13 Great New Sound Libraries: French Cities, Cinematic Fire, Amplified Phones, Tense Strings, Winter Footsteps, And Much More!

Posted April 3, 2024 by Adriane Kuzminski in New sound effects libraries

This week on A Sound Effect, we've got plenty for your auditory explorations!

Need to invoke spine-tingling chills? Dive into a library of terrifying violin strings and deep suspenseful impacts. Crafting a heart-stopping chase scene? Buckle up with classic car and high-octane racing sound effects.

And that's not all - we've got atmospheric soundscapes from bustling French cityscapes and street traffic to tranquil swimming pools.

Plus, you can hear crackling fire, old-fashioned phone rings, game UI construction kits, realistic snow footsteps, a silenced pistol, and even the eerie drones of an Icelandic Langspil.

So get ready to dive into creativity and make a splash with your sound design! Happy listening!

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Extreme Drift 2

' Extreme Drift 2' is Sound Ex Machina's highly anticipated sequel that lets you experience the thrill of high-speed drifts, powerful engine rev-ups, blistering accelerations, and more - with 74 immersive perspectives inside the cockpit.

Car Sound Effects Extreme Drift 2 Play Track 376 sounds included $62

Introducing Extreme Drift 2: the highly anticipated sequel to our acclaimed sound library Extreme Drift!

With 376 audio files recorded at 96kHz/24-bit, experience the thrill of high-speed drifts, powerful engine rev-ups, blistering accelerations, and more.

This time, we’ve added 74 interior perspective files for an immersive cockpit experience. Ideal for filmmakers, game developers, and all audio professionals, Extreme Drift 2 takes your projects to the next level.

Get ready to feel the rush!

SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS

CURATION APPLIED

We meticulously curated each sound, removing unwanted environmental noise and ensuring clarity.

INTUITIVE FOLDER STRUCTURE

Sounds are organized into easily navigable categories:

Drifts
Engine Rev Ups
Accelerations
Pass Bys
Turns
Drive Offs
Interior Perspectives

DETAILED METADATA INCLUDED

Each sound is embedded with comprehensive Soundminer metadata, facilitating effortless browsing and editing across various platforms.

CAR MODELS COVERED

Honda Civic
BMW 320
Peugeot 206
Renault Clio
Subaru Altezza
Subaru Impreza
Toyota Yaris

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Interactive

'Interactive' by Rock The Speakerbox includes over 3900 sound effects across three packages. With a construction kit, building blocks, and designed features, it gives you the tools to create immersive and engaging UI sounds in your game.

User Interface (UI) Sound Effects Interactive – Game UI Play Track 3917 sounds included, 225 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$149

Introducing ‘INTERACTIVE’ by Rock The Speakerbox: Your ultimate organic Game UI Sound Design Toolkit. Elevate your UI sound design with a comprehensive sound effects library crafted to meet the exacting demands of modern game development. ‘INTERACTIVE’ is a massive toolset designed to empower you with a diverse range of components for creating immersive, dynamic and organic sounding UI.

Structured into three packages:

Construction Kit (3151 Sounds):
Unlock a world of possibilities with a massive set of generic components like clicks, whooshes, pops, and textures, alongside elaborate recordings for specific contextual needs such as coins, paper, medieval weapons and many more. Explore elemental textures like water, wood, stone, etc for added depth and a comprehensive arsenal of percussive and tonal instruments.

Building Blocks (606 Sounds):
Streamline your workflow with pre-designed sounds of basic UI components, including impacts, clicks, whooshes, specific contextual actions and textures (clattering coins, rustling paper, igniting fires, alchemical reactions, growing vegetation) plus tonal and musical feedback for different moods (positive, negative, rewarding, warning, triumphal, holy)

Designed (160 Sounds):
Choose from four sets of ready-to-use sounds tailored for the most common UI actions in different game styles (Casual, Dark, Medieval, Modern).

Each of the four sets gives you following UI sounds:
• Confirm
• Select
• Notification
• Purchase
• Open Menu
• Back/Close Menu
• Positive Light
• Positive Heavy
• Negative Light
• Negative Heavy

With 699 sound files, each offering more than 5 variations in average, ‘INTERACTIVE’ delivers a total of over 3900 sounds – ensuring that you’ll never run out of options to bring your creative vision to life. This library gives you everything you need to captivate your audience and create immersive UI soundscapes that truly resonate.

