Fallout Music Group Unstrung
Rating 4/5 Stars
Media composers working in the horror or dark drama genres have a pretty insatiable appetite for scary musical sound effects. If that’s you, then you might be interested in Unstrung from Fallout Music Group. As the title suggests, this is a collection of string‑based sound effects designed with horror or tension in mind. The library is built from around 750MB of original content featuring samples from mostly unconventional uses of violin, viola and cello with various screeches, odd pluck and knocking sounds, grinding noises, pitch slides and bow ricochets.
As well as access to the raw WAV files, you get three Kontakt front‑ends, one each for the three main sound effects types: Hits, Patterns and Risers. For both the Hits and Risers sounds, you can combine up to three of the underlying samples. The Hits engine features a short ‘whoosh’ before the blend of three sounds creates the impact while, for the Risers, the three