12 Great New Sound Libraries: Cinematic Nightmares, Organic UI Elements, Farm Animals, Grand Central Station Ambiences, And More

Posted May 6, 2025 by Adriane Kuzminski in New sound effects libraries

This week on A Sound Effect, we delve into a diverse collection of sound libraries, each lovingly made to enhance your audio projects.

First up, we have organic UI elements that offer an earthen touch to interfaces, plus sounds of the outdoors with tranquil nature ambiences and a farm animal collection with charming sounds of sheep, chickens, and pigs.

For those looking to transport their listeners to other worlds, we have a sci-fi collection with both intense and quiet spaceship pass-bys, as well as haunting cinematic impacts and an explosive collection of M60 machine guns for battle-focused projects.

Heading to more abstract but always useful sounds, we have powerful whooshes that pack a punch, sounds of rich, resonant metal, your choice of a small pack or massive collection of contact mic sounds, and smashed ceramics that offer a crisp edge.

To top it off, we have sounds from New York City's Grand Central Station, capturing this vibrant and iconic transit hub. Happy listening!

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Cinematic Nightmares – Impacts Vol.1

'Cinematic Nightmares – Impacts Vol.1' by Evolved Audio offers high-impact sounds for horror and cinematic productions. Each sound includes six variations with designed and layered sections.

Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Cinematic Nightmares – Impacts Vol.1 Play Track 708 sounds included $25

Introducing the 2nd Instalment in the Cinematic Nightmares Series

Bite-Sized Packs with High-Impact Sounds for Your Horror, Trailer & Cinematic Productions

Enter the brutal heart of cinematic terror with Cinematic Nightmares: Impacts Vol.1—a meticulously crafted sound pack designed to deliver raw, unrelenting power straight to your speakers. Packed with thunderous impacts, bone-rattling hits, and layered textures of chaos, this collection is built to elevate your horror trailers, dark cinematic cues, and intense game soundscapes. Whether you’re crafting jump scares, dramatic transitions, or tension-building moments, these sounds will hit with precision and presence, helping you shape unforgettable sonic moments that grab attention and refuse to let go.

Two Powerful Sections: Designed & Layers

Like its whooshing predecessor, this pack is built for flexibility and depth:

● Designed Section – 10 fully layered impact sounds, sculpted and delivered in both wet and dry versions for instant drag-and-drop power. You get 20 ready-to-use files to give your productions immediate punch.
● Layers Section – Go deeper with 49 expertly curated impact layers, each provided in both wet and dry versions. That’s 98 individual files, purpose-built for layering, tweaking, or using standalone.

Endless Creative Control

Each sound includes 6 variations per file, with both wet and dry processing included. This means you’re not locked into any one sound—you can apply your own reverb, layer them with other effects, or manipulate them into entirely new sonic monstrosities. Total freedom, zero compromise.

Massive Value: 708 High-Quality Sounds

With this pack, you’re not just getting great sound—you’re getting a full arsenal of ready-to-use audio assets:

● Designed Sounds: 120 wet and dry variations (10 sounds × 6 variations × 2 formats).
● Layered Sounds: 588 wet and dry variations (49 sounds × 6 variations × 2 formats).
● Bonus One-Shots: Every variation is also provided as a pre-cut one-shot—clearly labeled and organised within its own folder, drag-and-drop ready for your DAW or sampler, making workflow fast and seamless.

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All sounds are provided in 24-bit / 96kHz resolution, ensuring industry-standard quality. The total pack size is 5.6 GB, and everything is embedded with full UCS-compliant metadata to keep your sound library organised, searchable, and production-ready.

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Farm Animals – Sheep, Chicken and more

'Farm Animals – Sheep, Chicken and more' by Sound of Essen features various farm animals, including vocalizations from sheep, cattle, pigs, and poultry. It also includes insect sounds and farm ambiences for rich, authentic atmospheres.

