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Musical instruments particularly suited for cinematic & trailer compositions
Cymbals From Hell is the seminal collection of bowed metal sound effects, crafted from recordings of both natural and broken cymbals. Bringing you the nastiest, gnarliest, and harshest set of design elements and raw recordings. Their dynamic range provides a palette that evolves and adapts over time.
All of the sounds have been recorded in a controlled studio environment and played by a professional percussionist, with the intention of providing the most dynamic range and disturbing playing style. Our Audio Craftsmen then meticulously designed and edited every included sound from the bizarre to the downright horrifying.
Cymbals From Hell contains a total of 197 files running at a huge 8.9GB. This library gives you everything you need to create compelling Horror and Sci-Fi soundscapes and add accents to your music, ideal for use in a wide range of projects. All sounds have been recorded in 24bit 96khz for further manipulation, and have been carefully edited so that you can easily drop them into your project timeline and get working right away.
Here are the included folders:
Bowed Cymbals: Harsh and dynamic bowed cymbals, perfect for musical or sound effects accenting.
Time Bending Risers: Sharp risers that have a feeling of movement in time.
Pulsating Dread Pads: The perfect Horror backdrops, built from organic elements.
Mind Bender Stingers: Warped cymbal effects that are equally at home in a Sci-Fi or Horror tracklay.
Metallic Oscillation Pads: The direct opposite of a Meditation Bowl, these sounds oscillate and move in an unnerving way.
Head Shaker Drones: Grit your teeth and cover your ears, these sounds warn of impending doom.
Gut Rumbler Subs: How low can we go? Very low. These sounds sit nicely under your tracklay and provide some serious sub frequencies.
Disturbing Risers: Distorted and mangled, these cymbals are bound to accent any jump scare with a dose of disturbing!
Bowed Alien Metals: Otherwordly vibes fused with a classic staple Horror sound.
Gain instant access to the sounds of magic, mystery, fascination and adventure with the Fantasy Game 2 – Sound Kit for Enchanted Realms. Discover a vast collection of interactive sounds specially crafted for RPGs, open-world adventures, and epic fantasy narratives, games, film, interactive media. Experience the clash of steel of epic battles to the ethereal chime of enchanted spells. It’s all you need to make every action, spell, and encounter feel and sound truly magical. Whether you’re exploring forgotten ruins, summoning arcane forces, or waging valiant combat, Fantasy Game 2 – Sound Kit for Enchanted Realms is your instant gateway to an unforgettable fantasy soundscape.
HorrorSound’s Deep Tock is a unique collection combining two sample packs in one, offering a dynamic selection of stylized clock loops and signature sonic elements.
The Signature section boasts 145 modern horror abstracts and unsettling tones. These tormented and unique bleeps perfectly punctuate modern horror trailers and scores.
Featuring: Twisted Vocals, Signals, Alarms, Bursts, Processed Toy Piano and Glissato Strings.
The clock loops are organized into 8 folders, featuring over 270 tempo-synced loops from 60 to 140 BPM. Spanning classic to experimental, you’ll find everything from ticking mechanisms to haunting chimes and plucks. These incredibly realistic and pristine loops are ready for action horror trailers and suspense underscores.
Embark on a journey through cinematic realms with this collection of atmospheric textures that transport listeners to otherworldly dimensions. From the ominous depths of dark swirling drones to the unsettling glitchy crackling and beeping, each sound envelops the senses in a haunting embrace. Experience the ethereal beauty of ghostly atmospheres and the spiritual resonance of bright pads, accompanied by the majestic allure of beautiful pads that evoke a sense of grandeur and wonder. These atmospheric layers intertwine to create immersive soundscapes that captivate the imagination and evoke a range of emotions without bounds.
Black Saturnalia is our all rounder sample pack for trailer SFX. Released initially as our Black Friday and Christmas packs, Black Saturnalia is a combination of those two products.Includes Risers, Impacts, Sub Booms, Blasts, Drones, Signature sounds, and much more!
