Sci-Fi Ambient and Drones Music Pack

Ether Static: 20 sci-fi ambient tracks and 48 sound effects for games and videos. Every track comes as a seamless loop and as a full version. Buy once, use it in everything you make.

🎧 Try it first: 2 tracks and 3 sound effects are a free download, with the same license as the full pack.

▶ Listen to the preview (about 20 seconds of every track; click the player to load it):

Why use it

• Drop-in ready: seamless loops (no gap, no fade at the loop point) plus full versions with fade-in and fade-out, all at the same volume, so you can swap tracks without touching the levels
• Safe to publish: I don't register this music with Content ID, so your videos won't get claims from me. One simple license for commercial and non-commercial projects.
• Human-made music: recorded live on a modular synth and a hardware sampler. No generative AI in the music or the art.

What it sounds like

You're standing in thick mist, far from anything you know. Is it calm, and you're at peace with yourself? Or is something dangerous out there? No one knows.

Deep drones that barely move, distant industrial hits in the background and simple, calm tunes on top. Mysterious, serene and a little out of place. It isn't scary music, but it sits well under a horror scene too, and it never takes over the scene.

It works well for:

• exploring empty planets, abandoned stations and foggy places
• puzzles, investigation and quiet moments between the action
• mystery and sci-fi stories: lost signals, strange findings, the unknown
• calm stretches of a horror game, before anything happens
• menus, title screens, loading and pause screens
• sci-fi shorts, trailers, unexplained-mystery videos and podcasts

Tracklist

1. Tracking the Sun (2:22)
2. Machine Heart (2:17)
3. On a String (2:26)
4. Soothing Bugs (2:18) (free demo)
5. Begin Transmission (2:20)
6. Phantoms (2:34)
7. Radiola (2:44) (free demo)
8. Birds of the Unknown (2:41)
9. Aliens (2:41)
10. Sonar Signals (2:37)
11. Engine Room (2:38)
12. Cryptid (2:32)
13. Son of Pyramids (2:20)
14. Auspex (2:25)
15. Wind from the Deep (2:24)
16. Cautious (2:14)
17. Iron Slaves (2:33)
18. Nest of Spiders (2:16)
19. Echo Sea (2:35)
20. Perfect Frames (3:01)

What's included

• 20 seamless loops that repeat with no gap and no fade at the loop point
• 20 full versions with a fade-in and fade-out, for cutscenes, trailers and videos
• 48 sound effects:
  • Stingers for story moments: Discovery (finding something), Mystery (a strange event or a revelation) and Threat (an enemy appears)
  • Hits for menu selects and UI
  • Swells for transitions and scene changes
• Pick the downloads you need:
  • OGG (loops + full versions): Vorbis, 128 MB, a good size for shipping in a game
  • WAV loops: 48 kHz / 24-bit, 807 MB
  • WAV full versions: 48 kHz / 24-bit, 833 MB
  • The sound effects come with every download.
• LICENSE.txt and README.txt in each download

Engines

Drop-in ready for Unity, Unreal, Godot, GameMaker and RPG Maker. Set the audio source to loop and play from the start. Use the OGG files for Godot, GameMaker and RPG Maker MV/MZ, and the WAV files for Unreal.

License

• Buy once, use it in as many projects as you like, commercial or not: games, videos, streams and apps
• You can edit, cut and loop the files inside your project
• Credit is appreciated but not required: Music by drmseq
• Don't resell or redistribute the files on their own or inside another asset pack or music library
• Don't register the music with Content ID or other fingerprinting services

More from drmseq

• Den of Evil: 20 dark ambient horror tracks + 31 sound effects for tension, chases and occult stories. Free demo. https://drmseq.itch.io/den-of-evil
• Erased Places (free): 10 dark sci-fi ambient tracks for exploration and empty places. https://drmseq.itch.io/erased-places

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If you use the music in something, I'd love to see it. Leave a comment!