New Sound Effects: Quadcopters, Whooshes, Insects, Swarms, Grain, Industrial Exteriors + Sci-fi Weapons & Space Stations

Posted February 5, 2017 by Asbjoern Andersen in New sound effects libraries

This week we have 7 new libraries that will bring realism and punch to your sound design. We have libraries featuring the rustling and pouring of grains, buzzing swarms and individual insects, space station ambiences and inner workings, intimidating quadcopters, futuristic passbys and impacts, industrial port-side ambiences, and cutting-edge sci-fi weapons. For a range of ambiences, new technology and aggressive sounds, you’ll definitely find something you’ll like this week.

Insects & Swarms

Insect Sound Effects Insects & Swarms Play Track 1000+ sounds included, 121 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$89

From massive swarms in different densities and activity levels to individual passby sounds and landings, this insect sound library covers pretty much all variants of insect wing buzz sounds.
Below is a quick audio demo using 18 of the 185 sounds in the collection.

Library highlights

• 185 WAV sounds of bees, flies, mosquitoes, cicadas and designed insect sounds
• Single insect sounds & swarms
• Isolated insect sounds
• Seamless loops & long recordings
• Varied activity levels
• Purchase supports WWF & NABU
• Descriptive filenames
• 96 kHz / 24 bit WAV files
• Embedded Soundminer metadata
• 2+ hours of audio

2025 Update
• New UCS 8.2.1 compliant file names
• Improved 20+ fields of UCS compliant BWAV/Soundminer/XML metadata
• Metadata translations in 40 languages (TSV/XLSX files)

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Finding bug sounds without the interruptions of wind, birds and your own reactions when they land on your face is never easy, so ShapingWaves delivers their buzzes right to your timeline with 2 hours of isolated, varied and even loopable sounds of bugs. 'Insects & Swarms' includes swarms in a beekeeper's hive, blowflies passing by, big houseflies landing, annoying mosquitos, buzzing cicadas, designed Doppler effects, and more. If you need the buzzing without the bites, listen to this library.

Quadcopter Flight

Quadcopters / Drone Sounds Quadcopter Flight Play Track 148 sounds included, 61 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$60

‘Quadcopter Flight’ shows off these buzzing beasts from near and far in both quiet exterior locations and the studio.

Featuring a large quadcopter and two minis, these machines were captured as they performed all possible actions, such as take-offs, flybys, revs, and sustained flight.

The library also has foley, a few crashes, and recordings from contact mics that were attached to the two smaller quads for sounds of high-tech servo/rotor sounds that can be used for sci-fi projects containing robots, sliding doors, and more.

Quadcopters recorded:

• Dromida Kodo II – Interior
• Eachine H8S – Interior
• Yuneec Typhoon G – Exterior
• Yuneec Typhoon G – Interior

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'Quadcopter Flight' by Audio Shade has the sounds of everyone's favorite cameraman/racer/recreational activity. Featuring the Dromida Kodo II, Eachine H8S, Yuneec Typhoon G and Yuneec Typhoon G, this library has plenty of interior and exterior takes of these machines as they dominate the skies. You'll find take-offs, flybys, revs and sustained flight, and even foley, a few crashes and contact mic recordings that sound like high-tech servos and rotors. If you need sounds of these rotorcrafts, this is the one for you.

Groats Part 1

Foley Sound Effects Groats Part 1 Play Track 378 sounds included, 14 mins total $22

This sound library gets you the sounds of groats and grains, and includes the rustling, crunching, breaking, rolling, rattling, trickling, pouring sounds of sugar, peas, pearl barley and macaroni. It’s the 1st installment in a larger series called Grains. There are 378 high quality sounds included, recorded and designed in 24 Bit/96 kHz, using an Oktava 012, DBX-386, Digi-003 and Reaper.

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Just like animators, sound designers love particles. Though 'Groats Part 1' may not be granular in terms of synthesis, it's quite granular in the literal sense. Created by Alexander Ahura, this SFX library has sounds of grains and groats (which are the 'as-is' type of whole oats) as they rustle, crunch, break, roll, rattle, and trickle onto plywood, cardboard, glass, fabric, and more. It also includes sounds of pouring sugar, peas, barley and macaroni, too. If you like this library, make sure you stay tuned for part 2!

Space Station

Sci-Fi Sound Effects Space Station Play Track 647 sounds included $55

Want the sounds of a space station? Space Station is a huge collection of designed futuristic ambiances, loopable room tones, drones, and individual interior sound elements, made to provide a truly diverse sonic palette for designing spacious soundscapes for science fiction, horror, fantasy, dramas and documentaries. This pack has everything you need, all in one place.

