9 new sound libraries Asbjoern Andersen


This week on A Sound Effect, we have 9 new libraries with the interesting elements to help you reach your milestone. We have sounds for games like musical jingles and futuristic weapons, and we have libraries with memorable tones like mystifying moody drones, sci-fi transitions, and cinematic braams. Plus, we have some organic sounds of swordplay, vintage and modern electronics, books impacts, and urban rain, too. Happy listening!
Duello
 
  • Duello features sounds sourced from the esteemed swordplay and martial arts training facility Acadamie Duello located in Vancouver, Canada.  This library contains a variety of sounds that can be used for fencing, swordplay, dueling and more!

    Arming Sword – 91 files
    Buckler (Small Shield) – 13 files
    Épée – 96 files
    Greatsword – 57 files
    Longsword – 90 files
    Polestaff – 14 files
    Rapier Hilted Épée – 119 files
    Sword Whooshes – 49 files

'Duello' by Brad Dyck & Tim McCann Sound has tons of swordplay and martial art sounds that will give your fight scenes that perfect 'shing!'. With nearly 530 sounds each on their own track, you will get recordings of greatswords, longswords, small shields, polestaffs, rapiers, and more. You'll also get tons of whooshes to put your blades in action. If you need ready-to-go sounds of swordplay, this one won't let you down.
 
Rain City
 
  • Weather Sound Effects Rain City Play Track 84 sounds included, 230 mins total $59

    Rain City is a HQ sound effects library featuring 84 recordings captured on various indoor and outdoor locations, in peaceful urban environments.

    You will find various types and intensities of rainfall, from subtle drizzle on tile rooftops and construction sites, to after-hours heavy rain on the city streets and downpours against car windows, Plexiglas rooftop panels, umbrellas and more.

'Rain City' by Sound Ex Machina features 84 recordings of rain from both indoor and outdoor locations. From light rain to downpours, the precipitation in this library falls on quiet urban areas to include rooftops, streets, and parks, as well as car windows, umbrellas, puddles, buckets, machinery, and more. Though they were recorded in a city, these recordings are surprisingly clean and flexible, and you will also receive excellent metadata. Not much more to say other than listen for yourself!
 
Books & Magazines
 
  • 87 recordings of books and magazines in various sizes and weights, having their pages turned and flipped, being slammed shut, moved around on shelves and more.

    Recorded in 2017 with a stereo shotgun microphone. All sounds are arranged into 4 categories, according to the nature of the recording: Pages, Shelf, Shut and Table.

    All sounds were recorded and edited at 24-bit / 96Khz resolution and mastered to broadcast quality, with only the best final sounds selected for this collection. Each audio file includes embedded meta-data.

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'Books & Magazines' by 3MAZE has 87 sounds of books being handled in various ways. You will hear sounds of these publications being flipped over on a table, slammed shut, and moved around on shelves. And of course, there are plenty of sounds of page turns. Each sound was also recorded at 96kHz and is in its own file for quick implementation. If you need sounds of paperbacks and hardcovers in action, check this one out.
 
Designed Weapons
 
  • Firearms Sound Effects Designed Weapons Play Track 216 sounds included, 8 mins total $40

    'Designed Weapons' by Cinematic Sound Design features a selection of designed weapons, weapon loadings, re-programmings, interface sounds & cinematic backgrounds. Designed specifically for 'First Person Shooter' games and any game & media project, where guns, sci-fi elements are essential, this unique product delivers a massive palette of sounds for your production library.

    Product Details:

    • 86 Designed Weapons: Bursts & One Shots
    • 30 Cinematic Atmospheres & Drones
    • 97 Sci-Fi Re-programmings & Weapon Loadings
    • 3 Distant Explosions
    • 216 files in total

'Designed Weapons' by Cinematic Sound Design is a fresh new sci-fi weapons library that will bring your arsenal into a new millennium. With 86 designed bursts and one-shots, 30 cinematic drones, 97 weapons loadings and re-programmings, and 3 distant explosions, this library will cover more of your needs than you probably anticipated! These intricately designed assets are ready to go for your game to make a big impression on your players. For AAA quality FPS sounds, give this one a listen.
 
