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Weird & Experimental Instruments

Aeolian Fan Harp
Open Format
$ 39
The Aeolian Fan Harp is a unique wind-blown steel-stringed zither by Dust Bowl Guitars, based on ancient Greek wind harps. This 12-string fretless instrument makes its own wind with a fan! It includes pluck, strum, arpeggiator, FX rack, custom FX and more.
Antidrum 1
Open Format
$ 49
Examine the world through a microphone with 18 various experimental "found sound" collections of ranging from stomping boots to resonant water bottles. This library brings users on a journey where everything is sound.
Antidrum 2
Open Format
$ 49
Antidrum 2 is a collection of unique real-world sounds, objects and instruments in all shapes and sizes built for creative composing and cinematic scoring. The flexible GUI provides dynamic sound-shaping controls, arpeggiator, FX rack module routing, custom presets, bonus ambiences and incredible sound design tools.
Antidrum 3
Open Format
$ 49
Antidrum 3 is a collection of odd and unconventional percussion, objects & sound effects from everyday life, for creative composing and cinematic scoring. The flexible GUI provides dynamic sound-shaping controls, arpeggiator, FX rack module routing, custom presets, bonus ambiences and flexible sound design tools.
Antidrum Machine
Kontakt Player
$ 139
Antidrum Machine is an exhaustive collection of deeply-sampled unique objects, toys, foley, SFX and odd instruments, perfect for unconventional compositions and ideas. This instrument features a flexible GUI and all libraries from the Antidrum series as well as Cathedral of Junk, Luftballoon, Luminabells, PVC Beatbox Ensemble, and Snow Drums.
Aquae Organ
Kontakt Player
$ 0

Welcome to Aquae Organ: our Alpha and Omega pipe organs performed in unison, recorded with hydrophones in tall crystal vases.

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Artillery Shell Cello
Open Format
$ 59 $ 39

Artillery Shell Cello is a unique hand-made instrument created by Dust Bowl Guitars. Based on the concept of a traditional cello, this instrument features an empty metal artillery shell as the body of the instrument! This unique design results in an eerie, shimmering metallic resonance.

Cathedral of Junk
Open Format
$ 19
Cathedral of Junk is an experimental percussion and SFX library made from eclectic items at Vince's Cathedral of Junk in Texas. We pulled at the structure to find objects, from refrigerators to artificial legs, to bash cool sounds out of with drumsticks.
Cylindrum
Open Format
$ 49
The Cylindrum is a massive tuned percussion instrument designed using the principle of open and closed air column resonance. An experimental percussionist's dream come true, this strange organic synthesizer is guarateed to stretch you creative potential.
Flatulus
Open Format
$ 19
Flatulus is the new industry standard in gaseous sound design and odoriferous instrumentation. You'll find 100+ sound-designed pulses, organic synth pads and effluent ambiences that give you the horsepower to create all kinds of noxiously-melodic concoctions.
Fountain Wires
Open Format
$ 19
This library features a shady fountain sanctuary ringed by tightly strung steel cable fencing. Its curious, bass-heavy resonance from the cables mixed with the peaceful white noise from the fountains is a perfect companion for your next experimental project.
Frendo
Open Format
$ 39

Frendo is a custom-built, mallet and string instrument, ideal for composers looking for new disturbing, horror-like textures for their scores. It offers a variety of timbres like strikes, creaks, scrapes, shrieks, plucks, dongs, tremolos, vibratos and more.

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Harmonic Tides
Open Format
$ 49

Harmonic Tides is an aetherial sound-designed library crafted from delicately resonant cello and double bass string harmonics. Pierce Constanti imagined a uniquely expressive textural sound designed instrument ideal for film scoring. It's perfect for modern arrangements and film/game scores whenever lush swells and huge waves of intense feeling are called for.

Hi Fives
Open Format
$ 29
Hi Fives features the streamlined magical anatomy of Soundiron founder Mike Peaslee, who recorded over 9,000 samples of body, hand and mouth percussion. That’s slapping yourself silly. From rock to trap, Hi Fives is ready to liven up any track you slap it on!
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Icescapes
Open Format
$ 19 $ 11

Icescapes is a unique collection of sound-designed atmospheric leads, ambient synths, textural soundscapes and snow and ice sound effects capturing the heart of winter.