KEYWORDS:

UI sounds, Interface sounds, User interface SFX, Button click sounds, UI feedback, UI sound effects, Interface clicks, Soft clicks, Button interaction, UI confirmation, Interactive sounds, Medieval UI sounds, Modern UI, Classic UI, Futuristic interface, Soft interface, UI transition, UI hover sound, Interface beep, Notification sounds, Alert sounds, Click sound pack, UI pop sound, Interface audio, Sound notification, UI bell sound, UI chime, Soft UI effects, Interface buzz, UI interaction, Sound FX UI, Friendly UI, Positive feedback sounds, Interactive FX, UI action, Button push sounds, Minimal UI, UI success sounds, UI tone, Interface dings, Interactive sound library, Medieval interface, Smooth clicks, Professional UI sounds, Modern interface FX, User feedback, UI package, Interactive feedback, Classic UI SFX, Sound effects for apps

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Skoda Octavia 2004

'Skoda Octavia 2004' by Krampfstadt Studio includes recordings of driving sounds (interior and exterior), Foley effects, mechanical noises, and electrical sounds from this compact car. You get high-quality 32bit / 192 kHz files in UCS format.

Car Sound Effects Skoda Octavia 2004 compact car Play Track 243 sounds included, 34 mins total $65

All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, Shure KSM 137, FEL Clippy XLR EM272, FEL Pluggy XLR EM272 and Sonorous Objects SO.3 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II & Zoom F3 recorders. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.

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French cities amb

'French cities amb' by Spectro_SD captures bustling French life in binaural and stereo. It offers a variety of everyday sounds from cafes, markets, parks, and streets in cities like Paris, Nantes, and Strasbourg.

City Life Sound Effects French Cities Ambiance Play Track 56 sounds included, 326 mins total $40

Dive into the authentic urban atmospheres of French cities with our dedicated sound bank. Recorded in various locations such as Nantes, Strasbourg, Paris, Montpellier, Orléans, and more, our recordings offer a total immersion into the daily life of French city-dwellers.

Our collection is divided into two parts: a binaural section for an immersive spatial listening experience, and a stereo section for use in audio or audiovisual post-production.

You’ll find a wide variety of typically French urban environments, including restaurants, terraces, markets, parks, as well as street atmospheres, tourist areas, and traffic.

Each sound is captured with great precision to faithfully reflect the atmosphere and essence of the recorded locations. This sound bank is designed to meet the needs of sound professionals, offering a valuable resource to enhance their creative projects with realistic and evocative urban atmospheres.

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Snow Foley Instrument

'Snow Foley Instrument' by Sen6 is a sound design tool featuring pristine mountain snow. It provides over 200 samples of 8 different walking styles and a user-friendly instruments for Kontakt and DSsampler for easy integration into linear and interactive projects.

It’s A Plain Phone_Pack 06

'It’s A Plain Phone_Pack 06' by All You Can Eat Audio gets you sounds of an amplified landline phone for users who are hard of hearing. It includes over 7,000 sounds of button presses, pick-ups, hangs-up, cable handling, switch clicks, and more from various microphone setups.

Foley Sound Effects It’s A Plain Phone_Pack 06 Play Track 7358+ sounds included $6

It’s A Plain Phone_Pack 06 is sixth installment in the It’s A Plain Phone_Collection. This pack includes recordings of a ClearSounds 40XLC Amplified Telephone pressing buttons, pick up, hang ups, slams, detach and reattach cable to both phone and base, switches, and more! This specific phone is designed for those hard of hearing, thus multiple additional switches and settings. 7358+ sounds over two microphone setups, or 3679+ sounds with 1 microphone set up; all packed in 670 sound files. These sound files were recorded at 24 bit, 192kHz using the Sennheiser MKH8050/30 and Sanken CO-100K/ Sennheiser MKH30 microphones into a Sound Devices Mix Pre-6.

All are metadata tagged using the Universal Category System in Soundminer, and also searchable in Soundly and Basehead.

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Swimming Pool Ambience

'Swimming Pool Ambience' by Sonic Bat offers over 4 hours of aquatic atmospheres from 5 distinct soundscapes including water polo matches, a regional swimming competition, public pool ambiences, and locker rooms.

Environments & Ambiences Swimming Pool Ambience Play Track 30 sounds included, 248 mins total $35

Swimming Pool Ambience provides five distinct soundscapes spread through long, evolving and captivating sound recordings from Portugal’s primary water polo masculine and feminine leagues, a regional swimming competition, neutral takes at a public pool and locker room ambiences.

