to provide great sonic precision and optimal signal-to-noise ratio.
Over 12,000 kilometers were traveled during six months to get you one of the most exhaustive swinging bell collection ever recorded.
• Contains BEAUTIFUL BELLS Vol 1 & BEAUTIFUL BELLS Vol 2
• A total of 227 sounds recorded in 62 locations
• Wide variety of bells (size, age, tuning)
• Contains the ringing of 10 bourdons
• 2 carillons virtual instruments
• Contains peals of multiple bells
• Contains a collection of 10 small ancient bells
• All notes from D2 to G7
• Metadata with detailed information about each bell
• 96KHz/24bit
• Very low noise
• Metadata UCS-compliant
• Mainly recorded with Sennheiser MKH 8040
Imagine the visceral sensation of particles shifting and evolving, the subtle textures of organic materials swirling and twirling, and the eerie sounds of supernatural change. With “Elemental Mutation,” you’ll have access to this unique collection of SFX loops that capture these experiences in intricate detail. Inside you’ll find over 1000+ designed and organic seamlessly loop-able morphing particles, evolving textures, and organic mutations sound effects perfect for creating soundscapes, ambiences, entropy, high detail or layers in a soundtrack. This comprehensive library captures the subtle nuances of growth and evolution, as well as the uncanny and unsettling sounds of unnatural transformation.
Casual Fun Music Pack is a great way to add a light, happy and energetic ambience to your game. Create an instant sense of fun, adventure and carefree joy with these happy, energetic, and loopable music tracks with their variations. Casual Fun Music Pack is ideal for cute fun and fast games, and is also a perfect companion for game trailers. Add a calypso-like bright and happy shine to your project with Casual Fun Music Pack. It’s packed with fun and smiles!
The Cute Casual Game Music & SFX Pack offers a delightful collection of fun and friendly tunes specifically designed to add charm and whimsy to your casual game. This gem offers a total of 15 minutes of playful and enchanting themes in the form of ten loopable music tracks giving you the perfect creative setting for your ideas. Generate a light and happy ambience for puzzle games, card and board games and anything that’s casual and fun. Cuteness overload!
Desolate Land is a collection of 13 dystopian music tracks designed to evoke deep emotions and set the stage for intense, atmospheric experiences. Perfectly suited for both games and films, this pack features loopable tracks that seamlessly integrate into your projects, with light and full versions to match varying levels of tension and drama. Each composition is infused with a sense of abandonment and sorrow, blending cinematic strings, haunting synthesizers, and subtle percussion to create a soundscape that is both dark and evocative. Desolate Land – where every note echoes the fall of a world, and every melody tells a story of loss.
Hollow Tales Music Pack is a collection of 11 original tracks that fill the air with mystery and suspense. With 43 files, including full compositions, stripped-down light versions, seamless loops, and bone-chilling stingers, this pack is crafted to turn your project into a haunting experience. Hollow Tales is the perfect soundtrack for games, films, or any project where a sense of magical darkness takes center stage. Get ready to make your project creepy in all the right ways.
AntiSystem, a brand new collection of 570+ Horror Sci-fi one-shot samples and loops with a technoid approach, created in collaboration with South American sound designer Matias Cerviño and SampleTraxx.
Antisystem delivers tension and excitement with a genre-crossing, detailed hard-hitting sound design. Especially suitable for horror and sci-fi projects, it brings to the table a complete arsenal of unmistakable signature sound effects.
1,6 GB of WAV samples with Key Information, 15 Categories, and 17 Kontakt Instruments ready to be fired in your next project.
Inject a new wave of sonic madness!
Categories:
Atmosphere
Atmospheric Elements
Cinematic Movement
Crescendo
Feedback Larsen
Glitch Stutter
Hit Design 1
Hit Design 2
Loops with Kontakt tempo sync
Low Hit
Low Key Elements
Ramp Up Woosh By
Reverse
Rise
Topping Elements
Features:
1.6 GB of content
15 Categories
570+ Wav samples 48/24 with key information
17 Kontakt Instruments – Full version 5.8 needed
Kontakt Free Player not supported
Soundtrack Radio is a collection of music tracks spanning various genres and concepts – ideal for any game, movie, advertising videos and other media.