Unreal Ambiences
 
'Unreal Ambiences' by The Sound Pack Tree has 115 ambiences that will add a certain mood to your project. With mysterious drones, terrifying hollow wind, echoing landscapes, and screaming glitches, this creative library will immerse your audience and cause them to heighten their senses. You also get Shepard tones, pulsing ambiences, sci-fi alarms, engine rooms, tonal elevators, and pretty much anything else you could think of! For a library that ranges from chaotic to quietly unnerving, this one will inspire you.
 
Game Stingers And UI SFX Pack 2
 
'Game Stingers And UI SFX Pack 2' by W.O.W Sound has 278 retro and modern game sounds for your mobile and indie experiences. You get lots of musical jingles that will reinforce or discourage your players' actions, as well as stingers and sound effects for your notifications, buttons, impacts, and more. This library compiles 6 past libraries from the team, to include 'Pixel Platformer', 'Fun Action', and others, so if you're looking for a deal, you found one here!
 
Bleeps, Sweeps and Creeps
 
'Bleeps, Sweeps and Creeps' by Derek Brown is a library with beeps, hums, whirs, buzzes, and static to fit your modern and retro electronic needs. With over 90 sounds, you'll get recordings from pinball and arcade cabinets, consoles (from the SNES to Xbox One), and VHS, DVD and record players, as well as electronic sounds from laptops, routers, tablets, cameras, tools, a Toyota Tundra, and more! These files are very well-organized with detailed metadata, so you won't have trouble finding the perfect sound for your project.
 
The Transition
 
  • Whoosh Sound Effects The Transition Play Track 127 sounds included, 18 mins total $25

    “The Transition” is a collection of 127 Transition Sound Effects (Wav, 24 Bit / 96 kHz) aimed to enhance atmospheres, create movement and enrich musical compositions.
    The sounds have a very futuristic and powerful feeling and for that reason are great for Sci-fi productions (trailers, movies, games).
    Special attention was put in the dynamics to ensure the creation of a set of sounds with energy and adaptability.

    Categories included:Experimental • Fast • Flanger • Glitch • Mystery • Reverse • Sci-fi • Tremolo

'The Transition' by MatiasMacSD is a collection of 127 transition sounds that will help you create movement in your scenes. With a thick sci-fi sound palette, you will be able to add mysterious tones, pulsating pass-bys, and echoing textures to your project for a distinct and energetic futuristic feel. The library has also been categorized as Experimental, Fast, Flange, Glitch, Mystery, Reverse, Sci-fi, and Tremolo to help you find what you need. For sound design and music, give these complex, evolving sounds a listen.
 
Trailer Elements
 
'Trailer Elements' by TH Studio Production is a powerful library that will shake your audience and leave them intrigued. With huge metal hits, braams, dramatic rises, dark drones, climactic booms, and more, these sounds will set the mood quickly, even if you only have 15 seconds on YouTube to do so. With 136 sounds and 17 instruments for Kontakt, you'll be able to match every cut-to-black and suspenseful peak with ease. Whether you're designing a quick attention-getter or a full 2-minute scoop, this library will help you make the most of your trailer.
   

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Popular sound effects this week:

 
  • Khron Studio - Spells Variations Vol 4

    Spell Variations Vol. 4 marks the grand finale of our magical sound series, delivering a diverse and powerful collection of spell effects. Inside, you’ll find summonings, blood spells, petrifications, healing spells, dark incantations, and much more!

    This volume includes 255 high-quality sound effects, organized into 27 distinct spell types, each with multiple variations (3 to 17) to ensure no spell sounds the same, even when reused across your project.

    Each spell type is carefully named and sorted into individual folders, giving you intuitive navigation and maximum flexibility for magical scenes, game effects, or cinematic transitions.

    Recorded, edited, and mastered in 192 kHz / 24-bit, these sounds deliver exceptional clarity and full adaptability for pitching, layering, or creative processing.

    A must-have library for professional sound designers seeking drag-and-drop magical sounds for video games, trailers, animations, or any audiovisual 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
    – 255 spell sounds
    – Number of Audio Waves: 255
    – Format: 192KHz / 24 bits
    – Win/Mac: Yes
    – Minutes of audio provided: 19:21

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  • Uncategorized Overkill – Gore And Splatter Play Track 3390 sounds included, 160 mins total $149

    Unleash pure audio carnage with OVERKILL – a brutally detailed 5.7 GB sound library featuring 3390 hyperreal gore sound effects across 607 files. Whether you’re designing subtle, skin-crawling tension or full-blown splatter mayhem, Overkill gives you the raw, visceral tools to cover the entire spectrum of gore – from nuanced realism to over-the-top brutality.

