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Various musical instruments
Amazonic Shaker Bundle
Caracaxa, Casa de Caba, Cheque Triplo, Chocalho de Aroré, Chocalho de Coco, Chocalho de Nhambé, Chocalho de Saterê, Chocalho de Tucumã, Favamaraca, Nhambé Inajá, Nhambé Seringa, Peito de Moça, Re Cuia, Rocar, Tauari
Amazonic Low Percussion Bundle
Amassador Macaco, Caixa de Marabaixo 1 Aguda, Caixa de Marabaixo 2 Grave, Cajon Cuia, Gamba de Maues Grave, Gamba Grande, Gamba Medio, Gambazinho, Surdo, Tambor de Alfaia, Tambor de Marabaixo, Tumbadoura
Attention: This is NI KONTAKT instrument, so you need full version of KONTAKT (at least version 5.5.2) to run and play it. It will not work in KONTAKT Player!
However, this library contains 96kHz WAVs in separate folders for each of three kalimbas if you don’t have (or need) KONTAKT.
Here you will find two models of high-end kalimbas, as well as a bonus: prepared low-quality rattling kalimba to add some low-fi textures to your music or sound design.
All were recorded with condenser and contact stereo mics and have separate controls for both microphones levels. Also, the use of five round-robins for each mic allows to achieve variability and human-alike sound.
All three instruments are built on the same KONTAKT engine with many useful controls: room and contact mic gain, AD envelope, low-pass filter with resonance, chorus, reverb, delay and three-band equalizer.
What you get:
System requirements:
Gear Used:
Shamanic Drums is a cinematic instrument built from 360+ sample recordings of hand drums and voices.
Our Audio Craftsmen edited, balanced and programmed 4 round robins and 3 velocity layers for each articulation before integrating them into our Kontakt interface, giving Film Composers and Music Producers an extensive set of unique percussion to use in their tracks. These sounds are perfect for trailer percussion loops, rhythmic tension, electronic music and cinematic scores. We also included performed loops that can add interesting ethnic layers to your music.
To provide some tonal layers, we recorded tribal vocal performances to give extra texture to your tracks. After the implementation, our talented in-house Composers designed 11 extra patches, which include shamanic choirs, melodic tones, different variations of electronic sounds, chords, trailer hits and even trickling, echoey drums.
Our user-friendly Kontakt interface provides a variety of controls that encourage experimentation within the patches. The built in Arpeggiator and Step Sequencer are great for generating hundreds of percussion variations in seconds. We have also added a Chord function in our designed patches where you can choose different scales, key and chord shapes while the Main View provides a set of parameters perfect for sculpting the sounds your way.
Kontakt 5.8.1 or higher is required.
NOTE: This library does not run in the free ‘Kontakt Player’.
ANALOG DRUM SHOTS is a collection of 253 drum shots from Eurorack drum modules (TipTop Audio – Noise Engineering Basimilus Iteritas) and modern analog drum machines (MFB Tanzbar – Elektron).
All samples are Wavs 24-bit mono 48 khz one shots, ready for your next 100% analog drum kits.
Simple organization of all the sounds is guaranteed by two main categories:
DRY Analog Shots: 184 total sounds:
Kicks: 31 sounds
Clap: 12 sounds
Snares: 23 sounds
Cymbals: 26 sounds
Toms: 37 sounds
Other Percussions: 55 sounds
PROCESSED and Layered: 69 total sounds
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.
Each guitar loop includes a wet & dry version of the sample. This will allow you to have maximum flexibility in your mix and gives you the power to further process your guitar loops without being locked into the wet with effects versions of the file.
Everything is organized into understandable folders & meticulously key tagged. We’ve added extensive Soundminer metadata into the samples to help you find the sound at the right time.
All files are Royalty-Free and supplied to you in high-quality 48k/24-Bit WAV format that can be used in the most popular samplers, DAWs, and plugins with drag & drop plugin features.