Powerful and engaging soundtracks of sporty and futuristic interaction, EDM pack is an elegant, yet energetic addition to the completion of your vision. This pack of music tracks sets up a perfect soundstage for victory, success and an engaging modern music experience with their intro, outro, looped and full versions. These tracks are packed in various resolutions, ensuring compatibility across a range of media platforms. Visual excitement meets the rhythm of life – EDM pack – feel the thrill of the race and ride the wave of electronic sound power!
The all-time classic ARP 2600 was a synthesizer that was an immediate hit with musicians and sound designers when it was released in 1971. Most famously, it’s the very synth that Ben Burtt used to give R2D2 his unmistakeable voice.
Semi-modular in nature and with many handy features like voltage modifiers, lag control, ring modulation, a comprehensive noise generator, sample & hold, and 3 independent oscillators, it comes equipped with more features than you’ll find in many of today’s analog synthesizers.
Thanks to the Alan R. Pearlman Foundation and the non-profit studio The Record Co. I was able to access an original, mint condition ARP 2600 that is beautifully maintained and lock myself in a studio with it to capture nearly 7 hours worth of raw sound design material.
Putting the 2600’s immense sound design potential to use, I created this library to help you give robots a voice, create otherworldly ambiances, score computers with the obligatory “bleep bloops”, and craft larger than life weapons with a distinct retro SciFi flair. I also captured the physical, mechanical sounds of patching cords and moving faders on the synth using a pair of LOM UÅ¡i Pro. These sounds are included in a dedicated subfolder.
The resulting sounds range from droid chatter at various root pitches, impacts, drones, noise, and lots of other sonic source that begs to be pitch-shifted and mangled. In fact, the ARP 2600’s pristine analog circuitry and my high-end recording chain capturing it at 192 kHz means that most of the final material features high-frequency content ranging up to nearly 90 kHz!
This means that you can pitch-shift most of these sounds down by up to 2 octaves and uncover new harmonic content along the way. By recording at 32 Bit with the ultra low-noise Zoom F6 and Rheingold Music cables, these recordings are extremely clean and hold up well to intense processing.
While highly abstract in nature, these sounds are a great basis for building:
Metadata: UCS file naming, SoundMiner, Soundly, BWF
Recording Specs: 24 Bit / 192 kHz for the majority of files. 96 kHz for files with less ultrasonic content, Stereo and Mono recordings.
File Format: WAV
Gear used: Genuine ARP 2600 Model 3620 (1974), LOM Uśi Pro Mics, Zoom F6, Rheingold Music Cables, Radial Pro D2 DI Box
Processing:Â Level adjustment, crossfades, spectral noise reduction for recordings using built-in spring reverb.
Hybrid Sonic Branding Kit is a business identity & motion graphics sound effects library that delivers luxury sound design styles for big brands, sonic identities, intros, outros, twitch, youtube, explainer videos, audio logos and title screens. Inside you’ll be able to utilize over 480 professionally designed sound effects that are guaranteed to make your workflow faster. Let your curiosity flow with lush sequences, polished sonic branding motion and get sound types like movements, transitions, reveals, appears, disappears, title screens, cinematic’s, accents and is especially useful for audiovisual needs and productions.
Cymbals From Hell Bundle is a disturbing collection of sound effects which includes three of our most popular horror libraries. Bringing you the nastiest, harshest set of designed elements and raw recordings, this bundle has more than 420 files with a total run time of 430+ mins. (18.94 GB).
Two of the included libraries are made in collaboration with Igor Tikhonov from KEDR Audio, who captured various types of gongs, Tibetan bowls, various bells in several performances using both Mid-Side and A/B microphone techniques to encapsulate an extensive stereo-field and different textures. Cymbals From Hell Vol. 1 has been recorded in a studio environment and played by a professional percussionist, with the intention of providing the most dynamic range and disturbing playing style. Our Audio Craftsmen carefully edited and designed the sounds to make the most frightening and bizarre effects.
This bundle contains harsh-bowed cymbals, distorted gong rumbles, horror stingers, heavy drones, risers, cinematic, mangled hits, gut rumbling sub sounds, dark-unsetting chimes, magical bells, weird sci-fi drones and much, much more.
