16 new sound libraries Asbjoern Andersen


Get ready for a huge variety of sound libraries from the community.

In this recap, you can hear lots of weather sounds of heavy rain, snowy footsteps and slushy traffic to banjos on dry ice and thunder cracks recorded on tape during the ’80s!

You can also check out an 18th-century British mansion’s ambiences and props, industrial age steam engines, a vintage German light rail, Ambisonic ambiences from Madrid, a roaring Soviet fighter jet, a nice collection of household items, recordings of a Czech toboggan, an aggressive selection of destructive impacts and glitches, an extensive sci-fi library that goes above and beyond, and two packs of droid sounds and arcade lasers.

British Stately Home

'British Stately Home' by SH Sound Design Ltd spotlights a late-18th-century neo-classical mansion. It is a collection of 256 files recorded at 24bit/96kHz with a mixture of mono, stereo, LCR and 5.0 files. It has sounds of doors, windows, fireplaces, clocks, drips, keys and various unusual period-specific props, often from multiple perspectives. It also includes impulse responses from the building's more colorfully reverberant rooms and some very still ambiences. This was a collaboration between two award-winning sound designers, Stefan Henrix (Chernobyl, Batman Begins) and Steve Fanagan (Room, Frank).
 
  • Roomtones British Stately Home Play Track 256 sounds included, 496 mins total $49

    British Stately Home is a collaboration between two award-winning sound designers, Stefan Henrix (Chernobyl, Batman Begins) and Steve Fanagan (Room, Frank). It is a collection of 256 files recorded at 24bit/96kHz, totalling 18.6GB. The recordings are a mixture of mono, stereo, LCR and 5.0 files. In some cases there are multiple perspectives on the same recording (close, mid and wide). There are also Impulse sweep files from several of the building’s more characterfully reverberant rooms, which have been recorded from different perspectives and can be used to create impulse responses in suitable convolution reverb plugins.

    Sounds for this library were recorded over two days in a beautifully maintained rural British Stately Home; a late-18th-century neo-classical mansion. We set out to record any and all aspects of the building and its surroundings. The collection includes doors, windows, fireplaces, clocks, drips, keys and various unusual, period specific props we came across.

    The interior of the building was one of the quietest places either of us have ever recorded and the Roomtones we’ve captured here are some of the most still and neutral recordings we’ve both made.

    All of the sounds are authentic and the spaces we recorded in are reverberant, have their own ambience, and have coloured each of the recordings with the natural acoustic of this magnificent building.

    We often set-up with multiple mics to capture different perspectives of the same recordings and these will hopefully offer the user interesting options as they work with these sounds.

    At times we have left our own movements at the beginning and end of recordings, as they captured something of the building’s unique acoustic and have proven useful to both of us in our own film work with this library. This is a diverse and versatile library and the recordings take well to pitch and time shifting, and to other plugin manipulation.

    Equipment Used: Sanken CMS-7S, DPA4060, Sennheiser MKH60, Rode NT4, Sound Devices 702T, Sound Devices USB Pre-2, Roland R26

Spirit Of Sound Effects: Thunder Volume 1

'Spirit Of Sound Effects: Thunder Volume 1' by Unity Gain Sound was recorded in 1988 to DAT with an ORTF pair of Schoeps MK-4s and features a lightning strike from less than 12 feet away! Some of this material was released through 'The Hollywood Edge Signature Series' back in 1993 and the rest was considered "unusable" due to the rain. Not so with Izotope RX 7 Advanced. It was painstakingly remastered and has been released at 96kHz with Soundminer metadata. Come hear the utter clarity and crispness of this thunder as it should be.
 
  • Here is the thunder I recorded in 1988, to DAT with an ORTF pair of Schoeps MK-4s, which includes a strike from ~12′ away!  Hair standing up on end and everything.  You may know some of this material as what I released through “The Hollywood Edge Signature Series” back in 1993.  Well, a lot has changed.  More than half the material was then unusable back then due to rain ‘ruining’ the recordings.  Not so with Izotope RX 7 Advanced.  Rain?  What rain?  Not a drop survived.  Not.  A.  Drop.

