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With Lofi Chill, we’ve put together a go-to resource of all things mellow for those after-party vibes and rainy day beats.
Featuring 50 Serum presets, 12 Cthulhu presets, loops and MIDI files, this collection will have the creativity flowing the minute you start exploring.
We took inspiration from popular Lofi, Chillwave and Ambient playlists as well as artists including Boards of Canada and Tycho to bring you this essential production toolkit.
Whether you work in genres such as Lofi, Chillout, Chillwave, Ambient or Downtempo, there’s plenty of material here for you to get that laid back vibe grooving along nicely.
Hellscrape is our modern horror offering. Everything you need to create eerie tension sound beds and compelling horror tracks. Drag and drop our horror signature sounds and watch your music transform into a visceral cinematic experience.
Includes twisted signature sounds, unsettling drones, scary strings, brooding impacts, and more!
The ARP Odyssey is nothing short of a legendary synthesizer. Released in 1972 as a direct answer to the famous MiniMoog, the Odyssey became one of ARP’s most beloved synths and has been used on too many hit records to count. Stevie Wonder, Jean Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, Devo, Abba… The list of famous Odyssey users reads like a top ten list of the most influential artists in the history of recorded music. The Odyssey is, in essence, a minimalist take on the ARP 2600 – simplified into a straightforward and immensely capable performance synth that is as sonically powerful as it is accessible. Its dual oscillators with sync functionality, FM, ring modulation, white/pink noise generator and dual EGs allow it to produce a great variety of sounds that are as universally useful as they are distinctly ARP.
The year 2022 marks the Odyssey’s 50th anniversary, an event I knew I had to celebrate with you! To celebrate this legend’s birthday, I created a library of tastefully gnarly basses, searing leads, versatile synths, and a whole load of plucks for you to bring into your productions.
In 2015, equally legendary instrument manufacturer KORG took it upon themselves to release a faithful replica of the classic duophonic Odyssey that encompasses the character of all three Odyssey revisions ARP produced. This is achieved by allowing the player to switch between the three different filter circuits used in the MKI, MKII, and MKIII respectively. The added analog “drive” circuitry of the KORG Odyssey adds a tasteful amount of saturation which I heavily exploited to make the sounds of this sample library extra juicy. This instrument was captured using high-end converters and cables to create ØDYSSEUS.
A strong set of pulsating elements and complex cinematic sequences featuring dynamic synth textures, evolving futuristic soundscapes, hybrid trailer pulses, and percussive sound design.
With Chillout Waves, we’ve compiled an extensive collection of rich, diverse and mellow sounds for beatmakers and producers working in downtempo and ambient styles. Whether you are creating after party vibes, rainy day soundscapes or study beats, this pack has all the essentials you need!
Featuring 60 expertly-crafted Serum presets covering basses, chords, FX, leads, pads and plucks all with macro controls mapped to only the most useful parameters, enabling efficient on-the-fly tweaking for custom sound design.
Also included are 5 complete Construction Kits packed with wet and dry loops, drum oneshots and MIDI files ensuring this pack contains every element required to create Chillout tracks completely tailored to your liking and only limited by your creativity.
Contents
60 Serum Presets
10 Bass
12 Chords
12 FX
12 Leads
6 Pads
8 Plucks
5 Construction Kits
168 Loops
28 Drum Oneshots
59 MIDI
5 Mixdown Demos
2 Full Product Demos (WAV & MP3)
Total Files
322
Swathes features a diverse collection of pads for Serum, professionally prepared and production ready for all kinds of chill styles and beyond.
Featuring rich, detailed, digital textures, lofi analogue emulations, soundtrack-ready drones, experimental tones and retro-future vibes, there’s something for almost any genre with this broad palette of essential patches.
impOSCar2 is the successor to our multi-award winning impOSCar software subtractive and additive synthesis synthesizer. If you’re not familiar with the impOSCar then you’re in for a real treat. However, if you fell in love with it the first time around, be prepared to fall in love all over again.
impOSCar2 comes with a 1000+ Patch library featuring sounds created by original OSCar users including Billy Currie (Ultravox) Darren Price & Rick Smith (Underworld) & Paul Wiffen (the original OSCar sound designer and programmer for Stevie Wonder & Jean Michel Jarre).
While the original impOSCar was a component emulation of the rare and classic OSCar synthesizer with a few added features, such as polyphony and on-board effects, impOSCar2 soars to new sonic heights via steroid injections of innovative features and enhancements, each designed around the wishes of those musicians, programmers and producers who loved the original.
Since the original impOSCar release we’ve carefully compiled user feedback and over the course of eighteen months, in another true labour of love, we’ve incorporated the best of these within impOSCar2 creating a synth that positively oozes more character, more playability, more expression and more detailed sound sculpting opportunities than could have been imagined a few years ago.
Generative Drones contains a wide variety of tonal drones generated through experimental synthesis and sampling techniques, perfect for abstract tracklays and leftfield music.