Animal Sound Effects Farm Animals – Sheep, Chicken and more Play Track 300+ sounds included $59
In this comprehensive collection you’ll discover an extensive array of pristine, isolated recordings capturing the nuanced vocalizations of a diverse range of farm animals. Included is maybe one of the most detailed distinctions between various sheep breeds – from the weak first calls of a lamb to the breathy but historic bleating of the Soay Sheep to the more robust calls of Suffolk Sheep up to the harsh burping of Scottish Black Face Sheep (and even more sheep). Explore the intricate world of poultry with detailed recordings of div. roosters and chickens, as well as some ducks, turkey and geese, each captured with exceptional clarity.

Beyond the ovine and avian, Farm Animals extends its sonic palette to include:
- Bovine: Deep moos, gentle lowing, and characteristic snorts from various cattle breeds.
- Porcine: Grunts, squeals, and the contented snuffling of pigs.
- Equine: some whinnies, neighs, and the soft nickering of donkeys & horses
Each recording within the Farm Animal library has been captured using hd recording techniques, ensuring exceptional fidelity and minimal noise. These are meticulously documented sonic portraits, offering a wealth of textural detail and emotional resonance.

On top of these close up recording, the library also includes some farm ambiences. Inside the hen house, with sleeping hens or eery industrial noises from milk farms.

As honey bees are as much an industrial worker as cows, pics or sheep, some insects are included too.

Farm Animals provides you with the raw sonic ingredients to craft immersive and believable rural environments, adding layers of authenticity that will elevate your countryside projects or give you unique source material to design alien voices or monsters, dinosaurs, zombies and more. Whether you’re working on film, television, games, or interactive installations, this library offers the depth and breadth of sounds required to truly bring your scenes to life. On top, no animals have been harmed, handled or annoyed by me, all vocals occured naturally.

Animals included: Antwerp Belgian Breed, Barnevelder Bantam, Bielefelder Kennhuhn, Brown Hen, Minorca Hen, Other Chicken, Rooster, Cows / Cattle, Highland Cattle, Donkey, Goat, Honey Bee, Bentheim Black Pied Pig, Other Pigs, Camerun Sheep, Coburg Fox Sheep, Domestic Sheep, German Heath Sheep, Scottish Blackface Sheep, Soay Sheep. Suffolk Sheep, Lamb, Horse, Pony, Shetland, Mallard, Red Crested Pochard, Rasseflügel Limburg, House Goose, Steinbacher Kampfgans, Indian Runner Duck, Black Swan, Turkey, Fantail Pigeon, Sparrows, Short toed tree creeper, dogs – for vocalization and amount of calls, check the file list
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Spaceship Pass By

'Spaceship Pass By' by rawAmbience will enhance your sci-fi and space themed projects. This collection features dynamic audio for rapid spacecraft movements, from quiet passbys to intense, dramatic scenes.

Game Audio Packs - Game Sound Effects Libraries Spaceship Pass By Play Track 130 sounds included, 9 mins total $10

Engage your audience in a thrilling auditory experience with our Spaceship Pass-By Sound Effects. Perfect for futuristic, sci-fi, or space-themed projects, these high-quality sound effects capture the dynamic transition of a spaceship moving through space at high speeds.

Whether you’re designing a dramatic space battle scene, enhancing a sci-fi video game, or adding a realistic touch to a film or animation, these sound effects provide the perfect audio to accompany rapid spaceship movements, smooth transitions, or intense atmospheric changes. The collection includes a variety of passes, from sleek, quiet spacecraft to roaring, heavy-hitting vessels, each designed to create an immersive and otherworldly feeling.

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Powerful Whoosh

'Powerful Whoosh' by Master of Dreams has 200 96kHz/24Bit WAV files, ideal for enhancing transitions in motion design, video games, infographics, and animations with dynamic audio elements.

Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Powerful Whoosh Play Track 200 sounds included $10

Whoosh intense sound effects for transitions in motion design, perfect for video games, infographics, animations.

This sound effects pack contains 200 wav files in high quality 96kHz/24Bit format.