This array of sounds is perfect for your films, video games and other projects, giving you everything you need to build compelling horror and sci-fi soundscapes.
You will be saving almost 30% of the total cost of the individual libraries when purchasing this bundle, an excellent value for money addition to your horror sound effects libraries.
Need a sound for that epic jump? Got it. How about the classic collect sound that makes you feel like you just won a jackpot on a slot machine? Yup, we’ve got that too. Retro Pixel Sound Effects PRO Pack is an extensive library of over 1200 royalty-free SFX in high resolution tailored specifically to give retro and arcade feeling. This pack features a lot of generic audio assets that audio professionals can easily adapt to their specific needs. Covering a wide range of categories including Alarm, Bleep, Bubble, Jump, Collect, Counter, Data, Fail, Success, Footstep, and more, each sound has been crafted using a blend of analog and soft synthesizers, metal sounds to evoke the iconic retro atmosphere.
Make your battle scenes more intense with our action packed War Drums music loops pack! 10 tracks that loop seamlessly, and can be used individually or perhaps combined with your choice of music drones (where there is no obvious tempo to interfere with the tempo of the drum tracks). Perfect choice for fantasy RPG battle scenes, war preparation, boss fights, or any project where intensity is required.
Fantasy human male character voice pack, with vocal efforts of attack and defense in combat, taking damage, laughter, death, and more! Vocal efforts are an irreplaceable addition for adding game realism and are always in high demand, which is why this pack was created. It is suitable not just for medieval fantasy characters like warriors, paladins, etc., but also adaptable for sci-fi characters and playable or non-playable characters of any genre. Be creative and have fun!
Unleash the elegant terror with “Dark Horror Piano Loops”: 10 scary, creepy and suspenseful music loop tracks for horror games. Dive into a bone-chilling collection of 10 eerie tracks, meticulously crafted to create a haunting atmosphere for your horror games. These creepy, suspenseful piano loops will send shivers down players’ spines. Whether you need unsettling melodies or jump-scare-ready soundscapes, this pack delivers the perfect soundtrack.
Eastern Instruments Designed Bundle Vol. 1 features an array of unique sounds inspired by a wide range of cultures. Travel to a distant Eastern land shrouded in mystery and intrigue, where history, culture, and innovation fuse into an unforgettable sonic experience.
Experience the rich soundscapes of Eastern traditions brought to life in this stunning library series, inspired by iconic worlds like Ghost of Tsushima and Shogun alongside influences from the rich musical heritage of India and China. Capturing an authentic performance by a traditional Eastern instrumentalist trained by a Master of Japanese Arts in Tokyo. Featuring the Tsugaru Shamisen, Kanun Harp, Ocarina, Den Den Daiko, Flutes and many more. This 6.17GB collection includes 3 volumes:
Eastern Instruments Designed Vol. 1:
A collection of 30+ unique and abstract ambiences.
Eastern Instruments Designed Vol. 2:
A collection of 30+ cinematic stingers.
Eastern Instruments Designed Vol. 3:
A collection of 30+ musical phrases and decorations.
Each recording has been meticulously crafted, edited, and manipulated to form a unique series of risers with a wide variety of intensity that blending tradition with modern sonic exploration. This library is a perfect for adding depth and authenticity to your Film, TV & Game trailers, projects, or productions that take place in an eastern setting. Use these sounds to inject cinematic elements with a musical edge and eastern influence into your sound design.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 192kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Epic Stock Media’s Game & Film Logo Transitions collection brings producers and sound designers a carefully handcrafted, versatile and wide ranging catalog of the most useful designed motion graphic sound effects for audio branding, intros, outros, twitch, youtube, explainer videos, audio logos and title screens. Inside you’ll be able to utilize over 400 original audio assets that will help you make polished sonic branding sound types like movements, transitions, reveals, appears, disappears, cinematic’s, and accents especially useful for audiovisual needs and productions.
