This week we have a huge recap from 24 contributing SFX library creators! Get ready to hear everything from birds to braams to "bye" in Japanese!
Sound library highlight by Adriane Kuzminski
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If you are looking for hard-to-find ambiences, take a listen to the new libraries of busy South Africa, idyllic France, a Finnish peninsula, and a Virginian resort - plus, check out the new collection of European birds.
If you need new sounds for your films and games, we have Hollywood-quality cinematic strings, new designed game footsteps, a massive trailer bundle, two captivating monster libraries, granular microbots, and technomany and cyberpunk elements.
And if you're looking to add a new category to your sound library, we have sounds of horse-drawn carriages, a tin workshop, Japanese anime vocals, massive collapsing rocks, traveling Humpback whales, '70s to '90s audio devices, fancy gaming keyboards, wet chamois and modern cloth Foley, cooking and food prep, and some nostalgic cartoon arrows.
Happy November and happy listening!
Sound library highlight by Adriane Kuzminski
'Whale Song' by Mindful Audio is a collection of underwater recordings of humpback whales singing and calling in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Madagascar. These soundscapes were recorded in pseudo-stereo with two hydrophones and also include the sounds of corals, fish, shrimp and water movement.
'SlipStream' by Brin Sound is a trailblazing sci-fi elements and energy SFX library. Go out of this world and into a detailed universe of technomancy, extraterrestrial, and cyberpunk. Ignite your creativity with show-stopping cinematic moments, or layer for flavor.
'Microbots 2' by PMSFX has designed small robotic sound effects. It consists of robotic movements that are granulized, resynthesized, reversed, distorted, powerful, aggressive, and cinematic, as well as servos that are granulized, vocodized, complex, and simple.
'Rocks' by Sound of Italy is a collection of 700+ designed rock and stone sound effects. You will be able to design intense, breathtaking moments with single stone impacts, large heavy collapsing rocks, avalanches, rock slides sounds, rolling and falling stones, debris sounds, and more!
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The ROCKS Library is a collection of more than 700 designed rock and stone sound effects, ready to use.
From single stone impacts to large heavy collapsing rocks, avalanches, rockslides sounds, rolling and falling stones, debris sounds….Originally recorded at 192 kHz with two Sennheiser MKH8040, a Sanken CO-100K and a Sound devices Mixpre 6. Delivered at 96Khz.
Each sound file has been carefully named and tagged for easy search in Soundminer and is Universal Category System (UCS) compliant.(see the full track list below).
'Horse Carriage – Draft Horse' by Dramatic Cat features Sybelle de Bauvais, a beautiful Percheron mare recorded with and without the carriage. It features this huge draft horse walking, trotting and galloping on surfaces like concrete, dirt, gravel, sand, grass, and others.
'Finnhamn – Sounds From The Kvarken Archipelago' by Sound Awareness is a collection of natural soundscapes recorded in the Finnish nature during one year. Finnhamn is a small peninsula in the Kvarken World Heritage Site. Here you can find both wild coastal and calm archipelago landscapes, an old growth forest, wetland, lakes and open plains.
'Signature Strings' by RT Sonics will keep your audience at the edge of their seats with Hollywood-level production sounds! Created by a team of award-winning sound designers whose credits include Soul, Bullet Train, Finch, The Outsider, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Mortal Shell, Minecraft Dungeons, etc.!
'Cooking and Food Prep' by Celine Woodburn has sounds of cooking and food preparation. This expertly-crafted library will add spice, sizzle, bubble and boil to your project. It includes sounds of a blow torch, flambé, kneading dough, knife sharpening, mortar and pestle use, a pressure cooker, wok frying, egg whisking, and more.
'Monsters Sounds' by Systematic Sound has cool monstrous sounds including big monsters, devils, arachnids, demons, giants, golems, reptiles, werewolves, demonic imps, and more! In this library, you'll hear unreal shouts, combat sounds, and flesh and blood.