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MASTERGUN – M60E6

'MASTERGUN – M60E6' by Aftertouch Audio features 28 channels of raw recordings, including unsuppressed and suppressed shots, recorded in the Nevada Desert with designed mixes and extensive UCS metadata.

Bundles MASTERGUN – M60E6 Play Track 1563 sounds included $90

The Master Gun M60E6 Sound Effects library is recorded using a large array of various microphone configurations, we recorded shots from several distances in an open shooting range in the Nevada Desert.

Raw Recordings

Our raw shots features a total of 28 channels including 13 Stereo and 2 mono sources. All of our close and mid spaced pair Microphone options can be used as two independent mono microphones. The right side of every spaced pair will have more Mech than its left side counterpart.
Every single gun has been recorded using the same gain settings on the same recorders, and we have level matched each microphone option between the same calibers so your 50ft microphones will be the same or similar across all libraries that share the same calibers. This makes mixing large amounts of weapons easier as the loudness and character of each gun is predictable.

Our foley features a total of 4 audio channels with 1 Stereo and 2 mono sources, including the Sanken CO-100k which captures frequencies above 100kHz for extreme pitch shifting workflows.

Suppressed Recordings

In addition to the unsuppressed shot recordings, we’ve also sampled the M60E6 with a suppressor attachment. The suppressed M60E6 was sampled right after the unsuppressed recordings using the exact same microphone setup as the unsuppressed version. This provides you a seamless transition between the unsuppressed and the suppressed recordings.
The suppressed recordings also have the added benefit of muting the shot layers which helps bring out the intricate details of the mechanism (mech layers).
Because adding a suppressor to the firearm increases the weapons muzzle velocity, the fire rate of the suppressed weapon is slightly faster than its unsuppressed counterpart.

Designed Mixes

Created from the ground up we’ve designed a collection of game-ready mixes for your next project. If you are creating your own custom weapons system and would like to use our designed mixes in your project, you can use our no-tail options which are our realistic designed mixes without our tail layers. Just drag, and drop.

UCS compatible metadata embedded

All files contain extensive metadata to provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible. Metadata can be read and processed by audio management tools. Some digital audio workstations feature an included search tool that can also read embedded metadata.

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Organic UI Elements

'Organic UI Elements' by Sebaudio offers real-world interactions with materials like clay and glass, with minimal processing. It features clicks, whooshes, and swipes for organic, tactile realism in digital experiences.

User Interface (UI) Sound Effects Organic UI Elements Play Track 582 sounds included $40

A versatile collection of meticulously recorded interactions with real-world materials: clay, glass, metal, paper, plastic, vocal, and wood. Captured with minimal processing to preserve their raw texture and flexibility, these sounds are ready to use straight out of the box or layered to enhance existing UI audio.

The library features clicks, hits, whooshes, swipes, and slides, tailored for buttons, toggles, switches, transitions, notifications, and navigation. Whether you’re shaping a mobile app, fine-tuning game UI, or crafting interactive installations, these sounds add organic depth and tactile realism to digital experiences. The recordings were made with two Sennheiser MKH 8040 microphones and an RME Babyface interface, ensuring pristine, high-detail audio quality.

Ideal for UI/UX designers, game developers, and sound artists seeking to create grounded, sensory-rich interactions.

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Resonant Metal

'Resonant Metal' by New Sound Lab features a variety of metallic sounds, from high-frequency tones to heavy impacts. It includes raw recordings of metal objects and designed sounds, all captured in 24-bit / 192kHz WAV.

Metal Sound Effects Resonant Metal Play Track 151+ sounds included $39

Resonant Metal is a sound library built around the resonant and tonal characteristics of metal. It features a wide variety of recordings—from small, high-frequency metal tones to large, heavy impacts with long sustain. The focus is on metallic sounds with rich overtones, clean transients, and tonal clarity.

The library includes both raw recordings of real-world metal objects (bowls, trays, heavy pans, rods, tools, etc.) and a selection of designed sounds. These designed elements include processed impacts, pitch-shifted scrapes, granular textures, and reversed hits.

