New Sound Effects: Grit, Futuristic Weapons & Soundscapes, Magic, Hybrid Cars And Piping Sounds

New sound effects libraries in February 2016

Posted February 7, 2016 by Asbjoern Andersen in New sound effects libraries

Lots of excellent SFX libraries have been added since the last roundup – check out some of the highlights below:

Grit

Destruction & Impact Sounds Grit Play Track 400+ sounds included $18

An onslaught of movement and force using various granularities of dirt-like substances. It’s all in the name. Dirty, gravelly, and ragged.

In this library you will find a myriad of gritty movement sounds derived from 4 different granularities: Course, Medium, Fine, and Ultrafine. There are sweeps, smears, crushes, scatterings, drops, scrapes, rubs, and more, with multiple variations of each. The assets chain together particularly well so that you can use them to make long continuous runs.

The timbre and dynamics of these sounds lend them to be used for many different designs than just scrapes and scratches, such as movement in snow or sand, powerful bursts, high energy flames, shifting heavy objects, large beast vocalizations (dragons, anyone?), and more. As well, their metadata is organized conveniently to allow you to grab chunks of variations on similar movements and drop them into your favorite audio implementation software for quick assignment to random containers or sequences for an asset or call.

This library will almost always find itself being thrown into a creative media project one way or another. Its full of a particular cornerstone sound that is essential to any sounds designer’s toolbox. And with such a variety and versatility to explore, we promise it will serve you well.

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A really great idea from Eiravaein Works: Gritty movement sounds from 4 different granularities: Course, Medium, Fine, and Ultrafine. There are sweeps, smears, crushes, scatterings, drops, scrapes, rubs, and more, with multiple variations of each.

Future Weapons 2

Firearms Sound Effects Future Weapons 2 Play Track 527+ sounds included $99

The top-selling futuristic weapons series returns with Future Weapons 2: An all-new collection of the most cutting-edge weapon sounds made for the future.

We spent months recording and designing all-new sounds to bring you the freshest set we could. Great-sounding guns, blasters, reloads, foley, and much more!

Includes sounds such as:
Ammunition – Reloads Foley • Bass Layers • Big Friggin' Gun • Bio Gun • Blaster • Blaster Layers • Blaster Layers • Bolt Pomp Gun • Electro Gun • Electro Rocket • Energy Gun • Explosions • Future Hand Gun • Gamma Ray • Impulse Gun • Kerosene Gun • Laser Layers • Machine Gun • Mines • Nine Inch Nail Cannon • Plasma Gun • Power • Random Source • Rifle Laser • Ripper Fast gun • Transform Layers • Weapons Foley

Be sure to also check out the first Future Weapons collection, these two collections are must-haves! Created in collaboration with the Russian sound design team from Principle Sound Design, Future Weapons 2 features more than 500+ sounds and 1.2GB of 24bit/96khz .WAV files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer and Basehead metadata, including:

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The future weapons series from SoundMorph returns with a vengeance. This one is done in collaboration with Russian sound team Principle Sound Design and features more than 500 powerful, futuristic weapon SFX.

Phantom Magic

Magic & Fantasy Sound Effects Phantom Magic Play Track 545 sounds included, 31 minutes mins total $29

Now you can harness supernatural powers in sound design and bring peak levels of mesmerizing magic to your next project. Phantoms in the night, mischievous wizards, sorcerers conjuring black magic, supernatural creatures and telekinetic objects all come to life in fantastic 96k/24bit sound with Phantom Magic. The library delivers game trinkets, spells and sparkles, casts and conjures, potions and power-ups, shields and revives, lightning impacts, transitions, whooshes, and more.

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Get the sounds of spells, sparkles and magic in this new release from Epic Stock Media. More than 500 magical sound effects are included in the pack.

Hybrid Electric Car

Car Sound Effects Hybrid Electric Car Play Track 100 sounds included $59

The Hybrid Electric Car SFX library features a collection of exterior and interior sounds from a 2007 Toyota Prius. A majority of the recording was conducted at El Mirage Lake, a six mile long dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert, 90 miles north of Los Angeles.

This barren landscape, unique for its miles of completely flat terrain, is a popular filming location for automobile commercials and feature films. The recording sessions took place late in the evening and early in the morning, when the surroundings were completely silent.

