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ORIGINS BUNDLE VOL.1-5
Dive deep into a musical World Travel captured with the rare instruments of the ORIGINS cosmos. Unfold their pure sound and benefit from the authenticity, these acoustic treasures provide you at your fingertips. Compose using our beautifully matching dream couples or utilize the uniqueness of each solo instrument to complement your overall sound.
What you get: The Origins Bundle includes 10 wonderful playable solo instruments, combined in 5 instrument-pairs, with beautifully interlocked and entwined pulses, patterns and arpeggios.
REFINE YOUR SOUND WITH FIVE UNIQUE DREAM COUPLES
Designed with a focus on user friendliness to facilitate an expedient workflow, the ORIGINS BUNDLE is an excellent solution in the quest for authentic, fresh and captivating musical experiences.
The ability to play all couples and solo instruments interlocking, independently, with inspiring patterns as well as single notes, chords and rhythms on the fly with full customization options will help you keep an expedient workflow as well as achieve truly unique results.
You can play all instruments independently or in beautiful concord via the build-in Multi-Arpeggio-Designer (MAD). Choose from numerous tasteful patterns and presets that will kickstart your own creative journey with the instrument and drive your inspiration forward. Also, create your own arpeggios and exchange them within the whole, completely modular ORIGINS Series.
This product requires a FULL version of Native Instruments’ KONTAKT (not included). The free Kontakt player is not sufficient, as it only runs the instrument in DEMO mode.
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.
This library contains a wide selection of musical and non-musical instruments, toys and noisemakers.
You will find a wide variety of bells, whistles, cymbals, horns, blocks, drums, toys, shakers, crankers, etc. Can be utilized in a multitude of ways. For example, fill out a musical arrangement, for cartoon effects, goofy UI, etc!
Music is only heard in the demo. Downloads are high resolution and without background music.
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
Strange instruments is collection of wild and unconventional instrument sound effects. Featuring 30 instruments; this collection covers a wide range sounds from a variety of unique props. From whirling and whooshing Bullroarers, Wind Wands, and Twittering Bamboo; to dramatic impacts and pitch bending from Gongs and Cymbals in water; to the strange calls and warbling of PVC Horns, Overtone Flutes, and Bamboo Swazzles,… the sonic scope of Strange Instruments is wide and varied.
While these props have their place in some forms of music, they were specially selected, performed, and recorded for rich sound design possibilities. Discover how this wild new source material can bring a fresh perspective to your design. Check out the previews of what this library contains at normal speed and what can be achieved with just simple pitch shifting!
Have you ever dreamt of attacking a piano with a metal mallet? Dream no more! This library is available in two versions, a discounted bundle, and also in the further discounted “2017 InspectorJ Bundle” for 50% off!
The sounds have been mapped to Kontakt 5 patches for quicker playing (requires the full version of Kontakt 5), but the raw files are also included. The five different samplers offer you a wide variety of durations:
• Damped instantly (84 sounds; five octaves)
• Damped after 1 second (97 sounds; seven octaves)
• Damped after 2 seconds (97 sounds; seven octaves)
• Damped after 5 seconds (88 sounds; six octaves)
• Sustained fully (97 sounds; seven octaves)
This pack includes 107 files of 6 Gamelan instruments and 1 Harp. This library is a sample pack of sound textures ranging from scarping, single tones, spinning notes, intervals, and playing the Gamelan instruments with various mallets.
Recorded with 2-3 microphones and from 2-3 mic positions, you have a pretty good range of sound textures to choose from!
We used this library mainly to add tonal qualities and textures to our RPG Magic SFX Pack 3 – Elemental. Now you can also have access to these recordings!
The “AR_K Facility” is a collection of libraries, comprised of several volumes, each of which has a single or multiple Kontakt instruments. The entire series is centered on unusual percussion sounds with a lot of editing possibilities and several onboard effects. Each Volume (called “Level n”) has a distinctive set of basic sounds that can be used for composing and producing purposes – like a drum machine – as well as for soundtrack composition and sound design in films, videogames and any other multimedia product.
The second volume (called “Level 2”) is a collection of five different instruments with several percussion sounds and a lot of sound manipulation possibilities each.