All of the sounds have been designed by our Audio Craftsmen, with experimental synthesis and sampling techniques in order to create the most engaging and interesting tonal elements for your projects. The drones 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. The 30 included elements can be easily combined, mixed, and matched to allow your abstract soundscape to resonate infinitely through your timeline, offering a mix of tonal and atonal elements that entice and engage the listener.
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What is future? How does your universe sound? What does infinity mean?
Elysion is our big answer to big questions! A huge and incredibly fast scoring tool, perfectionated to fill the space with inspiration. Score the future and experience the infinite sound cosmos – Elysion unfolds just on a fingertip.
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Need a sound for that epic jump? Got it. How about the classic collect sound that makes you feel like you just won a jackpot on a slot machine? Yup, we’ve got that too. Retro Pixel Sound Effects PRO Pack is an extensive library of over 1200 royalty-free SFX in high resolution tailored specifically to give retro and arcade feeling. This pack features a lot of generic audio assets that audio professionals can easily adapt to their specific needs. Covering a wide range of categories including Alarm, Bleep, Bubble, Jump, Collect, Counter, Data, Fail, Success, Footstep, and more, each sound has been crafted using a blend of analog and soft synthesizers, metal sounds to evoke the iconic retro atmosphere.
ARP’s SOLUS synthesizer is a portable powerhouse synth that can produce some seriously beefy sounds that feel right at home in today’s music. Released in 1980, SOLUS was developed as a portable performance synthesizer, hence being constructed as a flight case, featuring a hardwired power cord poking out of the front panel and panel-mounted I/O. Featuring two oscillators with sync functionality, ring modulation, and a classic ARP filter, this synth boasts plenty of sonic potential.
SØLUS features super beefy basses, searing leads, sturdy synths, and so much more. All ready to be used in your favorite DAW. As always, this synth was meticulously multi-sampled to preserve its original tonality while keeping noise to the absolute minimum.
While ARP SOLUS is a synth often standing in the shadows of its legendary siblings ODYSSEY and 2600, it truly is an instrument worthy of Alan R. Pearlman‘s legacy. When it comes to cutting through a mix, it’s one tough synth to beat.
As always, this synth was sampled using pristine converters, DI, and Rheingold cables to bring the instrument’s full sonic potential to your productions. Since ARP SOLUS only accepts a limited range of CV input (somehow you can’t feasibly play below C2 via regular CV), every single one of the included samples had to be hand-played and edited on top of being meticulously looped by hand for seamless infinite sustain.
We carefully sampled one of the most iconic string machines from italian manufacturer Elka. The instrument is quite simple, since it has only two sounds that can be eventually combined to create a third one. And that’s it. But it’s more than enough to make your music iconic!
The recordings were made at 48KHz and 24 bit resolution, so you’re good to go with cinematic projects too.
We sampled each note chromatically, so every single note from the original instrument is there, no pitch shifting. We also sampled the sounds combination, so the third sound it’s sampled as it comes out the original keyboard.
The interface on the original instrument is extremely simple and basic, but all the controls are implemented in “Cellotron 1976”. We added two effects for added flexibility and sonic possibilities, but we tried to keep the simple controls wise, to fit in the spirit of the original instrument.
With Mirrors – Future Bass, we’ve put together all the elements you need to produce huge EDM floor-fillers and radio-ready hits in one epic collection. Inspired by some of the biggest names in the scene, this pack perfectly reflects the stadium sounds and high production values found throughout the genre.
Featuring 60 expertly-crafted presets covering basses, chords, FX, keys, pads, plucks, synths and vocals all with macro controls mapped to only the most useful parameters, enabling efficient on-the-fly tweaking for custom sound design.
Also included are 5 complete Construction Kits packed with wet and dry loops, oneshots and MIDI files ensuring this pack contains every element required to create Future Bass tracks completely tailored to your liking and only limited by your creativity.
Contents
60 Serum Presets
12 Bass
12 Chords
12 FX
4 Keys
3 Pads
5 Plucks
10 Synth
2 Vocal
5 Construction Kits
213 Loops
50 Oneshots (Drums, Percussion, Bass)
52 MIDI
5 Mixdown Demos
2 Full Product Demos (WAV & MP3)
Total Files
382
With Mainstage Hybrid Trap, we’ve put together all of the signature sounds of the genre in one complete production package ready for you to cook up the hardest, heaviest, rave-ready bangers.
Featuring 60 expertly-crafted presets covering 808s, basses, chords, FX, leads, pads, plucks and synths all with macro controls mapped to only the most useful parameters, enabling efficient on-the-fly tweaking for custom sound design.
Also included are 5 complete Construction Kits packed with wet and dry loops, oneshots and MIDI files ensuring this pack contains every element required to create floor-filling Hybrid Trap tracks completely tailored to your liking and only limited by your creativity.
