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Home Instruments Percussion Instruments
Musical percussion instruments suited for all kinds of compositions
Bells and chimes are useful in sound design and music production as they are adding organic vibes to your sound.
For this purpose, many esoteric bells and chimes were recorded from various angles, dynamics and with pristine sound quality.
Here you will find not only traditional bells (used in hotels or boats), but also exotic Chinese and Tibetan bells, wind chimes of different sizes and esoteric tuned resonators that generate unusual harmonies and soundscapes.
This is also a great library for further processing, pitch mangling, granulation and sound experimenting.
The Magic Chimes SFX Library contains a wide variety of professional mark tree (wind chime) and bell tree sound effect recordings. These include glissandos, scales, single notes, steadies, shaking, and more.
The “AR_K Facility” is a collection of libraries, comprised of several volumes, each of which has a single or multiple Kontakt instruments. The entire series is centered on unusual percussion sounds with a lot of editing possibilities and several onboard effects. Each Volume (called “Level n”) has a distinctive set of basic sounds that can be used for composing and producing purposes – like a drum machine – as well as for soundtrack composition and sound design in films, videogames and any other multimedia product.
The first volume (called “Level 1”) is a single instrument library with several percussion sounds and a lot of sound manipulation possibilities.
Specifications:
– 5 Sound Engines
– EQ and Compressor per Engine
– 6 Insert effects
– 2 Send (master) effects
– 10 custom made IRs for the Reverb
– Light weight: 12,8 MB
– Sample format: 44,1 kHz, 24 Bit, NCW, stereo
– Requires Kontakt 5.6.5 or above (FULL VERSION)
– Version 1.0 (August 2019)
Shakers, maracas and rainsticks are great material for sound design and further processing.
For this library I recorded various ethnic shakers, maracas, rainsticks of different sizes and other unusual esoteric percussion instruments, like Kapel’ (circular shaker) or giant-size custom built rainstick.
These percussion instruments were recorded from various angles, dynamics and with pristine sound quality, which can be further processed, granulated or pitch-mangled to push your sound design boundaries further.
Large acoustic bass drums are often used in trailers, movies, video games and other multimedia projects in which tension moments need to be emphasized.
For this library, I recorded several large REMO and MEINL drums, as well as custom handmade shamanic tambourines. Here you can find not only clean recordings, but processed with distortion/overdrive, drum rolls and also unusual foley, which can be used for sound design.
Got a film or other production that has a ringing smartphone/mobile phone/cellphone, but you can’t use the ringtones from the original manufacturer? Well, this sound library is for you!
19 unique but not too complex smartphone ringtones or notification tones made with a marimba. Because these are made with a marimba, the tones are soft and easy to listen to. Ringtones are in both mono and stereo format, and also without EQ and with EQ. EQ’d versions are designed to sound straight from a smartphone, so you can just insert those into your project!
This library contains a wide selection of musical and non-musical instruments, toys and noisemakers.
You will find a wide variety of bells, whistles, cymbals, horns, blocks, drums, toys, shakers, crankers, etc. Can be utilized in a multitude of ways. For example, fill out a musical arrangement, for cartoon effects, goofy UI, etc!
Music is only heard in the demo. Downloads are high resolution and without background music.
Flysound presents, for the holiday season, a joyful, enchanting library of all the essential sounds of winter magic. The literal jingle of bells, and other blessed chimes; the clinking of glasses and the popping of bottles of champagne. These are the sounds of Christmas, Hanukkah, and a very special New Year’s Eve and beyond.
Flysound is proud of the work it has done in this challenging year, and we are happy to face the coming new one, with the people we love and care for, and with the colleagues we respect and cherish. So here we present a celebratory collection of triumphant professional sounds, to stimulate the holiday mood and to joyously ring in the New Year. Cheers!
This pack includes 107 files of 6 Gamelan instruments and 1 Harp. This library is a sample pack of sound textures ranging from scarping, single tones, spinning notes, intervals, and playing the Gamelan instruments with various mallets.
Recorded with 2-3 microphones and from 2-3 mic positions, you have a pretty good range of sound textures to choose from!
We used this library mainly to add tonal qualities and textures to our RPG Magic SFX Pack 3 – Elemental. Now you can also have access to these recordings!
Amazonic Texture Bundle
Apito Embolo, Apito de Grilo, Apito de Mari, Bacururu Maior, Bacururu Menor, Balanco da Rede, Buzina Bambu, Buzina Motor, Buzina Tariano, Cancao, Canto da Guariba, Chocalho de Jatoba, Chocalho de Rodelas, Chua Chua, Cipo Dagua, Gaviao Real, Ocarina, Ocarina Passaros, Papagaio de Moleira, Pau de Chuva, Remo, Sapo Cururu, Sapos, Tambor de Mola, Tambor Sideral, Trototo, Trovao, Trovao de Mola, Uru, Vassourao
So, this pack happened sort of on a whim. Armed with a new field recorder and eager to test its capabilities I recorded some sounds my bike makes. I quickly found that these little samples had a lot of potential and immediately started manipulating, layering, and mangling them into a fully fledged drum kit. This kit covers everything from seat-smacks turned 808s, spoke flicks turned snare drums, and freewheel hubs turned hi-hats.
So here it is, “SPØKES”, a super off-the wall drum kit that is 100% original, 100% bike sounds, yet 100% musical at the same time. This kit was a blast to make and I hope you’ll be having just as much fun using it in your productions.
Important: These are not the kind of bicycle sound effects you’d want if you’re looking add believable sound to a bike onscreen. This is a set of samples specifically targeted at music makers and as source for more experimental sound design.
Introducing the Plonk Percussion Hits Collection, a UNIQUE percussion sample package with over 200 files! This collection features samples from the renowned Plonk physical modeling percussion synthesizer. These sounds are perfect for live performance, hardware samplers, or software samplers and drum plugins like Battery.
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.
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.
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
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
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’.
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
Wind Chimes is a collection of meticulously captured wind chimes purposely recorded with a pair of high-end Barcus Berry 4000 (Planar Wave Piano and Harp Pickup System) contact microphones. By using this type of mic instead of traditional ones, the attack, sustain and decay of each tube struck by its clapper are experienced in ways unheard by the naked ear. Every tinkle and plink, every clang and rattle sound a bit more removed from its environment than normal. Harmonics are heard alongside fundamental frequencies. Every recording is unique to its moment in time. Each note is as random as the wind that plays it. These chimes are anything but showroom new. Some are weathered. Some are outwardly neglected. A few sound pretty, others not so much.
Ensembles of traditional Buddhist instruments and chanting, with throat singing.
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
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’
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’
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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Keywords
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