Every sound was recorded using a Sennheiser MKH 8050 microphone and a Zoom F6 recorder and files are delivered in high-resolution 24-bit / 192kHz WAV format.

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Grand Central Station

'Grand Central Station' by In Motion Audio has recordings from Grand Central Station, capturing the vibrant ambience of commuters and tourists. It includes crowd noise, announce-ments, and human interactions.

Environments & Ambiences Grand Central Station Play Track 22 sounds included, 38 mins total $20

We managed to record in the amazing and stunning Main Hall of the Grand Central Station in New York whilst on our travels, capturing the ambience of the daily commuter and tourists who flock to see this amazing building.

These Ambiences include:

Main Hall Ambience
Info Booth Ambience and Tannoy
A one man Public Protest
Crowd/Walla
Commuters
Tourists
People moving
People moving with Baggage
People talking close and distant
Regular tannoy announcements

When editing the ambiences, there were a variety of close mic’ed human interactions and baggage movement which may not be fitting when placing these into a projects so we’ve re-edited these samples and provided a set of “B” Samples which have these removed.

Grand Central Station will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of this amazing train station, boosting your project to the next level. Grand Central Station has been edited to allow a drop in ready and Royalty Free sample pack. These Samples can be used in a variety of projects from Sound Designing/Compositions for TV, Film, Documentaries and Video Games. UCS Compliant and Metadata is attached to the samples

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Ceramic Smashes

'Ceramic Smashes' by Sound Armoury offers over 480 ceramic sounds, featuring both raw and designed audio from porcelain and terracotta. Files are in 24-bit 96kHz WAV format, UCS compliant, and can be used commercially or personally without attribution.

Destruction & Impact Sounds Ceramic Smashes Play Track 486 sounds included $9.99
This is a sound library containing a wide variety of both raw and designed ceramic sounds, including porcelain and terracotta.

Features:
- 480+ audio files in 24 bit 96kHz WAV format
- UCS compliant file naming and metadata
- Available for commercial or personal use without attribution
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Nature Ambiences

'Nature Ambiences' by rawAmbience provides immersive recordings from natural environments, including forests and rivers. These tracks enhance creative projects with peaceful and authentic nature backgrounds.

Environments & Ambiences Nature Ambiences Play Track 10 sounds included, 33 mins total $12.99
A digital collection of immersive soundscapes captured from diverse natural environments. Perfect for filmmakers, game developers, meditation practitioners, and sound designers. This library features recordings of forests, rivers, bird calls and more. Each track is professionally recorded to deliver an authentic and immersive experience, making it ideal for enhancing creative projects, relaxation, or background ambience. Let the pure sounds of nature transport you to a place of peace and tranquility.

Track list:
- Birds, Nature, Spring
- Forest Birds
- Forest River
- Rain Lake
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Massive Contact

'Massive Contact' by Massive Sound FX has over 1,000 SFX from contact microphones, capturing a range of vibrations, impacts, and textures over nearly 4 hours. Metadata is included for easy navigation of this library.

Foley Sound Effects Massive Contact Play Track 1153 sounds included, 237 mins total $32.49

MASSIVE CONTACT – 1153 files of Contact sound effects, at varying distances and intensities. From gentle surface wipes and thud hits to water movement vibrations and machine racket to foliage friction and metallic tones. Massive Contact comes in at 3 hours and 57 minutes, of contact microphone noises. Bring kinetic power and textured tension to your next project. Recorded at 192kHz and 32bit, using piezoelectric sensitive stereo contact microphones capable of recording surface vibration frequencies. Massive Contact filenames are in the Universal Category System format with additional Metadata baked-in.

Don’t need a Massive amount of Contact sound effects? We offer ‘Mini’ sound effect libraries as companions for all of our ‘Massive’ sound effect libraries. All recordings are unique to each library with no overlap. Go Mini today, and upgrade to the corresponding Massive library later, when you need more of that particular sound effect.

