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Score FX is one of Ueberschall's series of Liquid Instruments (distributed by Big Fish Audio), which allow you to graphically pitch-shift and time-stretch samples using technology developed by Celemony for Melodyne. Liquid Instruments require installing the included Liquid Player (Mac/Win), which runs stand-alone or as a plug-in.

Score FX's nearly 7 GB of content is divided into five categories: Accents, Beds, Construction Kits, Rhythm and Vocal Bits. Some sounds are obviously orchestral, some are purely electronic and many others very effectively defy identification. Hundreds of phrases and loops are further classified by words suggesting moods they might convey.

With names like Creepy, Disturbed, Howl, Notice Me, Panic, Piercing and Startle, Accents are probably the most unusual of the bunch. Close behind are Beds, which offer some of the same descriptors. Nineteen construction kits at tempos ranging from 83 to 152 bpm are mostly groups of sound effects that fit together nicely and have names like After the Battle, Last Day Alive and Where Are You Taking Me. The Rhythm loops are anything but traditional drum kits: Many are synthesized, and quite a few are processed ethnic percussion. Vocal Bits furnish a variety of multicultural melismata processed with effects. Virtually every sound in Score FX promises to give your tracks a distinctive edge.