Space Station contains a whopping 7.6 GB worth of 500+ 24bit/96kHz sounds, each embedded with Soundminer metadata.

The library includes:

• 120 Designed sounds: Apartments, Doors, Halls, Alarms, Engine Compartments, Gates, Spaceship Cockpit ambiences, Interior Malfunction, and many more

• Space Station Construction Kit: Air, Alarms, Boiler Room, Computations, Drones, Electricity, Engines, Field Recordings, Fire, Foley, Pneumo and Servo sounds, Steam and Water

Bonus: Also includes our popular Abstract Interior Tones pack

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Take your audience on a tour around the ship with Digital Rain Lab's 'Space Station' sound library. This collection has ambiences of halls, engine compartments, cockpits, and droning boiler rooms, as well as doors locking and unlocking, computations, sparks and currents, and steam and gas burners. It also has soft tonal alerts reminiscent of Tokyo's subways and supermarkets to give your scene an edge of peace in its mysterious environment. With 7.6 GB and over 500 sounds, this library should have everything you need to flesh out your ship.

Whooshes & Impacts 2

Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Whooshes & Impacts 2 Play Track 607 sounds included ~~From: $38~~ From: $19

This library delivers a super-versatile collection of Whoosh and Impact sound effects. And yes, as the name suggests, this is the sequel to the very popular “Whooshes & Impacts“ Sound Effects Library from SoundBits. Two versions are available + a bundle:

Whooshes & Impacts 2:

It features everything you need to give your projects the sonic impact they deserve, from fantasy-style battles to intense sci-fi space combat. You get fireballs, magical projectiles, asteroids, space ship pass-bys, missiles – and of course a vast variety of designed impact sound effects from very organic metal hits to abstract, distorted, screaming strikes.

All sounds are 100% dry. No reverbs were applied.

This pack contains 266 files split in 116 Impacts with at least 2 versions of one sound per file and 150 Whooshes with at least 3 versions of one sound per file. Giving you total amount of 607 sounds.

Whooshes & Impacts 2 – ELEMENTS:

The ‘Whooshes & Impacts 2 – Elements’ Sound Effects Library features a re-designed and further processed selection of the sound layers from ‘Whooshes & Impacts 2’.

Split into 3 frequency bands, this composite collection brings you production elements to spice up your own whoosh and impact sounds, or easily create new ones from scratch. You have a transition that sounds good but just needs some interesting movement in the low end for that extra weight? Just choose from 1 of 50 low frequency whooshes and layer it with your existing elements.

You get 150 Impacts and 150 Whooshes. The Whooshes come with one variation per sound, giving you a total of 450 design elements for your productions in this library.

Whooshes & Impacts 2 – BUNDLE:

You can also get both versions in a bundle – with a great discount.

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'Whooshes & Impacts 2' by SoundBits is their second installment of these sounds of action. This library has over 600 sci-fi and fantasy hits and whooshes, featuring low massive stuttering, glitchy explosions, plasmic ships zipping by, metallic crashes, missiles and astroids, and passbys that sound like if Tatooine had choppers and jets. Plus, all sounds are free of reverb, allowing them to be perfectly treated for your scenes. For stylistic whooshes and organic metal hits, this library will give your sound design some punch.

Industrial Exteriors I

Environments & Ambiences Industrial Exteriors I Play Track 29 sounds included, 98 mins total $26

UCS-compliant, ambient recordings from various industrial sites, including the port of Aarhus with its bulk cargo and container terminals. Most of the sounds are quite generic though, and could be used in many different contexts. Some recordings are teeming with activity, while others feature deserted, yet humming and droning, industrial landscapes. Lots of HVAC with fans and pumps. Containers are moved, gravel is unloaded, engines are running. Very little wind, and hardly any legible speech. A few of the sounds are cut as seamless loops.

Most of the sounds were originally recorded with a Sennheiser MKH60/30 M/S setup. A few sounds appear in both mono and stereo versions, where the stereo version are X/Y derived from the M/S source files and the mono versions are simply the Mid channel. I did this, because most people seem to prefer X/Y files for post-work, rather than M/S – but a down-mix of X/Y to mono would be inferior to using the original Mid-mic signal. 4 of the sounds were recorded with a quasi binaural setup. All sounds were captured in Aarhus, Denmark.

