New Sound Effects: Drones, Dreidels - And Microbes!

Posted November 14, 2017 by Adriane Kuzminski in New sound effects libraries

This week we have new libraries that can meet your specific needs or give you fresh sounds to experiment with. You can hear drones with a warm ’80s sound a la Stranger Things, as well as dreidels spinning on a variety surfaces and a construction kit library that will take you inside a Petri dish. If you’re looking for memorable textures with “that certain something”, you might find them here. Happy listening!

Microbes

Creature Sound Effects Microbes Play Track 326 sounds included $37

Microbes is 76 minutes/2.12 Gb of microscopic life forms skittering and scurrying about in their strange world. 326 separate files – recorded in 24bit/96kHz using various microphones. UCS-compliant.

A construction kit of the sounds you need to design organisms on the microscopic level. Whether you’re making a medical animation, a nature documentary or something entirely fictional, Microbes delivers in skittering, fluttering and slithering sounds. Anything from single-cell organisms to complex insects is possible. Sounds are grouped in a variety of creature “species”, allowing you to create different voices with a good amount of nuance in performance. You also get a range of bubbling and swarming sounds, as well as wet and slimy elements. To complete your microscopic universe, there are a number of abstract and otherworldly ambiances.

Sounds were created using various physical instruments and props, such as a hardware modular synth, bowed metal springs, a cactus and good fashioned old voice acting. No actual microbes were harmed (or even consulted) during production. You can read more about the creation of Microbes here.

You get:
•Designed sounds of microscopic life
•Slither, skittering and fluttering creatures
•Several distinct species
•Searchable file names
•BWF Metadata embedded – with more included in CSV and ODS (OpenOffice) formats.

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'Microbes' by hzandbits is a creepy, crawly sound library that would probably make you panic if it was what you heard while waking up. With 76 minutes of watery movement, including bubbles, sizzles, chewing sounds, squeaks, plops, and more, this incredibly unique library and construction kit will help you build an otherworldly place - or one that exists on our own world under a microscope. Whether you need sounds of a critter's movement, tiny voice, or moist environment, this library has you covered.

I Had A Little Dreidel

'I Had A Little Dreidel' by All You Can Eat Audio has you likely humming the holiday tune, but this library is anything but melodic! Rather you'll hear recordings of a dreidel spinning on various surfaces at many speeds. The top bounces, spins, and scrapes across a wooden table, a stool, and different types of drum heads, giving you sounds of momentum that could be used for engines, close-up spine-chilling effects, or whatever you'd like to interpret them as. With over three hours of content, you'll get all the dreidel sounds you'll need for several Hanukkahs to come.

Drones & Pads Vol. 01

'Drones & Pads Vol. 01' by Bony Stoev has an hour and 14 minutes of stylish and emotive drones that will provide your sci-fi and horror projects a thick atmosphere. Most of the drones were recorded as analog effects, giving your project a warm, vintage edge that's incredibly popular right now. These pads range from low pumping ambiences straight out of a dark urban alleyway to washes of musical textures. All together you get 28 drones, so if you're looking for moody, retro-futuristic backgrounds (that are 50% off at the moment), give this one a listen.

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Popular sound effects this week:

Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Anime Epic Combat Play Track 390 sounds included $99

390 Anime Epic Combat Sound Effects! This sound effect album is excellent for Anime-inspired games, Japanese fighting video games, and more! This collection of 390 sounds features a wide range of combat impacts, skills, and whooshes. In addition, we also designed many booms, drop bass, distortion, risers, and stingers to intensify the epicness and brutality of any combat moves! So supercharge your fight scenes and embark on an action-packed adventure now!

What’s inside the pack?
Combat Hits (106)
Combat Skills (24)
Combat Stun (11)
Combat Epic (126)
Designed Boom, Drop Bass, Distortion, Risers, and Stingers (95)
Misc and Mutation (14)
Whooshes (14)

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Wild Animals Sound Effects Wolves & Coyotes Play Track 150+ sounds included $50

This collection features 150 wolf and coyote sound effects. This library includes howls, roars, barks and more from single and multiple coyotes and wolves.

These sounds have been handpicked from the Sound Ideas General HD collections, Series 6000, Series 1000, Just Birds & Animals and Wild World of Animals libraries, as well as the Digiffects Library and the Hollywood Edge Animal Trax, The Edge 1 & 2, Premiere Edition and Animal Planet libraries.

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Door Sound Effects Gateway – Part 1, 2 & 3 Play Track 600-3200 sounds included From: $30

Tired of those same old door knobs and hinge squeaks that you hear in every single game, film and TV show? Well, Gateway aims to remedy that issue while providing you with a brand new palette of sounds.

Gateway comes packed with doors, doors and more doors! Low end, high end, slow horror creaks and squeaks, huge slams and impacts, tiny compartment doors.

The Gateway family now includes the just-released Gateway Part 3, with more than 1400 new sounds.

Doors, gates, overhead rollups, cabinets, closets, drawers, garage doors, fireplaces, sheds, you name it!

Latches and knobs, wrought iron and chain link! Metal, wood, glass and MORE! All of these doors were acoustically captured in the real world. You won’t find anything synthesized here!

Did we mention doors? Yeah, Gateway has those too.

Gateway Part 1 features 675 files, 1200+ sounds

Gateway Part 2 features 365 files, 600+ sounds

Gateway Part 3 features 772 files, 1400+ sounds

The Gateway 1-3 Bundle features 1812 files, 3200+ sounds

Special offer:Do you already have Gateway Part 1 or 2? Send a message here for a special upgrade offer for part 3.