Water polo is a team based sport played in a swimming pool, where each player uses intense swimming strokes and tactics to score and defend their goal. This requires constant communication between team mates and coaches, prominently featured in this library, giving a distinct flavor to this sport with its booming echoes, splashes, shouting and plentiful goal celebrations. In addition to all this, you have varied crowd reactions, pre-match drills, team presentations and quieter moments.

The regional swimming competition audio files have abundant support chants from a young audience with minimal crowd dialogue, perfect to be used on any audiovisual project set in a swimming pool. The neutral takes of people swimming at a different public pool with no crowd conversations complement this section, providing different options for smart sound editing.

With a little over four hours of content, this library is your deep dive into the world of aquatic sports.

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SF19 + Silencer

'SF19 + Silencer' by Dramatic Cat features this pistol with a comprehensive set of shooting sounds and weapon handling effects. You'll hear it from various distances, with and without a silencer, and even get designed soundscapes and Foley.

Firearms Sound Effects SF19 + Silencer Play Track 776 sounds included $89

Introducing our sound library of a SF19 4.5″ TB OSP, a cal. 9x19mm semi-automatic pistol manufactured by HS Produkt. This modernized and improved version of the popular XDM handgun features a polymer frame, 19 rounds magazine, forged slide and hammer forged barrel.

Using a large array of various microphone configurations, we recorded shots from several distances both with and without silencer. We then moved to our studio to capture an extensive range of foley, including mag in and out, chamber cycles, selector switches, suppressor, trigger actions and more.

This library also comes with carefully designed assets in stereo and 5.1, created from our raw files. It includes powerful shots with and without suppressor, 3 meticulously crafted types of tails (Wide, Urban and Interior) and punchy foleys.

Multiple mic perspectives

The raw shots feature a total of 16 recording positions, from shooter perspective up to 80 meters, with a total of 25 channels. Among these you will find high SPL microphones attached to the weapons for mech sounds, CO-100k for ultrasonic content, large-diaphragm microphone close to the ground for punchy low ends, ambisonic perspective and much more! We also recorded the foley with multiple microphones, including a CO-100k for drastic pitch changes.

Designed and Game Ready assets

The library also includes “game ready assets”, which are edited versions of our designed sounds, with individual variations allowing easy implementation into your game engine or audio middleware.

‍Gear used

Sound Devices 722 • MixPre-6 II • Zoom F6 • Sanken CO-100K • NTG1 • MKH416 • TLM103 • Usi Pro • MikroUsi • MKH 8040 • MKH30 • MK012 • SM57 • MK21 • CM4 • KmrB1i • DPA 4062 • NT-SF1

‍Metadata

This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadatas compatible with Soundminer, Soundly and Basehead.

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Cinematic Fire Sound FX

'Cinematic Fire Sound FX' by Ocular Sounds provides 31 sounds capturing the crackle, roar, and intensity of fire, from flickering embers to blazing infernos. It allows filmmakers, video editors, and sound designers to enhance storytelling with the raw energy of fire.

Cityscapes Sound FX

'Cityscapes Sound FX' by Ocular Sounds offers 90 immersive sounds that capture the essence of bustling cities around the world. From street traffic and echoes to general city ambience, these sounds bring the energy and atmosphere of urban life to your projects.

Deep Impacts Sound FX

'Deep Impacts Sound FX' by Ocular Sounds will enhance your videos with 35 sounds that add depth and drama to action scenes, suspenseful moments, and more. This pack is designed to elevate your storytelling and leave a lasting impression on your audience.

Dissonant Langspil

'Dissonant Langspil' by Hidden Sound features experimental sounds from this Icelandic instrument. You get a variety of dissonant and atonal elements like drones, scrapes, and squeaks ideal for unique textures, sound transformations, and eerie atmospheres.

Materials & Texture Sound Effects Dissonant Langspil Play Track 204 sounds included, 24 mins total $20

Experimental sounds made with an Icelandic Langspil using bows, bottleneck and fingers.

A series of dissonant, atonal drones, scrapes, scratches and squeaks played by Chris Foster.

https://www.funi-iceland.com/

Excellent source material for designing creative textures and sound morphing into alien and creature sounds. Also for adding to tense, eerie atmospheres.

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AMORAL

'AMORAL' by MatiasMacSD contains 104 dark and chaotic violin string recordings that will weave feelings of fear and dread in your horror scores. You'll get unsettling elements like surreal textures, distorted glitches, and cinematic effects.

Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects AMORAL Play Track 104 sounds included, 17 mins total $25

AMORAL is a collection of 104 (24 Bit / 48 kHz, wav, UCS) signature chaotic violin strings.

