Want to Alfred Hitchcock up your beats? Then suspenseful sample packs may hold the key – to unlocking a creaky sinister-looking DAW.

And if the suspense is killing you here are our 5 top sample packs sure to have you on the edge of your seat.

Evil Nightmares

Production Master know a thing or two about creating cinematic atmospheres. In this fantastic pack, we’re taken on a nightmarish audio trip to the deepest recesses of your mind. With just under 500 samples on offer, this pack is perfect for adding tension and suspense to your productions.

Distressing sounds and intimidating loops, Evil Nightmares is the most unsettling cinematic soundbank to be found. Deeply disturbing braams, horrifying drones, cinematic drum loops and creaking strings, the horror is real. Add chilling vibes to your productions or create the creepiest soundscapes for trailers, games, radio or television with this frightening cinematic soundbank

Millionaires

This tidy little pack features 17 killer Arabic-inspired compositions geared towards those producing Trap, Hip-Hop and Drill music. It’s heavy on the drama and intrigue, inspiring feelings of suspense. The samples on offer skillfully blend orchestral elements, chopped vocals and guitar melodies.

This pack includes 17 loop that matching perfectly uk drill and trap music. (Key and Tempo included) Enjoy it:)

Suspense Ambience

The clue is very much in the title with this sinister sample selection from Gravity Sound. Offering both melodic samples, pads and drones this pack will enhance your projects with a sense of mystery and drama. These samples are of an electronic nature and thus perfect for EDM, experimental and electronica genres.

Drag and drop some suspense into your next project. An easy way to add an ominous feel to a track or sound design project. Includes a total of 39 ambient sounds such as pads (23) and melodies (16).

Shudder

Soundiron offers up a terrifying collection of spine-chilling samples in this jumbo pack. Firmly rooted in the horror genre, drag these samples into your tracks if you dare. Shudder is perfect for any style of modern hybrid production, from minimalist, Trap, EDM, IDM, dubstep, chillwave and glitch, to post-rock, soundtrack, hip-hop, downtempo, dub and ambient music.

Shudder is a collection of uniquely mangled, destroyed, deep, nightmarish and glitched percussive samples – along with FX, stingers, risers, and all the drones you need for your next horror soundtrack or dark electronic track. Shudder is perfect for scoring horror, or adding a touch of grunge to any production. It’s also great for sound design, particularly ambient and environmental horror. Each sound has been carefully sculpted by sound designer Spencer Nunamaker of Juno VHS, with awesome detail and nuanced character. With massive hits, stingers, dramatic risers, dark textural ambiences, soundscapes, drone pads and horror atmospheres, this library is an outstanding addition to your creative arsenal.

This carefully curated and optimized edition includes a huge selection of brand new sound sources that are only available here in Shudder. Shudder Is fantastic for sci-fi sound design and creating user interface SFX for games and apps. The result is a sample library that brings together superior audio and Soundiron’s unrivaled sonic quality, stunningly dynamic, flexible and inspiring sound design for any style or genre. Built from Soundiron’s signature Ambius collection, this 1.7 GB library contains 501 samples in 3 main categories and 11 sub-categories.

Drumless Library Grooves

Much of the spine-chilling suspenseful music heard on TV programs of the 70s and 80s would have originated from Library music. And it’s this retro library music sound that has been expertly captured with this incredible pack from Beats Cooking. These funk-flavoured samples are super heavy on the drama and suspense. This makes them ideal for use in hip-hop production, particularly hip-hop of the boom-bap persuasion. We can’t recommend this one highly enough.

This is a library of dusty gems and deep funk obscurities reminiscent of old music library records of the 60s and 70s. Each sample was crafted with live musicians on guitar, Rhodes, vintage synths, drums, bass & perc. Made for producers that need that vintage sound in their productions.

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