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Musical percussion instruments suited for all kinds of compositions
The Percussion Bundle includes all four sound effect libraries in the Percussion Collection: Cymbals & Gongs, Magic Chimes, Hand Drums, and Auxiliary Percussion. All libraries contain high-quality recordings of professionally played percussion instruments. Various sticks and mallets were employed at numerous tempos and volumes.
The Magic Chimes SFX Library contains a wide variety of mark tree (wind chime) and bell tree sound effect recordings. These include glissandos, scales, single notes, steadies, shaking, and more.
The Cymbals & Gongs SFX Library contains recordings of China, crash, ride, splash, and toy cymbals and large and small gongs.
The Hand Drums SFX Library contains recordings of the den den, djembe, doumbek, frame drum, and udu drum.
The Auxiliary Percussion SFX Library contains recordings of 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.
Click here for the full Magic Chimes file list.
Click here for the full Cymbals & Gongs file list.
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’
The Hand Tank Drum is a Kontakt library featuring a very unique acoustic tuned percussion instrument with an other-worldly tone!
The instrument is one of a kind steel tongue drum crafted by an artisan from a propane tank.
Features:
– Extended range C4-G5 – 768 samples recorded at 24bit/48kHz.
– 4 velocity layers.
– 3 random, no-repeat round robin variation for every sample.
– 4 articulations covering mallet and finger playing, as well as semi-muted style for more precise tone, or open style for a natural, dissonant timbre.
– Keyswitch for a fast and handy articulation change during the performance.
– 2 microphone perspectives – top and bottom – with separate volume controls.
– Effects section including delay, chorus, reverb, and rotary speaker/vibrato simulation.
– Attack and Release envelope controls for further sound shaping possibilities.
– Requires full version of Kontakt 5, free Kontakt Player is not supported.
There are 13 main loops with several variations each, for a grant total of 428 single files!
Whether you produce Lofi Hip Hop up to jungle\D&B this library it’s great for your next hits. You can go with a clean sound and make it dirty and distorted with your own effects, or you can use the loFi versions already in the lib, which are dirty and crunchy to the bone.
“Bizzarro” is a unique instrument. It features two separate sound engines that can be blended together to create Your unique sounds. The two engines are called “Transient” and “Partials”. The first one is a collection of pluck sounds you can shape with fundamental controls and a dedicated multimode filter. The second engine is called “Partials” and it gives You a huge variety of sonic shaping options. It has five level controls for “partials”, like you would have in additive synthesis, but instead of being simple sine waveforms each partial is a complex and rich sound, tuned following the harmonic series. It also has a dedicated multimode filter. Both filters have their own envelope generator with dedicated controls. The Partials engine also has a dedicated Vibrato effect.
The instrument contains 6 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.
Foundational Inner Circle drum pack, featuring 13 kits and 9 electronic genres, from house to dark electronic.
When laying down the foundations of a track, you need to start with the best. Transient Foundations was carefully designed to be the perfect starting point for both amateurs and professionals, covering a mix of several electronic genres. No matter the style, Transient Foundations, our first Inner Circle drum pack, gives you quality from square one.
Transient Foundations was created by musician and sound designer Real Cardinal, a.k.a. Comaduster (Tympanik Audio, BioWare), who has also worked on SoundMorph’s Sinematic and Bloody Nightmare libraries.
13 kits – 225+ samples – 22 loops – 24-bit 96 kHz .wav files
Pre-made templates for: Battery 4, Ableton, Maschine, Kontakt
Embedded with Soundminer and Basehead metadata
Unleash the sonic power of the gong with Aum Audio’s Gongs sound effects library.
Step into the sonic world of Shawn Aceto Sounds with a unique collection of gongs. Crafted by the metallurgist master Shawn Aceto and brought to life by master performer of the shamanic sound, Eddie Funxta.
These gongs are sonic marvels, designed to produce a full spectrum of tones, from primal, earth-shaking crashes to ethereal whispers that linger in the air. Add emotional vibrations and dramatic depth into your projects from a unique source in the gong and musical instrument industry.
Four selected gongs are included in this collection. Rain, Shri Yantra, Soul Voyager and Star Child. A variety of striking mallets, friction mallets, and percussive sticks were used along with Funxta’s touch and finesse to provide a multitude of takes for a wide selection of emotional impacts to choose from. Ringing decay lengths are from short 3 second accents to almost 2 minute sustains with some having big low end. Get it on and let’s bang a gong.
Royalty-free for commercial use in any of your creativity, such as film, television, radio, gaming, podcasts, audio books and more.