    Painstakingly remastered to 96kHz 32-bit floating-point (no shortcuts padding it with useless zeros: That would be cheap and lazy).  Embrace it; it’s our near-future and everything I publish from here on out will be as such.

    ​   Hundreds and hundreds of mic capsule failures were repaired along with plenty of distortion – without removing any time; so if you line up the old with the now new, they won’t hold sync for long.  Back then all I could do was cut out time.  No more.  Come hear the utter clarity and crispness of this thunder as it should be.  To differentiate and make it quick and easy for people to cut, I’ve called the very close strikes “Lightning” and the not-as-close strikes “Thunder”.  Already prepped in/for Soundminer ready to go, and a spreadsheet document for those using other systems.

Rain & Thunder

'Rain & Thunder' by Soundholder features 53 files covering different types of rain, from light showers to heavy falls. This library was recorded in different locations, like open spaces, forests and under the plastic or metal roofs, and it also has some experimental recordings like rain captured from inside a metal grill or bucket. There are also few thunder recordings that are mostly subtle and long. All together you'll get over 5 GBs of 96kHz pack and a total length of 162 minutes.
 
  • Weather Sound Effects Rain & Thunder Play Track 53+ sounds included, 162 mins total $32

    The Rain & Thunder sound library features 53 files covering different types of rain, from light showers to heavy falls. Files were recorded in different locations, like open space, forest, under the plastic or metal roofs and some experiments like rain recorded inside metal grill or bucket. There are also few thunder recordings, mostly subtle and long ones. It’s 5.31 GB 96kHz pack with total length of 162 minutes.

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Snow, Ice & Everything Dry Ice

'Snow, Ice & Everything Dry Ice' by NoiseFloor FX consists of 380 sound effects ranging from footsteps to metal gliding through snow! There are a variety of surfaces like hard and soft snow, ice blocks, crushed and shaved ice, and dry ice, as well as impacts, jumps, metal Foley and more. You can also hear the sound of banjos, jingle bells and items like bouncing quarters and sledge hammers sizzling on dry ice! (The banjo sounds great, just check out the demo.)
 
  • This library consists of 380 different sound effects ranging from footstep to metals gliding through snow! With each surface, there are a variety of different footsteps, impacts, jumps, metal foley and more.

    You can also hear the sound of banjos, jingle bells and more sizzling on dry ice! (The banjo sounds great, trust me.)


    Types of snow/ice surfaces:

    • Hard Snow
    • Soft (loose) Snow
    • Ice Blocks
    • Crushed Ice
    • Shaved Ice
    • Dry Ice

     

Editor Toolbox: Expanded Household Edition

'Editor Toolbox: Expanded Household Edition' by Boom Box Library contains all of the essential sound effect recordings of everyday household items such as doors, room tones, chairs, windows, kitchen equipment, sinks, bathroom shower, clothing, and more.
 
  • The Expanded Household SFX Library contains all of the essential sound effect recordings of everyday household items included in the standard edition plus 238 additional recordings. These additional sound effects give you a greater variety of choices while editing.

    The library includes sound effects such as doors, room tones, chairs, windows, kitchen equipment, sinks, bathroom shower, clothing, and more.

    This highly curated and easy-to-use library is perfect for a video editor or sound effects editor working on a sitcom, family drama, or comedy. For a .pdf listing all sound files included, see the sound file list below.

Traction Steam Engines

'Traction Steam Engines' by Earquirks gets you the sounds of pulsing pistons, creaking cogs, bright hisses, funnel blasts and evolving mechanical rhythms, straight out of the industrial age. The library features both 90 original recordings, a custom collection of 111 design sounds.
 
