You can hear intriguing textures like strange ambient loops, deep groaning metal, dark and ominous drones, a rare tanbur and contrabass panduri, a legendary '80s drum machine, and a cinematic trailer library that will save you time!
You can also find assets such as updated cartoon SFX, cutting-edge interdimensional interfaces, Eurasian insects, a massive collection voice production, a "grunts-only" library, straight up shubbery, 8-bit game effects, and laser gun shots.
For the vehicles this week, we have a '88 Zastava Skala, an '08 Yamaha YZF-R6, and a huge riding lawnmower.
And don't miss out on the new ambiences from Berlin, Budapest, Warsaw, Budapest, and southern Spain.
Happy listening!
Sound library highlight by Adriane Kuzminski
'The Grunts Library' by Pole Position Production includes breathing, groans, moans, fighting, and more. It includes 211 sound clips and 8.4 GB of male and female grunts and breathing recorded with a whisper-quiet Ehrlund EHR-M1 mics at 192 kHz/24-bit fidelity.
'Eurasian Insects' by Sound of Essen focuses on isolated recordings of single insects, mainly from Northern Europe. While all insects were recorded in the wild in Northern Europe, most appear in Europe, Asia, North Africa, America, and Australia, too.
'TRAILER SOUNDS VOLUME 1: CINEMATIC HITS' by Sonuscore has 150 jaw-dropping, bass-pounding cinematic booms, hits, and whoosh hits. You’ll never have to search for fat, cinematic hits or whoosh hits in various software instruments again.
'The Nightingale Voice Box' by Nightingale Music is one of the largest and most respected collections of vocal production elements created for film, TV, games, toys and all-media. Spanning over 4 volumes, it includes 3000+ sound effects all made by the human voice!
'Yamaha YZF-R6 2008 sport bike motorcycle' by Krampfstadt Studio was recorded 32-bit / 192 kHz with a RØDE NTG1, RØDELink Lav and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 mics and Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. It features driving, Foley, and more.
'City Ambiences – Berlin' by Gregor Quendel has 44 Berlin city field recordings captured during spring and winter. It contains street, park, backyard, traffic, and nature ambiences, including New Year’s Eve fireworks, a spring thunderstorm, street musicians, crowds and more.
'Aggressive Stress And Resonance Of Metal' by Andrew Philippov has one hour or various metal objects tortured with feedback resonance recording technique. Hear groaning, moaning, stressed and resonating metal, massive low end rumbles, and more.
'Riding Lawn Mower' by Pole Position Production features field recordings of working, maneuvering, idling, and performed effects. This collection features a Mower Husqvarna Rider Proflex 21 riding lawn mower with a Kawasaki Twin 21hk engine with a cutting width of 122 cm.
'Hungary: Budapest Ambiences' by Field Reports features ambiences from Budapest, Hungary. Immerse yourself in city streets with hustle and bustle, acoustics of thermal bath locker rooms, handball games, restaurant ambiences on a river Danube cruise, and more.
'Electromagnetic Fields' by Sound Armoury features 50+ EMF recordings of plasma balls, TVs, microwaves, Christmas lights, a Game Boy Advanced, and many more items. They were recorded in 24-bit / 96kHz and was metadata-tagged for easy searching with UCS compliant file naming.
'Strange Game Ambient Loops 2' by Epic Stock Media is an ambience loop library created to help you make stunning and immersive audio environments quickly. With over 2 hours of game locations, tension, dark moods, you’ll be well equipped to bring your production to life.
'Ambiences from Poland' by Robert Kubicki was recorded in winter in 2 major cities in Poland - Poznan and Warsaw - which are full of unusual sounds from old and modern electric trams popular amongst locals and visitors. Hear heavy rumbles, cracks, and squeaks in Polish urban environments.
'8-Bit Games' by Orange Llama Audio has 8-bit games in modern and retro styles. These 500 SFX include actions such as jump and drop, footsteps and sliding, power ups, debuffs, teleporting, magic, weapons shots, hits, and more. These sounds are designed with retro synths and so they sound gritty, just enough for the authentic 8Bit vibe.
'707+ // the definitive TR-707 Kit' by BØLT is an unapologetically digital drum machine - sampled, processed, and reimagined. Few companies have shaped the role of drum machines in music quite as significantly as Roland, and this legendary '80s machine is still being used today.
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Instruments 707+ // the definitive TR-707 Kit Play Track 446 sounds included Original price was: $7.$4Current price is: $4.The unapologetically digital Drum Machine.
Sampled, processed, reimagined.
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.
The process
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.
Pack contents
- All 15 original sounds of the TR-707.
- 40x LoFi samples recorded onto cassette using a 1965 dictation tape recorder.
- 75x LoRes samples recorded and re-pitched using the po-33 K.O! sampler
- 150x samples recorded, re-pitched, and saturated using a Tascam 58 reel-to-reel recorder.
- 166x contemporary-fied samples treated with sophisticated processing and sound design techniques.
- Fully-featured MPC Expansion with multiple kits, pre-programmed processing, and kit previews
- 5x OP-Z kits with a total of 120 samples (compatible with OP-1)
- 4x Ableton Drum Racks covering select clean, LoFi, LoRes, and contemporary samples.
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'Origins Vol.10 Contrabass Panduri & Tanbur' by Sonuscore perfectly complements the twangy drones of the Tanbur. Though the two come from neighboring regions, the Contrabass Panduri is so rare that this excellent pairing has perhaps never occurred. Until now.
'Ambiences from rural Southern Spain' by Robert Kubicki was recorded over summer in a couple of rural areas in Andalusia – Antequera and Los Malagueños, near Malaga. Listen to the stillness of nature, sparse animals and insects, and walk down the quiet alleys and streets.
'Tonal Elements: Obscurum – Dark Drones' by Systematic Sound has uniquely crafted and designed drone and ambient pad sounds that will transport you to the darkest and most ominous places. Each performance is aimed to be about 3 minutes long to provide versatility for even the longest scenes.
Due to the noticeable overuse of currently available cartoon sound effects on the market, new cartoon and comedy sounds are extremely sought-after, but at the same time very hard to find. 'Cartoon SFX – Funny & Comedy Sounds' by Anime SFX will freshen up your SFX collection and help your production.
'Laser Guns Shots' by Ferreira the Sound Guy has a variety of sounds intended for laser or sci-fi gunfire. These sounds are perfect to use in movies, games, documentaries, etc. These sounds were created on virtual synthesizers, giving you 50 single and burst shot sounds.
'Interdimensional Interface Vol1' by Khron Studio has futuristic interface sounds has been made by studying all the sounds you will need for your video game or audiovisual product. We have considered integrating robotic voices, soundscapes, and beeps to start your game.
'Bushes Sound Effect Pack 01' by Debsound contains 150 high-quality rustling bush, hedge, shrub, thicket foliage, dry leaves, grass, undergrowth footsteps, and movement sound effects. These sound effects are perfect for games and apps that need sounds of shubbery.
'Zastava Skala 1988 compact car' by Krampfstadt Studio was recorded in 32-bit / 192 kHz with RØDE NTG1, RØDELink Lav, and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 mics, and a Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. It has files of driving, interior and exterior Foley, mechanical and electrical sounds.