The instruments in the library are:
– Crushing Anvil
– Deep Space Craze
– Devil’s Forge
– Iron Screeches
– Robotik Breakdown
Little Boxes is a curated collection of four unique sound sets designed to compliment one another sonically and texturally. These textures move from acoustic to electroacoustic to analog synthesis – all programmed into beautiful Kontakt 4 instruments (full NI Kontakt
4.2.3 or later required).
A small device meant to be hung flat on the wall, the balls will swing and strike the strings if the ground begins to move.
This box was shaken, plucked, strummed, performed and ebowed to produce a beautiful palette of acoustic string textures.
In Kontakt those sounds evolved into a group of instruments that ran from folksy, zither like patches to lush, shimmering pads.
Cinematic Horn – Over 100 plug-and-play cinematic horn braams and sting sound effects.
Back and Forth was born of an idea of Matteo Milani and Lorenzo di Tria (aka Dj Mate/Signal Generator), thinking on how to build an intuitive and great sounding music tool for contemporary producers and sound designers.
Based on Lorenzo’s experience on the art of turntablism and Matteo’s ability to produce distinctive sound effect libraries, this collection is now an easy way to add real scratch and turntable performances to your musical and audiovisual projects, and finally make them sounds better then ever before.
The unsurpassed sound of the needle in the groove and the cuts of the crossfader generate an unmistakable music quality and uniqueness.
The library follow the naming structure provided by UCS (Universal Category System), a public domain initiative supported by sound librarians, vendors, and users from around the globe.
Experimental sounds made with an Icelandic Langspil using bows, bottleneck and fingers.
A series of dissonant, atonal drones, scrapes, scratches and squeaks played by Chris Foster.
Excellent source material for designing creative textures and sound morphing into alien and creature sounds. Also for adding to tense, eerie atmospheres.
“Prepared Turntable” is a sound object library recorded by Marc Hasselbalch.
Inspired by the sound artists who work with preparing and altering their instruments through the addition of external objects, this library is as much a useful pool of material for sound designers as it is a document of a sound object and the various nuances of circular, squeaking and screaming textures it produced.
The primary preparation was to have various metal springs run across the vinyl record and record this in various ways, such as with the turntable’s own (broken, humming and hissing) pickup and contact microphones. Small nudges to the position of the springs and objects would result in very different timbres. Some rich in resonant, nuanced textures, some rich in metallic screams and howls.
Other preparations done during recording: letting a credit card scrape freely across the record, attaching a contact microphone to the little comb from a discarded music box and letting that make contact with the record in various way – and more.
Each take is about 60 seconds long to allow for the small, irregular nuances to reveal themselves. Some recordings reveal a great amount of irregular movement while some recordings have the objects settle a very hypnotic state. Presented rather raw without any intrusive, designed alterations.
The recordings are offered in 96 kHz / 24 bit with UCS metadata.
This pack includes 217 sought-after ambient guitar loops, introspective chord progressions, reflective rock melodies, warm plucky guitar rhythms, warm fuzzy feelings, and a variety of essential loop-able guitar samples for creating moody pop & rock music.
Ambient Cinematic Guitars 3 is the third volume of the ambient guitar loops series by Epic Stock Media. This loop library is a cross-genre sample pack and creates unique and professional tracks ranging from Dream Pop, Easy Listening, Alternative Rock, Emo, Ambient, Instrumental, Soundtrack, Country & other ambient genres.
Beautiful Bells Vol 1 contains the solo ringing of 76 swinging bells, recorded in 43 churches, cathedrals, abbeys, basilicas and chapels across France, and 15 peals of multiple bells, called plenum, 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.
Every bell size is represented in this library, from huge bourdons (bells whose pitch are below C3) weighing several tons to small chapel bells weighing around 20 kilograms. You will find bells founded from 16th to 21st century with a great variety of timbres and tunings. The sounds are sorted by note, from D2 to F5.
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 sound library ever recorded.