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Mini Contact

'Mini Contact' by Massive Sound FX is a selection of 75 unique contact mic sounds, totaling over 21 minutes of varied intensities. It includes gentle wipes, thuds, and machine sounds for a small but mighty pack.

Foley Sound Effects Mini Contact Play Track 75 sounds included, 21 mins total $6.49

MINI Contact – 75 files of Contact sound effects, at varying distances and intensities. From gentle surface wipes and thud hits to water movement vibrations and machine racket to foliage friction and metallic tones. Mini Contact comes in at over 21 minutes, of contact microphone noises. Bring kinetic power and textured tension to your next project. Recorded at 192kHz and 32bit, using piezoelectric sensitive stereo contact microphones capable of recording surface vibration frequencies. Mini Contact filenames are in the Universal Category System format with additional Metadata baked-in.

Looking for a Massive amount of Contact sound effects? We offer ‘Massive’ sound effect libraries as companions for all of our ‘Mini’ sound effect libraries. All recordings are unique to each library with no overlap. Go Mini today, and upgrade to the corresponding Massive library later, when you need more of that particular sound effect.

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A Sound Effect gives you easy access to an absolutely huge sound effects catalog from a myriad of independent sound creators, all covered by one license agreement - a few highlights:

Fire Sound Effects Fiery Movements Play Track 297 sounds included $29.99
96KHZ 24BIT • 547MB • 297 FILES • UCS

Fiery Movements is a high-quality, new PMSFX library built for creators who need fire to move fast, slow, eruptive, or scorched into the air. Crafted for modern cinematic sound design, this collection delivers an arsenal of over 297 meticulously designed fire-based motion effects, from aggressive whooshes and trails to bursting impacts.

What sets this collection apart is its origin: over 90% of the fire movement sounds were synthesized in Bitwig Studio’s GRID, where analog-style synthesis, FM, distortion, and spectral shaping were combined with macro-modulated dynamics and convolution layering. The result? Fire that doesn’t just sound real – it sounds scorching hot!

Perfect for sound designers working on:
- Trailers
- Fire magic
- Explosive transitions and cinematic sequences
From fast-passing flame whips and pressure-heavy blasts to longer, smoky, and textured burn trails — this pack offers a versatile range of fire movement textures ready for layering or as stand-alone assets.

DESIGNED IN: Bitwig
EDITED AND MASTERED WITH: Bitwig, Pro Tools
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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Spells Variations Vol 2 Play Track 405 sounds included $17

Step into a world of spells, mysticism, and creative power with Spells Variations Vol. 2, the follow-up to our acclaimed magical sound collection. This time, we’ve expanded the elemental and thematic range, offering 405 professionally crafted sound effects that are fully categorized and ready to use.
Inside, you’ll find a wide variety of magical types:
🔥 Fire
💧 Water
🌪️ Air
🌍 Earth
⚡ Electricity
❄️ Ice
☠️ Poison, Mud, Rocks
✨ As well as Arcane, Dark, Monstrous, and other mystical spell types.

Each category is organized into individual folders, with multiple variations for every spell, giving you complete flexibility to choose the perfect sound for each moment, All this makes a total of 44 different spells.
Just like in Volume 1, every sound in this collection was recorded, edited, and mastered at 192 kHz / 24-bit, ensuring top-tier quality and adaptability—perfect for professional sound designers or anyone looking for drag-and-drop magical effects for games, trailers, animations, or any audio-visual production.

More about the pack
– Intuitive file naming
– All you’ll ever need regarding magical sounds [Use them again & again
– Use the sound effects over and over, in any of your projects or productions, forever without any additional fees or royalties. Use the SFX in your game, in your trailer, in a Kickstarter campaign, wherever you need to, as much as you want to.
– Totally mono compatibility
– All sounds have several variations.
– Use your imagination and feel free to use any sound for a creature other than the one described, remember that the world of sound is totally subjective.
– For any questions or problems: khronstudio@gmail.com

Features
– 405 spell sounds
– Format: 192KHz / 24 bits
– Win/Mac: Yes
– Minutes of audio provided: 22:26

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Blade Sound Pack Play Track 1400 sounds included, 83 mins total $30

1400 meticulously processed stereo blades sound effects recorded in 96 khz and 24 bits for high audio definition.

