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📢 Sounds in Mercury

Most of the sounds in Mercury are from freesound.org and are licensed with Creative Commons Attribution or Creative Commons 0 licenses. If not downloaded from freesound it is made sure that the license allows you to redistribute the sounds via the Mercury environment and that you can use them in your projects. All the sounds are listed below with their original source, license and credits.

One-shots

One-shots are samples best used for triggering once with new sample or new polySample. But they can be used with new loop too!

Drums

snare_909
snare_909_short
kick_909_long
kick_909
kick_909_dist
kick_909_dist_long
hat_909
hat_909_short
hat_909_open
hat_909_half
clap_909
kick_min
kick_sub
kick_dub
kick_vintage
hat_min
hat_dub
hat_min_open
hat_click
snare_min
snare_dub
snare_hvy
clap_min
tom_hi
tom_lo
tom_mid
snare_fat
snare_ac
snare_step
snare_dnb
snare_rock
kick_ua
kick_house
kick_deep
tom_808
hat_808_semi
hat_808_open
hat_808
clap_808_short
clap_808
snare_808
kick_808
kick_808_dist

Nord Mini Kit

wood_nord_lo
wood_nord_mid
wood_nord_hi
tom_nord_lo
clap_nord
hat_nord_open
hat_nord
tom_nord_hi
snare_nord_hi
snare_nord
kick_nord_long
kick_nord

Percussion

maracas_808
clave_808
cowbell_808
cymbal_808
block
block_lo

bongo

bongo
bongo_lo

tabla

tabla_01
tabla_02
tabla_03
tabla_hi_long
tabla_hi_short
tabla_hi
tabla_lo_long
tabla_lo_short
tabla_lo
tabla_mid_long
tabla_mid_short
tabla_mid

Strings

harp

harp_down
harp_up
harp_g5
harp_g3
harp_f4
harp_e5
harp_e3
harp_d4
harp_c5
harp_c3
harp_b5
harp_b3
harp_a4
harp_a2

violin

violin_g
violin_f
violin_e
violin_d
violin_c
violin_b
violin_a

pluck

pluck_g
pluck_f
pluck_e
pluck_d
pluck_c
pluck_b
pluck_a

Keys

piano

piano_g
piano_e
piano_f
piano_d
piano_a
piano_b
piano_c

rhodes

rhodes_8bit

Woodwinds Flutes

flute

flute_e4
flute_e3
flute_c5
flute_c4
flute_c3
flute_a4
flute_a3

oboe

oboe_f4
oboe_f3
oboe_d4
oboe_d3
oboe_a3
oboe_a2

clarinet

clarinet_f3
clarinet_f2
clarinet_d3
clarinet_d2
clarinet_a3
clarinet_a2

Idiophonic

marimba

marimba_g4
marimba_g2
marimba_f3
marimba_c4
marimba_c2
marimba_b2

kalimba

kalimba_ab
kalimba_g
kalimba_e
kalimba_cis
kalimba_a

bamboo

bamboo_g
bamboo_a
bamboo_c
bamboo_f

singing bowl

bowl_hi
bowl_lo
bowl_mid

chimes

chimes_chord
chimes_chord_01
chimes_chord_02
chimes
chimes_hi
bell
gong_hi
gong_lo

tubular bell

bell_g4
bell_c5
bell_c4
bell_f5

xylophone

xylo_g5
xylo_g4
xylo_g3
xylo_c6
xylo_c5
xylo_c4

glockenspiel

glock_g5
glock_g4
glock_c6
glock_c5

music box

box_g5
box_g3
box_d6
box_d5
box_c5
box_b4
box_b5

Vocal

choir

choir_o
choir_01
choir_02
choir_03

Foley

wood_hit
wood_metal
wood_plate
scrape
scrape_01
door
shatter
tongue
tongue_lo
metal
metal_lo
wobble
wobble_02

Ambient

drone_cymbal
drone_cymbal_01
noise_a

Loops

Loops are samples best used for stretching to a full bar and looping with new loop. But they can be used with new sample too!

Breakbeats

amen
amen_alt
amen_fill
amen_break
house

Idiophonic

chimes_l

Foley

wood_l
wood_l_01
wiper
wiper_out

Noise

noise_c
noise_e
noise_e_01
noise_mw
noise_p
noise_r

Sample Credits

This pack of sounds contains sounds by the following users:

You can find the packs online at:

Note: Audiofiles may have been editted slightly to fit the Mercury Live Coding environment better

Waveforms

Single Cycle Waveforms are only used in Mercury4Max, MercuryPlayground only uses the basic waveforms sine, saw square, triangle

All single cycle waveforms thanks to the amazing AWKF pack. AKWF or Adventure Kid Waveforms is a collection of one cycle waveforms to be used within synthesizers or other kinds of sound generators.

sine

Part of the basic waveforms

saw

Part of the basic waveforms

square

Part of the basic waveforms

triangle

Part of the basic waveforms

altosax

bit

bit_1
bit_2
bit_3

blend

cello

cello_1
cello_2

dbass

dbass_1
dbass_2

distorted

distorted_1
distorted_2

ebass

ebass_1
ebass_2

eorgan

eorgan_1
eorgan_2
eorgan_3

guitar

raw

raw_1
raw_2
saw_1
saw_2

square

square_1
square_2

voice

voice_a
voice_i
voice_eu
voice_o