We’ve all been there - staring at a blank DAW project, the cursor blinking like a heartbeat, while your creative gears feel completely rusted over. In the world of sound design and electronic music, "writer's block" often feels more lik...
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DISCOVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN SOUNDS
Rocky Mountain Sounds creates distinctive sound libraries and patch collections for producers, composers, and musicians who want something beyond the ordinary. Drawing from field recordings, experimental sound design, and synthesis, we create patches and sounds that are inspiring to play and built to bring something new to your music.
Based in the Canadian Rockies, RMS is also home to a growing family of talented sound designers from around the world, each bringing their own ideas, techniques, and creative voice to the collection. Different perspectives, different sounds, one place to explore.
THE SONIC EXPLORER
We spend a lot of time in soundproof rooms trying to simulate the world outside. We use "natural" reverb plugins, "organic" texture generators, and "earthy" synth patches. But there is a specific kind of magic that only happens when you step away fr...
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Watch J3PO give a masterclass in Omnisphere 3's new FX unit - Pump-O-Matic Omnisphere 3 brought a treasure trove of new creative tools to our fingertips, but if you’re looking to inject movement and rhythmic energy into your tracks, one effect stand...
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Lo-fi isn’t about low quality. It’s about remembered quality. Tape warble. Vinyl crackle. Slight pitch drift. These imperfections feel human because they echo the technology of memory. Perfect digital clarity can feel sterile. Lo-fi introduces textu...
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Ambient music used to live on the edges of record stores. Now it lives in playlists. Study playlists. Focus playlists. Sleep playlists. Background music for work, travel, prayer, conversation, reflection. The role of music has shifted. In the stream...
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There’s a difference between quiet and calm. Quiet is the absence of noise. Calm is the presence of safety. Ambient and chill electronic music live in that difference. They aren’t just slow. They aren’t just soft. They create a psychological space w...
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Sleep-friendly music is a discipline of control. No sudden dynamics. No sharp attacks. No dramatic harmonic shifts. The goal is continuity. Many sleep-oriented tracks operate between 40–70 BPM, or remove rhythm entirely. Slow, evolving pads become t...
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Chill electronica lives in the space between movement and stillness. It isn’t as weightless as pure ambient. It isn’t as structured as house or pop. It doesn’t chase drops or explosive choruses. Instead, it breathes. It pulses gently. It moves witho...
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Not all ambient music serves the same purpose. Some ambient music tells a story. It builds, shifts, resolves. It feels like a film unfolding without visuals. Other ambient music sustains a mood. It remains steady. It avoids dramatic arcs. It exists ...
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Synthesizers are uniquely suited for atmosphere. Unlike acoustic instruments, they are not limited by physical resonance or decay. A synth can sustain indefinitely. It can evolve gradually. It can morph without breath. In ambient and chill music, th...
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Ambient music is often described as “background music.” But that description barely scratches the surface. Ambient is not one sound - it’s a spectrum. A landscape. A collection of creative philosophies built around atmosphere, restraint, and emotion...
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Lo-fi music is often misunderstood. Some assume it simply means “low quality.” Others reduce it to background beats with vinyl crackle. But lo-fi has evolved into a broad creative movement — one built around texture, imperfection, and emotional subt...
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Oh, it feels so good to finally say this out loud: New Earth is here! 🍁 This one’s been growing quietly in the background for over five years — like a forest waiting for just the right sunrise. And now, under the bright new dawn of Omnisphere 3, it’...
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It’s Here! 🎶 I can finally share it — I was part of the Omnisphere 3 beta team! 🇨🇦✨ What an absolute thrill to help bring this amazing synth across the finish line. It’s been such an honour to work alongside the Spectrasonics crew to make sure Omnis...
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What happens when modular chaos, analog dust, and cinematic emotion come together? You get Replications - a new sound collection from John Louis Kluck, available exclusively at Rocky Mountain Sounds. This is a library that invites you in. It reacts....
