New Sound Effects: Fountains, Impacts, Typewriters, Babies, Mechanisms, And Moods

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Posted August 8, 2016 by Asbjoern Andersen in New sound effects libraries

This week we have seven new libraries that are all quite unconventional in their own ways. We have drums kicks that originate from sounds of a bridge, electric typewriters both in and out of operation, lots and lots of babies, mechanisms that work off steam and gas, clocks, fountains of all sizes, and synthesized emotions.

100 Fountains

Water & Ocean Sounds 100 Fountains Play Track 100+ sounds included, 110 mins total $39

‘FOUNTAINS’ gets you 100 pristine stereo recordings of various fountain sizes, types, and perspectives (including 15 hydrophone recordings). Each file is between 40 sec and 2 min long, mono compatible, and is fully loopable, ready to be used in any project.

Over a period of one year, I recorded various fountains from different perspectives and distances – and even underwater. And, as with every sound library from Articulated Sounds, the files are embedded with metadatas (Soundminer/iXML/XMP/BWAV/ID3).

So if you need the sound of fountains (or simply the sound of water), this library delivers nearly two hours of excellent, ready-to-use recordings:

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'100 Fountains' by Articulated Sounds features plenty—100 to be exact—distinct fountains from above ground and underwater. These fountains are of all shapes and sizes with large tiered granite basins, heavy jets in a lake, water spilling into a pond, babbling zen gardens, drinking fountains and more. Each of the 100 files is between 40 sec and two minutes long, and they are fully loopable which is a godsend to game sound designers. If you need variations of water that can't be found in nature, this is the library for you.

Baby Boom

Human Sound Effects Baby BOOM Play Track 150+ sounds included $65

Looking for baby sounds? So were we, and here's roughly how long it took to capture them: It took a very, very long time and lots of patience to gather this precious collection of laughing, dreaming, grouching, coughing, crying, shouting, talking, weeping, whining, burping and babbling bundles of joy.

We invited a lot of babies at the age from 3 to 24 months – boys and girls – to our studio.

They followed our call, brought their parents and the funny and often loud recordings started. We also equipped every new parent in our office with our best microphones and recorders and instructed them on how to record their own babies at home. You'll just love the multicolored, sweet and piercing high-quality recordings.

The library comes with 152 files in 96kHz/24bit High Definition Audio and has a size of more than 500MB. All sounds are royalty free, guaranteeing you best quality as always.

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'Baby Boom' by BOOM Library features over 150 sounds of these (often difficult) little voice actors. These vocalizations come from baby girls and boys between the ages of 3 months to two years, and they emote using what effective sounds and limited words they know. The babies cry, cough, babble, laugh, scream, gurgle, and whine, and with such detailed metadata such as 'Awoowoo' 'Neyaneeya' and 'Iyahyeyyay', you'll be able to find the sounds you need quickly. For all your baby sounds needs, check out this library.

Mechanism

Mechanical Sound Effects Mechanism Play Track 769+ sounds included $99

Get the sounds of mechanisms, Steampunk inspired gears, contraptions, metal and servos with the Mechanism sound effects library.

Mechanism was created in collaboration with Sweet Justice Sound, Richard Devine, and SoundMorph, and we put great effort into ensuring the quality and usefulness of this unique collection. Half designed and half source recordings, Mechanism gives you a toolbox to be inspired by.

It features more than 300 files – and right now you get a bonus 400 best-of-sounds from our Robotic Lifeforms library, for a total of 2.8GB of 24bit/96khz .WAV files.

Mechanism highlights:

• Mechanical Gears
• Designed contraptions
• Steampunk rusty doors and levers
• Source recorded by Richard Devine
• All meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata
+ 400 “best of” sounds from our Robotic Lifeforms library

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'Mechanism' by SoundMorph and Sweet Justice Sound is a collection of 300 sounds of Steampunk-inspired contraptions such as mech arms, mechanical locks, steam levers, gas explosions, cranks, and plenty more. Certainly this is a unique library! The collection also includes 400 'best of' sounds from the 'Robotic Lifeforms' library. If you're looking for quirky mechanical sounds, give this library a listen.

Clink

Mechanical Sound Effects Clink Play Track 46+ sounds included $15

Clink gets you the sound of of clicks, latches and whirrs generated from a little found Herschede Starville clock mechanism.