Product details:
217 loops
1.1 GB of samples
All in high-quality 48k/24bit .wav file format
Modern Ambient Guitar Loops, Chord progressions, Melodies, Beds – all loop-able
Includes Soundminer Metadata
All files form, key & bpm labeled
100% Royalty-Free
Compatible with PC/Mac and all DAW’s
is a bizarre and unique harp for Ni Kontakt based on a custom-made musical instrument by Italy-based guitarist Paolo Balestri.
He crafted Mokarpa using guitar strings mounted on a Moka, the iconic Italian coffee pot.
The sounds is harmonically rich, delicate with metallic resonances and with a dreamy flavor.
It’s suitable for fantasy soundtracks, lo-fi hiphop, R&B, cinematic and chill tracks.
The Kontakt instrument allows you to adjust the sound with a custom scripted GUI.
MOKARPA WORKS ONLY WITH FULL KONTAKT 5.8.1 or ABOVE (NOT COMPATIBLE FREE KONTAKT PLAYER)
Cinematic Horn – Over 100 plug-and-play cinematic horn braams and sting sound effects.
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 Uši 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: Level adjustment, crossfades, spectral noise reduction for recordings using built-in spring reverb.
Wind Chimes is a collection of meticulously captured wind chimes purposely recorded with a pair of high-end Barcus Berry 4000 (Planar Wave Piano and Harp Pickup System) contact microphones. By using this type of mic instead of traditional ones, the attack, sustain and decay of each tube struck by its clapper are experienced in ways unheard by the naked ear. Every tinkle and plink, every clang and rattle sound a bit more removed from its environment than normal. Harmonics are heard alongside fundamental frequencies. Every recording is unique to its moment in time. Each note is as random as the wind that plays it. These chimes are anything but showroom new. Some are weathered. Some are outwardly neglected. A few sound pretty, others not so much.
The charming & quirky digital sound of the OP-Z is now coming to the most popular DAWs and samplers. All 62 patches from my previous OP-Z patch dump MPC Expansions have been converted one-by-one into industry standard SoundFont files and other formats that are supported by a wide variety of samplers and DAWs.
I’ve been going through the samples of the original expansions one by one, cleaning them up and finding the perfect loop points so that all of them (save for some percussive patches) now offer infinite sustain. All samples are completely free of noise, recorded at 24bit / 44.1 kHz and stored as simple WAV files which makes them easily usable outside of the pre-mapped patches.
Compatible samplers include: exs24, Ableton Sampler, NN-XT, NN-19, Bitwig Studio, UVI Falcon, Sforzando, Halion Sonic.
“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.
An intense and powerful collection of highly sought after cinematic trailer sound effects. Welcome in, Trailer Force, a specialized boutique movie trailer sound effects library tool kit filled with all the essentials. Designed to add industry standard brute sonic force to your mixes and strikes big cinematic energy within your productions. Inside you’ll hear beefy trailer hits, rising whooshes, punchy impacts, eerie tension drones, a vibrance of textures and aesthetics, all layered to perfection. Create compelling motion graphics, cinematic cutscenes, FX, trailers and epic audio dynamics.
This sound library comes from recording hits on some objects such as cardboard boxes, mugs, paint cans, etc.
After working these sounds in post production, this library comes with 20 incredible sfx cinematic impacts that will bring your trailer or movie to life.
What’s a Sci-fi project without an adorable robot sidekick?
This small robot vocal pack will give you the audio tools you need to bring your cute bot companion to life!
Including:
happiness
sadness
pained
power up & down
scared
confused
recorded and exported in 24/192khz so can be edited and manipulated to fit the style of your projects. perfect for small robot game companions
With Dark Ambient for Serum & Cthulhu, we’ve put together a go-to resource for all things moody and atmospheric.
Featuring 60 Serum presets, 20 Cthulhu presets, loops, oneshots and MIDI files, this collection will have the creativity flowing the minute you start exploring.
We took inspiration from artists and bands including The Haxan Cloak, Lorn, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Sunn O))) and Lustre as well as video game soundtracks like Fallout and Silent Hill to bring you this essential Dark Ambient production toolkit.
Whether you work in genres such as Dark Ambient, Ambient Metal, Drone, Post-Rock or Cinematic, there’s plenty of material here for you to get your ideas down fast.
