We went into a large hardware store with a field recorder and spent a few hours experimenting with things (i.e. hitting the products together) like giant planks of wood, boxes of parts, locks, plastics, hoses, cans, and anything that might make a musically interesting sound.
You can use these metallic impacts, clicks, pop, crackles, smacks, slams, rattles and tones as they are or layered with more traditional sounds to add texture and depth to your music production.
Or you can chop up our loops and one-shots with our processing.
If you make visual content like short films, YouTube videos, or even social media content for platforms like Instagram or TikTok, STONEWIRE also makes an excellent collection of sound effects to detail to your videos.
This sample pack includes 54 original, royalty-free, totally weird and experimental loops made using only the sounds in this pack to start.
We're hoping these show you what is possible with foley sounds and inspire you to do your own sounds design, but you're welcome to sample the loops, cut them up, or use them as is in your productions.
In fact, we hope you do because we took the extra step of juicing these up with some of our analog gear.
For Ableton Live 11.3 users, STONEWIRE also includes an Ableton Live Pack with 20 pre-built drum kits you can drag and drop into your sessions and immediately start creating as well as the original MIDI used to record the loops.
The goal was to help inspire you and give you something playable right out of the box.
But we also wanted to show you how do to some sound design.
All of the drum racks are built with stock Ableton 11 effects or included Max for Live devices so you can see exactly how we designed the sounds and sequenced the loops in MIDI. The entire Ableton set where we did this is included.
You can also use it to process your own sounds.