Vintage Tram

'Vintage Tram' by Detunized gets you the sounds of a fully working light rail near Dresden. The 2-axle rail cars were built from 1957 until 1967. The recorded tram drives along an 8km track through a small German valley that is surrounded by reverberant rock faces. The library has recordings from the driver's seat and several positions in the wagon, both with and without passengers, plus sounds of the doors and doorbells and exterior recordings of squeaky approaches and pass-bys.
 
  • Travel & Transportation Vintage Tram Play Track 28+ sounds included, 40 mins total $50

    Vintage Tram features sounds of a fully working light rail vehicle in small valley near Dresden/Germany. The 2-axle railcars were built from 1957 until 1967 with reference to concepts from the 1930s.
    The recorded tram drives along an 8 kilometer track through a small valley that is surrounded by reverberant rock faces of various intensity.

    The Library contains recordings from the driver´s seat, from several positions in the wagon, both with and without passengers. Also included are exterior recordings of squeaky approaches and pass-bys, couplings, doorbells, and door openings/closings.

    Recorded in 192 kHz the material allows for extensive downsampling to generate versatile soundscapes far beyond the original. Please listen to Audio Demo No.2

Madrid Ambisonic City Life

'Madrid Ambisonic City Life' by Foley Collection & Surround Sound LAB was recorded in Madrid last winter, capturing 40 beautiful tracks in Ambisonic format. These urban ambiences feature city traffic, pedestrians on the street, rooftop ambiences and more with almost no bird sounds. The library was decoded and mixed in Dolby ATMOS and includes an Ambix Ambisonic, 7.1.2 Atmos Bed, 5.1 and ST versions. This library is also included in the Surround Sound LAB Complete Bundle, which features over 25 sound libraries at a huge discount.
 
  • We recorded Madrid last winter, capturing 40 beautiful tracks in ambisonic format, 48Khz and 24 bits HD. As always, top quality recordings specially designed for film audio projects. The library was decoded and mixed in Dolby ATMOS.

    Included Ambix Ambisonic, 7.1.2 Atmos Bed, 5.1 and ST versions.

    Another way to get this library:
    Also included in the Surround Sound LAB Complete Bundle, featuring 25+ SFX libraries at a huge discount.
Toboggan Run

'Toboggan Run' by Eklen Sounds Team gives you a compact collection of sound effects from a summer Toboggan Run. It has loud clicking sounds of the track, fast downhill rides and passbys of the bobsleds. It was recorded in an entertainment park in the Czech Republic on a Line Audio CM3 (XY pattern) and Tascam DR 701-D.
 
  • This compact pack gives you a few sound effects of summer Toboggan Run. Loud lift clicking sound of the track, fast downhill ride and passbys of the bobsleds.

    Recorded in Czech entertainment park on Line Audio CM3 (XY pattern) and Tascam DR 701-D.

Astro Droid Sound Pack 01

In the world of sci-fi, not only humans communicate but robots do, too. 'Astro Droid Sound Pack 01' by Debsound has such conversations from these lovable machines with 44 sounds that are ready to be placed on your timeline or in your Wwise project. If your favorite character from Star Wars was R2D2, then don't miss out!
 
Snowy Winter Traffic

'Snowy Winter Traffic' by UGRI SOUND is a collection of snowy, icy, slushy, crunchy winter traffic. Single car passes, busy city roads, distant skylines, village roads, highways. All files are 96kHz 24-bit with metadata, and recorded with two Sennheiser Mkh 8040s, Mkh 416, Audio Technica BP4025 and Sony D100.
 
Shockwave

'Shockwave' by SampleTraxx is a collection of aggressive and destructive sound effects for modern sci-fi projects. The sound pack contains 150+ explosive heavy hitting impacts, digital glitches, dirty blasts, heavy pings, electric shocks, flashes, buzzes, stutters and source recordings.
 
