13 new sound libraries Asbjoern Andersen


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 $37.20

    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 Play Track 3917 sounds included, 225 mins total $119.99
    User Interface (UI) Sound Effects - get more than 3900+ sounds in the INTERACTIVE sound library

    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.
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 $56

    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.
 
  • 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.

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 $20

    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.
 
  • 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.

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.
 
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 $12.50

    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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  • Magic & Fantasy Sound Effects Sorcery Play Track 2196 sounds included, 337 mins total $14.90

    Rock The Speakerbox presents Sorcery, the ultimate sound design toolkit for magic and enchantment.

    Harness the forces of light with white magic. Ignite the night with the unbridled power of fire and flame.Summon the darkest of evil with black magic and necromancy. Release the fury of a million volts by mastering the electron. Lay waste to your foes with the sheer might of water and acid. Conjure the frigid and unleash the frost with the power of ice.

    Recorded on stage and in the field, and designed by award winning sound designers, SORCERY contains 11.7 GB of HD quality content spread across 1992 construction kit sounds and 204 designed sounds. With spells, deflects, casts, blocks, beams and more, SORCERY provides sound designers and media content creators unrivaled wizardry at their fingertips.

    The extraordinary awaits within.

     

    KEYWORDS:

    Magic sounds, Spell sounds, Fantasy effects, Enchantment FX, Magical FX, Sorcery sounds, Fantasy spells, Enchanted sounds, Wizard SFX, Magic aura, Spell casting, Magical elements, Fantasy ambience, Potion sounds, Spellbook FX, Arcane magic, Enchanted FX, Magic toolkit, Fantasy creatures, Fantasy magic, Wizard effects, Magic spells, Sorcery toolkit, Magic swirls, Fantasy sound library, Mystical sounds, Sorcerer FX, Enchantment library, Magical toolkit, Fantasy sounds, Dark magic, Magic dust, Mystical ambience, Sorcery FX, Fantasy environment, Magical vibes, Fantasy aura, Spellbinding sounds, Magic whisper, Potion brewing, Magical world, Enchanted library, Magical creatures, Fantasy realms, Magic waves, Arcane library, Wizard spells, Magical FX library, Fantasy toolkit, Magical effects pack

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  • I’ve Decided to Make This Small Instrument Free—Enjoy!
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    Snow Foley Instrument, a collection of pristine snow footsteps samples recorded with the legendary Sony PCM-D100 in the remote mountains of southern France. To enhance your sound design workflow, the samples are accompanied by user-friendly Kontakt and DSsampler instruments.

    Whether you’re crafting linear sound designs, immersive interactive experiences, or dynamic game environments, this versatile library has you covered. 

    Key Features: 

    • 8 Different Walking types
    • More than 200 unique samples
    • Recorded in real snow, in different depths
    • Stereo 96Khz 24bit
    • Kontakt & DSsampler
    • Midi Controlled Knobs
    Snow Floey Footsteps Demo

     

    *Runs in Kontakt or Free Kontakt Player version 7.7.3 or higher, and in DecentSampler 1.9.13 or higher.

  • – Evolved WATER Sound Library


    This isn’t just another water library, this is a professional’s dream library, and we feel you are all going to love it. Not only from all the source recordings, but also from all the incredible designed sounds. It really is an all around workhorse that will have you covered for everything WATER. With over 1600 files and over 3,000 sounds, this library is absolutely massive. Everything from rain, lakes, waterfalls, rivers, and bubbles all the way up to KYMA designed cinematic impacts. We spent over a year recording and designing this collection and are so proud to offer it to you for your toolbox!

    Why make another Water library? Because here at SoundMorph we always want to push the limits and quality of what is out on the current marketplace. Elements like WATER present a huge challenge to make modern and exciting. This is what we aimed for with this collection. Watch the Behind The Scenes video by clicking on the “How’s Made Button” to find out just how much went into making this colossal release. A new standard for any working sound professional!

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  • Bicycle Sound Effects City Bicycles – Complete Bundle Play Track 633 sounds included, 330 mins total $120

    The complete package bundles all available City Bicycles-packages and is fully UCS compliant. The ‘Various Passbys + Bicycle Handling’ package is added as a free bonus!

    This is a unique bicycle library that captures four characteristic bikes in clean, quiet, nicely performed true exterior rides. Including multiple perspectives, speeds and actions. From fast passbys on asphalt to slow onboard recordings, smooth or skidding stops. This package contains everything you need to create convincing sound design for a City Bicycle.

    Contents:

    Four bikes with distinct characteristics:
    1. Good bike: a smooth sounding retro bike that doesn’t rattle or squeak, really nice tire noise.
    2. Bad bike: an old worn bike with severe rattles and cranking, tends to let the chain fly off.
    3. Ugly bike: this bike gets you from A to B… but it won’t win awards for it’s looks.
    4. Racer bike: a vintage racer that’s pre-owned but still super slick.
    'City Bicycles'  Sound Library by Frick & Traa
    Five perspectives:
    1. Onboard Front: captures the whirring tire and surface sound.
    2. Onboard Pedal: nice overall combination of pedaling, crank creaks, chain rattle, tire and surface sounds.
    3. Onboard Rear: close up sound of the rear axle, with chain, sprocket and switching of gear.
    4. Tracking shot: mono recording of the passby, keeping the bike in focus while passing by.
    5. Static XY shot: stereo recording of the passby that emphasizes speed.