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Imbibaphones
Open Format
$ 29 $ 17
Imbibaphones is a unique spin on the classic musical wine glass, where we also captured natural sustaining finger rubbed notes and soft mallet strikes on a martini glass, champagne flute, and more. It includes intuitive GUI features to allow for customization.
Iron Throne
Open Format
$ 29
Iron Throne is a dark collection of metallic percussive and semimelodic effects, ideal for horror and suspense scoring and post production effects. We used bows, metal rods, fists, nylon, brushes and more to lift all manner of demon song from this contraption.
Laundronium
Open Format
$ 29
If we just took a little time to talk to our washing machines, we may find out that they are treasure troves of musical potential. This library features one of our most reliable appliances, with sound-designed tones of bowed, plucked and percussive effects.
Luftballon
Open Format
$ 7
Luftballon is a collection of percussion, sustaining and tonal elements created by manipulating a variety of helium-filled latex balloons in different sizes. Equal parts "wind", sound effect and percussion, this library is bursting with creative potential.
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Luminabells
Open Format
$ 15 $ 9
Luminabells is an experimental percussion library made from fragile incandescent glass light bulbs of all shapes. We tapped with fingers, palms, sticks, mallets, other bulbs and more, focusing on each timbre and tone that we could bring out of each lightbulb.
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Nightmare Violin
Open Format
$ 49

This strings library features a collection of eerie articulations, including unsettling pizzicato swarms, weaving ponticello sustains, haunting ricochets, and violent tremolos that will send shivers down your spine. But that's not all—Nightmare Violin also comes packed with 40 ominous textural pads and evolving drones, ideal for crafting dark, immersive soundscapes that pull your audience into the depths of fear.

Petroglyph
Open Format
$ 39
Petroglyph features authentic prehistoric stone tools and weapons discovered from North America during the pre-Columbian era. We’ve recorded 100 sound sets ranging from heavy grinding scrapes and thuds to thin, glassy taps, and include advanced FX controls.
Phonautograms
Open Format
$ 5
Phonautograms features one of the earliest human sound recordings - a simple vocal scale sung in a recording called Gamme de la Voix (or "range of voice"). In addition to being chromatically sampled, it offers an intuitive GUI with advanced sound-design tools.
PVC Beatbox Ensemble
Open Format
$ 5
PVC Beatbox Ensemble was created by assembling a vocal ensemble through long, elaborately hand-built pvc pipe “trumpets” to create a variety of sound effects. As an experimental "steam drum," we’ve added advanced programming and a brand new special FX patch.
Rust 1
Open Format
$ 49
Rust 1 is an eclectic collection of metal impact and tuned percussion recorded in a variety of natural environments, focusing on small objects and found sounds. You'll find metal racks, paint cans, magnetic balls, steel pipes, brass hardware, a saw and more.
Rust 2
Open Format
$ 49
Rust 2 focuses on darker elements such as mechanical prison block cell doors, iron bathtubs, and more. We used a variety of drumsticks along with hands and boots to make sound out of all manner of metallic objects, surfaces and structures for this library.
Rust 3
Open Format
$ 59
Rust 3 features bass and rich musical tone up-close in wide stereo, capturing the most subtle of resonances and overtones. It offers alternative drum kit concepts, complex tuned percussion, dramatic FX and stingers and a wealth of leads, pads and ambiences.
Rust 4
Open Format
$ 59

Rust 4 is a collection of found sounds & creative percussion we recorded at an agricultural museum in Knightsen, California. We captured a 40-foot tall windmill in every way conceivable, pioneer-era farmhouse antiques and vintage household devices crafted from brass, copper, steel, tin, bronze and cast & wrought iron.

Snack
Kontakt Player
$ 0

Snack 2.0 is a powerhouse of animal sounds: Cats, Dogs, Birds, Lion, Tiger, and even a cricket. Have you ever wanted to make a cat choir? Well now you can! How bout dogs eating wet food in close stereo? Say no more. we’ve got you covered.

Steel Water Bottle
Open Format
$ 9
Steel Water Bottle is a deeply multi-sampled found percussion library that captures the unique knocks, pokes and rings of a well-loved stainless steel bottle. It includes a full array of essential user controls to unlock virtually limitless creative potential.
Swords to Ploughshares
Kontakt Player
$ 149

This experimental virtual instrument weaves real-world field recordings and expressive sound design together into a unified creative toolbox. The sounds in this library were recorded during the invasion of Ukraine by sound designer/video producer Histibe.

The Ruler
Open Format
$ 19
The Ruler is an experimental percussion library created from gathering all the satisfying sproings and wobbles that rulers and tape measures can generate. It offers over 24 playable articulations, 20 custom FX and ambiences, and a full gigabyte of content.
Tuned Artillery
Open Format
$ 49
This metallic percussion library is based on dry and hall recordings of brass field artillery shell casings from the WWI and WWII eras. We've struck them with mallets, hammers and more to produce deeply resonant and rich qualities for your creative toolbox.