MiG-15 UTI

'MiG-15 UTI' by Eklen Sounds Team features a legendary Soviet fighter, the MiG-15 UTI jet fighter with the VK-1 engine. You will get over 30 minutes of impressive onboard flight AB recordings recorded with a Tascam DR-701D, as well as close and distance flybys, startups, take offs, flights and more recorded with a pair of Line Audio CM3 (XY) and a Zoom F4, all recorded in 192 kHz.
 
Foundation Series Sci-Fi Vol 2

'Foundation Series Sci-Fi Vol 2' by PMSFX extends their popular series, featuring 627 seamlessly looping ambiences and drones, buttons and switches, cinematic transformations and robotics, futuristic door sounds, exoskeleton and micro-tech sounds, space racer fly-bys, power ups and energy risers, glitches, complex UI sounds, calculations and alarms, gunshots, weapon Foley, and much more!
 
  • FSSF VOL 2 is a second installment of one of our bestsellers; foundation series sci-fi (used on projects like: Robot Will Protect You, Season 10 of Archer and many more).

    This pack is created with game devs, animators and sounds designers in mind.
    627 high quality sound effects, optimized for game devs and mastered to sound good on all sets of speakers and headphones.

    The library features:
    • Seamlessly looping ambiences
    • Buttons and switches
    • Cyber-Tech sound effects (cinematic transformations and robotics)
    • Sci-fi, futuristic door sound effects
    • Seamlessly looping drones
    • Exoskeleton sound effects (steps, servos, activations)
    • Micro-Tech sound effects (cinematic micro transformations and micro robotics)
    • Space racer fly-by sound effects (left to right and right to left)
    • Achievement/power-up/even sound effects
    • Energy Risers
    • Seamlessly looping radio glitches and static
    • Complex UI sound effects
    • Seamlessly looping UI Calculations and alarms
    • Simple UI sound effects
    • Weapons sound effects (gunshots + weapon foley: pickup/equip, reload)
    • Cinematic risers
    • Cinematic Tension Builders
    • Air release/gas leak sound effects
    • Extraterrestrial, big monster sound effects

    All SFX have baked-in Soundminer’s meta data.

    The download includes:
    96KHZ 24BIT version (1.11GB)
    44.1KHZ 16BIT version for Unreal Engine (0.4GB)
    RECORDED WITH: Sennheiser MKH8060, MKH8040, DPA4060, SONY PCM D100, JrF Coil Pickup
    EDITED AND MASTERED WITH: Pro Tools, FabFilter, Reaktor, Soundtoys, Klevgrand, McDSP, Zynaptiq

Arcade Lasers Sound Pack 01

The sci-fi world of movies and games has shown us many space battles - and 'Arcade Lasers Sound Pack 01' by Debsound guides us to the realm of laser sounds with a total of 105 laser and blaster sound effects.
 
Room Tones Europe - 3D Surround Ambiences

'Room Tones Europe - 3D Surround Ambiences' by BOOM Library offers an enormous variety of different room ambiences. From busy transportation areas, malls and warehouses over congress centers and green houses to swimming pools and public libraries. The library features 200+ 3D Surround files, as well as stereo recordings.
 
  • ROOM TONES EUROPE – 3D SURROUND AMBIENCES:

    Our second entry of our brand-new sound effect series 3D SURROUND is here: ROOM TONES EUROPE. This library offers an enormous variety of different room ambiences. From busy transportation areas, malls and warehouses over congress centers and green houses to swimming pools and public libraries. ROOM TONES EUROPE covers all different scenarios you could possibly need, delivered fully surround with unprecedented precision, spatial impression and clarity. Undoubtedly, this can be easily used in stereo productions as well. Either chose the angle yourself or use the stereo version (included in 3D SURROUND).

    CLEAN AND PRODUCTION READY
    ROOM TONES EUROPE is a highly versatile ambience library that smoothly adapts to virtually any application.

    It offers a large selection of generic ambiences to blend into many different contexts as well as specifically recognizable locations delivered with maximum authenticity.