Carefully designed signature trailer sounds and rich cinematic elements featuring strong impactful braams, enormous horns, nerve-racking jumpscares, and cutting-edge hybrid trailer sound design.
The future is now – Encounter ELYSION 2!
We started a journey into the future of sound – and we arrived! Encounter ELYSION 2 – our massive and incredibly fast scoring tool. Play simple chords and instantly create overwhelming sound worlds. Move your modwheel and distort time and space. Let the famous ensemble engine animate your music. #ScoreTheFuture with ELYSION 2.
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– 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.
Take a trip to the outer edges of Ambient music and beyond with these 50 expertly crafted Serum pads, textures, drones and atmospheres, created using 86 custom single and multi-cycle wavetables sourced from classic analog equipment, acoustic instruments and abstract sound design sessions.
With Retrowave for Serum & Cthulhu, we’ve put together a go-to resource for all things neon-drenched and nostalgic using the latest production techniques for a modern twist on a vintage theme. Featuring 60 Serum presets, 40 Cthulhu presets, loops, oneshots and MIDI files, this collection will have the creativity flowing the minute you start exploring.
We took inspiration from film and TV such as the soundtracks of John Carpenter, Blade Runner, Drive, Stranger Things and contemporary artists including Com Truise, Trevor Something and The Midnight, as well as all manner of 80s Synth Pop, to bring you this genuine retro-flavoured production toolkit. Whether you work in genres such as Synthwave, Outrun, Chillwave, Cyberpunk or Cinematic, there’s plenty of material here for you to get that Retro-Future vibe grooving along nicely.
Each Serum preset comes fully loaded with 4 Macro controls, enabling you to tailor your sound on the fly and not distract from the production process too much. Featuring Basses, Chords, Leads, Pads and Plucks, you won’t be short on some incredible sounds for a while as the scope to tweak them is almost endless!
HORIZON LEADS – Discover A New Sonic Dimension!
Enter a realm where synthesizers meet Hollywood scoring aesthetics – HORIZON LEADS opens the door to a new sonic dimension for cinematic scoring. It is your gateway to a revolutionary cinematic scoring experience. Unleash the power of cinematic synth leads meticulously sampled and infused with the warmth of acoustic instruments. Crafted to perfection, these sounds carry a unique human and artistic touch, elevating your compositions to new heights and let them resonate with the essence of Hollywood.
• HORIZON LEADS contains meticulously sampled synthesizer sounds treated like acoustic instruments
• Hollywood scoring aesthetic for powerful cinematic synth leads
• Sonuscore ensemble engine for pulsating rhythms and animated themes
• Play complex patterns with simple chords
• 80 freely playable synth instruments offering limitless creative possibilities
• 150 customizable cinematic themes
With Neon Slap House, we’ve put together an essential production resource covering all of the sounds and rhythms you’d need for one of the biggest subgenres of EDM, inspired by some of the biggest names on the scene. Take your tracks from the studio to the mainroom and festival stages of the world with this extensive collection of chart-topping sounds equally suited to Brazilian Bass and Deep House.
Featuring 60 expertly-crafted presets covering basses, chords, FX, leads, pads, plucks and synth
all with macro controls mapped to only the most useful parameters, enabling efficient on-the-fly tweaking for custom sound design.
Also included are 5 complete Construction Kits packed with wet and dry loops, oneshots and MIDI files ensuring this pack contains every element required to create Slap House tracks completely tailored to your liking and only limited by your creativity.
Contents
60 Serum Presets
12 Bass
5 Chords
12 FX
10 Leads
5 Pads
6 Plucks
10 Synth
5 Construction Kits
180 Loops
51 Oneshots (Drums, Percussion, Synth)
35 MIDI
5 Mixdown Demos
2 Full Product Demos (WAV & MP3)
System Requirements
Latest version of Serum (for presets only)
With Charting Trap we bring you everything you need to cook up Billboard ready beats in one go-to resource of platinum production essentials. We took inspiration from the biggest Trap hits and production trends to put together a comprehensive collection which gives you fast access to the freshest sounds for your beatmaking sessions.
Featuring 60 expertly-crafted Serum presets covering 808s, basses, bells, chords, FX, leads, pads and plucks all with macro controls mapped to only the most useful parameters, enabling efficient on-the-fly tweaking for custom sound design.
Also included are 5 complete Construction Kits packed with wet and dry loops, 808s, drum oneshots and MIDI files ensuring this pack contains every element required to create Trap beats completely tailored to your liking and only limited by your creativity.
Contents
60 Serum Presets
7 808s
5 Bass
5 Bells
10 Chords
12 FX
8 Leads
4 Pads
9 Plucks
Construction Kits
165 Loops
6 808 Oneshots
30 Drum Oneshots
45 MIDI
5 Mixdown Demos
2 Full Product Demos (WAV & MP3)
Total Files
313
System Requirements
Latest version of Serum (for presets only)
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