An ample collection of exterior pass bys, starts, and stop recordings on pavement, gravel, and dry lake bed are included. Speeds range from 5MPH to 80MPH from only running on the electric motor/battery pack, to pushing the Prius’ gas engine towards its max. Other sounds such as washer/wipers, electric motor and gas engine idling complete the collection.

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A classic library from New Sound Lab, this one captures the sound of a Toyota Prius hybrid electric car. It was recorded on a dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert, and delivers a large selection of hybrid car sound effects to work with.

Piping Systems

Drones & Mood Sound Effects Piping Systems Play Track 46 sounds included, 110 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$49

Get the sounds of gas and water running through massive and tiny pipes, at three processing sites closed to the public.

This library delivers the sounds of a gas control station, a sewage plant and a waterworks. We recorded the hissing of gas, low drones of water rushing through massive pipes, and the sounds of various stages of sewage processing, recorded indoors and outdoors in multiple locations and rooms throughout the three facilities. The library includes close-up sound effects, indoor and outdoor ambiences, and features ambiences and stereo contact mic recordings of active gas and water pipes, capturing the various resonating pipes in isolation.

Total play time of all recordings is just under 2 hours.

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David Kamp from ShapingWaves got special access to three processing plants that are normally closed to the public. The result is an interesting library that delivers a unique collection of gas, water and sewerage rushing through pipes + some great ambience recordings.

Dreamscape Vol 2

Drones & Mood Sound Effects Dreamscapes vol.2 Play Track 21 sounds included, 22 mins total $10

Dreamscapes is a collection of versatile, carefully crafted drones and textures, that would take you away into the deep unknown realms. The pack includes all kinds of moods: from low-rumbling environmental ambiences and spacey drones, to the divine and transparent textures. All sounds are seamless loops, thus will fit perfectly in any project including games, with no additional tailoring required.

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A new release by Digital Rain Lab, this one gets you a selection of sci-fi drone sounds at a very affordable price.

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Firearms Sound Effects Analogue Ordnance Play Track 6300+ sounds included, 293 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$96

Analogue Ordnance is a massive construction kit for science fiction weapon sounds, made entirely with hardware synthesizers, mastered entirely in the analogue domain, and with more variations per sound than any library of its kind. Absolutely no software plug-ins of any kind were used in its creation, except for its collection of ready-to-use designed sounds to show what can be done with the library’s constituent parts.

Masterminded by sound designer Nathan Moody, this library’s unique sonic language delivers about five hours of material, pushed hard through op amps, transistors, tubes, and transformers. Boutique and unique, customized synthesizer modules were used in conjunction with mastering-grade studio hardware to create sounds that range from retro and cute to modern and devastating.

Sounds are organized into mechanical, thump, body, tail, and charge-up groups for truly modular weapon construction. Each group has six to eight “banks” of related sounds, many with intensity (light, heavy) and duration (short, medium, and long) options. Nearly all sounds include 16 variations. In addition to the construction kit elements, some fully-designed weapon sounds are provided (using only the sounds from the construction kit), designed by Nathan Moody, Chase Steele, Axel Steichen, and Sergio Ronchetti.

But the flexibility doesn’t stop there. Reversing the sounds suddenly turns charge-ups into body elements, and vice versa. Each group has some frequency overlap with the others, so they can be mixed interchangeably outside of their labeled or intended uses with filtering and time/pitch manipulation. While the sounds are designed to be layered with themselves, this library plays very well with others, providing thousands of sweeteners to “tech up” any near-future gun or projectile-based firearm, magical attacks, superhuman abilities, or even user interface elements.

Add some hardware to your warfare. From concealable stun pistols to orbital artillery, Analogue Ordnance provides a fresh injection of new source material for your sci-fi weapon designs.

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Foley Sound Effects Massive Air Play Track 3793 sounds included, 182 mins total $18.99

MASSIVE AIR – is an extensive sound library containing 3793 unique files of various types of air, real and imagined. From gentle Blowing, violent Bursts and searing Hisses to strong Suction and everything Miscellaneous. All of our libraries comply with the Universal Category System naming convention standard, allowing for accurate and easy granular searches.

‘Massive’ Libraries – is our take at recreating sound effects through the use of state-of-the-art resynthesis, this approach generates semi-accurate recreations and mimics the target sound effect, however this method also produces novel and unexpected results. These are our otherwise more “Experimental” libraries.

