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Minimal Audio Emerge $49
Sumptuous sound designs abound in this weighty library of epic atmospheres, textures, impacts, and one-shot audio blasts. Not your run-of-the-mill, either. Well, unless you count the actual abandoned mill the team went in to record foley sounds. They certainly put the leg work in, spending half a year setting up field recording trips in weird and wonderful locations, before heading back to the lab to process and stack up the results.
The 750+ files, also including plenty of mangled synthesised and digital soundscapes and tones, make for the perfect set if you need that extra layer of hyper-texturised audio goodness to add to your tracks.
minimal.audio/products/emerge
10/ 10
Mode Audio
Alteration – Prepared Piano Samples £11.20
Your boy John Cage (the dude that released that banging track of silence) was a massive fan of messing with his piano. He’d bung erasers in the strings, and slide old keys across ‘em. Great stuff, and a classic way to spin people out. In that vein, the Mode Audio sound wanglers have cracked open the lid of their baby grand, too – and presented their findings as 16 sampler kits, and three channel strip effects patches for your DAW o’ choice. Off the scales!