Includes 65 AIF files all recorded at 24 bit / 48 KHz
Introducing “COSMIC CHARGES,” an innovative sound effects library meticulously developed by Matteo Milani at U.S.O.‘s headquarters. This collection represents a major advancement in our commitment to crafting distinctive audio assets that that reinvent our approach to sound design. “COSMIC CHARGES” uniquely specializes in tonal blasts and impacts, each thoughtfully created from the ground up to ensure unmatched creativity and originality in your projects.
Designed to enrich a variety of media, such as video games, films, TV series, and more, each sound in “COSMIC CHARGES” integrates musical elements, providing a unique sonic identity that can intensify emotional resonance, enhance dynamics, and add richness to your works.
Discover the features of “COSMIC CHARGES”:
Cinematic Horror Storeroom – Volume 1 is a collection of spooky, gnarly, gritty and screeching sounds. There is a variety of sounds in it, all scary!
The library’s interface is made up of two sections:
– Sample
– Reverb
A brand new sample library for horror trailers, movies and video games. If you need fresh inspiration and professional assets for your next horror project, you’re in the right place!
Unleash the Terror: Introducing “Risers” – A Haunting Sound Effects Collection
Prepare to plunge into the depths of fear with “Risers,” a meticulously crafted sound effects album designed to elevate the tension and dread in your projects. This comprehensive collection is divided into two chilling sections: powerful Risers and unsettling Stutter Glitch Risers.
Drawing inspiration from the darkest corners of horror, “Risers” is built upon a foundation of terrifying elements. Immerse your audience in the grating sounds of grinding gears, the piercing intensity of screams, and the bone-chilling echoes of horrific groans. We’ve woven in the unsettling buzz of anxious flies, the clanging resonance of iron chains, and a pervasive undercurrent of unsettling horror symphony to create a truly atmospheric experience.
This album boasts a rich tapestry of sound, incorporating both a multitude of acoustic instruments for organic texture and depth, alongside diverse synthesizer sounds for unique and unsettling sonic landscapes.
Inside “Risers,” you’ll discover:
All sounds are delivered in pristine WAV format, recorded at a high-fidelity 96000K sample rate with a 24bit depth, ensuring maximum audio quality and flexibility for professional use.
These chilling and innovative sounds are perfect for:
We’ve included three demo previews showcasing a glimpse of the terror that awaits. These are just a small sample of the unsettling sounds within “Risers.”
PORTAL offers a comprehensive collection of 540 meticulously crafted and authentic door sound effects, ranging from the creak of wooden door to the thunderous slam of a heavy metal gate. This extensive library includes both source recordings at 192kHz and creatively designed sound effects at 48kHz, providing you with the flexibility to craft intricate soundscapes for a wide range of projects. Whether you need subtle creaks, explosive slams, or anything in between, PORTAL has you covered.
From the gentle click of a latch to the forceful kick of a heavy door, PORTAL offers a diverse range of sounds, each with its own unique character. With detailed recordings of old wooden doors, metal gates, deep “dungeon” metal door, high pitch squeaking wire-netting gate, heavy church gate, you can add depth and realism to your audio projects.
Whether you’re creating horror sound design and obscure soundtracks, a historical drama or a futuristic sci-fi adventure, PORTAL’s extensive sound library has the perfect sound for your needs.
PORTAL is a collaboration with sound recordist Lukas Tvrdon, created from his sample pack ANGRY DOOR.
Cinematic Action Drums Rolls Crescendo are orchestral cinematic drums that are perfect for creating crescendos and accents in games, movie trailers, and for creating drum fills in music.
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.
Beautiful Bells Vol 2 contains the solo sound of 135 different stationary bells, captured in 39 bell towers, chapels, carillons, churches, cathedrals and clock towers across France, with unprecedented quality. Most of the sounds were recorded inside bell towers.
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 8 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 5 octaves (from G2 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).
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 stationary bell, chime and carillon sound collection ever recorded.
• A total of 135 different bells, sorted by note from G2 to G7
• Wide variety of bells (size, age, tuning)
• 2 carillons virtual instruments
• Contains a collection of 10 small ancient bells
• All notes from G2 to G7
• Metadata with detailed information about each bell
• 96KHz/24bit
• Very low noise
• Metadata UCS-compliant
• Mainly recorded with Sennheiser MKH 8040
Welcome to Cinematic Zither – over 2.2 Gb of audio inspired by the sounds of horror / thriller movies. Featuring 220 sound effects ranging from eerie stingers, bowed fx, drones, reverse out from one Zither.
