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Soundlayers - Macabre Strings

Dark orchestral textures designed for horror and suspense scoring
Soundlayers - Macabre Strings - Dark orchestral textures designed for horror and suspense scoring
Style:
Cinematic
$38.95
$38.95
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Dark elegance meets unsettling orchestral tension.

Macabre Strings is a 604MB collection of 120 meticulously designed string-based cinematic sound effects crafted to evoke unease, dread, and psychological intensity. This is not traditional orchestral scoring — it's string sound design pushed into darker territory.

Inside you'll find a wide range of one-shot articulations including plucked notes, sustained bows, eerie accents, sharp stabs, clusters, glissandi, trills, and tonal disturbances — each captured and sculpted to deliver raw emotional tension. From subtle atmospheric unease to piercing high-register shrieks, every sound is built to cut through the mix while maintaining cinematic depth.

Beyond one-shots, Macabre Strings also features sequenced string drivers - tempo-locked rhythmic tension loops that add motion and narrative pressure - alongside inspirational combi loops with stems such as rhythmic beds, string hits, and layered accents for maximum flexibility in trailer edits and scene building.

The tonal palette leans toward dark, dissonant, and textural — ideal for horror, psychological thrillers, gothic drama, suspense scoring, and tension-driven cinematic moments.

Macabre Strings is perfectly suited for horror and psychological thriller scoring, dark trailers, crime and investigative tension scenes, stealth-driven game audio, slow-burn dread builds, and cinematic transitions that demand emotional weight without overwhelming the narrative. Whether you're crafting subtle unease or escalating toward a disturbing climax, these string textures are designed to support story-driven intensity with precision.

All sounds are delivered in pristine 24-bit quality, fully edited and ready to drop directly into your production workflow.

If you're looking to inject unsettling elegance, nervous movement, and string-driven fear into your next project, Macabre Strings gives you the tools to disturb with precision.
604 MB
24 Bit / 96kHz
120 Cinematic Strings


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WAV Download includes
  Pack:  522 MB

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License Agreement


The Following End User License Agreement is included with Soundlayers - Macabre Strings. This License is only valid for the individual who has purchased an unopened, new and lawfully made copy of Soundlayers - Macabre Strings from a dealer or distributor authorized by Big Fish Audio.

"LICENSE GRANT

This license is granted for a single user only (and is given on a worldwide basis). The license is non-exclusive and is granted for the full period of copyright protection and sound samples. No unlicensed use is permitted. All sounds and samples contained in this product are copyrights of Cinetools.

Cinetools allows you to use any of the sounds and samples in the library(s) you've purchased for the creation and production of commercial recordings, music, sound design, post production, or other content creation without paying any additional license fees.

The Licensee may use the Sounds in combination with other sounds in music productions (which include soundtracks of such as films, video productions, radio/TV programs or commercials, computer games and multimedia presentations, library music), public performances, and other reasonable musical purposes within musical compositions.

The Licensee may modify the Sounds and may use the Sounds for commercial purposes as part of a musical composition with other sounds.

This license expressly forbids usage of Cinetools products (in particular samples, loops, cues) to create sounds OR other content for any kind of virtual instrument, sample library, sample-based product, musical instrument, or competitive products that are sold or relicensed to multiple third parties. In these scenarios the Licensee must arrange an extension with Cinetools.

In addition, "naked" or "isolated" samples, loops, cues are not to be sold or distributed as individually licensable "stripes", "work parts" or "elements" and cannot be used to create tracks for Library Music.

This license also forbids any unauthorized transfer, resale or any other form of re-distribution of this product, or its constituent sounds or programming, through any means, including but not limited to re-sampling, reverse engineering, de-compiling, remixing, processing, isolating, or embedding into software or hardware of any kind. You cannot electronically transfer the sound samples or place them in a time-sharing or service bureau operation or a computer/sampler network.

RIGHTS

Cinetools retains full copyright privileges and complete ownership of all recorded sounds, instrument programming, documentation and musical performances included within this product.

REFUNDS

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TERMS

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Licenses cannot be transferred or sold to another entity, without written consent of Cinetools.

By purchasing this product you agreed all the terms, conditions and limitations of use contained in this agreement."


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