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'Industrial Exteriors I' by hzandbits features various industrial sites around the harbors of Denmark's Aarhus. In this library you'll find sounds of trucks and forklifts moving containers and dumping gravel, revving HVAC fans, cycling hydraulic systems, tugboats and ships idling in the ports, and more. There are also looping sounds and a few quasi-binaural sounds of passing trucks and forklifts. For a mix industrial sounds that is both distinctly harborish and flexibly generic, check out this library.

Sci Fi Weapons

Firearms Sound Effects Sci-Fi Weapons, Hi-Tech Laser Guns Play Track 422 sounds included $45

With its second official release ‘’Sci-Fi Weapons’’ Sound Response brings you a cutting edge, hi-tech weapon sound FX library ready for unleashing cybernetic hell! Months of field recording and sound design yielded 400+ high quality futuristic weapon sound effects. A must have for anyone working on a video game, movie or any other project containing futuristic combat action scenes. With Sci-Fi Weapons at your disposal you’ll have one of the most powerful and advanced sci-fi audio arsenals out there!

Sci-Fi Weapons soundpack features 588MB of high definition 24bit/96khz sounds, embedded with metadata to speed up your workflow and separated into following categories: 1. Assault Rifles 2. Sniper Rifles 3. Machine Guns 4. Submachine Guns 5. Rocket Launchers 6. Loading FX 7. Scanners and Shields 8. Source Sound Accessories.

NOTE: As a result of collaboration between Sound Response and Soundmorph this library is also a part of Soundmorph’s Future Weapons 3 library. If you have Future Weapons 3 library then you already have the included Sci-Fi Weapons sound library.

If you like the sound of Sci-Fi Weapons then be sure to check out much anticipated second installment Sci-Fi Weapons 2 for a second round of high quality cybernetic audio mayhem!

Sci-fi weapon categories:

• Assault Rifles
• Sniper Rifles
• Machine Guns
• Submachine Guns
• Rocket Launchers
• Loading FX
• Scanners and Shields
•Source Sound Accessories

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As a result of a collaboration between Sound Response and Soundmorph, this library is also a part of Soundmorph’s Future Weapons 3 library. If you have the Future Weapons 3 library then you already have the included Sci-Fi Weapons library

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If you need hi-tech firearms, check out 'Sci Fi Weapons' by Sound Response. This library has over 350 sounds of futuristic assault rifles, sniper rifles, machine guns, SMGs, rocket launchers, and lasers that will strike fear into the hearts of the enemy. It also has sounds of mechanisms, sensors, foley, scanners, and shields, allowing you to design a realistic combat scene right out the box! If you have an epic sci-fi battle in your film, TV show or game, definitely give this library a listen.

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Popular sound effects this week:

Hum, Buzz & Glitch Sound Effects Audio For Testing Play Track 137 sounds included $1

Audio files for testing speakers and sound systems. These include Noises (Brown, White, Pink, Black/Silence), DTMF, Panning (50%, 100% Left, Right, Centre), Sines (20Hz-20KHz), Oscillator Sweeps (1-24000Hz)

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Creature Sound Effects Monsters Play Track 789 sounds included $59

Ever wondered how to get the creatures, beasts and monsters in your project as badass and nasty as possible?

This collection is filled with high-quality sound effects that let your clients tremble in their seats. The curated package comes with everything you need: Vocals like attacks, breaths, threats, alerts, idle sounds, die screams and foley sounds such as bodyfalls, steps and movement.

With this set of handpicked sounds you have the world of cinematic creature sound design at your fingertips.

The Library includes:

Beast, Coloss, Dwarf, Fishman, Gnome, Golem, Hellhound, Imp, Insect, Kraken, Minotaur, Ogre, Orc, Reptile, Witch, Wraith, Yeti, Zombie, Attack, Breath, Death, Idle, Step, Threaten, Voice, Foley

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Foley Sound Effects Grenade Foley Play Track 1374 sounds included $15

A focused collection of grenade foley, captured with precision using replica units. This library provides the essential, clean sounds of tactical handling, interaction, and impacts.

Recorded at 96kHz/24-bit across various surfaces including steel plates, carpet, wood floorings, soil, and grass, this library offers variation for different environments. The recordings feature grenade shakes, surface impacts and rolls, pin pulls, spoon lever ejections, spoon drops, and tactical gear foley, all captured with Lewitt LCT 540 S and Shure SM7B.

This is a practical toolkit for sound designers working in film, games, and other media, providing a tonal and versatile foundation for building realistic military action.