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Over the years, I’ve poured countless hours, memories, and creative sparks into crafting sound collections for Omnisphere 2. Each one has been its own sonic expedition - from granular chaos and ambient serenity to cinematic grandeur and experimental...
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Hey friends! I’ve got something super exciting to share — and no, it’s not a new maple syrup-infused synth (but now that I say it out loud... hmm…). Today, I’m thrilled to officially release a trilogy of dreamy, nocturnal sound collections that hav...
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Hey friends — Jason here from Rocky Mountain Sounds! If you’ve been following the sonic saga of Etherium, you’ll know it’s always been about pushing into the unknown — bold, cinematic, and a bit cosmic. Well, now it's been completely ...
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By your friendly neighbourhood sound-slinger from the Great White North 🇨🇦 Hello friends, sound lovers, and synth wizards! You know that magical moment when you stumble on a sound so good it stops you in your tracks, gives you goosebumps, and makes ...
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By your RMS ringmaster of all things sonic and syrupy 🇨🇦 Hey there, fellow sound seekers! There’s something in the air here at Rocky Mountain Sounds, and no—it’s not just the crisp mountain breeze. We’ve been hard at work behind the scenes, and toda...
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Hey there, synth heads and sonic adventurers! Big things are happening around here at Rocky Mountain Sounds—and we’re not just talking about fat basses and shimmering pads. We’ve officially launched our brand-new website, and it’s designed to make y...
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Posted March 4, 2025 by Jason Schoepfer—patch pusher & synth whisperer 🇨🇦 Cue the celebration synths and throw some LFO on those party hats, because… we’ve officially moved! 🚀 Nearly ten years ago, I launched the very first Rocky Mountain Sounds...
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ADRIAN EARNSHAW REVIEWS
Welcome, this is a special video as it is a patch walkthrough of my third patch library for Omnisphere. It's special as it uses new soundsources that I sampled myself. Some of you may know that in my other life I am also a church organist and have a...
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Release Date 18th November 2022. Welcome, to Cosmic Dawn. This is a special video as it is a patch walkthrough of my third patch library for Omnisphere. It's special as it uses new soundsources that I sampled myself. Some of you may know that in my ...
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This is a big one, a full walkthrough of the new patch library from Rocky Mountain Sound called Complexity. Jason Schoepfer has come up with a library full of interesting textures and sounds created from his personal analog synthesizer collection. D...
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This is a fantastic patch library that helps you build atmospheric sound beds quite quickly and easily. I thoroughly recommend this library to anyone doing underscore, ambient or cinematic work. So go check out the website, listen to the demos and p...
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FROM THE SAMPLEIST
New Earth was the first library available for the newly released Omnisphere 3. New Earth is packed with highly creative sonic gems focused on the sound of nature both synthesized and real, generative atmospheric and beautiful melodies. The creation ...
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In their first release for Omnisphere 3, String Audio comes out hitting hard with Inertia. Built entirely to take advantage of the new feature set in Omnisphere 3 including the new effects, quad system and sound manipulation capabilities this has an...
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String Audio swing back around with another new title for Omnisphere called Twilight. It features a collection that spans genres and textures to provide a complete toolkit of brand new sounds that have been created by building each patch with brand ...
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Tom Wolfe has an uncanny way of creating beautiful timbres and expressive sonic textures with his creative sound design. Binaural Soundscapes and Pads transport you to an enigmatic world of inventive and inspiring sounds, perfect for ambient music, ...
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Emergence Audio are back again, this time with the focus firmly on woodwinds. More specifically, the bass clarinet and contra clarinet are getting the Infinite Motion treatment. The end result is a cinematic sound design library full of ev...
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Evolution Clawhammer Banjo is the first and only sample library available to capture the Clawhammer banjo style and the throwback to the pre-Bluegrass performance art. The banjo featured is an open back banjo that has been recorded once again b...
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The collaborations are coming thick and fast with Orchestral Tools this time teaming up with legendary composer James Newton Howard. Orchestral Tools have sampled his very own Steinway Model D piano with five different production ready mixes fr...
