Cycling 74 Sustained Encounters
Cycles Series 1 Sound Library

Cycling 74 Sustained Encounters is comprised of long evolving aural environments and unfolding atmospheres. Culled from MacLeod’s private reserve, an accumulation of years of film sound design and sonic exploration, these textures were individually ‘composed’ utilizing bleeding edge psychoacoustic processing, designed specifically to be intricately interesting and immersive without being obtrusive to additional content.

Cycling 74 Sustained Encounters Content Categories:
-Other Realms: longer (30 sec - 2 min) ‘otherworldly’ compositions that take you on evolving journeys.
-Atmospheres: big and spacious loops designed to provide an endless immersive field.
-Environs: loops that are more actively involved, suggesting a ‘place’ rather than space.
-Lifeforms: ‘walla’ loops comprised of non-existent life forms.
-Textural: an extreme variety of textural loops to supply endless beds of scenic ambience.
-Complex: multi layered, covering a wide spectrum of sound
-High: high pitched orientation (some to the point of pain)
-Low: big bottom end designed to PUSH AIR (subwoofer recommended)
-Events: incidents, fx and transmutations
-Immersion: a select collection of undulating 5.1 multi-channel versions

About the Cycles Series
In this 4-volume series of audio source libraries, sound designer Ron MacLeod expands upon his previous work by producing a continuing series of ‘inspirational’ sonic collections, utilizing the innovative processing tools from Cycling ‘74 — Max/MSP, Pluggo and Radial.

Each Cycles release contains two discs: a DVD-ROM containing 24-bit .wav files and a standard audio CD for an easy auditioning alternative. The samples are supplied as 48kHz for use in film, DV, and multimedia productions and 44.1kHz version for compatibility with music production tools. Files are seamlessly looped end to end.

The files on Cycles releases can be used freely by the purchaser - other than inclusion in other sound libraries - without any additional royalties or usage fees.  Because of the nature of some of the longer files, they cannot be used as a stand-alone piece represented as the purchaser’s original composition.

It is expected that additional material will be added to the file to make it unique or that it will be significantly altered through unique processing. In the case of media work (film, video, DV), sound FX, dialog, ambience is considered sufficient additional material. Respect the source / respect the art form.