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Animal Sound Effects Animal Footsteps Foley Play Track 111 sounds included From: $15

This is a library complied of various animal footsteps on various surfaces. A one stop shop for all your wildlife documentary needs.

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Firearms Sound Effects Analogue Ordnance Play Track 6300+ sounds included, 293 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$96

Analogue Ordnance is a massive construction kit for science fiction weapon sounds, made entirely with hardware synthesizers, mastered entirely in the analogue domain, and with more variations per sound than any library of its kind. Absolutely no software plug-ins of any kind were used in its creation, except for its collection of ready-to-use designed sounds to show what can be done with the library’s constituent parts.

Masterminded by sound designer Nathan Moody, this library’s unique sonic language delivers about five hours of material, pushed hard through op amps, transistors, tubes, and transformers. Boutique and unique, customized synthesizer modules were used in conjunction with mastering-grade studio hardware to create sounds that range from retro and cute to modern and devastating.

Sounds are organized into mechanical, thump, body, tail, and charge-up groups for truly modular weapon construction. Each group has six to eight “banks” of related sounds, many with intensity (light, heavy) and duration (short, medium, and long) options. Nearly all sounds include 16 variations. In addition to the construction kit elements, some fully-designed weapon sounds are provided (using only the sounds from the construction kit), designed by Nathan Moody, Chase Steele, Axel Steichen, and Sergio Ronchetti.

But the flexibility doesn’t stop there. Reversing the sounds suddenly turns charge-ups into body elements, and vice versa. Each group has some frequency overlap with the others, so they can be mixed interchangeably outside of their labeled or intended uses with filtering and time/pitch manipulation. While the sounds are designed to be layered with themselves, this library plays very well with others, providing thousands of sweeteners to “tech up” any near-future gun or projectile-based firearm, magical attacks, superhuman abilities, or even user interface elements.

Add some hardware to your warfare. From concealable stun pistols to orbital artillery, Analogue Ordnance provides a fresh injection of new source material for your sci-fi weapon designs.

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Whoosh Sound Effects Airy Whooshes 2 Play Track 533 sounds included $29

Introducing Airy Whooshes 2, the successor to our popular Airy Whooshes 1 sound library!

Airy Whooshes Sound Clips
There are thousands of swoosh sounds out there. Sometimes you just want a simple, plain whoosh sound.

Airy Whooshes 2 was designed to help – it cuts through the clutter to find the perfect whoosh sound. It features over 500 classic whoosh sounds that are high-pitched, subtle, and plain. They’re just the thing to add flair to knife swipe sounds, sword swing sweep clips, or fights with punch whooshes. They’re also a perfect fit for car chase whip bys, anime speed accents, logo fly-ins, game audio inventory drops, and much more.

Over 500 easy-to-use classic swipe sounds including subtle whooshes, thick swipes, smooth whip-bys, and thin swooshes.

Sometimes simple is better.

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Cracks Play Track 800+ sounds included, 200 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$43

CRACKS is a large exploration of different cracking sound sources – cracking, crunching, breaking and creaking.
I have recorded a number of different materials, designed and processed to create some more aggressive, powerful and ready-to-use destruction sounds.
Bread, Cardboard, Celery, Ceramic, Chips, Glass, Ice, Icy vegetables, Leather, Paper, Pasta, Plastic, Polystyrene, Rocks, Snow, Wood.
The library contains over 444 sound files – around 2,5 hours of sounds included in total.
Originally recorded at 192 kHz with two Sennheiser MKH8040 and a Sound devices 702.

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).

Update 3 – New sounds added to the library:
Cracks has been updated with 71 new recordings, and completely renamed and tagged in UCS .
A total of 2 GB of free additional content, bringing the total library size to over 7 GB in 515 files.

Update 4 – New sounds added to the library:
Cracks has just been updated with 73 new files, more rock, ice and wood cracks.
A total of 1,8 GB of free additional content, bringing the total library size to over 8,5 GB in 586 files.

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Latest sound effects libraries:

Firearms Sound Effects Analogue Ordnance Play Track 6300+ sounds included, 293 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$96

Analogue Ordnance is a massive construction kit for science fiction weapon sounds, made entirely with hardware synthesizers, mastered entirely in the analogue domain, and with more variations per sound than any library of its kind. Absolutely no software plug-ins of any kind were used in its creation, except for its collection of ready-to-use designed sounds to show what can be done with the library’s constituent parts.

