13 new sound libraries Asbjoern Andersen


This week on A Sound Effect, you can dive into a diverse soundscape of libraries and bring your creative visions to life!

We have upbeat and whimsical music that will infuse your games with playful orchestral melodies and charming casual music. Also, check out cinematic textures of roaring fire and otherworldly ice.

If you're looking to get outdoors instead, immerse yourself in the beautiful soundscapes of coastal African cities, explore three new volumes of windy valleys, forests, and grasslands, and bring the world to life with sounds of airplanes landing in California.

And finally, if you're looking for everyday sounds, check out the familiar hums and buzzes of refrigerators, recreate playful childhood brick knickknacks, or go for a touch of whimsy with fantastical steampunk contraptions. Happy listening!


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Art Machines – Fantasy apparatus and kinetic engines

'Art Machines – Fantasy apparatus and kinetic engines' by Sound of Essen is a collection of sounds from fantastical, kinetic machines. These 23 multi-mic recordings capture the whirring gears, clanging metal, and humming motors of these artistic contraptions designed for use in fantasy or steampunk settings.
 
  • This library contains sound from 23 multi-miced kinetic machines and wounderous apparatus split into mixdowns and construction kits of each machinery.

    The mechanisms have been designed and build by and recorded in collaboration with the kinetic artist Willi Reiche in a quiet setting at the Kunstmaschienenenhalle.

    Spinning gears, squeaky leather belts, grinding metal, humming motors, tonal elements and rattling parts construct an imaginative factory ambience. It can be perfectly used to design a magical lab, an inventor workshop or a steam punk industrial complex. Of course any tiny to big gear and machines can be brought to live with these sounds. You can easily layer different parts from various machines to create the desired mood and characteristic of your visuals or story.

    There are both electric machines driven by servo motors and machines that have to be handled by hand. Additional emf content has been captured from the electronic devices.

    Gear used: Up to 10 microphones have been used on each machine, including Schoeps MK41 / CMC1, Dpa 4060, Neumann KMR81i, Earthworks QTC50, AKD D112, Lewitt 540s, Ambient ASF1 and EMF microphones.

     

     

     

     

Brick Toys

'Brick Toys' by Krampfstadt Studio offers a collection of Foley sound effects specifically designed for brick toys. It includes sounds for various popular brands like Lego, Duplo, and Playmobil. Each sound is recorded in high quality at 32bit / 192 kHz, and the library is compatible with UCS.
 
  • Foley Sound Effects Brick Toys Play Track 69 sounds included, 17 mins total $35

    Foley sounds of brick toys, like Lego, Duplo, Gobriks, Sluban, Playmobil, Abrick, Minibricks, Mega, Nanoblock, Cobi, Mould King, Wange, CaDA, Nifeliz, JMBricklayer, Fun Little Toys, Fischertechnik, Burgkidz, Unico, BlueBrixx, Zurus, Light Stax, Cutedeer, Feleph, Artor Bricks… All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with Sonorous Objects SO.3 microphone & Zoom F3 recorder. Library is also available in UCS.

World Atmospheres – Gabon

'World Atmospheres – Gabon' by Moon Delight Sound features over 6 hours of field recordings capturing the essence of West Africa. From the roar of tropical thunderstorms to the buzz of vibrant markets, you'll find a diverse range of soundscapes, including cityscapes, beaches, unique industrial ambiences, and more.
 
  • Get the authentic sounds of West Africa with over 6 hours field recordings from Gabon.

    This library features a broad range of unique field recordings covering tropical thunderstorms, vibrant markets, walla, bustling city/beach soundscapes, a selection of unique industrial ambiences and even some rainforest atmospheres. The sounds were all recorded over a two week period in 2023 in the capital Libreville and the surrounding areas.

    All sounds were recorded using a Sound Devices Mixpre6ii with either a Rode NT5 stereo pair or a more covert DPA 4060 stereo pair, as well as 3 bonus mono sounds.

    All sounds are UCS compliant with burnt in metadata and PDF spreadsheet with sound list.

Ice & Fire – Cinematic Sound Effects

'Ice & Fire – Cinematic Sound Effects' by Gregor Quendel has fire and ice sound effects, both realistic and creatively designed. With over 300 sounds, it features impacts, crackles, ambiences, and more, catering to diverse needs, from subtle crackles to dramatic whooshes.
 