• 240 files totaling 5.87 GB, about 150 minutes
• Recordings of the 40″ Rain, 32″ Soul Voyager, 32″ Star Child, 28″ Shri Yantra gongs
• Various takes of mallet strikes, flumie friction rubs, percussive taps
• Files are BWAV format in stereo 96k at 24bit resolution, metadata enabled
• Universal Category System (UCS) standardized naming convention
• Product description, metadata sheets & EULA
• Artwork
EXTRA SNAPS – is an auxiliary sound library containing 316 unique sound effect files of human hand snaps. From gentle light snaps to hard and loud pops and multiple snappings at once. Whether it’s singular and attention grabbing or subtle and encouraging you’re looking for; This Extra sound effects library will help supplement any of your human hand snapping needs, for your next project. Extra Snaps comes in at over 2 minutes and was recorded at 192kHz / 32bit using an ultrasonic microphone. All of our libraries comply with the Universal Category System naming convention standard, allowing for accurate and easy granular searches.
The Dhyāngro is a Nepalese Frame Drum, often used by the Shamans during special ceremonies. I had the opportunity to sample one that was made in 1930. I’ve captured the sounds of the drum in a variety of different ways, including:
– Various impacts
– Bead Rolls
– Skin Slides
And it also includes pre made Drum Loops to give you inspiration for new song ideas.
The Hand Drums SFX Library contains a wide variety of professional percussion sound effect recordings. Instruments include the den den, djembe, doumbek, frame drum, and udu drum played at numerous tempos and employing various techniques.
We recorded these samples using Ed Devane’s Magnetic Piezo, the Korg CM 300 and the LOM Geofon. We recorded a variety of metal objects being hit with a variety of different items and then edited these sounds to create clock based tick/tocks
Included:
Single Hits
Single Hits with Reverb
Singles Hits Reversed
Single Hits Reversed with Reverb
Multi Hits (which is the Single Hit turned into a loop)
Multi Hits with Reverb
Multi Hits Reversed
Multi Hits Reversed with Reverb
We’ve given you the dry version to design your self or use the samples already pre drenched in the same reverb for consistency to use straight away in any project. You can mix the single hits to create unique tick/tock patterns as well. Not only are these great for clock based tick/tocks, but the single hits can also be used as percussion for compositions or to add to other layers to create impact hits.
Sinister Textures 3 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
Typewriters is a sound effects collection chock-full of vintage typewriters making sounds beyond the simple click-clack-clunk heard in so many TV shows and movies. I was curious if there was more to the sound of these old machines than meets the naked ear. Would recording them with high-end Barcus Berry contact microphones help bring out the best in them sonically? After recording 20 typewriters for this library, and performing a variety of keystrokes and actions on each in isolation, I can definitively say, yes.
Included are standard, portable and ultraportable machines from the early 20th century to the mid-1970s. Each machine, metal or plastic, emits sounds that are almost musical in nature. These files can enhance your next sound design project in nuanced ways that exceed the usual clickity-clack-clunk-thwack-smack we associate with typewriters. You’ll get a variety of zips, rips, twangs, growls, bounces, snaps, zings, rings and dainty end-of-line warning bell dings.
TRINITY DRUMS 2 allows for seamless arrangements and manipulation of groove elements. Featuring three layers with varying complexity that can be used independently or in combination with each other, it’s suitable to rock your socks off both in your studio or on stage.
My first sample pack ever to stretch the boundaries of time and space. Extracted from obscure records discovered in a parallel universe while experimenting with a DIY particle accelerator. 100% royalty free in this universe and my biggest pack to date with a whopping 200 loops!
All joking aside, this pack contains 100% royalty free drum breaks that have been carefully handcrafted to sound like they’ve always been out there, just waiting to be sampled. Using sophisticated processing and pulling from over a decade worth of experience in programming uncannily realistic sounding drum grooves, these breaks are the result of years spent studying what made those memorable grooves from the 60s, 70s, and 80s so catchy.
This pack covers a wide range of genres and distinct drum sounds that can stand on their own and compliment each other.
A number of loops even stem from the days when I still ran a little studio in Germany. Every now and then I would sneak behind whatever drum kit was in the studio at the moment and record some grooves. Turns out that these recordings came in very handy!
These loops are meant to be chopped, layered, mangled, and processed into anything you can think of – no clearance necessary.
223 loops / 370 mb in total. All files come as 44.1 kHz / 24 bit WAV and are labeled with their tempo.
– The best choice for designing top-quality, dancefloor-crushing kicks
PunchBOX is a virtual instrument designed for creating high-quality kick drum sounds. It comes with a vast, exquisite library of presets & sounds created by industry-standard sound designers Sounds of Revolution and CFA-Sound to get you started in no time.
A custom drum collection made by producer, rapper and DJ Cadence Weapon.
The CADENCE WEAPON DRUM COLLECTION skips from vibe to vibe like an iPhone on random, bouncing from steel drums and dancehall beats all the way to industrial clatter and old school beatboxing. Whether you’re a hip hop head looking for something beyond classic drum machine sounds or an experimental producer searching for abstract elements to spice up your latest mix, the CADENCE WEAPON DRUM COLLECTION has got you covered.
Cadence Weapon’s experiences as a DJ and producer inspired the broad spectrum of styles and sounds found within this drumpack, aiming to reflect his extensive knowledge of music, his dedication to cutting edge production and his commitment to musical innovation.