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Violin One from Insanity Samples is one of the few solo instruments that truly lives up to the description of being an “Expressive Solo Violin”. As with it’s sister instrument “Expressive Solo Cello”, it has been expertly sampled and given the ...
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Fracture Sounds are kicking off their summer sale with the release of a new atmosphere library which takes traditional orchestral samples and fuses them with Fracture Sounds’ signature sound design. Featuring 47 different evolving atmosphere la...
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The Crow Hill Company are back from their brief hiatus with an update to their flagship string library, Glass Strings. With a newly designed GUI, new recordings and the addition of legato, Glass Strings is bigger and better than ever. The ...
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Spitfire Audio have formed some incredible collaborations over the years. Joining prestigious partnerships such as Hans Zimmer, Olafur Arnalds and Charlie Clouser, pioneer composers The Newton Brothers bring us the dark, unsettling and often di...
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jasl-audio are celebrating their first year anniversary with a special offer on their ultimate string riser library, Striking Strings Glissandi. This hyper focused toolkit is everything you need to deliver on point string glissandi with extreme...
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Sonik Vortx is a new development company from Bob Dedes who has had a fruitful partnership creating content with PluginGuru. The first release from Sonik Vortx is called Shogun, an epic cinematic Japanese toolkit. Shogun brings together all of the t...
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Sonuscore are once again expanding their flagship The Orchestra Complete library with the fourth expansion in the series, Forces of Fury. With the emphasis on power, percussion, orchestral depth and louder dynamics, the arrival of Forces of Fur...
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PluginGuru has created yet another outstanding and hypnotic library for Unify that allows you to “up your game” when it comes to adding unique granular sounds and processed elements, like basses, chimes, and synthesized sound content to ma...
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Spheres I is the second release from Levitate With Sound, this time turning their attention to morphing sound design. Spheres I uses the Levitate With Sound fusion engine to create dual layered, continuous moving soundscapes with controllable p...
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Sonixinema are continuing their ever growing free ScoreHub series with the 14 piece sting texture library, Delicate Strings. Featuring beautiful movement, soft timbres and a no nonsense interface, Delicate Strings not only sounds beautiful, it ...
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Boutique developer and sound designers extraordinaire Riot Audio are back with their new highly sinister, spookily aleatoric and extremely fun Gholem. These sinister string textures are cleverly designed to be stacked up, warped and mangled to ...
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Steinberg have teamed up with Magnetic 96 to bring us the next instalment of their materials series. Materials: Wind & Glass captures woodwinds, rare synths and glass FX and processes them inside their HALion synth. The end result is a...
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Sonora Cinematic continue their no frills select series with the beautiful Nocturne Electric Piano. After discovering a 1970s electric piano, Sonora Cinematic wanted to capture that timeless sound. However, sadly it had gone up in flames d...
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Spitfire Audio are getting ever closer to completing their modular Abbey Road Orchestra with the release of Oboes Core and Oboes Professional. This a2 oboe section features a whole host of extended articulations with various expressive and dyna...
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Triumph Audio are taking back to pre-school with Kinder Klang. The wonderful sounds of toy instruments have been captured in all of their imperfect glory. Be it something you hit, smash together, blow or shake, Kinder Klang brings the lost...
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In 1972, Alan R. Pearlman took the music world by storm with the first direct competitor to the Minimoog. His ARP imprint released the ARP Odyssey Model 2800 which became - for the time the most imitated synthesizer on the market. Made famous b...
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David Forner is once again proving that smaller developers can certainly make world class instruments with the release of Balvi Cello. Following on from Lux Violin and the Barbarian Cello, Balvi Cello is full of character, nuance and expression...
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Please note this video was recorded with Soundpaint Version 3. Since then, Soundpaint 4 has been released with more advanced features Soundpaint is one of the uncharacteristically chameleonic platforms available to composers today. Capable of b...
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