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Posted April 2, 2014 by Asbjoern Andersen in New sound effects libraries

Voting for The Audio Spotlight’s SAMPLE DEVELOPER AWARDS 2014 ends Thursday, and this year they’ve included two SFX library award categories. If you want to help pick the winners, now’s a great time to vote – click the button below to start the voting process:

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Many of the finalists are available here on A Sound Effect, and if you want to learn more about them, get your hands on them – or just hear what they sound like – check them out below. Congratulations to all the nominees, and good luck!

Drones & Mood Sound Effects Around Bridges 1 (Dresden) Play Track 70 sounds included, 30 mins total $35

Around Bridges introduces the inner sound of various bridges.
The steel components of a bridge transmit the vibrations caused by passing cars or pedestrians in a fascinating manner.
So this library contains the sounds of excited beam barriers, noise barriers, expansion gaps and a lot more steel components that bridges are made of.
Also included are takes of footsteps, rain and wind – ordinary noises that get a certain magic when recorded at a handrail.
To round up this library several high quality AB-stereo ambiences of the acoustical surroundings of bridges are included.

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Around Bridges features sounds organised into 10 categories:

Ambience Below • Ambience Top • Beam Barriers • Expansion Gaps • Footsteps Handrails • Noise Barriers • Rain • Steel Structures • Wind

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Doom Drones Play Track 120 sounds included $99

Doom Drones contains more than 3Gb of eerie, doomful, dark, atmospheric field recordings, designed drones and backgrounds. Perfect for something in the realm of a David Lynch film, ambient music production, a horror film, or just to set the mood of a foreboding soundscape.

Each artist made 60 custom loops for a total of 120 loops. With SoundMorph focusing more on field recordings and subtle tonal design and Arovane focusing more on dynamic synthetic textures and sound design. Both perfectly suitable as layers or final assets, depending on their use, Doom Drones is a great addition for anyone wanting to enhance dark ominous moments.

All field recordings were captured with a mid/side stereo setup consisting of 2 Schoeps CMC6 bodies, Schoeps mk5 & mk8 capsules housed in a Rycote AE windshield running into a Sound Devices 722.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Floppy Drives Play Track 655 sounds included $49

The Floppy Drives sound effects library features recordings of seven computer disk drives: two 3.5″ floppy drives, one 5.25″ floppy drive, three Zip drives, and one SuperDisk drive.

All drives were taken apart to access and manipulate the stepper/eject motors to create unique sounds. These range from electronic percussive bleeps and glitchy noises, to electromechanical motor movements.

An Arduino UNO microcontroller board was connected to one of the 3.5″ floppy drives, allowing precise control of the drive’s stepper motor via custom software code. A midi keyboard was interfaced to the system, giving the ability to control the back-and-forth movement of the read/write heads via notes on the keyboard. This essentially turned the drive into an instrument, producing a new set of sounds not existing in the drive’s normal functions.

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Human Sound Effects Human Play Track 400 sounds included $25

We packed all the sonic variety of humanity into 400 sound fx, totalling over 1.6 gigabytes.

The Human sound effects library offers coughing, cooing, puking, sneezing, and sniffles. Laughing, grunting and groans join farts, burps, and belches. There are wolf whistles, cat calls, snoring, and others.

All takes are identified by performer so you can match similar takes. Includes men, women, and a four-month-old baby. Includes over 10 fields of rich Soundminer metadata.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Indecent Machines Play Track 347 sounds included $37

Indecent Machines is a sci-fi sample pack inspired by a concept of mechanical disrepair and emergent AI consciousness. It features 1.7 gigabytes of 24-bit/96khz samples and bundled Kontakt kits, created by producer/sound designer Chad Glenn.

These sounds originated from field and studio recordings of various machines which were then processed through custom DSP algorithms using Kyma and other sound design tools.

The result is a unique set of mutant robotics, mechanical snippets, evolving textures, rhythmic artifacts and menacing atmospheres appropriate for music and sound design projects of all kinds. Features 347 .wav files and 5 Kontakt kits (full version of NI Kontakt required for the Kontakt files).

