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Musical percussion instruments suited for all kinds of compositions
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
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
Amazonic High Percussion Bundle
Cuia Boco, Glock de Castanha, Jon Cuia, Macacaracuia, Palminhas, Tambor de Barriga, Tamborinho
Amazonic Mid Percussion Bundle
Bongo de Cuia, Caixinha, Repique, Taboquinha, Tambor D’Agua, Tambor de Cassa, Tambor de Cuia Maior, Tambor de Cuia Menor, Tambor de Porto Velho, Tambor de Tubo, Tambor de Tucuma, Tambor de Vara, Trocano 1, Trocano 2
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.
Cinematic Action Drums Vol.1 is a collection of powerful, dynamic drum loops, perfect for creating epic, energetic and dynamic soundtracks for action scenes, video games and cinematic projects.
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
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.
Cymbals From Hell Vol. 2 is a haunting collection of raw and designed gong sounds, brought to you as the successor to one of our most popular horror libraries to date. Crafted from various types of gong recordings, this library brings you the creepiest stingers and harshest resonances to terrorise your audiences.
Made in collaboration with Igor Tikhonov from KEDR Audio, who captured various types of gong sounds and several performances using both Mid-Side and omnidirectional A/B microphone techniques to encapsulate an expansive stereo-field and the richest gong textures.
Our Audio Craftsmen then meticulously edited and designed them to make the most frightening and disturbing sounds including harsh, distorted gong rumbles, horror stingers, low heavy gong rumbles, mangled hits, and much, much more.
All the sounds are extensively meta-tagged and are UCS complaint so you can easily find the sound you need and are in 192kHz/24bit allowing for further sonic manipulation.
Glass Bottle Percussion is a cinematic instrument built from 400+ sample recordings of antique glass bottles.
Our Audio Craftsmen meticulously edited, balanced and programmed 4 round robins and 3 velocity layers for each bottle, before integrating 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 trailer percussion loops, rhythmic tension, electronic music and film score cues with an exotic tonality.
The Main Articulations include: Drumstick Hits, Hand Taps, Bottle Top Hits, Drum Beater Hits, Nail Taps, Rolls, Scrapes and Wobbles.
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, choirs, drones, oil drums, screams, plucks and even karate chops give the user both tonal and atonal material to layer with their percussion, and build a haunting, glassy 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 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’
Eastern Instruments Designed Vol. 3 is a collection of musical phrases and decorations. 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.
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.
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.
Indian forest tribe percussion, rainforest sourced textures & more!
Scraped Cymbal is a collection of 78 sounds, pristinely recorded, edited and mastered as 96k/24bit stereo wave files. This companion to the Bowed Cymbal series gives you more options for your stinger attacks. David took the old, slightly cracked crash cymbal, and literally cut into it with tin snips (picture below). He then took pliers, bent up some of the cut parts, and began experimenting with scraping various parts of the cymbal and adjusting the microphone position. The tonalities produced are almost nauseating! Deep rumbling lows, shimmery atonal highs, gut-wrenching mids – it’s a sound designer’s dream!
Hear the meditative and mystic sound of the didgeridoo. Invented by the Indigenous Australian people more than 1000 years ago, this vibrant instrument is also called “yiḏaki”, the voice.
Played by vibrating lips and a special technique called circular breathing, didgeridoo’s sound imitates animals, nature and legends.
Didgeridoo pack has 120 sound files in 192kHz – 24 bit format. It includes a collection of drones with various techniques; emu, kookaburra, dingo, dog and mythical Rainbow Serpent voices; rhythms, loops.
There are 35 designed sounds created by using only the original recordings in this pack and showcase the flexibility of the sound of didgeridoo. The designed sounds include cinematic braams, transitions, whooshes, sci-fi ui sounds, alarms and more.
120 high resolution files, 175 sounds, 18 minutes duration. All files are in stereo 192kHz 24 bit format. Includes detailed and easy-to-navigate metadata. Recorded with Sennheiser MKH 8040’s.
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122 classic hip hop drum samples featuring hard hitting, authentic hip hop essentials inspired by street life & legendary hip hop producers like DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Mobb Deep & more.
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.
Golden days of old school hip hop from the 80s and 90s with production techniques of new school and Trap beats.
25 kits + 323 Samples + 22 loops.
“Inner Circle – New City is lush! A lovely blend of hip-hop and electronics, which is rare these days…”
– Valance Drakes
Blend the golden days of old school hip hop from the 80s and 90s with production techniques of new school and Trap beats, and you get our most recent Inner Circle drum library: NEW CITY
If you are a Hip Hop or electronic music producer, NEW CITY is boling over the rim with only the highest quality samples that you’ll be glad to add to your secret bag of tricks.
The NEW CITY collection was created by electronic music artist Alex Retsis aka Qebo in collaboration with SoundMorph. Based out of Athens, Greece, Alex is signed to the Detroit Underground, Modular Expansion and Anthropos-Mekhane labels. Alex is an award winning professional sound designer who is also an endorsed artist by Korg.
25 kits – 323+ samples – 22 loops – 24-bit 96 kHz .wav files
Pre-made templates for:Battery 4, Ableton, Maschine, Kontakt
Embedded with Soundminer and Basehead metadata
Featured genres:
Old School hip hop + New School hip hop + Trap + Grime + Electro + Breakbeat
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.
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
The Auxiliary Percussion SFX Library contains a wide variety of professional percussion sound effect recordings. Instruments include a bamboo horn, various tambourines, cabasa, castanets, claves, cowbell, various maracas and shakers, flexatone, toy glockenspiel, guiro, harmonica, kalimba, triangle, rainstick, sleigh bells, spoons, train whistle, and wood blocks. Each instrument is played at numerous tempos and employing various techniques.
The Cymbals & Gongs SFX Library contains a wide variety of professional cymbal and gong sound effect recordings. Instruments include China, crash, ride, splash, and toy cymbals and large and small gongs played with various sticks and mallets at numerous tempos and volumes.
Dig into the eerie depths of Noise Box. Sampled from the enigmatic ‘Moonlight’ made by Tetsuo Noise Box. This library offers 354 samples. Every part of the noise box is sampled as a one shot and useful for designing with metal hit and scrape sounds. Perfect starter material for crafting suspense, horror, and sci-fi atmospheres.
To get you started… We include 61 designed textures as ready to use samples. These processed designed sounds highlight the creative potential of the raw one shots. Also, we include four Kontakt presets for quick access to the samples and inspire performance, emulating the experience of playing our noise box.
Useful for sound design and creative cinematic scoring!
Kontakt 6.8.0 or higher is required. NOTE: This library does not run in the free ‘Kontakt Player’
From the ashes of a Wurlitzer baby grand piano, we bring you a unique sample library for media sound design. Perfect for suspense and horror in films and games. Surprisingly good at emulating distant artillery hits and other destruction. Crunches. Bangs. Metal scrapes. Wood shattered. Strings scraped with saws and performed with sledgehammers… not felt.
119 stereo one-shots of the acoustic dismantling. 77 crafted soundscapes and designed effects crafted from processing the original sounds. And… a playable Kontakt patch of unusual and slightly out of tune string plucks with multiple round robins for natural variation (delivered at 48kHz for memory optimization). All recorded in stereo using Schoeps microphones arranged in mid-side stereo technique. Edited and tagged with UCS metadata for fast and clear search results.
Kontakt 6.8.0 or higher is required. NOTE: This library does not run in the free ‘Kontakt Player’
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