It’s a familiar scenario… your character enters an abandoned building and walks by an analog TV or a vintage radio in the corner of the room and in the background you hear the noisy broadcast emanating into the room. The broadcast talks of news, emergency announcements, even local advertisements that are tied directly into the backstory of the scene. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to create these audio scenes in minutes? Now, with Fake Advertisements and Radio Sound Effects Audio Construction Kit you can.Â
It’s a dynamic collection of custom recorded, meticulously crafted voiceover clips, sound effects and loops, packed with 300+ audio files. All designed to make it fast and easy to craft your own background radio and TV broadcasts and advertisements.Â
Cinematic Horn –Â Over 100 plug-and-play cinematic horn braams and sting sound effects.
The Guitar Designed Bundle features a versatile blend of futuristic sonic elements originating from raw recordings of expert guitar performances.
Comprising all three of our Guitar Designed library, it offers a huge selection of transitions, backgrounds, drones, risers, articulations, stingers, impacts, phrases, sci fi pass-bys and weapons – all crafted by mangling, distorting and manipulating recordings of an electric and acoustic guitar.
This bundle’s versatility makes it ideal for a variety of moods, genres and projects. With it, you can build tension in game sequences, sweeten spaceship movements, design strange, discomfiting worlds, or even accent sitcom-esque comedy moments.
Explore a myriad of sonic opportunities with 344 Audio’s homage to an incredibly dynamic instrument!
Each library is delivered at 24Bit. Guitar Designed Vol. 1 is delivered at 48kHz, while Vols. 2 and 3 are delivered at 96kHz. The entire bundle is tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
Church bells from Middle Ages to early 20th century. European traditional bells made in bronze. Various churches, bells and sound perspectives. From near field recordings recorded in church towers to far field recordings – soundscapes of bells in countryside/city, small town, villages…
Maritime bells included (old sailing/steamships from the 19th century). Recorded in the Museum of Maritime History.
Finest equipment used like: AKG, Sennheiser,…mics, Sound Devices recorder/mixer. (Few recording captured in mono with dynamic mic-high sound pressure/level)
Metadata tagged with list of equipment and approximate age of bells.
Check the sound list for further info.
Twisted Zither introduces you to the haunting allure of the zither, a complete kit of sounds drawn from the resonant tones of this unique stringed instrument, characterised by its flat, wooden body and horizontal strings.
Twisted Zither features:
All captured in stereo 24-bit, 96kHz resolution.
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to add an extra layer of haunt and horror to your projects with ‘Twisted Zither’. This is an excellent addition to your arsenal for horror and haunting sounds. With a diverse range of meticulously crafted gestures, textures, and custom-designed effects, this library is your key to creating spine-chilling atmospheres and immersive soundscapes.
Take your creativity to new heights with over 410+ files featuring melodic synths, harmonic vocals, powerful drums, strong percussions, distinct atmosphere and more! One listen and you will be hooked, Cybernetic Rave has everything you need to help create your next music production & tracks.
The ARP Odyssey is nothing short of a legendary synthesizer. Released in 1972 as a direct answer to the famous MiniMoog, the Odyssey became one of ARP’s most beloved synths and has been used on too many hit records to count. Stevie Wonder, Jean Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, Devo, Abba… The list of famous Odyssey users reads like a top ten list of the most influential artists in the history of recorded music. The Odyssey is, in essence, a minimalist take on the ARP 2600 – simplified into a straightforward and immensely capable performance synth that is as sonically powerful as it is accessible. Its dual oscillators with sync functionality, FM, ring modulation, white/pink noise generator and dual EGs allow it to produce a great variety of sounds that are as universally useful as they are distinctly ARP.
The year 2022 marks the Odyssey’s 50th anniversary, an event I knew I had to celebrate with you! To celebrate this legend’s birthday, I created a library of tastefully gnarly basses, searing leads, versatile synths, and a whole load of plucks for you to bring into your productions.
In 2015, equally legendary instrument manufacturer KORG took it upon themselves to release a faithful replica of the classic duophonic Odyssey that encompasses the character of all three Odyssey revisions ARP produced. This is achieved by allowing the player to switch between the three different filter circuits used in the MKI, MKII, and MKIII respectively. The added analog “drive” circuitry of the KORG Odyssey adds a tasteful amount of saturation which I heavily exploited to make the sounds of this sample library extra juicy. This instrument was captured using high-end converters and cables to create ØDYSSEUS.
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