Each take is loaded up with unique performances that explore the mechanism’s unique character from up-close.

Recorded in a quiet space with an MKH50 through a John Hardy preamp, this libary is small but mighty. Also included is a NI Battery 4 kit that is programmed to enhance the best characteristics of the source material by doing transient enhancement, eq, delay and compression that can be dialed in to taste.

Note: NI Battery 4 is required to use the kit – not included. You don’t need any version of Battery to use the audio files as a standalone sample library.

These recordings are excellent for adding character and complexity to your next mechanical element design.

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'Clink' by echo | collective is a pack of over 40 clock sounds captured from the Herschede Starville clock. This library features manual and servo winding, lever bounces, metal clicks, and other mechanisms in these timekeeping devices. The library also includes an NI Battery kit that sweetens the tracks with transient enhancement, EQ, delay and compression. For sounds that go beyond the standard 'tick, tock', check out this library.

Electric Typewriters

Mechanical Sound Effects Electric Typewriters Play Track 488+ sounds included $18

When you need Electric Typewriters Sounds, this composite SFX collection of 4 and half (yes half, one machine was broken) (old) electric typewriters delivers. You will find sounds ranging from opening/closing covers, pressing keys, random typing, electric motor movements of the writing head, mechanic-hammering of the letters, small mechanical levers and more.

Of course the sounds can be used for interfaces (and, well, electric typewriters!) – but they could also easily be mangled and mutilated for some great robotic and futuristic stuff. Try it yourself. All sounds were recorded with a Sennheiser MKH8050 through a UA Apollo 8 and a RODE NTG-3 through a Sound Devices 744T. All sounds are royalty free.

Features the following typewriters:

• Panasonic R300
• Olivetti Lettera E501
• Sharp PA-4000
• Triumph+Adler Gabriele 100
• Erika 3006

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'Electric Typewriters' by SoundBits is a collection of almost 500 sounds of, you guessed it, electric typewriters—more specifically 'four and a half' typewriters, as one was broken. This library features every part of these machines' bodies with their hammer mechanisms, electric motors, keystrokes, and hatches. These sounds are great for UIs, and since they were recorded at 96kHz, they can be stretched and mangled as the sounds of robots and other futuristic machines. For the clicks and clacks of a device that moved modern technology forward, listen to this library.

Gravitas

Destruction & Impact Sounds Gravitas Play Track 428 sounds included, 13 mins total $16

To build the range and palate of character that we needed for this collection, we transformed community park and green-way bridges into large-scale percussive instruments. We sought out 12 very special bridges in particular locations and sampled many different performances on them to elicit the right sorts of impacts that we were looking for. Each performed impact has 3 layers, 2 mono and 1 stereo, all with different perspectives due to mic placement. These sounds are highly dynamic, containing an artful blend of the locale they were captured in, and can add some very rich color to any explosion, impact, or crushing event in your editing mix. Go ahead and do your best (or worst)!

These sounds can take a beating. Enjoy!

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'Gravitas' is the fourth and final collection in Eiravaein Works' series of nontraditional drum libraries. This library features the kick drum, which has been realized with layers of recordings of bridges and their locations. 'Gravitas' includes 400 variations of these composited and intricate sounds, which will surely add an interesting layer to your sound. If you want an organic, experimental sound in your music, this is the library for you.

Synthesized Moods

Drones & Mood Sound Effects Synthesized Moods Play Track 18 sounds included, 18 mins total From: $16

Synthesized Moods is a collection of 18 soundscapes, drones and textures produced by sound designer Giorgio Riolo using Native Instrument’s Massive plug-in.

All moods are “Synthesized”, imaginary and abstract.

They’ll add a bizarre layer to your ambiences sound effects and sometimes they’ll give a musical taste with a sci-fi, dark and sinister accent to your project .

Synthesized Moods is available in two versions:
Audio-Only (24bit / 96 kHz): ready to use -23Lufs and 1 minute long audio files (played at the root note indicated into the filename and tracklist).

Audio and NI Massive presets: this is the version for the sound designer and sound editors, it contains NI Massive presets to give you the opportunity to shape your own sound moving all synth controls and to play with the note you need. All Presets are implemented with Macro-control knobs to perform the layers of the soundscapes “on the fly” and NI metadata to find it into Massive browser. Note: NI Massive not included.