The Zither has a natural potential to create unnerving, panic and terrific tones, suspenseful atmospheres and layers of sound can produce horror- filled shocking effects.
Cinematic Zither is ideal in horror, sci-fi, thrillers soundtrack to create a sense of urgency and unease in film score or trailer as well as raw material to any contemporary music production.
This is a collaboration between SampleTraxx and talented sound designer Sebastian Emling.
The Zither was played with fingers, bow, drum sticks, dices, metal sponge to get all possible sound and noise.For the recordings, a total of 6 mics were used: 2x Sennheiser MKH 8040 (XY), 2x Sennheiser 8040 (MS), a contact microphone and a handmade stethoscope microphone and 2 Sound Devices 702.
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!
We’ve bundled together GEODRONE and GEODRONE Designed to give you more audio for a reduced price
GEODRONE was created by recording various objects using the LOM Geofon, we recorded items such as a Cooker, Dish Washer, FishTank, Fan, Freezer, Fridge, Dryer and Electronic Devices, we then edited these recordings to give you full on Drone and Bass effects, we then redesigned these samples to create GEODRONE Designed
GEODRONE/GEODRONE Designed can be used to layer up or to create massive amounts of tension and unease within any project. GEODRONE/GEODRONE Designed has been edited to allow a drop in ready and Royalty Free sample pack. These Samples can be used in a variety of projects from Sound Designing/Compositions for TV, Film, Documentaries and Video Games. UCS Compliant and Metadata is attached to the samples
In this library you will find a dark ambience sounds.
These sounds are perfect to use in movies, trailers, games, documentaries, etc.
These sounds were all created by me on virtual synthesizers.
After working these sounds in post-production, this library comes with 5 dark ambiences.
A heavily processed & designed collection of highly sought after cinematic trailer sound effects. Welcome in, Annihilation Movie Trailer, a specialized boutique movie trailer sound effects library filled with all the essentials for creating destructive cinematic scenes in games and film. Designed to add modulated industry standard bombastic sonic force to your mixes and hit abstract cinematic energy within your productions. Inside you’ll hear powerful trailer hits, rising whooshes, blasting mangled impacts, and a vibrance of textures and aesthetics, all layered to perfection. Create compelling motion graphics, cinematic cutscenes, FX, trailers and epic audio dynamics.
A set of Loopable Alarm Tones
Perfect for alarms of different kinds, including ship alarms, burglary alarms and system failure alarms
Recorded and exported in 24/192Khz so easily manipulated to fit into the project perfectly
Obscure cinematic ping elements perfect to add as top layers while crafting memorable hit sounds and hybrid trailer impacts with mystical undertones and terrifying stingers.
Take a trip through the neon-soaked Synthwave genre with Nightlights where we explore a vision of the future from the past to bring you everything you need to create an 80s inspired production masterpiece.
Featuring 60 expertly-crafted presets covering basses, chords, FX, leads, pads and plucks all with macro controls mapped to only the most useful parameters, enabling efficient on-the-fly tweaking for custom sound design.
Also included are 5 complete Construction Kits packed with wet and dry loops, drum oneshots and MIDI files ensuring this pack contains every element required to create Synthwave tracks completely tailored to your liking and only limited by your creativity.
Contents
60 Serum Presets
12 Bass
12 Chords
11 FX
12 Leads
5 Pads
8 Plucks
5 Construction Kits (WAV & MIDI Files)
121 Loops
33 Drum Oneshots
36 MIDI
5 Mixdown Demos
2 Full Product Demos (WAV & MP3)
Software Requirements
Latest version of Serum
Dive into massive emotional force and create an unbelievably sincere and expressive raw feeling.
Welcome to PLATFORM, a versatile and easy-to-use sample library and Kontakt Instrument with a huge variety of impressive modern-sounding and a futuristic//cyberpunk vibe a lot of character and personality.
This is a collaboration between sonic mastermind Robert Dudzic and SampleTraxx.
Designed with both acoustic and synth sources PLATFORM is aimed primarily for writing sound design tracks, score and cinematic projects but can perfectly fit in every genre of modern electronic music.
