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Cinematic Creaks & Risers is a complete collection of cinematic risers, drones, textures, creaks, groans and wails, with a distinctive industrial metallic feel.
The DX7 is a synth of near unmatched significance to music history as it essentially defined the sound of music in the 1980s. Being the first affordable digital FM (frequency modulation) synthesizer, it quickly found its way into the arsenals of everyone from hobbyists to superstars alike. The immense potential of FM synthesis stems from its complex algorithms defining how different oscillators can interact, while being very light on computing resources. These made it possible to recreate lots of different acoustic instruments somewhat convincingly but also to create sonic tapestries and sound effects that had been unheard of at the time. Pair this with velocity sensitivity and 16 voice polyphony and you can see that the DX7 made for one seriously capable performance synth.
Throughout its life, the DX7 had several VOICE ROM cartridges released for it which gave users access to new sounds both from Yamaha and third-party sources. For this library, I sampled the VOICE ROM 3 cartridge which contains 64 recreations of band and orchestral instruments. As always, these samples have been sampled meticulously using high-end converters, several samples per octave, and multiple velocity layers where appropriate.
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.
In this library you will find recordings of various analog objects such as VHS, Discman, Walkman, Radio, among others.
Sounds include actions such as pressing buttons, rewinding tapes and frequency noises.
These sounds are perfect for sound design in movies, games, documentaries, etc.
These sounds were all recorded with microphone shotgun Rode NTG 5.
After working these sounds in post production, this library comes with 79 incredible analog objects sfx sounds.
This soundlibrary arises from recordings in the city with the LOM Géofon microphone on metals such as traffic lights, signs, road separators, mailboxes, among others.
After working these sounds in post production, this library comes with 40 incredible drone sounds that will bring your vídeo, trailer or movie to life.
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.
Set the atmosphere for tension and terror with the Monsters and Humanoids SFX Pack! Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
Monsters and Humanoids SFX Pack
Bringing you the inhuman sound effects that will terrify your audience. 351 sounds of dark ambience effects, creatures, gore and transition sound effects. Meet the horrendous monsters in attack or just idle and agitated! Hear the witches and otherworldly creatures laugh and chant!
Create a dark and ominous atmosphere with creepy creatures’ designed sound effects. Induce fear and uneasiness, horror and terror!
Stand out with your sci-fi, horror and thriller projects with 351 fresh sound effects. And the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
These sounds are available in 24-bit / 96kHz, recorded and designed delicately so that you have the right tone for your related projects and room for further sound design with the flexible texture of the sounds.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Eeerie Drones, Space Horror and E-bow for other horror and thriller projects as well as Ultimate Horror Bundle for a complete horror sound effects collection.
Geophonic Instruments Vol. 2 is our latest entry in the popular Geophonic line of sound effects libraries.
This library contains an assortment of interesting and unique sounds, which have been designed from raw recordings captured with the Lom Geofon. Our audio craftsman made use of a hand drum and violin for this library, recording a range of content including Hits, bangs, booms, scrapes, bowings and abstract sounds.
These sounds include super low frequencies, going down as low as 10Hz allowing you bring some intense low frequency energy into your projects
Geophonic Instruments Vol. 2 is perfect for sci-fi, horror and mystery projects, and will also lend itself well to Film, TV and Game productions across a variety of genres.
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.
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
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’
Hello, everyone! Today, we present to you 100 pieces of Jump Scares sound effects crafted by us. The inspiration for these creations stems from a horror film called “Terrifier” that we’ve been extremely keen on lately. In this album, we’ve employed a plethora of metallic sounds and acoustic instruments. It’s anticipated that each sound effect cover will feature a “cute” clown. These sounds can be utilized in games, short videos, and film previews. We sincerely hope you’ll enjoy them.
Chaotic precision and intensity, crafted for maximum impact. DESERT TRASH brings 170 WAV sounds to the table, ranging from subtle signatures and call-response elements to brutal, hard-hitting sound design.
From intimate signature sounds perfect for intros to brutal bursts and head-spinning tones, these samples combine modern design with rich tonal complexity.
For sci-fi futuristic trailers, otherworldly atmospheres, and when you need dramatic accents or want to add extra punch to your arrangements, DESERT TRASH has you covered.
Each sound is crafted for maximum impact and ease of use and ready to add an alien tone to your projects with no further processing required.
Signature Sound Collection
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.
Bowed Mandolin Contains over 70 different bowed textures and articulations gathered from bowing a vintage Mandolin with a Cello Bow. The multiple strings on the Mandolin make for a very rich and unique sound, perfect for Horror and Thriller genres.
Bowed Mandolin contains a range of short high pitch swells and screeches, long textural movements and low deep rips recorded in Stereo (RODE NT4) at 24bit/96kHz to allow for the best manipulation and time stretching options.