    FRAME YOUR SCENE
    Ambiences are an excellent tool to establish the mood of a scene, level, or location. With ROOM TONES EUROPE, this becomes a simple and rewarding task: Choose from the over 98GB large pool of well categorized ambiences available.

    From ultra-silent to lively, confined to wide open, dry and close to reverberant – everything delivered in an immersive 3D audio format that’s also backward compatible.

    To increase your mileage with the library even further, the average sound is 3-7 minutes long.

    INCLUDING STEREO VERSION
    In addition to the ORTF-3D files, the 3D SURROUND edition also contains all files in 2.0 stereo for your convenience to save time on unnecessary conversions. Instead, you can instantly use these great new sounds for all your projects that don’t require surround sound.

    Specs:

    Files: 238 • Size: 79+ GB • 98+ GB (incl. Stereo version) • Format: WAV – 24bit – 96kHz • Track Layout Lo: L • R • Ls • Rs • Hi: Lh • Rh • LSh • RSh
    ROOM TONES EUROPE – STEREO:

    SAME QUALITY, SAME CONTENT
    Don’t want to miss the excellent ROOM TONES EUROPE source recordings, but don’t necessarily require the surround version above? We offer the same recordings in the same quality in our stereo version at a lower price

    Specs:
    Files: 119 • Size: 19+ GB • Format: WAV – 24bit – 96kHz

    Included sounds – keywords:

    Airport, Apartment, Attic, Basement, Boiler Room, Corridor, Gas, Room, Cellar, Factory, Building, Workshop, Office, Congress Center, Church, Entrance Hall, Busy, Cave, Stalactite, Underground, Public Place, Industrial, Machinery, Building, Hall, Greenhouse, Palm, Garden, Exhibition, Commercial, Gallery, Swimming Pool, Indoor, Storage Room, Living Room, Flat, Downtown, Small Town, Kitchen, Suburb, Ventilation, Elevator, Modern, Public Library, Restaurant, Recording Studio, Diner, School, Sports Hall, Shopping Center, Mall, Train Station, Stairwell, Underground, Car Park, Garage, Lab, Floor, Warehouse, Wine Hall, Windy
 

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Popular sound effects this week:

 
  • Introducing MOTION GRAPHICS, a complete Motion Graphics sound effects library from SoundMorph!

    Motion Graphics focuses on all the elements you might need for sound design on a trailer, a cinematic scene or a visual that is heavy with motion graphics, whether it be abstract or straight forward, Motion Graphics has all the elements and textures you could think of. Motion Graphics are something all of us sound designers run into at one point or another, so this library is an excellent addition to your sound effects tool box.

    Motion Graphics was created by and in collaboration with sound designer Rostislav Trifonov (SoundMorph Elemental library contributor).

    Motion Graphics features 650 24bit/96 kHz .wav files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata.

    The library features:

    • 450 + designed sound effects
    • 190 + source audio files
    • Whooshes
    • Impacts
    • Risers
    • Stingers
    • Low end and Sub Bass
    • Impulse Responses
    • Passbys
    • Textures – noise, grit, glitch
    • Ambiences
    • Buttons and Clicks
    • Mechanical Elements
    • Granular effects
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  • Bloody Nightmare is a modern horror cinematic library aimed at the most cutting edge bone chilling productions out there.

    Whether you work in sound design, as a composer, trailer editor or as an electronic musician, Bloody Nightmare is a valuable new wave of Horror sounds that will surely cause visceral moments of terror and dread!

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  • Strident and Demonic

    Expand the timbre of your horror violins and cellos with CIRCUS, a sinister sample pack featuring 180 WAV sounds of screeching or high-pitched string noises, perfect for horror music and dark sound design.

    Creative Tension

    This collection offers a curated selection of screeches, high-tension tremolo, heavy jeté strokes, dark demonic textures, finger patterns, chaotic string elements, clock loops and bow accents.