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'Synthesized Moods' is a collection 18 synthesized moods by SoundFxWizard. These abstract sounds mimic various emotions and scenarios like 'singing robots', 'crime scenes', and 'crowd interference'. This library is also available in two forms—audio-only or including NI Massive presets that allow you to take advantage of macro-control and NI metadata. If you're seeking something that straddles the line between music and sound design, give this library a listen.

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Popular sound effects this week:

Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Metal Core Alliance Play Track 613 sounds included $22

Metal Core Alliance is a library created to bring colossal machines, futuristic metallic environments, and large-scale robots to life. Ideal for video games, film, or any project requiring high-impact mechanical sound design.

In this collection, you’ll find 613 high-resolution (192 kHz / 24-bit) sounds carefully designed and organized into categories for easy creative use:
🔹Auto Deployment Unit
🔹Biotitan
🔹Bionic Spike Rotator
🔹Brutal Metal Assembly
🔹Malfunctioning Unit
🔹Mech (robots, mechas, and more)
🔹Mechanical Shrinking Gear
🔹Mechanical Shrinking Pillar
🔹Sci-Fi Doors (locks, heavy, sliding…)
🔹Turrets
🔹 Whoosh (cyber, mech, robotic…)
🔹Bonus 🎁

Each category was created with those gigantic mechanisms we see in so many science fiction movies and video games in mind. To achieve this, we used real recordings of heavy machinery, metals, and industrial textures that add authenticity and power.

All sounds have been recorded and edited at 192 kHz – 96 kHz / 32-24 bits, and are delivered in 192 kHz / 24 bits, allowing them to be stretched, distorted, slowed down, or manipulated without losing quality or detail.

Metal Core Alliance is not just a library: it’s a versatile, creative, and brutally powerful sound design kit, designed to shape mechanical worlds with their own unique personality.

More about the pack
– Intuitive file naming
– All you’ll ever need regarding Robots, Machines, Gears, etc…[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 other than the one described, remember that the world of sound is totally subjective.
– For any questions or problems: khronstudio@gmail.com

Features
– 613 sounds
– Number of Audio Waves: 613
– Format: 192KHz / 24 bits
– Do Sound FX loop: Yes
– Win/Mac: Yes
– Minutes of audio provided: 25 minutes

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Environments & Ambiences Geophonic Sound Effects Play Track 98+ sounds included, 23 mins total $15

This audio library features low-frequency drones, powerful impacts, metallic scrapes, resonant vibrations, and other rare audio textures.
All sounds were recorded using the LOM Geofón, a device that captures low-frequency surface vibrations that conventional microphones cannot detect.

The recordings were made with the TASCAM Portacapture X8 at 192 kHz/32 bit, ensuring maximum detail and sound quality.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Forged In Fury Vol 1 Play Track 394 sounds included $17

Forged in Fury Vol. 1: Modular Sounds for Epic Combat

Break down, customize, and master every detail of your combat effects with Forged in Fury Vol. 1, a collection of 394 brutal sounds in 192kHz/24. Includes katana, heavy axe, metal claws, and layer-by-layer edited vocals for total control.

🔪 Katana (193 sounds):
Double whooshes, precise slashes, impacts, blood splatters.
Mix layers of edge and secondary effects (e.g. combine a quick whoosh with a feminine scream).

🪓 Heavy Axe (96 sounds):
Powerful whooshes, crushing blows, equip sounds, blood effects.
Combine the roar of metal with the sounds of breaking bones.

🔗 Metal Claws (37 sounds):
Mechanical opening/closing, scratching, cutting whoosh.
Ideal for fast movements and surprise attacks.

🗣️ Male & Female Voices (68 Sounds):
War cries, moans of pain, grunts of effort.
Use them alone or synced with weapon effects.

✨ Key Feature:
Each sound includes its own editable layers (e.g. whoosh + impact + blood). Do you want a bloodless ax swing? only the whoosh of a katana?, only blood? Modify it instantly.

🎚️ Studio Quality:
Recorded in 192kHz/24-32 bits, delivered in 192kHz/24 bits. Perfect for toning down, adding distortion or manipulating without losing clarity.