  • Bundles Ice & Fire – Cinematic Sound Effects Play Track 300+ sounds included, 42 mins total $25

    Ice & Fire contains 300+ cinematic Ice and Fire sound effects. It features impacts, cracks, ambiences, drones, textures, swooshes / wooshes, glitches, sequences, and more.

    Fire features 255 cinematic fire sound effects, ambiences, swooshes, whooshes, fly-bys, drones, textures, glitches and more, that range from heavily designed to basic elements. It explores the further sonic realms of a powerful element.

    User reviews:

    “”Designed Fire” is an absolutely fantastic collection. It provides a wide assortment of dynamic and believably exaggerated flame perspectives that are very well suited for portraying hyper-realism. If you need to portray flames in rather dynamic detail, you’ll appreciate having this in your library.”

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    Ice features 47 cinematic ice sound effects, designed field recordings and evolving textures, that combine the natural sounds of ice with otherworldly and experimental digital post-processing. The sounds range from heavily designed to basic elements.

    User reviews:

    “‘Designed Ice’ is an experimental library based on our favorite frozen liquid. These sounds of ice have been mangled and distorted beyond recognition to give their ‘essence’ through textures and moods for otherworldly experiences. These sounds crackle, tear, shatter, evolve, excite, glitch, and emote, imitating both living things like aliens and insects and instruments such as bells and horns. These sounds are designed to be used straight out of the box; however, don’t think they won’t inspire you to play with their 96kHz sample rate—or see what new effects you can achieve in your own recordings! If you are looking for an experimental or design inspiration, give this library a listen.” – A Sound Effect

     

    Fire Previews: https://soundcloud.com/gregorquendel/designed-fire-sound-effects-library

    Ice Previews: https://soundcloud.com/gregorquendel/designed-ice-sample-pack

     

    Content: 

    302 24bit/96kHz WAV files / UCS (Universal Category System) Meta-tagged (Soundminer)

    Designed Fire – 255 files / 1.17 GB

    Designed Ice – 47 files / 276 MB

    40+ Minutes in total

     

    Fire highlights:

    255 24bit / 96kHz WAV files / Meta-tagged (Soundminer)
    89 Swooshes / Wooshes
    75 Short elements
    29 Impacts
    28 Winds
    34 Textures

    Ice highlights:

    47 24bit / 96kHz WAV files / Meta-tagged (Soundminer)
    20 Elements
    17 Sequences
    10 Source Recordings

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Cute Casual Music Pack

'Cute Casual Music Pack' by SwishSwoosh provides 10 loopable music tracks to add a light and cheerful mood to your casual games. With various themes like upbeat, fun, and happy, this royalty-free pack is perfect for puzzle games, card games, or any casual and lighthearted project.
 
  • The Cute Casual Game Music & SFX Pack offers a delightful collection of fun and friendly tunes specifically designed to add charm and whimsy to your casual game. This gem offers a total of 15 minutes of playful and enchanting themes in the form of ten loopable music tracks giving you the perfect creative setting for your ideas. Generate a light and happy ambience for puzzle games, card and board games and anything that’s casual and fun. Cuteness overload!

Funny Orchestra 2

'Funny Orchestra 2' by Sun Sound Studio delivers a diverse pack of humorous music and sound effects for cartoons, games, and videos. It includes 50 catchy melodies in various styles like horror, humor, and fun, along with 27 loopable tracks spanning jazz, classical, and electronic music.
 
  • “Funny Orchestra 2” is here! More music, more hilarious melodies, more loops! And of course, there are amusing cartoon voices too! Whether it’s for cartoon animations, video games, or videos, this music is sure to satisfy you! One catchy melody that you can use at the beginning and end of your videos or games. We have 50 short tracks, encompassing various styles like horror, humor, and fun! Additionally, there are 27 loop tracks, including jazz, classical, and electronic music! And don’t forget the 53 adorable, silly, and entertaining cartoon voices!! With a total duration of 46 minutes, there are 203 WAV audio files in 96000Hz, 24-bit quality. We hope you’ll enjoy them!

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Windy Nature Vol 2

'Windy Nature Vol 2' by Soundscaper complements the first volume, offering another exploration of wind's diverse sounds across Tuscany, Italy. It features 24-bit/96kHz stereo recordings capturing the wind in various natural settings like valleys, forests, and grasslands, across all four seasons.
 