With 570 Wav sounds and Kontakt’s sound shape possibilities PLATFORM can be an essential tool in the studio when you need that off/center non standard sound.
This arsenal of high-end sound effects is now on your fingertips with 18 Kontakt Instruments and tons of sound shaping filters and envelopes, 13 effects, a rhythm section featuring a step sequencer, filter sequencer, 2 filter LFOs, and gain/pan/pitch LFOs.
If you’re looking for instant inspiration and raw emotions PLATFORM is the right heavy-hitter for you.
Cinematic Trailer Hits is our latest Kontakt library with 400+ samples, covering everything from heavy low and mid impacts all the way to high percussion sounds, perfect for creating epic trailer music and effects for your film, tv and video game projects.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded sounds ranging from explosive drums, metallic hits and impact sounds using sledge hammers, bricks, drums, scrap metal and smaller percussion instruments. We took a variety of recorded samples and layered them with other newly and carefully crafted sounds to give you that larger than life, end of world vibe to your music with a jaw dropping collection of sounds.
Our in house Composers also built a variety of patches which include heavy ‘braams’ and bass, low impacts, reverse fx, risers, pads and several other patches covering low, mid and high frequency spectrums. This gives film composers, music producers ,sound designers and game developers a vast array of options to create epic cinematic rhythms that cover all your needs.
Like our other Kontakt instruments, the 344 Audio user interface includes a variety of controls so that you can manipulate the sounds as needed and the inbuilt Arpeggiator and Step Sequencer allow you to create variations of cinematic rhythms and melodies on the fly.
We have kept the recorded sounds natural and created huge sounds by layering up different recordings maintaining a natural feel to samples. This library contains all impact, percussion and tonal sounds you need to create an epic, mind blowing cinematic trailer, and works especially well when combined with orchestral music.
Kontakt 5.8.1 or higher is required.
NOTE: This library does not run in the free ‘Kontakt Player’.
AizerX Hybrid Cyberpunk Toolkit is the latest addition to the Keepforest’s successful AizerX series. Inspired by the atmosphere of the cyberpunk world, this new library offers a lot of character and personality with a cinematic futuristic vibe that perfectly captures the philosophy of the genre. As a powered-by-AizerX-engine tool for composers and sound designers, this library is able to simplify the sound design process, and also opens up new possibilities for incredible creative ideas.
AizerX Hybrid Cyberpunk Toolkit offers the signature sound randomizing feature, delivers a deep library of samples from classic braams, trailer hits, signals, alarms to screaming resonators and distortions.
The centerpiece of the AizerX Hybrid Cyberpunk Toolkit is a selection of tempo-synced drum loops, hybrid pulses, and stems of different categories. You can create variations of energetic, dynamic drum and pulse patterns at different tempos, varying among themselves and combining individual sound layers.
A collection of multi-sampled playable basses, leads, plucks, pulses and signals is also a main feature of the new library.
And by tradition, in collaboration with various artists established in the movie trailer industry, we have prepared a special Artist Stems category, which contains stems and cues made by the artists, where you can borrow elements, structures, and tricks from experienced composers and will help you get inspired, learn from experience and save your time.
FULL VERSION OF KONTAKT 5.8.0 REQUIRED (NOT COMPATIBLE WITH FREE KONTAKT PLAYER)
Impacts & Cinematic Hits is made up of epic drum hits, bright percussive splashes, dark tribal drums, abstract shots, and textured slams as well! This mini-set is designed to be used quickly on any media project!
Impacts & Cinematic Hits is part of our Mini-Set Series that specializes in bite-sized sound effect packs with less than 20 sound files to choose from! The small file count helps get creatives like you to the fun part of your projects quicker! And one special feature found in Impacts & Cinematic Hits is that some of the sound files contain variant passes all within the same WAV file! That means you’re getting 29 individual sounds across the 18 sound files!
Listen to our demo to hear the drums and picture how well they will integrate into any media! Whether you want to add punctuation to a film, short, video game cue or music production, these sounds will elevate whatever creative you are making!
Try Impacts & Cinematic Hits with our other mini-sets and get ready to bring your creative to the next level!
To learn more about Mini-Sets and what makes them so cool, check this out!
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