This pack of dark and cacophonous sound effects is great for musical horror compositions/trailers and will help you to create a sensation of fear and dread in your productions.

Violins were digital mangled and manipulated with different sound design techniques to offer You a beautiful and tense collection of surreal sounds, impulsive movements, glitched textures, distorted elements and cinematic effects.

Check the DEMO. It shows with clarity what you will get.

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User Interface (UI) Sound Effects Kawaii UI 2 Play Track 625 sounds included $50

Level up with Kawaii UI 2 the perfect companion to Kawaii UI.
Kawaii UI 2 follows up with more charming, modern, rounded user interface sounds designed to make your projects pop.
This library provides an adorable blend of cute, satisfying interface sounds, crafted to enhance user experience and feedback.
Bring your games and apps to life with Kawaii UI 2. It’s ideal for creating joyful menus, delightful HUDs, playful navigation and notifications, engaging pop-ups, and expressive text.

What’s Inside?
The designed folder of Kawaii UI 2 gives you a selection of ready to use UI sounds. You’ll find sounds for button presses, cursors, notifications, swipes, errors, bootups, app opens, loading loops, etc.
Inside the source folder you’ll also find a large collection of general synthesised UI sounds, FM bells and telemetry style sounds. Combining these elements gives sound designers a robust sonic palette to create new UI sounds.

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Footsteps Sound Effects Ultimate Footsteps Play Track 1176-3056+ sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
From: $160

Need footstep sound effects? Get 5 Shoes, 25+ surfaces, 15+ variations – created by Foley Supervisor Joshua Reinhardt and professional Foley walker Lara Dale.

Deep heavy metal, crunchy snow, old boat wood, crisp grass, gritty dirt, clean tile – this library has it all. Not only does this library contain walking but it's got pretty much every performance you can think of, from scuffs to jumps and lands and scrapes. With this library you can cut Foley for pretty much any film or game that comes your way.

Highlights:

• 17 different Performances – From slow walk to RUN, 5 scrapes, bodyfall/land, stomps and more
• Every file is labeled with a description of the shoe, surface and performance type.
• Every folder has a picture of the shoe and surface plus a description of the distance of the mic from the Foley walker.
• Combine wood creak sweeteners with Ultimate Interiors wood for scary creaky wood or add grit to a clean interior to give character.
• Same recording studio mics and preamps used in over 50 major motion pictures
• Same boots that were used for Sylvester Stallone in The Expendable
• Mix and match shoes, surfaces and sweeteners to make your own custom characters
• Can be used as a stereo or separated and mixed/matched as a mono depending which mic works best for your project

Specs:

Foot wear type:
Boots, Dress Shoes, Flats, Heels, Sneakers.

Performances:
Extremely Slow Walk, Medium Slow Walk, Walk, Jog, Run, Stairs Slow, Stairs Fast, Stomp, Land, Scuff, Scrape 1, Scrape 2, Scrape 3, Scrape 4, Scrape 5.

Surface Types:
Asphalt, Carpet 1, Carpet 2, Concrete, Hardwood, Hardwood house, Hardwood deep, Hardwood parquet, Hardwood boat wood, Hardwood Dock, Lino, Marble, Tile, Dirt, Grass, Metal grate, Diamond plate Metal, Metal Slab, Wood Creak 1 old, Wood Creak 2, Gravel, Rocks, SNOW!!, Puddle, Water shallow, Water Deep.

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City Life Sound Effects Sounds & Ambiences of London Play Track 101+ sounds included, 264 mins total From: $60

Get the sounds and ambiences of London: Here are 101 authentic recordings from the English capital.

Featuring crowd sounds, traffic, general ambience, underground / tube, church bells, emergency and much more, this library is the perfect backdrop to any film / theatre project in need of that lively, living city sound. Detailed file names plus Soundminer, ID3 v2.3.0 and RIFF INFO metadata embedded.

In total, this library gets you more than 4 hours of atmospheric London sounds!