'Monster Sound FX Pack 1' by David Dumais Audio is part of a series of creative and captivating monster sounds inspired by the latest films and games. It has carefully designed sounds filled with character and life in order to bring a new experience to the listener.
'European Birds' by Sound Armoury by Sound Armoury has a wide variety of birds “one shot” and “multi” audio files along with variants to avoid commonly triggered sound from seeming repetitive. It includes recordings of a carrion crow, chicken, dunnock, Eurasian blackbird, blackcap, blue tit, jackdaw, greenfinch, European robin, Guinea fowl, and more!
'Sound Themes – Modern Cloth Foley 01' by Systematic Sound has meticulously recorded and precisely edited universal Foley performances of various cloth pieces and accessories that will help any sound designer without access to a Foley Artist. Great for polishing up existing performances with great sounding sweeteners and tagging the right sounds for animation.
'Cartoon Arrow Sound Effect Pack 01' by Debsound has funny cartoon arrow and spring sounds inspired by classic funny cartoons. This collection is ideal for use in game software, applications, commercials, movies, TV shows, videos, animation, and any other entertainment industry where a high-quality audio effect is essential.
'Gaming Keyboards' by Vadi Sound Library has 200+ stereo sounds of typing, keystroke, writing, tapping, clacking, pressing buttons, mouse clicks and more from gaming keyboards. They are hard, soft, slow, medium pace, random, soft burst, single, long, varied speeds from SteelSeries, Brown Switch, Rampage, and Apple Magic gaming keyboards.
'Audio devices' by Krampfstadt Studio has 100 sounds from 41 devices, including radios, tape machines, CD players, car radios, cassette players, recorders, gramophones, etc. They are recorded in 32bit / 192 kHz with Rode NTG1 and FEL Pluggy XLR EM272 microphones, a Sound Devices MixPre-6 II, and Zoom F3 recorders.
'MatiasMacSD Trailer Bundle' by MatiasMacSD contains 5 intense and powerful packs focused on trailers. You will get signature braams, signature pings, trailer booms, atmospheric elements, trailer clocks and action-focused cinematic rhythmic loops. Great for action movies and trailers.
'Designed Game Footsteps' by Epic Stock Media features 5,442 footstep sound effects with 325+ sound sets across 25+ surface types and shoe aesthetics. It gives you a hybrid mix of realistic and imaginative sound sets for common and abstract characters like game creatures, robots, NPCs, dinosaurs, giants, monsters and humanoid characters running and walking.
'The Townhouse Audio Playset' by UberDuo features the Massanutten Resort tucked into the mountains of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, US. This collection has recordings from the living room, kitchen, dining room, bathroom, sauna, jacuzzi, two different bedrooms, and a loft from these 1,520 square foot townhouses.
'French Provence Nature' by Useful Sound Effects has recordings from the South of France, around Baux de Provence, Uzès, Nîmes and other areas. You will find multiple Cicadas with their local accent, as well as bird choruses, frogs, summer bird songs, Autumn ambiences, abandoned rural village sounds, the famous Mistral wind, and more!
'Tin Jewelry Workshop' by Articulated Sounds is a collection of sounds from a tin workshop. It includes recordings of creating jewelry, using different kinds of tools and machinery, and precise and delicate manipulation of tin metal. It is a unique set of sounds!
'South African Ambiences – Exteriors 2' by TheWorkRoom Audio Post is a uniquely South African library with a mixture of exterior ambiences ranging from quiet streets to busy soccer games to taxi ranks. If you like this collection, be sure to check out 'South African Ambiences – Interiors 2', too!
'Anime Vocals Sound Vol.1' by WOW Sound has anime-inspired female Japanese vocals inspired by '80s and '90s movie masterpieces, and it even comes with translation guide! For example: Hello – こんにちは / What’s up? – どうしたの? / Have we met before? – あったこと、ある?
'The Foley Vault: Wet Chamois' by 344 Audio is home to an ever-growing collection of original Foley recordings captured by professional Foley Artists on 344's in-house stage using a Sennheiser MKH 50. These sounds were originally performed for a variety of feature and short films.