• A total of 91 sounds recorded across France
• Contrains the peal of 10 bourdons (below C3)
• More than 4 hours of sound
• Wide variety of bells (size, age, tuning)
• Contains solo bells sorted by note
• Notes from D2 to F5
• Contains peal of multiple bells
• Metadata with detailed information about each bell
• 96KHz/24bit
• Very low noise
• Metadata UCS-compliant
• Mainly recorded with Sennheiser MKH 8040
The Burroughs Protectograph that we acquired was manufactured around the turn of the 20th century and had a single unique function – to stamp and emboss checks for banks. The Burroughs corporation has been around since 1886, and was an early force in the adding machine, check stamper and typewriter industries. This Protectograph version had an electric mechanism that would move large printheads down through a ribbon and would stamp a check hard and repeatedly for as long as the print key was held down. Our machine was acquired in perfect working condition.
Its keys have a short through but a satisfying clack, and the punch mechanism is a huge whir stamp sound than can cycle if the punch button is held down. We rolled with the case both on and off, which revealed very different sounds from the main electric mechanisms.
We ran the whole session with three perspectives miked up – front by the keys, in the back by the punch and a wide perspective perfect for bgfx placement. The front and back mics were Schoeps CMC6.MK4 and the wide mic was an AT 4050 in omni about 5 feet away. Listen to the straight examples give a clear accounting of the type of sounds we got from this machine, and the bent examples show what can really be done with those sounds and the Kontakt instrument.
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.
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.
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.
The “Cedar” library series is a collection of libraries, comprised of three different instruments:
– Ponticello (the present one)
– Sul Tasto
– Bizzarro
Each volume is a single Kontakt instrument with a peculiar timbral personality. The entire series is created recording sounds from a luthier classical guitar. They can be used for composing and producing purposes – like an acoustic percussion setup – as well as for soundtrack composition and sound design in films, video games and any other multimedia product. “Ponticello” and “Sul Tasto” also feature a dedicated effects page that can be used to process the sounds in the library with several processors, both send and insert effects. They are “percussion oriented” sounds, while “Bizzarro” is a keyboard instrument.
Introduction to “Ponticello”
The instrument contains 10 sets of sounds, called “Engines”. Each set has a dedicated channel strip in the interface and can be processed with a dedicated sub-page. You can also choose an individual audio output for further processing in your favorite DAW with effect plugins of your choice. Each sound has been recorded with two different mic placements, and you can mix them to your taste.
Introducing SONUSCORE’s CELESTIAL HARP
Where words fail, music gains its power. The magical fairytale pulls of our Celtic harp transport the listener to magical worlds in heavenly places.
A Celtic harp with a divinely inspired sound, CELESTIAL HARP has a unique tone that is warm and soft in its plucks, but lush and enveloping with its full strums. It is perfect to transport your listeners to fantasy worlds and ancient settings, especially when paired with the particle power of our Glow slider, which transmutes the sound into an incredible, soothing, and airy pad. Control the particle effect further by adjusting speed and dynamic range.
Recorded with 5 round robins, it also includes the flageolet technique to create a Harmonic layer. The Natural and Harmonic layers can be balanced to your preference, adjusting between a natural pluck and one with more shimmer. The 10 presets included are crafted to take full advantage of both the natural harp tones and the full ethereal pad effect of the Glow slider.
The Celtic harp is much smaller and more compact than a classical harp like HA•PI. Because of its size, it’s more commonly used in folk and traditional music, as well as in taverns and at Elven festivities.
Available as a DOWNLOAD
[Note: This product requires a FULL version of Native Instruments’ KONTAKT. The free Kontakt player is not sufficient, as it only runs the instrument in DEMO mode.]
Every good laid-back groove needs a bass track that sits just right and makes your head bob.
LOW ‘n’ SLOW does exactly that.
10 original loops in 3-4 keys each and 59 one shot samples including delicious plucks, thumps, slides, and hammer-ons carefully crafted to make your beats bounce. Everything was played on a handmade FLEXX BASSES “Peter” bass with old school flat wound strings through a pristine recording chain for that authentic R’n’B sound. The loops are constructed to be infinitely choppable and stretchable so you can use them to craft your own original bass lines.
And, last but not least, the entire pack is of course ROYALTY FREE so you can use these loops and samples for any of your projects!
Folk Bagpipe is not a bagpipe!
The “Folk Bagpipe” is a typical instrument of Southern Italy. It is an aerophone musical instrument made of a goatskin bag filled with air and four double reed pipes linked to the mother stump. Thanks to this library you will have an instrument to use both in a traditional way and to create sound effects and sound-design in a cinematic context.
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
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