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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.
This bundle consists of our three releases: Dark Whooshes, Impacts & Cinematic Hits, Bright Wisps & Whooshes!
Dark Whooshes is comprised of 15 transition sounds that favor a darker or more muted tone! But don’t be fooled- some of these transition sounds are powerful.
Impacts & Cinematic Hits has 29 individual percussive sounds across the 18 sound files. These cinematic impacts run the spectrum from loud to abstract to intimate.
Bright Wisps and Whooshes is overflowing with bright and airy transition sounds! The wisps are quick & icey. The whooshes are brimming with light and our long swells are almost magical.
So what are these bright transition sounds?
Fair question! Bright Transition Sounds are characteristically lighter and airier than your typical whoosh… If you look at an audio spectrum meter, you’ll notice that these bright whooshes reside mostly in the upper mid-range of the scale. That brightness is designed to cut through most mixes and be heard! Bright Wisps & Whooshes evokes lite and effortless motion across any media genres! So whether you use these sounds for animation or to convey quick motion in trailers or game design, there’s something for everyone in Bright Wisps & Whooshes!
These sounds work great as sweeteners for title graphics as well as other types of media!
Bright Wisps & Whooshes is part of our Mini-Set Series that specializes in small, bitesized sound packs that come in at under 20 sound-files in total. Mini-Sets allow creatives like you to quickly find the sounds you want so that you can get to the fun parts of your projects quicker than ever! No more searching through hundreds of sounds. Our Mini-Sets are concise, they’re packed with awesome original sound design, and they’re low in price to boot!
If you would like to learn more about our Mini-Sets, click right here!
Try Bright Wisps & Whooshes with our other mini-sets today and get ready to bring your creative to the next level!
Are you ready for our Dark Whooshes Mini-Set?
We hope so!
The transition sounds in this mini-set are characteristically darker and heavier than transition sounds found elsewhere- And that’s a good thing!
Dark Whooshes evokes subdued yet powerful transition sounds built to elevate any media project! So whether you use these sounds in support of animation or to convey motion in game design, videos, or big-budget Film Trailers, there’s something for everyone with Dark Whooshes!
Dark Whooshes is part of our Mini-Set Series that specializes in small, bitesized sound packs that deliver BIG SOUND in under 20 audio-files.
Dark Whooshes has 15 dark transition sound files at 24bit/96k!
Our Mini-Sets are aimed at professionals and creators alike, who just want great sound FX- but without the mundane process of sifting through hundreds or even thousands of sounds, looking for the right whoosh!
Mini-Sets cut through that overwhelming process by keeping the file count down- so you can pick the sounds you need and get to the FUN part of your job FASTER!
Mini-Sets are concise, packed with awesome original sound design, and they’re low in price to boot!
If you would like to learn more about our Mini-Sets, click right here!
So try Dark Whooshes with our other mini-sets today and get ready to bring your creative to the next level!
Impacts & Cinematic Hits is made up of epic drum hits, bright percussive splashes, dark tribal drums, abstract shots, and textured slams as well! This mini-set is designed to be used quickly on any media project!
Impacts & Cinematic Hits is part of our Mini-Set Series that specializes in bite-sized sound effect packs with less than 20 sound files to choose from! The small file count helps get creatives like you to the fun part of your projects quicker! And one special feature found in Impacts & Cinematic Hits is that some of the sound files contain variant passes all within the same WAV file! That means you’re getting 29 individual sounds across the 18 sound files!
Listen to our demo to hear the drums and picture how well they will integrate into any media! Whether you want to add punctuation to a film, short, video game cue or music production, these sounds will elevate whatever creative you are making!
Try Impacts & Cinematic Hits with our other mini-sets and get ready to bring your creative to the next level!
To learn more about Mini-Sets and what makes them so cool, check this out!
Music Boxes contains three distinct music boxes, carefully recorded to give you the flexibility to design your own melodies.
With a total of 219 one-shot sound files, you’ll get isolated notes, each meticulously recorded one by one, allowing you to construct new phrases, build complex arrangements, or use them as unique tonal building blocks in sound design – along with mechanical wind-up sounds.
The Music Boxes:
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
Simple Winds is a synth/synthetic based wind instrument (Requires full Kontakt from 5.8.1 upwards)
Simple Winds has 8 looped noise samples White, Brown, Pink, Purple, Red, Blue, Grey and Black and 1 looped rumble audio.
We’ve added two Volume buttons so that you can mix better between The Noise and Rumble samples
There is also an adjustable knob to remove/add whistle dependant on need
The Noise and Rumble sample can be modified together by using the movement parameters, you can also shape the sound by using the ADSR and HP/LP Filters.
