Author: 99Sounds

Music Loops is a free collection of music loops and one-shot samples created by Monosounds and released by 99Sounds. The free download link is located at the end of this article. FREE Music Loops & Samples Music Loops by Monosounds and 99Sounds is a free and 100% royalty-free collection of electronic and hip-hop music loops, construction kits, MIDI loops, Serum Presets, and one-shot samples in WAV format. Unlike most previous 99Sounds releases focused on cinematic sound design, sound effects, and field recordings, the Music Loops collection is geared toward music production. The library contains over 700 MB of royalty-free content. The…

Glitch Textures is a free collection of electromagnetic field noises and glitches captured by Marcel Gnauk of Free To Use Sounds. The free download link is located at the end of this article. FREE Glitch Textures Glitch Texture contains various electricity sounds, including humming, buzzing, and various computing noises and glitches. The collection is similar to our Electricity Sound Effects release but contains longer recordings that are perfect for layering and sound design. The glitch sounds are provided in 24-bit 96 kHz stereo WAV format. How to use these glitch sounds in your projects The most obvious way to use…

Nature Sounds is a free collection of nature audio recordings captured by Free To Use Sounds and released by 99Sounds. The free download link is located at the end of this article. FREE Nature Sounds Nature Sounds contains a set of royalty-free nature field recordings in the following categories: Animals, Forest, Rain, Water, and Wind. It’s an excellent addition to our most popular Rain Sounds and Water Sounds libraries. The new Nature Sounds offers more sonic variety and is ideal for sound design, film, social media, and music production. Our friends from Free To Use Sounds recorded the included sounds…

Sci-Fi Sound Effects is a free collection of science-fiction sounds crafted by Rescopic Sound and released by 99Sounds. The free download link is located at the end of this article. FREE Sci-Fi Sounds Sci-Fi Sound Effects contains 90 royalty-free sci-fi sounds for film, video production, game development, music production, and sound design. The included sounds cover a range of typical cinematic sound effects heard in modern sci-fi productions. It contains various sci-fi weapon sounds like blasts, refills, recoil, shots, and more. You will also find other cinematic sci-fi sounds like whooshes, impacts, particle movements, flybys, glitches, pings, and ambiances. All…

Sound design is the art of creating sounds for a specific purpose, though the definition can differ depending on who you ask. Read on to learn what sound design is and what sound designers do. An EDM music and sound producer might think of it as creating a stabby bass for a house track. In contrast, someone working in film and TV production might think of it as creating the landscape of a foreign sci-fi environment, complete with the sounds of alien lifeforms and spaceship engines. While the term itself might sound quite technical, it’s pretty safe to assume that…

City Sounds is a free collection of city sound effects recorded by Marcel of Free To Use Sounds and released by 99Sounds. The free download link is located at the end of this article. Free City Sound Effects City Sounds contains 42 audio recordings captured in various areas of large cities. The library includes traffic sounds, city atmosphere, street sounds, sports crowds, car horns, ambulance sirens, and even rain sounds recorded on a busy street. Marcel recorded these sounds in different cities across the globe, including New York, Denver, Seoul, Osaka, Istanbul, Busan, Bangkok, Munich, Valletta, Zagreb, Paris, Melbourne, and…

Water Sounds is a free collection of ocean sounds, river sounds, and water stream sounds recorded by Régis Royer. The free download link is located at the end of this article. Free Water Sounds Water audio recordings are useful for various audio-visual projects, being an essential part of a sound artist’s SFX toolkit. They are indispensable as foley sounds for movies and video games. You can also use water sounds as sound effects, sleep sounds, or as source material for your sound design projects. Régis recorded these free water sounds during a road trip around Iceland. He used a Zoom…

Upright Piano is a free piano VST plugin by 99Sounds. It is based on a set of piano samples recorded by Rudi Fiasco. The plugin features four sampled notes per octave and six dynamic layers per note. It works great as a lightweight piano plugin that you can use to come up with new melodies and harmonies for your songs. You can use the interface to adjust the attack and release time, tremolo intensity and speed, global volume, and key release volume, as well as the built-in low-pass filter and reverb effects. Upright Piano’s best features are excellent sound quality…

Claptastic is a freeware hand clap VST plugin. It includes a selection of clap sounds from our Hands Make Sounds sample library. These clean clap sounds are conveniently packed in a VST instrument that you can load in your DAW. You can customize the claps by applying filtering, distortion, reverb, and other effects directly from the interface. Claptastic is a lightweight plugin that you can use to add natural-sounding claps to your music. Its best feature is the ability to create “group claps” that sound like multiple people are clapping simultaneously. Simply play multiple notes at the same time to…

Drumplayer is a free drum VST plugin. It features drum sounds from our 99 Drum Samples library. The free download link is located at the end of this article. Why another drum plugin? I always wanted to make a versatile free drum instrument that you can use to start making drum loops instantly. Drums are the foundation of most music styles. Having a versatile drum rompler you can use as a starting point can save you a lot of time. I contacted SampleScience, a developer who creates impressive sample-based instruments, to turn this concept into a real plugin. The result…