New sound effects: Quiet streets, room tones, sc-fi, bowls, foley, tractors – & Edward Ultimate goes stand-alone:

'Quiet Streets' by Articulated Sounds has the lush, varied sounds of the Montréal cityscape in both stereo and surround. It captures all the chattering, rumbling and movement of a quiet day in la métropole for room tone-like ambiences that are ready for your soundscape. It features distance crowds in cafes, birds chirping in alleys, and ventilation humming from office buildings, and it also has a series of weather ambiences collected over a period of 15 months with blizzards, wind lightly pushing wind chimes, rain pattering on metal, and more. For immersive, loopable urban sound beds that can easily be placed in your project, check out 'Quiet Streets'.

'Memories' by Sampletraxx is a bombastic and cinematic experience that will help you twist the minds of your audience. This library has over 280 genre-bending sounds that can fit in your dark sci-fi films, as well as your psychological horror games and distorted industrial metal albums. It features a Kontakt instrument to help you manipulate its sounds with 13 effects, a step sequencer, filters, and more, which does require the full version of Kontakt 5. If you need intense sound candies to psych your audience out, 'Memories' has the collection to do it.

'Singing Bowl' by Ronan Quigley has nearly 200 sounds of small Tibetan singing bowls designed to show off all their uniques textures. This library includes tonal rings, taps with pencils and mallets, scrapes, flicks, rubs, drones, and more, all ready to add both strange and familiar sounds to your design. It also features several UI-ready effects that are perfect for pause screens, error notifications, a sci-fi dashboard and more. Whether you want to sooth your audience or alert them, check out 'Singing Bowl'.

Tovusound is back with the Stand-Alone version of their massive Foley Artist Instrument, 'Edward Ultimate SUITE'. This collection has over 72 THOUSAND sounds of footsteps, clothing and props with 90 combinations of shoes and surfaces and 30 different setups of attire and objects. And now you don't need Kontakt 5 to run it! So whether your character is hiking a snowy mountain wearing a heavy coat and backpack or running from zombies in a swamp armed with a rifle and assault vest, 'Edward Ultimate SUITE' will be your go-to library for years to come.

'Daily Room Tones Surround' by surroundsoundlibrary.com has over 120 domestic ambiences. This library covers your surround household needs with sounds of bathroom fans, washing machines, fireplaces, upstairs footsteps, buzzing lights in a garage, cooking fans, ticking clocks, and more, all colored with the rooms' reflections. These sounds are also geared toward films, games, and radio plays for drag-and-drop integration with their interleaved sound files. If you are designing an interactive house or looking for quick and easy home interior ambiences, 'Daily Room Tones Surround' is for you.

'Open & Close' by SoundBits is a collection of items that withhold you from access with their simple mechanics. It includes the obvious objects that open and close like car doors, glass jars, trash cans, liquor bottles and cardboard boxes, but it also contains more creative interpretations of the movement with sounds of mechanical pens, umbrellas, CD drives, books, locks, zippers, and SD card slots. It is quite the extensive collection of household items that focuses on variations of these two actions! For over 1000 sounds of opening and closing, check out 'Open & Close'.

If you don't have a tractor sound library yet, 'Massey-Ferguson 3060E' by Soundreorganized is here for you. This library captures this powerful and compact vehicle from the inside and outside as it rolls over the terrain. It features 4-channel recordings of the engine, exhaust, and backside, allowing you to easily transition from sound to sound in an interactive environment. You also receive passbys, various gears, door foley, idling and more, all at 96 kHz. If you have scenes that take place on a construction vehicle, give 'Massey-Ferguson 3060E' a listen.