Choose your preferred version below – or land some great savings by getting all three in one handy package!

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Shine And Glitter Play Track 150+ sounds included $21.75

Shine and Glitter brings shiny, elegant sounds to your local sound library. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.

About Shine and Glitter SFX Pack

From glittering transitions and fairy dust to tonal sparkle sounds in 150+ stereo 24bit/96kHz .WAV files.

This pack has designed transitions, resonance, shining, synth, particles, tonal sparkles and doppler of magical shine and glitter elements; crunchy, noisy, glassy.

The texture of the sounds is realistic and flexible for customization. Great for film, video, game, advertisements, and suitable further as sweeteners outside of the magic genre as well.

Here’s a studio-grade pack for all your projects and games with the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail.

Keywords, Elements, Mood and Style
Shine, magic, effect, glitter, star, dust, doppler, transition, spell, angelic, supernatural, synth, tonal, sparkles, long, double, LPF, HPF, movement, reverse, underwater, chime, crunchy, crackle, particles, noisy, free, reed, glassy, envelope, classic, shining, motion, coin, purse, tabletop, alarm, precious, stone, pitch, oil, can, resonance, drop, downward.

What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Cinematic Whooshes & Transitions for 294 files of organic and processed sounds of transitions and whooshes, including swipes, futuristic sci-fi sounds, tonal, pass by, power ups/ downs, movement, machine, and more. Essential Magic SFX Pack may also help with 182 files of the dark side of essential 4 elements of fire, water, earth, air as well as electricity, cyber-magic, magicka, hits, buffing, whooshes, squeaks, sparkling, explosions, bubbles, chimes and selective green magic sounds.

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Funny / Comedy / Cartoon Cartoon Volume 5 Play Track 100 sounds included $50

AudioHero’s Cartoon collection Volume 5 features 100 professionally produced sound effects, ready for use in your productions. This library includes everything you need to turn your production into a cartoon masterpiece! These sounds are all hand-picked from the Sound Ideas Cartoon Express, General HD and Digiffects Complete libraries.

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Funny / Comedy / Cartoon Cartoon Volume 4 Play Track 200 sounds included $50

AudioHero’s Cartoon collection Volume 4 features 200 professionally produced sound effects, ready for use in your productions. This library includes everything you need to turn your production into a cartoon masterpiece! These sounds are all hand-picked from the Sound Ideas Cartoon Express and Hollywood Edge Cartoon Trax 1 and 2 sound effects libraries. Included are musical accents, bells, boings, hits, skids, honks, squeaks, bounces, crashes and more.

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Latest sound effects libraries:

Hum, Buzz & Glitch Sound Effects Raw Buffers Play Track 14 sounds included, 23 mins total $25

RAW BUFFERS – a Discman glitch library.
Abrasive glitch clicks, scrambles, tones and bursts.

Harvesting the glitches from short-circuiting the “electronic skip protection” chip on a late 90’s Discman player.
Connecting the legs of this chip mangles and scrambles the buffer data, resulting in abrasive digital clicks, stutters, tones and bursts.

23 minutes (1.6GB) of 192kHz/24 bit recordings
UCS compliant and with relevant metadata.

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Foley Sound Effects Aprilia Mojito 2004 scooter motorcycle Play Track 74 sounds included, 34 mins total $55

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, foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.

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Cloth and Fabric Sound Effects Character Fabrics Sound Effects Play Track 196 sounds included, 4 mins total $14.99
Enhance your projects with our 196 Carefully Recorded and Designed Fabric Sound Effects. This diverse collection of high-quality fabric sounds is perfect for adding realism and dynamic movement to your characters and environments. From the rustling of clothing to the swishing of fabrics in motion, each sound has been meticulously recorded and designed to bring your scenes to life. Ideal for game developers, filmmakers, and sound designers, these fabric sound effects will add depth and authenticity to every wardrobe, interaction, and environmental detail. Whether you’re working on character animations, environmental design, or immersive storytelling, these sounds provide the perfect touch to elevate your work.

Features:
- Body Armor Mesh – 70 SFX
- Clothing / Textile Drops – 61 SFX
- Fabrics – 57 SFX
- Zips – 8 SFX
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City Life Sound Effects City & Suburbs Ambiences Play Track 135+ sounds included, 340 mins total $22

City ambiences, downtown ambiences, suburbs, residential area, harbor, industrial area.. traffic, people in background, urban birds, nocturnal-quiet ambiences etc.

Check the sound list for additional info.

High quality recordings recorded in MS, XY, AB; NOS, etc., mostly with Sennheiser MKH microphones and Sound Devices recorder/mixer. Files are without any dynamic manipulation (compression) with max. peak around -5dBFS.

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Bird Sound Effects Birds Ambiences Play Track 7 sounds included, 22 mins total $8

Immerse yourself in the serene and captivating sounds of nature with Birds in Various Ambiences – Field Recordings Collection. This compilation features a rich assortment of bird sounds captured in diverse environments.

Each recording transports you to a different setting, featuring a wide array of bird species communicating in their natural habitats.

Perfect for sound designers, filmmakers, meditation enthusiasts, or anyone seeking to enhance their space with natural ambiance, this collection offers a diverse range of audio clips for relaxation, creativity, and inspiration.

Whether you’re creating a calming atmosphere, enriching your audio projects, or simply appreciating the beauty of birdsong, this collection brings the natural world to your ears with unmatched authenticity.

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