More about the pack
– Intuitive file naming
– All you’ll ever need regarding katana, heavy ax and claw [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 other than the one described, remember that the world of sound is totally subjective.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Metal Core Alliance Play Track 613 sounds included $22

Metal Core Alliance is a library created to bring colossal machines, futuristic metallic environments, and large-scale robots to life. Ideal for video games, film, or any project requiring high-impact mechanical sound design.

In this collection, you’ll find 613 high-resolution (192 kHz / 24-bit) sounds carefully designed and organized into categories for easy creative use:
🔹Auto Deployment Unit
🔹Biotitan
🔹Bionic Spike Rotator
🔹Brutal Metal Assembly
🔹Malfunctioning Unit
🔹Mech (robots, mechas, and more)
🔹Mechanical Shrinking Gear
🔹Mechanical Shrinking Pillar
🔹Sci-Fi Doors (locks, heavy, sliding…)
🔹Turrets
🔹 Whoosh (cyber, mech, robotic…)
🔹Bonus 🎁

Each category was created with those gigantic mechanisms we see in so many science fiction movies and video games in mind. To achieve this, we used real recordings of heavy machinery, metals, and industrial textures that add authenticity and power.

All sounds have been recorded and edited at 192 kHz – 96 kHz / 32-24 bits, and are delivered in 192 kHz / 24 bits, allowing them to be stretched, distorted, slowed down, or manipulated without losing quality or detail.

Metal Core Alliance is not just a library: it’s a versatile, creative, and brutally powerful sound design kit, designed to shape mechanical worlds with their own unique personality.

More about the pack
– Intuitive file naming
– All you’ll ever need regarding Robots, Machines, Gears, etc…[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 other than the one described, remember that the world of sound is totally subjective.
– For any questions or problems: khronstudio@gmail.com

Features
– 613 sounds
– Number of Audio Waves: 613
– Format: 192KHz / 24 bits
– Do Sound FX loop: Yes
– Win/Mac: Yes
– Minutes of audio provided: 25 minutes

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Animal Sound Effects Demonic Pigs Play Track 12 sounds included $10

The Demonic Pigs audio library features 12 terrifying pig creature squeals, perfect for any horror film or game that is sure to strike fear into your audience.

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Creature Sound Effects Fantasy Creatures Play Track 651 sounds included $59

Enter the realm of fantasy, where mythical creatures roam and legends come to life in a symphony of imagination. From the lumbering footsteps of trolls to the haunting moans of zombies, each sound captures the essence of otherworldly beings. Experience the mischievous cackles of goblins and the eerie calls of giant insects echoing through enchanted forests. Whether it’s the ominous presence of a kraken beneath the waves or the skeletal rattles of undead skeletons, these sounds transport listeners to a realm where magic and mystery reign supreme.

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Delirium – Surreal Textures & Movement Play Track 380 sounds included $125
Delirium is a sound effects toolkit, lovingly prepared to accompany your unique and personal descent into madness. Bask in the radiance of wobbling washes of muffled screams, or perhaps some swaying, spiralling tones that make you feel dizzy and nauseous!

Designed primarily using Madrona Labs SUMU, Delirium is perfect for creating tension-filled atmospheres, hypnotic trances, dream sequences, hallucinations and generally unusual, other-worldly situations. Wavering drones that are writhing and moving, fragmented vocal splinters of what used to be human voices before they were dragged into the void, static bursts of interference from a long forgotten transmission that should never have been found… that sort of thing.

It does cover some areas that are more grounded in the real world (Comms Static, UI Glitches), but the majority of stuff in here is proudly un-tethered from reality.