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects LiquidMetal – Waterphone Play Track 263 sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$71

The LiquidMetal – Waterphone SFX pack contains a lot of great material for your next deep impact horror project, when you need eerie, suspenseful and deep sounds that bring the fear out in you and your audience.

We hit, rattled, bowed, snaped and swashed the real Waterphone – a unique instrument – for really formidable sounds.

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Sci-Fi Sound Effects Robobiotics Play Track 3600+ sounds included $140

Robobiotics is an exciting new sound effects collection from The Library by Empty Sea. It delivers 3600+ original sound effects for scifi and robots. We’re talking about almost 3 hours of material here.

We spent over a year recording and designing Lasers, Robot Vox, Impacts, Servos, Ratcheting Metal, Ambiances, Transformations, Foley, Vehicle Bys and much much more!

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Firearms Sound Effects Weapon Foley Play Track 708 sounds included $55

This is a collection of all of the mechanical sounds you can get out of handling the specific weapons.

Included are sounds from the Glock 9mm, Walther P22, Smith and Wesson .38 revolver, Heckler and Koch MP4, M4 Carbine and M24 Sniper Weapon System.

All sounds are recorded indoors with both close and medium perspectives, giving you both dry and wet options to speed up your design process.

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Wood Impacts Play Track 1671 sounds included $65

Wood Impacts features a large number of organic-sounding wooden crunches, impacts, metal+wood clashes and wood fiber explosions.

The sounds are organized into 10 different categories such as Hits, Movements, Digs, Cracks, Mangles – giving you lots of great and versatile material for your sonic arsenal!

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Animal Sound Effects Animal Hyperrealism Vol III Play Track 1711 sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$170

Animal Hyperrealism Vol III is a library containing sounds themed animal vocalisations, from real to designed creatures totaling more than 1700 individual sounds in 279 files.

The sounds were recorded in zoos and wildlife centers. The asset list includes but is not limited to: european red deers, monkeys, reindeers, hornbills camels, crickets, tamarins, boars, frogs, red ruffed lemurs, parrots, and many more.

The content has been recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K plus a Sennheiser 8050 for center image and a couple of Sennheiser MKH8040 for stereo image.
Part of the cheats section of the library features samples recorded at 384KHz. For these sounds an additional microphone was employed, specifically the CMPA by Avisoft-Bioacoustics which records up to 200 KHz. This microphone was used to record most of the library but the 384KHz format was preserved only where energy was found beyond 96KHz not to occupy unnecessary disk space.
All files are delivered as stereo bounce of these for mics, though in some instances an additional couple of CO100K was added to the sides.
The resulting ultrasonic spectrum is rich and allows for truly extreme manipulation of the content.

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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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Spells Variations Vol 3 Play Track 247 sounds included, 16 mins total $14

Spell Variations Vol. 3 brings a fresh wave of magical creativity and sonic variety. This collection dives deep into the mystical realm, offering everything from shimmering chime spells and celestial choirs, to demonic voices that feel torn from the depths of hell, along with earth-based magic, electric spells, powerful invocations, and more.

Inside, you’ll find 247 sound effects across 27 distinct types of magic, each with multiple variations. As with our previous volumes, these variations ensure each spell feels unique, even when reused throughout different moments in your project.

Each spell type is neatly organized into individual folders, giving you total flexibility when designing magical scenes, gameplay effects, or transitions. Whether you need a subtle magical aura or a powerful blast, you’ll have the perfect sound at your fingertips.

All sounds were recorded, edited, and mastered at 192 kHz / 24-bit, delivering high-end quality and broad adaptability. This library is perfect for professional sound designers and creators looking for high-quality, drag-and-drop magical sounds for 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

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Whoosh Sound Effects Tiny Transitions Play Track 565 sounds included $18

‘Tiny Transitions’ deivers 275 short Whooshes and other Transition sounds. Instead of the huge, more cinematic transitional sounds that you are accustomed to hear from SoundBits, this sound pack focuses more on the smaller, not-so-intrusive production elements that come in very handy for any Sound Designer, All-In-One Film Editor or Web-, App- and Game-Developers.