The main aim of this instrument was to make creating synthetic wind simple for any project.
You can also access all these samples independently via the samples folder.
Simple Winds will give you the ability to create simple wind textures, boosting your project to the next level. 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.
Grim Dark Industrial Sequences is a collection of 66 brutal, tempo-synced loops forged on a modular synthesizer and pushed through custom analog distortion chains — including tube saturation, vintage vacuum and neon overdrive, non-linear filters, and unstable modulation circuits.
Each loop pulses with a life of its own — snarling, grinding, and groaning like an atonal machine on the verge of collapse. These sounds capture the raw energy of malfunctioning industrial systems, unstable power grids, and corrupted signal flows.
Expect everything from chaotic metallic screeches to rhythmic mechanical pulses — perfect for dystopian soundscapes, cinematic horror, sci-fi, cyberpunk, experimental game audio, dark techno, and aggressive electronic production.
Male and female screaming sound effects of pain, and fear to convey genuine emotion and intensity—ideal for horror, cinematic, or video game sound design
Recorded and exported in 24/96 Khz
We were in need of some Saxophone foley but couldn’t find any suitable sounds, noticing a gap in the market we borrowed a Saxophone and started recording the Saxophone and its Case trying to cover as much as we could.
We recorded everything from:
Saxophone Grabs and Releases
Saxophone Foley Taps, Handle and Strokes
Key Presses
Mouth Piece Attach
Neck Attach and Remove
Saxophone placed/removed into/from a case
Case Fabric stokes for more Saxophone/Case contact
Case being Closed/Slammed
Case Grabs
Case Foley Strokes and Taps
Case being placed onto different surfaces(Carpet, Concrete, Laminate, Metal and Tile)
Latch Opened, Closed and Movement
Handle Drops, Movement and One/Multiple Hits
Saxophone and Case Bundle will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of a Saxophone and its Case, boosting your project to the next level. Saxophone and Case Bundle 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.
We were in need of some Saxophone foley but couldn’t find any suitable sounds, noticing a gap in the market we borrowed a Saxophone and started recording trying to cover as much as we could.
We recorded everything from:
Saxophone Grabs and Releases
Saxophone Foley Taps, Handle and Strokes
Key Presses
Mouth Piece Attach
Neck Attach and Remove
Saxophone placed/removed into/from a case
Case Fabric stokes for more Saxophone/Case contact
Saxophone will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of a Saxophone, boosting your project to the next level. Saxophone 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.
A voice library featuring a female military voice—ideal for modern shooters, strategy games, trailers, and simulations
Perfect for additional vocals in shooter games
all individually edited so they can be used easily and effectively.
Recorded and exported in 24/96khz so can be modified to suite your project.
A voice library featuring a male military voice—ideal for modern shooters, strategy games, trailers, and simulations
Perfect for additional vocals in shooter games
all individually edited so they can be used easily and effectively.
Recorded and exported in 24/96khz so can be modified to suite your project.
Urban Gongs is a field recording collection of 128 sounds of metal and glass objects struck with a variety of mallets and hands and recorded with top end contact microphones and geophones.
The results are rich and resonant gong like tones perfect for sound design, ambient compositions, cinematic soundscapes or adding unique character to your creative projects.
Recorder : Sound Devices Mix Pre 10II and Zoom F3
Microphones : LOM Geofon, Stille and Klang, Organic Audio Cjossul
Microphone Perspective : Magnet and Contact
Source Files – WAV Mono
Grouped Files for Easy Reference Included
Documentation Included : Copyright, EULA, Images, Metadata (exported in multiple formats)
Metadata : Files are stamped with detailed UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer, including pictorial references.
Thunder Drums is a sound effects library designed to deliver powerful low-frequency impacts, rumbles, and strikes for cinematic sound design. It features non-traditional percussion instruments, including a thunder tube (spring drum), loose drumheads, and large plexiglass sheets, struck with mallets and drumsticks to produce a wide range of impacts, thunder-like rumbles, deep strikes, and heavy drum hits.
In addition to raw recordings, the library includes designed elements enhanced with granular processing, distortion, and impulse response reverbs. Perfect for sound design in film, games, and trailers where powerful hits and low-end energy is needed.
All sounds were captured using a Sennheiser MKH 8050 microphone and Zoom F6 recorder at 32-bit / 192kHz, and are delivered as 24-bit / 192kHz WAV files. The library includes 185 files (512 sounds), is 3.7 GB in size, and is fully UCS-compliant with embedded metadata.
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.