Fridge Hums Bundle

'Fridge Hums Bundle' by Jake Fielding Sound is a collection of refrigerator sound effects, like hums, buzzes, rumbles, and clicks. Combining sounds from "Fridge Hums" and "Fridge Hums Pt. 2," this bundle provides over 90 minutes of audio in various styles, from subtle background ambiences to deep, sci-fi tones.
 
Windy Nature Vol 1

'Windy Nature Vol 1' by Soundscaper immerses you in the diverse sounds of wind across Tuscany, Italy. This collection features stereo recordings capturing the wind's movement through various natural environments like valleys, forests, grasslands, and the countryside in each of the four seasons.
 
SANTA MONICA AIRPORT (SB107)

'SANTA MONICA AIRPORT (SB107)' by Sound Brigade features 129 recordings of take-offs, landings, and taxiing of various small aircraft like Cessna, Pilatus PC-7, and Steerman Bi-Plane from a small airport in Santa Monica, California. You can also hear rare military helicopters, pushback tug noises, and more.
 
  • SMALL AIRPORT AVIATION SOUNDS FOR YOUR PROJECT
    The SB107 SM AIRPORT Sounds Effects Library is a collection of helicopters, small commuter jets, single propeller, twin propeller sounds and more all recorded on a small airport runway.

    YOUR SECRET FOR SMALL AIRPORT AVIATION SOUNDS
    We spent a few days on the runway of the Santa Monica, California airport capturing a bunch of small aviation sounds not normally found in sound effects libraries. We then edited down the hours of recordings to come up with the most useful 129 sounds for you. This includes recordings of take-off and landing passbys from Cessna, Pilatus PC-7, Sia Marchetti Turbo, Steerman Bi-Plane, T-28 Trojan and other aircrafts. There’s even a plane landing tire chirp included this library. These sounds are focused on take-off, landings and engine taxiing at a small airport – including long tails on take-off and landing for realistic placement in your project. We even captured a few neat recordings of the pushback tug tractor and sounds from some rarely recorded military helicopters. Every file has Soundminer compliant metadata embedded, and an organized file naming structure, so you can spend less time searching, and more time creating.

Windy Nature

'Windy Nature' by Soundscaper provides a collection of wind recordings in diverse natural settings. Captured in Italy across four seasons, the library offers 24-bit, 96 kHz stereo recordings of wind sweeping through valleys, forests, woods, grasslands, and the countryside.
 
Casual Fun Music Pack

'Casual Fun Music Pack' by SwishSwoosh offers 12 loopable music tracks and 2 variations, perfect for adding a cheerful and upbeat mood to games and trailers. You get a variety of positive and energetic themes like joy, motivation, and happiness.
 
  • Casual Fun Music Pack is a great way to add a light, happy and energetic ambience to your game. Create an instant sense of fun, adventure and carefree joy with these happy, energetic, and loopable music tracks with their variations. Casual Fun Music Pack is ideal for cute fun and fast games, and is also a perfect companion for game trailers. Add a calypso-like bright and happy shine to your project with Casual Fun Music Pack. It’s packed with fun and smiles!

Fridge Hums Vol.2

'Fridge Hums Vol.2' by Jake Fielding Sound offers a diverse collection of over an hour of fridge hum recordings. Building on the original library, this expanded version features 26 files, including deep hums, electrical sounds, and unique natural textures.
 


 
 
THE WORLD’S EASIEST WAY TO GET INDEPENDENT SOUND EFFECTS:
 
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:

  • Foley Sound Effects Grenade Foley Play Track 1374 sounds included $15

    A focused collection of grenade foley, captured with precision using replica units. This library provides the essential, clean sounds of tactical handling, interaction, and impacts.

    Recorded at 96kHz/24-bit across various surfaces including steel plates, carpet, wood floorings, soil, and grass, this library offers variation for different environments. The recordings feature grenade shakes, surface impacts and rolls, pin pulls, spoon lever ejections, spoon drops, and tactical gear foley, all captured with Lewitt LCT 540 S and Shure SM7B.

    This is a practical toolkit for sound designers working in film, games, and other media, providing a tonal and versatile foundation for building realistic military action.

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  • Car Sound Effects Toyota MR2 1984 sports car Play Track 228 sounds included, 44 mins total $65

    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, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.