All these small motion-supporting elements that you need in your everyday work for game menus, apps, general motion designs, … or as parts of more complex moving stuff.

You get 275 designed sounds + a selection of 290 cleaned and edited source sounds that were used to design the Tiny Transitions. These sounds are mostly different props that are scraping or sliding on different surfaces and also some vocalized whoosh attempts.

All source sounds were recorded with Sonosax SX-R4+ and Sennheiser MKH8050+MKH30 M/S rig.

All sounds come with embedded Soundminer Metadata.

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Game Audio Packs - Game Sound Effects Libraries UI RPG Sound Effects Play Track 174 sounds included, 2 mins total $19.99
Enhance your game with the UI Menu RPG Sound Effects Pack, featuring 174 carefully designed sound effects. Created for high-quality user interface interactions, this pack includes sounds for select, deny, and access actions, perfect for RPGs and other genres. But these versatile effects go beyond just menus—they can be used to elevate action, skills, magic, combat, motion, and more. Whether you’re building intricate gameplay systems or immersive user interfaces, this extensive collection offers the dynamic, rich sounds you need to bring your project to life.

Features:
- 174 universal user interface sounds for any type of game
- High-quality sounds for the most commonly used categories
- Can be used not only for UI, but perfect for any genre
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Game Audio Packs - Game Sound Effects Libraries Transmission Sound Effects Play Track 104 sounds included, 20 mins total $7.99
Elevate your game with this Transmission/Glitchy sound effects pack, designed to add a dynamic, futuristic edge to your project. Perfect for enhancing the user experience, these high-quality, glitch-inspired sounds are ideal for creating technical malfunctions, digital disturbances, or sci-fi-themed environments. Whether you’re working on a cyberpunk game, a tech-heavy adventure, or any project in need of glitchy, electronic audio, this pack will help you immerse your audience with compelling, atmospheric effects that bring your digital world to life.

Features:
- Transmissions
- Glitches
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Environments & Ambiences Fantasy Jungle Ambiences Play Track 18 sounds included, 60 mins total $17.99

Enter the mystical heart of an ancient, otherworldly wilderness with Fantasy Jungle — a curated collection of 18 designed stereo ambience tracks, totaling 1 hour, 31 minutes, and 41 seconds of immersive fantasy jungle soundscapes.

Each track is a richly textured sonic environment where strange birds call from the treetops, mysterious creatures chirp and chatter in the shadows, and the soothing sounds of flowing water, rustling leaves, and gentle winds form a vivid natural backdrop. This ambience set is ideal for adding depth and life to fantasy worlds, game environments, audio dramas, or creative writing sessions.

Crafted with care and detail, all files are delivered in high-quality stereo WAV format, with embedded metadata for easy organization and integration into your workflow.

Product Features:

·         18 stereo WAV files

·         Total runtime: 1:31:41

·         Fantasy wildlife & jungle ambience – strange birds, unknown creatures, wind, and water

·         Metadata embedded for seamless library management

·         Loopable-friendly for continuous playback

·         Perfect for RPGs, games, film, podcasting, and immersive storytelling

Let Fantasy Jungle breathe life into your magical worlds — where every chirp, breeze, and ripple tells a story beyond the veil of the ordinary.

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Household Sound Effects Extra Coins Play Track 179 sounds included, 24 mins total $9.99

EXTRA COINS – is an auxiliary sound library containing 179 unique sound effect files of real metal coins. From spare change and coin sacks to individual coins being handled and dropped. Whether it’s metallic clanking and ringing or the old familiar sound of a hand full of coins you’re looking for; This Extra sound effects library will help supplement any of your coin money needs, for your next project. Extra Coins comes in at over 24 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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Car Sound Effects Mazda MX-5 Miata 1998 sports car Play Track 224 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.

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