     

    DESIGN KIT (360 Sounds – 60 Files)

    A collection of brutally crafted, drag-and-drop sound effects, organized into game-ready actions and categories.

    • Stab: Precise, piercing attacks with bladed weapons like knives, daggers, and swords.
    • Hit: Brutal strikes using blades such as machetes, katanas, and sabres.
    • Cut: Clean or messy slices delivered by weapons like katanas, knives, machetes, and sabres.
    • Slam: Heavy, crushing blows with blunt weapons like warhammers, morning stars, flails, crowbars – and even axes used with brute force.
    • Crush: Full-on head or body crushes – whatever happens when too much pressure turns flesh and bone into pulp.
    • Explode: Full-on body explosions – when guts, bones, and blood violently erupt in every direction at once.

    All of these categories are featured in both a realistic, organic style and an exaggerated, highly stylized, over-the-top version.

    In addition the Design Kit features Projectile Impacts from Guns, Shotguns and Arrows.

     

    BUILDING BLOCKS (384 Sounds – 64 Files)

    The goal behind our Building Blocks is to provide pre-designed sound layers that streamline your workflow. We’ve created straightforward, easy-to-use categories that let you quickly build new sounds or enhance your own designs.

    All following categories are available in both Wet and Dry:

    • Impact: Ideal as punchy sweeteners for heavy weapon hits and brutal moments.
    • Whoosh: Quick, clean lead-ins to enhance any kind of gore sound.
    • Crack: Perfect for highlighting the snap of shattered bones and broken bodies.
    • Tail: Drag and drop to add lingering, gruesome sustain to your gore effects.

     

    CONSTRUCTION KIT (2653 Sounds – 483 Files)

    For our Construction Kit, we wanted to give you the best of both worlds to meet (or should we say meat) all your needs. You’ll get cleaned raw recordings for full flexibility in your own processing, plus pre-processed and layered sounds to spark creativity, fuel inspiration, and give you everything you need for hyperrealistic gore design.

    Our Construction Kit includes:

    • Blood: Vile drips, juicy splatters, and bone-chilling squeezes.
    • Gut: Rich with drops, impacts, squishes, and visceral movement.
    • Flesh: Brutal impacts, rips, strains, and movements.
    • Bone: Crisp breaks and sharp snaps.
    • Texture: Hyperrealistic wet and dry constant textures.
    • Weapon: Resonant metal slices, stabs, and hits, as well as whooshes for weapon hits and ricochets.
  • Destruction & Impact Sounds Metamorphosis Play Track 2328 sounds included $190

    Metamorphosis is a huge collection of recorded source, synthesized material and hybrid sounds. The library was created to cover a wide range of themes, with rich textures, aggressive impacts and a large selection of pass bys, bass drops, pyrotechnics and many more types of material.

    All of the Recorded Section was captured at 384KHz with microphones capable of recording up to 200KHz among with more conventional mics. The resulting assets are sounds that can be stretched to new extremes for greater sound design opportunities.
    In many cases I took the liberty to slow down the assets while editing the sounds to deliver what I thought was the most useful version of a given recording though in most cases I have also included other takes at the original 384KHz sample rate to get the best of both worlds.

    All of the Synthesized Content was created in Serum while the Hybrid Section was created by manipulating the Recorded and Synthesized sounds.

    Techniques such as morphing were used to blur the lines in between the nature of the two sources, making for ambiguous yet extremely versatile material that can be employed on both realistic and abstract designs.

    Bonus: Two extra libraries included for free:
    This library also includes two additional releases from Mattia Cellotto - for free: Crunch Mode delivers 230 crunchy sounds made with a variety of vegetables, fresh bread, pizza crust and a selection of frozen goods. The Borax Experiment gets you 158 squishy, gory, slimy and gooey sounds.

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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:

  • 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 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.

  • 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

Explore the full, unique collection here

Latest sound effects libraries:
 
  • 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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  • 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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