Check out our other Library ‘Bowed Bass’ for the perfect dark low end accompaniment.
The ARP OMNI is not just a synth, it’s more of a predecessor to modern day performance keyboards with its 3 distinct sound engines: Strings, Synth, and Bass. It’s string engine utilizes a divide-down tone generator that technically gives it unlimited polyphony. Its classic string sounds will be instantly recognizable to any fans of Joy Division, The Cars, or Kraftwerk. One might even say that the OMNI’s string engine played a big part in establishing the sound of New Wave. A “hollow” waveform mode gives the strings a more synth-like touch. In either mode, OMNI’s strings are lush and beautiful sounding, especially when combined with a long reverb or even a phaser (for that classic Jean Michel Jarre string sound).
The string section features Bass, Cello, Viola, and Violin registers.
Its synth is a simple single-oscillator design with a single envelope generator, a warm sounding ARP low-pass filter, and single LFO. This synth is capable of some quirky and musical sounds and serves as a great complement to the String and Bass engines. It doesn’t boast all that much low-end and its strength really sits in the middle register.
The bass engine is somewhat of a hidden gem as it pulls off a surprisingly convincing electric bass that’s both punchy and warm sounding and mixes well with the built-in synth. Sitting in the mix, this bass provides some serious low-end without being overly in-your-face. Both the 16′ and 8′ octaves can be mixed for an extra chunky octaver-style effect.
To get the cleanest possible tone out of this pristine ARP OMNI, I recorded it using a DIYRE FE2 DI Box with CineMag transformer, high-end Rheingold Music cables, and Antelope Audio converters. The instrument’s self noise has been reduced using subtle AI-assisted spectral de-noising to make sure these sounds will still sound very clean when being heavily processed. To allow for ideal sustain behavior, the string samples are looped within at least 3 full waveform cycles.
Add more horror and terror to your projects with this library packed with fear! Providing you with over 500 high-quality audio files of originally designed royalty free trailer-ready horror sounds, each featuring a unique character, intensity, speed and weight, this immense collection of scary epicness is a perfect choice for any type of media that requires cutting edge Hollywood quality dramatic transition and movement sounds.
ENDLESS FLEXIBILITY, WOLD OF POSSIBILITIES
Want to give your audience a ride of their lives by ramping up and down the feel of your project? With a dizzying selection of variant options, including DIFFERENT INTENSITY LEVELS, MULTIPLE LENGTHS, SIMPLIFIED and COMPLEX VERSIONS, FULL SEQUENCES, and many more, a whole world of possibilities is at your fingertips.
HUGE TIMESAVER, EASY TO STUNNING RESULTS
Each single sound in this collection was carefully produced for super-fast and professional results. To instantly boost your project to the next level, simply search for keywords that match the feel you wish to add to your project, drag the sounds listed by your search terms into your project, and blow away your audience by driving their speakers and subwoofers to the maximum, just like that!
Each sound effect is included in 3 different formats for your convenience:
Designed by our team of industry veterans with decades of experience in the AAA gaming industry, this meticulously crafted sound library will add massive value to you project and instantly mind-blowing results for you and your audience.
KEY FEATURES:
DOWNLOAD NOW and reward your audience with an epic scary, ground-shaking experience like no other!
“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.
Not your usual house…Set the atmosphere for suspense and tension with the Haunted House! Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Haunted House
Come on in for 250+ sounds of mud impact, tv white noise, electricity, door slams, dark atmosphere sounds, creepy forest ambiences, footsteps, spooky winds, demonic entities, ghost vox and creaking.
Create a dark and ominous atmosphere with creepy doors, windy sound effects and designed sound effects. Induce fear with textures that are dark, bright, noisy, clean, grainy, metallic.
Stand out with your sci-fi, horror and thriller projects with 149 fresh sound files. And the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail!
These sounds are available in 24-bit / 96kHz, recorded and designed delicately so that you have the right tone for your related projects and room for further manipulation with the flexible texture of the sounds.
Stay away from estate agents trying to sell you spooky houses for low prices!
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Eeerie Drones, Space Horror and Ebow (Guitar) Thriller for other horror and thriller projects as well as Ultimate Horror Bundle for complete horror sound effects collection.
Geophonic Instruments is the latest entry in our popular Geophonic line of sound effects libraries.
Contained within this product are a range of inspiring and characterful sounds, which have been designed from raw recordings captured with the Lom Geofon. Our audio craftsman made use of a guitar and violin for this library, recording a variety of different sounds including plucks, scratches, bounces, bowings and impacts. These sounds include super low frequencies, going down as low as 10Hz allowing you to inject some weighty low frequency energy into your work.
Geophonic Instruments is perfect for sci-fi, horror and mystery projects, and will also lend itself well to Film, TV and Game productions across a variety of genres.
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.
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
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.
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’.
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