  • Animal Sound Effects Collections Botswana Play Track 49+ sounds included, 136 mins total From: $60

    Botswana Faunethic sound library is a unique collection of 49 sounds recorded through several national parks of the country (Okavango, Chobe,…). All these sounds has been recorded and produced with high quality equipment in multichannel.

    This collection offers a wide diversity of soundscapes and animals sounds such as:

    -Bush, savanna and forest soundscapes.
    -Hippopotamus grunt and vocals.
    -Elephants vocals, showering and drinking.
    -Zebras and impalas fighting.
    -Lion chasing an elephant during one night.
    -Birds and insects at different perspectives.
    -Villages

    If you want to hear more about this field recording trip, feel free to check this post.
    The multichannel version contains 40 tracks in native 4.0 and 9 tracks recorded in stereo only.

    This library provides authentic and interesting sounds, recorded with DPA, MBHO and Neumann mics powered by an Aeta 4minX.
    All Faunethic tracks includes metadata carefully edited, compatible with Soundminer, Soundly and Basehead.

Explore the full, unique collection here

Latest sound effects libraries:
 
  • Quietsub FX Complete Bundle

    Quietsub FX is a library of 15,055 sound effects at 24 bit 96,000 BWF. The library is organized into a number of collections related to specific categories, and a large miscellaneous category. The library was recorded to be as comprehensive as possible with an emphasis on quality and choice for users.

    The Complete Bundle includes the following parts:

    Quietsub FX gives you a wide ranging library of sound effects. Production of the library focused on creating high quality and choice for users, which ultimately is what creators want. This package is ideal for film, video, radio, podcast, and wherever sound effects are used.

    All files include metadata.

  • Quietsub FX Transportation

    An extensive collection of 1,321 Transportation sounds. If it has means of movement to carry people or goods, whether by engine or human propulsion, you’ll likely find it here.

    This collection comes in two parts. The transportation portion, and Transit Chimes.

    Transit Chimes: Transit Chimes are the sounds you hear all the time on public transportation. Dings, dongs, attention getters. This collection of 70 sound effects gives everything you need to satisfy your craving for these noises. Use them in your productions, or start your own transit system.

    Transportation: People are always going somewhere. And they sure make lots of noise doing it. Just about anything that moves people or freight can be found here.

    Recording for this category is outside the studio affair. A tremendous amount of time driving and walking around, as well as planting yourself in strategic locations where vehicles do their thing.

    • Cars general
    • Classic cars
    • Sports cars
    • Boats
    • Aircraft
    • Bicycles
    • Buses
    • Motorcycles
    • Trucks general
    • Garbage Truck
    • Highway and street backgrounds
    • Traffic sounds

    This extensive collection touches all the bases.

    Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.

  • Quietsub FX Video Transition Sound Effects

    A great collection of 128 Video Transition Sound Effects. These are designed to be used at video edit points to add impact.

    Video Editors will enjoy these video transition effects. In recent years, sound effects began appearing in videos to accompany the actual visual edit. This was the inspiration for creating this collection.

    There’s no better way to add depth to video edits than with short sounds and ramps. These work great with short video breakup visuals and flashes.

    This collection is made up of various wipes and transitions.

    Cut away. Chop, Hack etc. These sounds will make those video transitions more interesting.

    Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.

  • Quietsub FX Sci-Fi Sounds

    A collection of 192 Sci-Fi Sounds.

    There’s lots of science fiction out there, but still no little green men. Possibly that’s what makes sci-fi so popular. The dream of something you think may exist, but cannot be proven. Sci-Fi, of course, has its own sounds. In this collection of 183 sound effects, you will find most of what you will need to outfit your next spacecraft.

    Included in this collection:

    • Alien interiors
    • Blasters
    • Backgrounds
    • Space ship sounds

    Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.

  • Quietsub FX Mechanical Parts

    A collection of 159 mechanical sounds made by small motors. This is the result of a massive editing job involving small metal and plastic parts, and any other item made by humans and others.

    Stuff that clicks, winds, and moves by itself.

    This collection covers the world of small mechanics. Sounds in this collection include:

    • Clicking
    • Cranking
    • Metal levers
    • Metal movement
    • Winding
    • Running
    • Slowing
    • Squeaking

    You can get all wound up with this kind of thing. Something for any mechanical mind.

    Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.


   

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