The collection comes with hundreds of variations and many different weapon types. It also includes raw files for more flexibility for your projets and each asset has a version with and without reverb for more control.

This collection is perfect for any films, video games or trailers.

Recorded weapons: katana, kris knife, khukuri dagger, big and medium kitchen knife and hunting knife.

This sound library includes various type of sounds: blades scraping, single or multiple impacts, whooshes, designed and powerful sword sounds for trailer and cinematic, gore slashing and stabbing, blade sheathing and unsheathing, short and long combat sequences, background sword battle, and more.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Dark Dungeon Soundscapes 2 Play Track 26 sounds included, 60 mins total $12

Step into the shadows with Dark Dungeon Soundscapes Pt. 2, the soundscapes collection for game developers, filmmakers, and creators seeking spine-chilling atmosphere. This second edition brings you even deeper into the abyss with haunting ambient textures, eerie whispers, unsettling drips, distant screams, and the deep echoes of forgotten catacombs.

Designed for horror and cinematic projects, these soundscapes will set the perfect tone for dark fantasy, gothic horror, or deep dungeon-crawling adventures. Whether you’re unveiling an ancient crypt, leading players into a cursed temple, or orchestrating a demonic ritual, these immersive sounds will pull your audience into the darkness.

🔥 Features:

✅ Diverse environments, from eerie ruins to underground horrors

✅ Seamless looping for extended play sessions

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Car Sound Effects Speed Engines Play Track 102 sounds included, 15 mins total $10

Rev up your creativity with Speed Engines Sound Effects, a collection of roaring, revving, and accelerating engine sounds. Perfect for game developers, filmmakers, and content creators, this pack features a variety of engine types, from thunderous muscle cars to high-speed motorcycles.

Each sound is recorded to deliver crisp, immersive audio that brings speed and power to life. Whether you’re working on a racing game, an action-packed movie, or a thrilling YouTube video, these sound effects will add adrenaline-pumping realism to your project.

🔥 Features:
✅25 – Engine SFX / 77 – Pass By
✅ Variety of engine types and variations
✅ Royalty-free – use in commercial & personal projects with no extra fees
✅ Ready for use in games, films, and multimedia projects

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Hum, Buzz & Glitch Sound Effects Raw Buffers Play Track 14 sounds included, 23 mins total $25

RAW BUFFERS – a Discman glitch library.
Abrasive glitch clicks, scrambles, tones and bursts.

Harvesting the glitches from short-circuiting the “electronic skip protection” chip on a late 90’s Discman player.
Connecting the legs of this chip mangles and scrambles the buffer data, resulting in abrasive digital clicks, stutters, tones and bursts.

23 minutes (1.6GB) of 192kHz/24 bit recordings
UCS compliant and with relevant metadata.

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Foley Sound Effects Aprilia Mojito 2004 scooter motorcycle Play Track 74 sounds included, 34 mins total $55

All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, Line Audio Omni1 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving, foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.

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Cloth and Fabric Sound Effects Character Fabrics Sound Effects Play Track 196 sounds included, 4 mins total $14.99
Enhance your projects with our 196 Carefully Recorded and Designed Fabric Sound Effects. This diverse collection of high-quality fabric sounds is perfect for adding realism and dynamic movement to your characters and environments. From the rustling of clothing to the swishing of fabrics in motion, each sound has been meticulously recorded and designed to bring your scenes to life. Ideal for game developers, filmmakers, and sound designers, these fabric sound effects will add depth and authenticity to every wardrobe, interaction, and environmental detail. Whether you’re working on character animations, environmental design, or immersive storytelling, these sounds provide the perfect touch to elevate your work.

Features:
- Body Armor Mesh – 70 SFX
- Clothing / Textile Drops – 61 SFX
- Fabrics – 57 SFX
- Zips – 8 SFX
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