Sounds captured at famous (and some not-so-famous) London locations and landmarks such as:
Alexandra Palace • Borough Market • Bricklayers Arms • British National Gallery • Buckingham Palace • Cardington Street • Carnaby Street • Chelsea Wharf • China Town • Courtyard Gallery • Covent Garden • Euston Station • Festival Pier • Gough Square Warwick Court • Greenwich Foot Tunnel • Hyde Park • Islington Green • Joseph Grimaldi Park • King’s Cross underground station • London Eye • London Underground • Old Compton Street • Palladium Theatre • Piccadilly Circus • Pubs around London • River Thames • Royal Horticultural Halls • Seven Dials • Shaftesbury Avenue • Soho • Somerset House • Southbank • Southbank Skatepark • Southbank Tower • Southwark Street • St Paul’s Church gardens • The Strand • Theatre Royal • Trafalgar Square • Warwick Court • West End • Whitechapel

A special bundle opportunity:
Get this library on its own – or get the special bundle featuring both Sounds & Ambiences Of London Vol 1 and Vol 2 at an excellent price, for more than 590 minutes of signature London sounds

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Hand Combat Sound Effects Massive Punches Play Track 505 sounds included, 1 mins total $29.99

MASSIVE PUNCHES – 505 files of punch sound effects, from several sparring sessions. From quiet taps and hits to thudding and cracking impacts. Massive Punches comes in at over 1 minute, of real skin on skin body and head shots. Bring the power of bare knuckle to your next project. Recorded at 192kHz and 32bit, using microphones capable of recording ultrasonic frequencies. Massive Punches filenames are in the Universal Category System format with additional Metadata baked-in.

Don’t need a Massive amount of Punch 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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Hand Combat Sound Effects Mini Punches Play Track 60 sounds included $6.99

MINI PUNCHES – 60 files of punch sound effects, from several sparring sessions. From quiet taps and hits to thudding and cracking impacts. Mini Punches comes in at over 15 seconds, of real skin on skin body and head shots. Bring the power of bare knuckle to your next project. Recorded at 192kHz and 32bit, using microphones capable of recording ultrasonic frequencies. Mini Punches filenames are in the Universal Category System format with additional Metadata baked-in.
Looking for a Massive amount of Punch 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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Environments & Ambiences Textured Rain Play Track 116 sounds included, 135 mins total $41.30

Textured Rain features meticulously recorded rainfall on a wide variety of surfaces and objects. Each sound is delivered as a seamless loop, with three distinct intensities per surface for maximum flexibility.

Captured in a controlled environment using mainly a DIY rain machine, this collection was recorded in both stereo and mono, ranging from light drizzles to heavy downpours and offering consistent, adaptable textures without unwanted background noise.

The library includes performances on car interiors, metal and plastic props, umbrellas, vegetation, fabric, debris and more. Perfect for layering in film, games, or other audio projects, these rain loops are ideal for crafting atmospheres, enhancing ambiences, and adding realistic environmental detail.

‍Loops in mono and stereo

This sound pack have been recorded using multiple mono and stereo microphone configurations and exported as seamless loops for easy drag and drop in your project.

‍Props and textures recorded

Aluminium plate • Car interior • Fabric • Galvanized container • Galvanized tub • Glass plate • Green and dead leaves • Metal barrel • Metal roof • Metal sheets and plates • Metal scrap • Mud puddle • Newspapers • Plastic container • Plastic roof • Plastic sheet • Plastic tarps • Reed screen • Roof tiles • Shopping bags • Stainless steel sheet • Steel box • Tent • Trash bags • Trash can • Umbrellas • Water • Wheelie bin • Window skylight • Wood floor • Wood planks

… and more!

‍Gear used

MixPre-6 II • F6 • MKH8040 • MKH30 • C411 • MKH416 • LOM Usi Pro • Oktava MK012

‍Metadata

This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadata compatible with Soundly, Soundminer and Basehead.

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Extra Crunches Play Track 74 sounds included, 27 mins total $9.99

EXTRA CRUNCHES – is an auxiliary sound library containing 74 unique sound effect files of crunches. From close up scratching and popping to loud and rough breaking and chomping. Whether it’s crunches or crumbs you’re looking for; This Extra sound effects library will help supplement the snacks and cracker needs, of your next project. Extra Crunches comes in at over 27 minutes and was recorded at 192kHz / 32bit using an ultrasonic microphone. All of our libraries comply with the Universal Category System naming convention standard, allowing for accurate and easy granular searches.

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Industrial Ambiences Airflow Collection Play Track 36+ sounds included, 157 mins total $48

Moody wind drafts for game & cinematic sound design can always give depth and realism to your production. This collection of airflow sounds covers structural air pressure, howling and whistling wind through doors, rattling frames and cracking stuff. Perfect for creating bunker-like atmospheres, tense survival settings, or immersive environmental layers, these sounds bring authenticity and emotion to your projects. Whether you need subtle drafts creeping through an abandoned shelter or violent gusts shaking a refuge, this library delivers a versatile toolkit ready for games, trailers, and film sound design.
Only acoustic recordings are used, no designed sounds. UCS compatible file names and embedded file descriptions for your comfort.

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