    Five perspectives:



    Overview of perspectives and mic placement

    *Onboard recordings are 2-3 minutes long depending on speed. Higher speeds > shorter duration. All 3 onboard mics are edited in sync with one another to make layering easy. All Passbys, Arrivals and Departures move from Left to Right.

    Speeds and actions:
    Three speeds for every bike and every surface (see below). Departures from slow, medium to fast getaways. Arrivals from slow stops with gently squeaking handbrakes to heavy stuttering skids.

    Five surfaces:

    We’ve recorded all Bikes on asphalt from all perspectives (onboard and roadside). Additionally, our most quiet bicycle (the Good Bike) was used to record 4 other surfaces from onboard perspectives.


    Five Surfaces:
    1. Asphalt: nice and clean, with smooth singing sound.**
    2. Large Bricks: nicely textured surface that makes the tires purr like a cat.**
    3. Gravel: a fresh crackling surface sound that you might find in a city park.
    4. Grit: classic bicycle path surface sounds that layers perfectly with the other surfaces.**
    5. Icy road: frozen asphalt with sparkling textures of ice crystals snapping under the wheels.

    **these surfaces are also recorded from Roadside Perspectives (passby: static and tracking)

    BONUS files:
    There are some sweeteners and extras to give your bike that extra layer of grit:
    1. Exterior recordings of various actions in multiple takes from rattles, bounces, shakes to roll-bys. Enough to make your bike sound just a little different.
    2. We also recorded 21 additional single passbys of various bicycles, from severely rattling to smooth riding bikes on small brick streets and alleys. Enough to expand your options to create a distinguished sound design.

    Metadata & Markers:

    FREE UPDATE to City Bicycles: now conforms to UCS with new metadata to quickly find your sounds.

    Because we know how important metadata is for your sound libraries we have created a consistent and intuitive description method that adheres to the Universal Category System. This allows you to find the sound you need easily, whether you work in a database like Soundminer/Basehead/PT Workspace work, or a Exporer/Finder window. We made a video that helps you navigate the library ans find your best bicycle sounds faster and easier.

    CategoryFull
    A quick way to filter out sounds you don’t need: like handling sounds or vice versa bicycle onboards.
    UserCategory
    Fastest way to find the type of action you need for all bicycles. Passby needed, just click and voila.
    OpenTier
    Once you’ve selected the bike you can open up OpenTier and audition and select the perspective you want to use.
    Scene &  Performer
    This field contains the type of bicycle to quickly navgiate to the bike you like.
    iXMLTrackLayout
    This is a neat little identifier you will find in the Waveform displays and you can see in a glance what Listening position you are.
    MicPerspective
    We have another way to find perspectives but it is more limited to distance to the recorded subject.
    So passbys are MED – EXT and handling are CU – EXT. Exterior? Of course: we recorded everything outside!
    UserComments
    We used this field to create the UserData and give you the minimal set of information about the recording in the filename.

    Additionally, we added Markers making specific sonic events are easy to spot in Soundminer and other apps.

    If you have any questions about this, please contact us info@frickandtraa.com!


    Single Bicycle packages:
    We also sell single packages for all the bicycles in this library.
    Here’s a handy comparison table:

    Reviews:
    344 AUDIO: ‘City Bicycles has a plethora of content, for a great price. The perfect balance between a great concept, great presentation and outstanding execution, lands them an almost perfect score of 4.9.

    The Audio Spotlight: City Bicycles is worth getting if you are in need of great sounding and well edited bicycle sounds.

    Watch a video created by Zdravko Djordjevic.

    City Bicycles sound examples
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  • Animal Sound Effects Rural Ambiences and Textures vol.1 Play Track 130+ sounds included, 270 mins total $21

    Rural ambiences, farm animals, pastures, rural villages, forest, meadows, tractors, farm ambiences etc. Distant villages, daytime and nighttime recordings. Barnyard, henhouse, pigsty ambiences, lumberjack works etc. Check the sound list for full info.

    High quality recordings recorded in MS, XY, AB; NOS, etc., mostly with Sennheiser MKH microphones and Sound Devices recorder/mixer. Files are without any dynamic manipulation (compression) with max. peak around -5dBFS.

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  • All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with Shure KSM 137, Line Audio Omni1, FEL Clippy XLR EM272, Sonorous Objects SO.3 and JrF C-Series Pro+ 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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  • Ambisonic Sounds – Sea Waves Loops Vol.2 – these are 16 sounds of sea waves recorded on a pebble beach at close range, 2 sounds with seagull voices, 4 sounds recorded on the beach during the beginning of a thunderstorm and 6 sounds recorded near the seashore in the early morning, in which in addition to the sound of the sea, the sounds of crickets can be heard.

  • Electricity Sound Effects Massive Electric Magic Play Track 2587 sounds included, 154 mins total $34.99

    MASSIVE ELECTRIC MAGIC – is an extensive sound library containing 2587 unique files of various types of electric magic. From Zaps, Cracks and Buzzing to Lightning Energy chains. All of our libraries comply with the Universal Category System naming convention standard, allowing for accurate and easy granular searches.

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