The library is broken down into the following categories and sub categories as part of its comprehensive UCS metadata.
- COMMUNICATIONS: Static, Telemetry – Scrambled, Lofi, Glitch
- DESIGNED: Distortion, Drone, Eerie, Ethereal, Granular, Rhythmic, Rumble, Synthetic, Tonal, Vocal, Whoosh – Bubbling, Clicks, Demonic, Energy, Evolving, Fizzing, Gloopy, Gritty, Hissing, Metallic, Movement, Muffled, Neutral, Pulsing, Rattling, Riser, Robotic, Scrambled, Spinning, Static, Steady, Submerged, Sweeteners, Swells, Synth, Texture, Throbbing, Tonal, Watery
- MAGIC: Shimmer, Spell – Fragments, Metallic, Movement, Steady, Swells, Tonal, Vocal
- SCIFI: Energy – Evolving, Movement, Riser, Steady, Surges, Swells, Texture
- USER INTERFACE: Data, Glitch, Motion – Gritty, Malfunction, Movement, Smooth, Watery, Gestures
The sounds of Delirium will allow you to travel to weird, wonderful and sometimes unpleasant places with your sonic creations whilst maintaining subtlety and versatility. They are layers waiting to be interwoven, a bag of choice ingredients, a palette of strange colours. Go forth and paint!!!

Artwork by Jeff at Freakshow Industries.
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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Spells Variations Vol 2 Play Track 405 sounds included $14

Step into a world of spells, mysticism, and creative power with Spells Variations Vol. 2, the follow-up to our acclaimed magical sound collection. This time, we’ve expanded the elemental and thematic range, offering 405 professionally crafted sound effects that are fully categorized and ready to use.
Inside, you’ll find a wide variety of magical types:
🔥 Fire
💧 Water
🌪️ Air
🌍 Earth
⚡ Electricity
❄️ Ice
☠️ Poison, Mud, Rocks
✨ As well as Arcane, Dark, Monstrous, and other mystical spell types.

Each category is organized into individual folders, with multiple variations for every spell, giving you complete flexibility to choose the perfect sound for each moment, All this makes a total of 44 different spells.
Just like in Volume 1, every sound in this collection was recorded, edited, and mastered at 192 kHz / 24-bit, ensuring top-tier quality and adaptability—perfect for professional sound designers or anyone looking for drag-and-drop magical effects for games, trailers, animations, or any audio-visual 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
– 405 spell sounds
– Format: 192KHz / 24 bits
– Win/Mac: Yes
– Minutes of audio provided: 22:26

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Animal Sound Effects Steller Sea Lions Play Track 24+ sounds included, 17 mins total $38

Steller Sea Lions
The Steller Sea Lions library is a mini library of stereo recordings from an expedition up the coast of Vancouver Island. In this library you will find a variety of vocalizations from a colony of over 200 Steller Sea Lions.
It’s everything you’d need for any linear or game media.

The Herring spawn (or Herring run) happens every spring along eastern Vancouver Island. Adult Pacific Herring congregate in huge numbers along the coastal shorelines.
This brings an abundance of wildlife to the coastal areas of Vancouver Island.

Keywords: BARKING, BARK, BREATH, GURGAL, SPUTTER, EXHALE, GROAN, GUTTURAL, SNORT, BELCHES, ROAR, BLEATS

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Bundles MASTERGUN – Ultimax 100 Play Track 552 sounds included $40

The Master Gun Ultimax 100 Sound Effects library is recorded using a large array of various microphone configurations, we recorded shots from several distances in an open shooting range in the Nevada Desert.

Raw Recordings

Our raw shots features a total of 20 channels including 10 Stereo sources. All of our close and mid spaced pair Microphone options can be used as two independent mono microphones. The right side of every spaced pair will have more Mech than its left side counterpart.
Every single gun has been recorded using the same gain settings on the same recorders, and we have level matched each microphone option between the same calibers so your 50ft microphones will be the same or similar across all libraries that share the same calibers. This makes mixing large amounts of weapons easier as the loudness and character of each gun is predictable.

Our foley features a total of a stereo A/B pair of Neumann KMR81i mts which are placed on both the left and right of the gun. All of the foley has been recorded at 192kHz for extreme processing workflows.

Designed Mixes

Created from the ground up we’ve designed a collection of game-ready mixes for your next project. If you are creating your own custom weapons system and would like to use our designed mixes in your project, you can use our no-tail options which are our realistic designed mixes without our tail layers. Just drag, and drop.

UCS compatible metadata embedded

All files contain extensive metadata to provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible. Metadata can be read and processed by audio management tools. Some digital audio workstations feature an included search tool that can also read embedded metadata.

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Car Sound Effects Jaguar I-Pace 2018 electric compact crossover SUV sport utility vehicle Play Track 178 sounds included, 27 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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