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Car Sound Effects Toyota MR2 1984 sports car Play Track 228 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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Animal Sound Effects Collections Botswana Play Track 49+ sounds included, 136 mins total From: $60

Botswana Faunethic sound library is a unique collection of 49 sounds recorded through several national parks of the country (Okavango, Chobe,…). All these sounds has been recorded and produced with high quality equipment in multichannel.

This collection offers a wide diversity of soundscapes and animals sounds such as:

-Bush, savanna and forest soundscapes.
-Hippopotamus grunt and vocals.
-Elephants vocals, showering and drinking.
-Zebras and impalas fighting.
-Lion chasing an elephant during one night.
-Birds and insects at different perspectives.
-Villages

If you want to hear more about this field recording trip, feel free to check this post.
The multichannel version contains 40 tracks in native 4.0 and 9 tracks recorded in stereo only.

This library provides authentic and interesting sounds, recorded with DPA, MBHO and Neumann mics powered by an Aeta 4minX.
All Faunethic tracks includes metadata carefully edited, compatible with Soundminer, Soundly and Basehead.

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Bundles Quietsub FX Complete Bundle Play Track 15055 sounds included $379
Quietsub FX Complete Bundle

Quietsub FX is a library of 15,055 sound effects at 24 bit 96,000 BWF. The library is organized into a number of collections related to specific categories, and a large miscellaneous category. The library was recorded to be as comprehensive as possible with an emphasis on quality and choice for users.

The Complete Bundle includes the following parts:
Quietsub FX gives you a wide ranging library of sound effects. Production of the library focused on creating high quality and choice for users, which ultimately is what creators want. This package is ideal for film, video, radio, podcast, and wherever sound effects are used.

All files include metadata.
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Travel & Transportation Quietsub FX Transportation Play Track 1321 sounds included $59
Quietsub FX Transportation

An extensive collection of 1,321 Transportation sounds. If it has means of movement to carry people or goods, whether by engine or human propulsion, you’ll likely find it here.

This collection comes in two parts. The transportation portion, and Transit Chimes.

Transit Chimes: Transit Chimes are the sounds you hear all the time on public transportation. Dings, dongs, attention getters. This collection of 70 sound effects gives everything you need to satisfy your craving for these noises. Use them in your productions, or start your own transit system.

Transportation: People are always going somewhere. And they sure make lots of noise doing it. Just about anything that moves people or freight can be found here.

Recording for this category is outside the studio affair. A tremendous amount of time driving and walking around, as well as planting yourself in strategic locations where vehicles do their thing.
- Cars general
- Classic cars
- Sports cars
- Boats
- Aircraft
- Bicycles
- Buses
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- Trucks general
- Garbage Truck
- Highway and street backgrounds
- Traffic sounds
This extensive collection touches all the bases.

Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.
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Whoosh Sound Effects Quietsub FX Video Transition Sound Effects Play Track 128 sounds included $25

Quietsub FX Video Transition Sound Effects

A great collection of 128 Video Transition Sound Effects. These are designed to be used at video edit points to add impact.

Video Editors will enjoy these video transition effects. In recent years, sound effects began appearing in videos to accompany the actual visual edit. This was the inspiration for creating this collection.

There’s no better way to add depth to video edits than with short sounds and ramps. These work great with short video breakup visuals and flashes.

This collection is made up of various wipes and transitions.

Cut away. Chop, Hack etc. These sounds will make those video transitions more interesting.

Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.

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Sci-Fi Sound Effects Quietsub FX Sci-Fi Sounds Play Track 192 sounds included $25
Quietsub FX Sci-Fi Sounds

A collection of 192 Sci-Fi Sounds.

There’s lots of science fiction out there, but still no little green men. Possibly that’s what makes sci-fi so popular. The dream of something you think may exist, but cannot be proven. Sci-Fi, of course, has its own sounds. In this collection of 183 sound effects, you will find most of what you will need to outfit your next spacecraft.

Included in this collection:
- Alien interiors
- Blasters
- Backgrounds
- Space ship sounds
Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.
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Materials & Texture Sound Effects Quietsub FX Mechanical Parts Play Track 159 sounds included $39
Quietsub FX Mechanical Parts

A collection of 159 mechanical sounds made by small motors. This is the result of a massive editing job involving small metal and plastic parts, and any other item made by humans and others.

Stuff that clicks, winds, and moves by itself.

This collection covers the world of small mechanics. Sounds in this collection include:
- Clicking
- Cranking
- Metal levers
- Metal movement
- Winding
- Running
- Slowing
- Squeaking
You can get all wound up with this kind of thing. Something for any mechanical mind.

Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.
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