Made in collaboration with Robert Pepper from EffectsWorks, The Horrorphone is a unique and disturbing cinematic Kontakt library built from 460+ sample recordings of a custom built percussion/effects instrument. Played with a bow, beater, and hands triggering the most horrifying and uncomfortable stingers, drones, hits and much, much more.
Our Audio Craftsmen meticulously edited, balanced and programmed 48 different patches and integrated them into our Kontakt interface, giving Film Composers and Music Producers a suite of unique textures to use in their tracks. These sounds are perfect for horror scores, trailer percussion loops, rhythmic tension, electronic music and film score cues with an element of atonality.
The Main Articulations include: Percussion, Cymbals, Knockers, High Mid and Low Hits, Metal Bars, Shakes, Springs, Wood Vibrations and Various Drum Kits.
But we didn’t stop there… As always with our Kontakt library releases, our in-house Composers designed an eclectic array of designed patches. Pads, arps, drones, EDM leads, horror alarms, pulses and even screaming cymbals give the user both tonal and atonal material to layer with their percussion, and build a haunting, metallic texture into their sound.
The 344 Audio Kontakt interface provides a variety of controls that encourage experimentation with the patches. The built in Arpeggiator is great for generating hundreds of percussion/lead variations on the fly, while the Main View provides a set of parameters perfect for shaping the sounds your way.
Kontakt 5.8.1 or higher is required.
NOTE: This library does not run in the free ‘Kontakt Player’
Horror Sandbox is a collection of spooky, gnarly, gritty and screeching sounds. There is a
variety of sounds in it, from chromatic instruments you can play as a keyboard to more
sound design and underscore type of sounds. All scary!
There are two main interface for the instruments, one for the chromatic ones, the other for
the sound design and underscore sounds.
The library’s interface is made up of four sections:
– Sample
– Envelope
– Filter
– Reverb
INSPIRING & CRYSTAL-CLEAR SOLO PHRASES
LYRICAL VOCAL PHRASES – BY CONNY KOLLET is a new kind of vocal solo instrument for impressive cinematic soundtracks. Pressing a single key on your keyboard articulates a crystal-clear and celestial vocal phrase with unprecedented quality and expression. Never was it easier and more fun to create outstanding and energetic soundtracks of any kind.
PURE & EMOTIONAL LIVE PERFORMANCES
Instead of sustained notes that often sound mechanically and inelegantly when it comes to vocal instruments, LYRICAL VOCAL PHRASES – BY CONNY KOLLET features pure and emotional live phrases. Those phrases hold the magical pureness and brilliant verve only an artist can deliver that is given the freedom of a performance instead of just delivering separated single notes. You will be fascinated by the ease of use and the instant emotional effect on your compositions.
Lyrical Vocal Phrases is also part of the Lyrical Bundle
[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.]
Available as DOWNLOAD
Libraries from Sonuscore are covered by a special EULA - read it here.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.
Introducing Devils Bane Trailer, a chilling symphony of horror encapsulated in 533 meticulously crafted sound files, ready to unleash terror upon your audience. Dive into a nightmare realm where every creak, whisper, and shriek is meticulously designed to send shivers down your spine.
Contains 85 interesting sounds, 13 quirky classical pieces, and 5 loops of SunSound Studio’s latest sonic masterpieces. This carefully crafted sound album offers a delightful collection of whimsical audio creations designed specifically for cartoon animation and video games. Every sound is a veritable treasure trove of entertainment, meticulously recorded in 96K and 24-bit quality to ensure maximum fidelity and richness. Whether it’s quirky melodies or playful sound effects, every element in this collection is guaranteed to inject that extra lightness and charm into your clients’ games and videos. Step into a world of captivating sounds that transcend language barriers and delight audiences around the world.