The CADENCE WEAPON DRUM COLLECTION was created by Cadence Weapon aka Rollie Pemberton and engineer Ewan Kay in collaboration with SoundMorph. Cadence Weapon is the critically acclaimed rapper and producer behind the Polaris Music Prize shortlisted albums Breaking Kayfabe and Hope In Dirt City.
20 Kits – 370 Samples – 20 loops – 16 bit 44khz .wav files
Pre-made templates for Battery 4 and Ableton
Embedded with Soundminer and Baseheaad metadata
Featured genres:
Hip Hop + Dancehall + Experimental + Club Dub + Beatboxing + Industrial + Steel Drums
Keepforest’s Vikings Cinematic Metal Toolkit consists of powerful cinematic metal instruments for your compositions. This expansion is inspired by Doom soundtrack written by Mick Gordon.
With the participation of professional musicians, sound designers, sound engineers, we recorded strings, percussions, guitars, basses and many more instruments. We literally played and experimented in the world of sounds, creating the library’s uniqueness and signature.
As the name Vikings, our library is inspired by the Scandinavian world and mythology, which have always had an important place in the movie industry, the vibe of which can be heard in the Guy Ritchie’s masterpiece King Arthur or in the extremely successful Game of Thrones. Surprisingly, we could not find a true and complete samples library on the market, dedicated to this genre. Having a clear vision in our minds, we decided take the opportunity and started the recording process of Vikings in January, 2017.
VIKINGS EXPANSION:
FULL VERSION OF KONTAKT 5.6.8 REQUIRED
(NOT COMPATIBLE WITH FREE KONTAKT PLAYER)
Since the release of our premier virtual instrument, we have been working extremely hard to bring you our first major update. Five years of rigorous product optimization, testing and research have finally brought us here.
Created for Kontakt 5, and including the free Kontakt player, we have managed to make a simple yet intuitive way to take control of these critically acclaimed sounds through advanced scripting techniques.
In addition to all the original instruments, we went back to the studio and recorded an additional 35 explosive drums expanding the library to 111 instruments! On top of that we even remixed to perfection some of the original drums!
With state-of-the-art equipment, a world-class scoring stage, and a treasure trove of beautiful instruments, this library offers unprecedented quality and endless creativity.
It features amazing sounds from Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and South America. It also offers 4 user controllable microphone positions, an extensive array of velocities and round robin and hundreds of unique midi grooves. Aside from both tuned and un-tuned percussion, the library helps to fuel your creativity through the World Inspire Sets.
We have invested thousands of hours to ensure that this library will add a new dimension of authenticity to your next production.
This third volume (called “Level 3 – Organic Transients”) is a five instruments collection library with a lot of percussion sounds and several sound manipulation possibilities. The name “Organic transients” refers to the fact that all of the sounds are created with exhausted drumheads recorded with several sticks and mallets making a huge palette of kicks, snares and creative hits with an organic feel yet very “electronic”. The wide range of sonic manipulation controls allow for great flexibility and sound design freedom. With the 3 samples Round Robin switch it’s possible to give more lively feeling to a static track and with the momentary switches for the every effect you can turn on and off specific effects temporarily while performing and/or recording.
Experience the fusion of music and sound design with, Musical Textures, the latest cinematic sound effects bundle from 344 Audio. This collection reimagines musical instrument recordings as rich, expressive sound design elements, delivering an inspiring toolkit that bridges the worlds of music and filmic storytelling.
This is not a music library — it’s something tonal, textural, and uniquely crafted to bring musicality into the realm of cinematic sound design.
After months of tireless work, the 344SFX team, (with the involvement of skilled musicians), captured performances from electric guitars, bells, chimes, gongs, harps, percussion and more, then meticulously transformed them into a stunning range of designed assets. The result is a library that blends musical expression with cinematic sound design, delivering sounds that feel both organic and otherworldly — ready to enhance emotion, tension, and atmosphere across your creative projects.
Inside, you’ll discover a rich tapestry of cinematic textures: swelling risers sculpted from cymbals, thunderous hits shaped from singing bowls and percussive elements, and sharp, melodic stingers inspired by East Asian instruments. Long, enveloping drones, crafted through inventive sound design — add tension and atmosphere, while deep subs, lush pads, ethereal ambiences, and harmonic tonal beds bring emotional depth and tonal complexity. You’ll also find a selection of short, expressive musical performances, ideal for transitions, title cards, or scene changes that call for a nuanced, human touch.
Whether you’re building transitions, accenting key moments, or shaping immersive soundscapes, Musical Textures adds tonal richness and cinematic character to your design palette.
Every sound has been meticulously crafted by our in-house audio artisans, making this library ideal for sound designers working in film, television, trailers, and games.
With 863 sound effects, totaling 30.4GB, and delivered in both 24-bit / 96kHz and 192kHz, each file is embedded with UCS metadata for easy integration into your workflow.
Musical Textures is your toolkit for expressive, tonal, and cinematic sound design, where instruments become atmosphere, and melody becomes motion.
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