Masterminded by sound designer Nathan Moody, this library’s unique sonic language delivers about five hours of material, pushed hard through op amps, transistors, tubes, and transformers. Boutique and unique, customized synthesizer modules were used in conjunction with mastering-grade studio hardware to create sounds that range from retro and cute to modern and devastating.

Sounds are organized into mechanical, thump, body, tail, and charge-up groups for truly modular weapon construction. Each group has six to eight “banks” of related sounds, many with intensity (light, heavy) and duration (short, medium, and long) options. Nearly all sounds include 16 variations. In addition to the construction kit elements, some fully-designed weapon sounds are provided (using only the sounds from the construction kit), designed by Nathan Moody, Chase Steele, Axel Steichen, and Sergio Ronchetti.

But the flexibility doesn’t stop there. Reversing the sounds suddenly turns charge-ups into body elements, and vice versa. Each group has some frequency overlap with the others, so they can be mixed interchangeably outside of their labeled or intended uses with filtering and time/pitch manipulation. While the sounds are designed to be layered with themselves, this library plays very well with others, providing thousands of sweeteners to “tech up” any near-future gun or projectile-based firearm, magical attacks, superhuman abilities, or even user interface elements.

Add some hardware to your warfare. From concealable stun pistols to orbital artillery, Analogue Ordnance provides a fresh injection of new source material for your sci-fi weapon designs.

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Water & Ocean Sounds Deep Underwater Designed Play Track 304 sounds included, 5 mins total $70

Deep Underwater Designed is a collection of ready-made designed underwater sounds.

The library includes a range of FX including various underwater movements, atmospheres, explosions and bubbles; this in combination with different sonic textures and deep underwater perspectives.

Atmospheres are over 5 minutes in duration (for surround application).

No hydrophones were used in the creation of this library.

Please note that my sound libraries do not go on sale (this is so prices are fair all year round), and they are sold exclusively on asoundeffect. :-)

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Car Sound Effects SUVs Play Track 2225 sounds included, 328 mins total $200
Compilation of 10 different SUVs. Sounds are recorded with RØDE NTG1, RØDELink Lav, Line Audio Omni1, Shure KSM137, Shure VP88, Sonorous Objects SO.3 FEL Pluggy XLR EM272 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II, Zoom F3 and Zoom H4n recorders. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. The library is also available in UCS.

Models:
1. Alfa Romeo Stelvio 2016 compact crossover SUV sport utility vehicle
2. Audi Q5 2008 compact crossover SUV sport utility vehicle
3. Lada Niva 1977 off-road compact SUV sport utility vehicle
4. Land Rover Freelander 2003 compact crossover SUV sport utility vehicle
5. Mazda CX-5 2012 compact crossover SUV sport utility vehicle
6. Nissan Qashqai 2006 compact crossover SUV sport utility vehicle
7. Renault Captur 2013 subcompact crossover SUV sport utility vehicle
8. Suzuki SX4 2006 subcompact crossover SUV sport utility vehicle
9. Tesla Model Y 2020 electric mid-size crossover SUV sport utility vehicle
10. Volkswagen Tiguan 2007 compact crossover SUV sport utility vehicle
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Mechanical Sound Effects Small Motors (SB114) Play Track 144+ sounds included $40

SMALL MOTORS, BIG VALUE – TINY TECH IN ACTION
The SB114 SMALL MOTORS Sound Effects Library is a collection of close-up recordings of various small electronic motors.

WHIZ, WHIRS, REVS AND PURRS FOR YOUR PROJECT
We captured the sounds of small electric motors from various household items, then meticulously edited them to be useful as practical effects or manipulated as sound design. Our recordings feature blenders, coffee grinders, drills, food processors, handheld massage vibrators, a tiny whipping frother, toothbrushes, razor/shavers, and a wine opener. Each sound was recorded in 24-bit/96kHz to minimize audio artifacts when processing as unique sound design. Every file includes Soundminer-compliant metadata and an organized file naming structure, allowing you to spend less time searching and more time creating.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Sci Fi Game Menu Music – Background Music Loops Play Track 10 sounds included $32.40

Enhance your game with this Sci-Fi Menu Music Pack, featuring seamless loops designed for background ambiance in space-themed interfaces. Ideal for menus and GUIs, this collection offers immersive, ambient soundscapes that elevate the sci-fi experience. Perfect for creating a captivating and futuristic game atmosphere.

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