    Haunting and Experimental

    Create haunting atmospheres, perfect for horror, thriller or experimental soundtracks. Every element has been designed to unsettle and disturb, blurring the line between music and noise.

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A Sound Effect gives you easy access to an absolutely huge sound effects catalog from a myriad of independent sound creators, all covered by one license agreement - a few highlights:

  • Introducing MOTION GRAPHICS, a complete Motion Graphics sound effects library from SoundMorph!

    Motion Graphics focuses on all the elements you might need for sound design on a trailer, a cinematic scene or a visual that is heavy with motion graphics, whether it be abstract or straight forward, Motion Graphics has all the elements and textures you could think of. Motion Graphics are something all of us sound designers run into at one point or another, so this library is an excellent addition to your sound effects tool box.

    Motion Graphics was created by and in collaboration with sound designer Rostislav Trifonov (SoundMorph Elemental library contributor).

    Motion Graphics features 650 24bit/96 kHz .wav files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata.

    The library features:

    • 450 + designed sound effects
    • 190 + source audio files
    • Whooshes
    • Impacts
    • Risers
    • Stingers
    • Low end and Sub Bass
    • Impulse Responses
    • Passbys
    • Textures – noise, grit, glitch
    • Ambiences
    • Buttons and Clicks
    • Mechanical Elements
    • Granular effects
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  • Modular UI is an advanced user interface library designed by world-renowned sound designer and musician Richard Devine.

    Designed and sourced entirely from Richard Devine’s personal and exclusive Eurorack modular synths and processors collection, the Modular UI soundpack combines the retro, clean sound of analog with the futuristic tech of the new wave of advanced analog and digital synthesis from modular synths, evoking flashbacks of iconic sound design heard in both classic and modern sci-fi films.

    The Modular UI soundpack gives you access to sounds created by one of the masters of modular synths and sound design, and is sourced from equipment that would take a lifetime to purchase and assemble, giving an incredible value to this soundpack both artistically and financially.

    Utilizing many Eurorack modules that have not yet been released to the public and containing samples equally suited to sound designers and electronic musicians alike, Modular UI is in a class by itself!

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  • Bloody Nightmare is a modern horror cinematic library aimed at the most cutting edge bone chilling productions out there.

    Whether you work in sound design, as a composer, trailer editor or as an electronic musician, Bloody Nightmare is a valuable new wave of Horror sounds that will surely cause visceral moments of terror and dread!

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  • Kawaii UI Bundle is the ultimate bundle for cute user interface sounds.
    In this Bundle you get both volumes of our Kawaii UI libraries.
    Kawaii UI + Kawaii UI 2

    These libraries provide an adorable blend of cute, satisfying interface sounds, crafted to enhance user experience and feedback.
    Bring your games and apps to life with the Kawaii UI Bundle.

    It’s ideal for creating joyful menus, delightful HUDs, playful navigation and notifications, engaging pop-ups, and expressive text.

    Kawaii UI Trailer
    Kawaii UI 2 Trailer

    The source recordings inside are a treasure trove of physical button presses, clicks, pops, taps, mouth sounds, toks, shakers, general synthesised UI sounds, FM bells and telemetry style sounds.. Kawaii UI Bundle provides you with the essential building blocks to craft your own distinctive designs.  Combining these elements gives sound designers a robust sonic palette to create new UI sounds.

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  • Vegetation Footsteps is a detailed collection of footwear and movement variations recorded on dry leaves and forest floor textures. Featuring walk, run, sprint, scuff, pivot, and single step actions, this library captures the nuanced crunch and rustle of layered vegetation underfoot. With performances in sport shoes, sandals, leather shoes, high heels, and barefoot, each sound is designed for realistic character movement across natural environments. Ideal for games, film, and animation, Vegetation Footsteps offers clean, focused assets for building immersive terrain interaction.

  • A collection of 135 potion sound effects.

  • A collection of 140 individual power up ability sound effects.

  • A collection of 103 bowling sound effects.


   

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