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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 Swarms sound effects
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    Insect Sound Effects Insects & Swarms Play Track 1000+ sounds included, 121 mins total $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

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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
 
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    Quadcopters / Drone Sounds Quadcopter Flight Play Track 148 sounds included, 61 mins total $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
 
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    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

    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
 
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    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

    NOTE:
    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:

 
  • Firearms Sound Effects Analogue Ordnance Play Track 6300+ sounds included, 293 mins total $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 $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 $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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  • Firearms Sound Effects Analogue Ordnance Play Track 6300+ sounds included, 293 mins total $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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