Alternatives to Black Octopus Sound

Orchestral Tools

SINE suits composers, producers, performers, and sound designers seeking acoustic virtual instruments on a Mac or Windows computer.

BandLab Sounds

BandLab Sounds suits musicians looking for royalty-free audio to use in compositions and who want to bring samples into BandLab Studio.

It suits composers and production studios making scores for film, television, and games, as well as musicians seeking orchestral or related sounds.

It serves beginners through professional creators working in film, television, advertising, games, recording, and other music or media projects.

It suits music makers looking for sample libraries and software instruments based on vintage machines, with downloads for offline use.

99Sounds

99Sounds suits music, video, game, podcast, and sound-design creators seeking free sounds and instrument plugins.

Wave Alchemy suits music producers looking for drum-production tools, instruments, effects, or sample packs.

Arcade by Output

It suits producers using Mac or PC DAWs who want a large sampler and instrument library with MIDI and custom-sample kit creation.

It suits music producers seeking downloadable samples, plugins, presets, courses, or compatible DAW tools.

ComposerCloud+ suits music creators working in music, film, television, and games who need a large virtual-instrument collection.

ModeAudio suits music producers and sound designers seeking downloadable loops, samples, MIDI files, or synthesiser presets.

Cinesamples

Cinesamples suits composers and music makers creating film, television, game, or trailer music.

Filmstro suits filmmakers and visual creatives who want to adjust human-composed cinematic music to a video edit.

Splice Sounds

Splice describes the platform as serving musicians, producers and sound designers.

Noiiz

Noiiz suits music makers looking for loops, samples, presets, instruments, and connected music software.

Loopcloud

Loopcloud suits music producers who want to organize personal samples alongside a royalty-free catalog and audition sounds in sync with a DAW.

LANDR Samples

It suits music producers looking for royalty-free sounds to use in recordings, including commercial releases subject to LANDR’s terms.

WAVS

WAVS is aimed at music producers working in DAWs who want to license samples, loops, stems, presets, or MIDI files.

It suits music producers, remixers and film scorers seeking downloadable sound material.