Have you ever heard a material that sounds like nothing else? Listen to the magical timbre of obsidian needles. Obsidian is a volcanic stone that, in very rare places on earth, solidifies into needle shape that produces a very unique sound, purer than metal and smoother than glass.
I collected hundreds of these needles and I built 3 chimes with the needles that sounded best. Sound effects were recorded both with Sanken CO-100K and Sennheiser MKH 8040. All recordings and processed sounds contain a lot of ultrasonic frequencies, thus can be pitched with a great flexibility.
Have a listen to the unheard and create magic, ice, glass or any new sound effect you want.
• Dozens of chime recordings
• 200 needles individually sampled
• 40 ready-to-use processed sound effects
• 192 KHz/24 bit
• Metadata UCS-compliant
Unleash the Terror: Introducing “Risers” – A Haunting Sound Effects Collection
Prepare to plunge into the depths of fear with “Risers,” a meticulously crafted sound effects album designed to elevate the tension and dread in your projects. This comprehensive collection is divided into two chilling sections: powerful Risers and unsettling Stutter Glitch Risers.
Drawing inspiration from the darkest corners of horror, “Risers” is built upon a foundation of terrifying elements. Immerse your audience in the grating sounds of grinding gears, the piercing intensity of screams, and the bone-chilling echoes of horrific groans. We’ve woven in the unsettling buzz of anxious flies, the clanging resonance of iron chains, and a pervasive undercurrent of unsettling horror symphony to create a truly atmospheric experience.
This album boasts a rich tapestry of sound, incorporating both a multitude of acoustic instruments for organic texture and depth, alongside diverse synthesizer sounds for unique and unsettling sonic landscapes.
Inside “Risers,” you’ll discover:
All sounds are delivered in pristine WAV format, recorded at a high-fidelity 96000K sample rate with a 24bit depth, ensuring maximum audio quality and flexibility for professional use.
These chilling and innovative sounds are perfect for:
We’ve included three demo previews showcasing a glimpse of the terror that awaits. These are just a small sample of the unsettling sounds within “Risers.”
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.
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(Dramatic, cinematic sound effects start to play) Introducing Trailer Essentials – Big Screen Sound Elements. With over 370+ heart-pounding, cinematic sound effects at your fingertips, you’ll be able to craft trailers, teasers, adverts and cutscenes that will leave a lasting impact.
(Quick cuts of futuristic, dystopian, and horror-themed sound effects play in rapid succession) From blockbuster hits and sweeps, to sub drops and dystopian impacts, this curated collection of premium audio has it all. Perfect for games, film, motion graphics, cinematic music, and any interactive sound design project that demands the attention getting sound.
(Music reaches a crescendo) With 376 sound effects, all in stunning 96k 24bit .wav format, plus other formats, you’ll have the tools to create audio that’s truly unforgettable. 1+ GB of inspiring samples, 124 sound sets – glued files for faster sound design. The possibilities might just be endless.
(Music drops to a deep, ominous tone) Unleash the drama, the tension, and the excitement with Trailer Essentials – Big Screen Sound Elements. The ultimate sound resource for the modern audio designer. (Music fades, video fades to black)
Enhance your audio projects with our premium Sound Effects Pack featuring 88 realistic instrument handling sounds, recorded at 24-bit, 96kHz for crystal-clear quality. This collection includes the subtle yet impactful noises of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments being played, tuned, and handled. Perfect for films, games, music production, or any creative work requiring detailed, lifelike instrument sounds. Add authenticity and depth to your project with this essential library of expertly captured Foley effects!
Gain instant access to the sounds of magic, mystery, fascination and adventure with the Fantasy Game 2 – Sound Kit for Enchanted Realms. Discover a vast collection of interactive sounds specially crafted for RPGs, open-world adventures, and epic fantasy narratives, games, film, interactive media. Experience the clash of steel of epic battles to the ethereal chime of enchanted spells. It’s all you need to make every action, spell, and encounter feel and sound truly magical. Whether you’re exploring forgotten ruins, summoning arcane forces, or waging valiant combat, Fantasy Game 2 – Sound Kit for Enchanted Realms is your instant gateway to an unforgettable fantasy soundscape.
Immerse yourself in a world of musical dynamism with this diverse collection of impactful sounds that add depth and texture to your compositions. From the mesmerizing reverberations of a reversed hit drumroll to the resonant buzz of low strings, each sound brings a unique layer of intensity. Explore the rhythmic pulse of orchestral percussion, the playful chime of a cowbell, and the futuristic vibe of synthetic drums. Whether it’s the ethereal tones of a xylophone, the thunderous beat of a tom-tom, or the enchanting sparkle of a celesta, these sounds offer endless possibilities for enhancing your musical creations.
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