Funny Orchestra 收录了85首有趣的声音,13首古怪的古典作品,以及5个循环SunSoundStudio的最新声音杰作。这张精心制作的声音专辑提供了一系列令人愉悦的异想天开的音频创作,专为卡通动画和视频游戏而设计。每个声音都是名副其实的娱乐宝库,以 96K 和 24 位质量精心录制,确保最大的保真度和丰富度。无论是古怪的旋律还是俏皮的音效,这个系列中的每个元素都保证为您的客户的游戏和视频注入额外的轻盈和魅力。步入一个充满迷人声音的世界,超越语言障碍,为全球观众带来欢乐。
Cow Horn is a traditional Finnish musical instrument constructed from the horn of cattle. In Finnish language it has many names, including sarvi, paimensarvi, lehmänsarvi, and sarvitrumpetti. Similar Nordic instruments include the Swedish kohorn and the Norwegian kuhorn.
The recorded cow horn had two finger holes. Without covering any finger holes, we got a note C#. Covering one hole made a note D, and covering both finger holes made a note D#.
We recorded long and short notes, and then expanded these to cover some lower and higher notes. Legato, portamento and vibrato was added via script.
Cow Horn was recorded with two microphones, Neumann TLM 103 and Sennheiser MKH 8040, and you can choose your preferred one. We captured 36 samples with 3 round robins.
FULL Kontakt 6.7.0 or higher required
Few companies have shaped the role of drum machines in music quite as significantly as Roland. In the 1980s, they created a set of machines that have since become legendary and are still being used today, be it in hardware form or (most commonly) as samples. The TR-707 is just as recognizable as its siblings, the 808 and 909, and features a set of digitally sampled sounds that’ll be instantly familiar to anyone hearing them. Sonically, it sits somewhere between a LinnDrum and TR-909 with two punchy kicks, two relatively low-pitched snares with snappy transients, a 909 hi-hat and cymbals, a capable clap, nice “woody” toms, and a classic low-pitched cowbell and rim.
With digital memory at a premium at its release, its digital samples were stored in resolutions of 8-bit for drums and percussion, and 6-bit for cymbals. This is no doubt one of the factors contributing to this machine’s crispy sound that is remarkably clear given the limitations of digital audio at the time. A trick that Roland employed to avoid low bitrate dithering artifacts during sample decay was using analog envelope generators that attenuate the individual sounds after the 707’s D/A converters. This is why the 707’s sounds decay much more gracefully than those of some of its digital contemporaries.
With its ability to send and receive MIDI, sync external hardware, and output sounds on dedicated outputs, this drum machine had all the necessary features in place to make it mainstay in many artists’ studios. As such, it can be heard on countless records either providing all drums or often times specifically lending a song its punchy kick and snare.
Of course, I’m aware that there are many 707 sample packs already out there. What makes this pack stand out however is the sheer amount of sample varieties and the clarity of the raw samples. Having recorded a pristine 707 using Rheingold Music cables, a DIYRE Fe2 DI with CineMag transformer, and high-end Antelope Audio converters at 24-Bit / 96 kHz ensures that the raw samples are the cleanest available anywhere.
To create 707+, these samples have then been processed in numerous ways, exploring the full potential of the machine’s 15 sounds. I recorded them to 1/2″ tape using my restored Tascam 58 reel-to-reel multitrack tape machine at 15ips, 18ips, and 12ips to infuse the samples with analog warmth. I then captured these same recordings at different speeds to create the kind of clean re-pitching only tape machines can achieve.
Next, I recorded the sounds onto cassette tape using a 1965 mono tape recorder originally intended for voice memo and PA use. Needless to say, the resulting samples are super grungy yet retain a lot of punch. I captured them at different input gain levels to achieve varying amounts of distortion and saturation.
To further go down the LoFi rabbit hole, I captured the raw samples using a teenage engineering po-33 K.O! sampler that uses really punchy 8-bit A/D & D/A converters and re-pitched them yet again for that ultimate LoRes grit.
Ultimately, I didn’t want to put out this pack without putting a uniquely personal spin on these samples. That’s why I pooled together all of the above mentioned sounds and utilized some sophisticated processing and layering techniques to create a contemporary drum kit with bucketloads of punch. This kit is suitable for anything from trap to lo-fi and is unlike anything you’d expect to come out of the TR-707.
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