New Sound Effects: Whooshes, Motorcycles, Computer & UI Sounds, Real-time Tools - & Ambiences From Construction Sites & Alleys

Posted February 19, 2017 by Asbjoern Andersen in New sound effects libraries

The amount of new SFX releases has been incredible, so we’re splitting this recap into two: For this first one, we have new libraries ranging from cutting-edge virtual instruments to cosy European soundscapes.

You will find UI sounds that are bright and trickly and others that are modern and flexible. There are also whooshes of various textures and a collection that can be controlled like an instrument. Plus, there are sounds from Denmark’s less traveled alleyways, backyards and construction sites, a SFX subscription option, and sounds of zipping, growling motorcycles on a race track. Read on for all the details.

Raceday – Motorcycles

Motorcycle Sound Effects Raceday – Motorcycles Play Track 90+ sounds included $35

Motorcycles go fast – especially on the racetrack. Here we have the 300cc, 600cc, 1000cc and Moto 3 Classes recorded on the Hairpin Exit, Straight and Fast Turns, with riders going at it solo and some preferring a bit of group action. They sound fast and powerful, except maybe the Moto 3 class which sounds a little like a small prop plane.

The library includes 90 recordings. All files are Sound Miner metadata embedded, 24Bit/48kHz wav files

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'Raceday – Motorcycles' by Smackheads has sounds of speed on the race track. With a 300cc Yamaha R3, a Moto 3, and 600cc and 1000cc beasts, this library gives you the buzz, hum and growl of these bikes as they fly around the track. With 90 recordings, you will hear solo and group races as well as the twists of the track with a hairpin exit and fast turns. There are also many quick passbys, giving you sounds to create whooshes with an organic feel. If you need some power in your sound design, check this library out.

Tech Tech Tech Data

User Interface (UI) Sound Effects Tech Tech Tech Data Play Track 70 sounds included $29

A library designed for fancy pants computer read-outs and jazzy interface buttons. All files are flawlessly loop-able so no matter how long that data needs to keep on flowing, you're covered. Plenty of different styles from classical digital sounds, to lighter, funnier readouts and even dangerously aggressive ones. It pretty much covers most situations.

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'Tech Tech Tech Data' by Smackheads has interesting new computer sounds to give some personality to your UI, machine, and buttons sounds. With bleeps and bloops that have all sorts of timbre and rhythms, these sounds will convince your audience whether your scenes are in the modern day or in the future. Plus, each sound is loopable for flexible interactive use. If you are looking for the digital sounds of data processing, this library is for you.

Ninety Nine Problems But A Whoosh Ain’t One

Whoosh Sound Effects Ninety Nine Problems But A Whoosh Ain’t One Play Track 99 sounds included $35

Everyone needs some good whooshing, but sometimes you just want a whoosh that will cut right through the crap. This pack does not contain earth moving cinematic slams, but rather crispy, bright, swishes, swooshes and whooshes designed for television, radio and internet use.

We figured 99 whooshes was a good start to get you out of trouble, and we've provided a wide range of sounds, from nice clean wipes and slides to more complex textural sounds. Each file contains a single whoosh so you can grab the one you like and throw it on your timeline.

All files are 24 bit / 48kHz .wav files and are Sound Miner metadata embedded. Enjoy!

Update:
99 Problems But A Whoosh Ain't One now comes with a bonus library of all 99 whooshes under the influence of various effects. From extreme manipulation to gentle reverbs the original library has been morphed into a different beast.

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'Ninety Nine Problems But A Whoosh Ain’t One' by Smackheads gives you 99 whooshes that are long, quick and medium-paced and feature a variety of textures. The library includes whooshes that are metallic, sharp, hollow, digital, industrial, and dark, as well as others that sound like ocean waves, vehicles passing by, and cloth. These professional sounds will pop out in your soundscape, and since each sound effect is on its own file, whooshes certainly won't be one of your ninety-nine problems.

Wave Warper

Stand-Alone Wave Warper Play Track $99

Want to design your own whoosh sound effects? Wave Warper is a revolutionary new way to create your own amazing custom whooshes, passbys, morphed sounds, and sample mayhem. It is a standalone app that combines and loops up to 6 sound file layers to create one new dynamic file using multiple real-time controllable effects and optional VST plugins.

For years sound designers and musicians alike have had to painstakingly layer sounds within DAWs and create time consuming midi controlling scenes to create whoosh, doppler, and passby effects.

Wave Warper takes advanced concepts and simplifies them into one quick, fun, and intuitive software. It is incredibly addictive to use, and produces sounds like you've never heard before.

Wave Warper features:

• Load up to 6 sound files
• Load up to 10 VST plugins within Wave Warper
• Real-time user controlled XY pad allows you to 'perform' Wave Warper
• Pitch, volume, panning, and filtering defined envelopes follow along in real-time
• Randomizes your sound library folders to quickly generate new sounds
• Sine, triangle and square LFOs
• Wind and whistle generators
• 2 compressors
• 9 filter settings that follow along in real-time
• Volume fluctuation on each file for creating dynamic sounds per layer
• Leap Motion control option. Leap Motion sold separately here
• Reverb
• Compatible with Mac and PC (32 bit and 64 bit)

System Requirements:

An Intel® Mac with Mac OS X 10.7 (or later), OR a PC with Windows 7 (or later); Multicore processor; 2 GB RAM; 1024×768 display.

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'Wave Warper' is a standalone whoosh library tool for Mac and PC with 10 VSTs, 2 compressors, 9 filters, randomization, reverb, and more. This tool can be intuitively 'played' by users with an XY pad or a Leap Motion control and allows real-time control over pitch, volume, panning and filtering. Plus, it offers MIDI control for Doppler and passby effects, and you can even load your own SFX and VST plugins. For a tool that takes sound design and SFX to the next level, who else would create such a cool tool than SoundMorph?

Audiohero – The Hero

Bundles Audiohero – The Hero Play Track 300000 sounds included $299

Download 3,000 Sound Effects for $299.99 within a year from a library of more than 200,000 tracks. We give you Access to a wide variety of collections from Sound Ideas and the Hollywood Edge, including categories such as ambiance, animals, comedy, cartoon, crashes, designed sounds, foley, feature film, guns, sci-fi, production elements, sports, surround sound, transportation, and the list goes on! Instead of purchasing a boutique library, choose from an extensive library ala carte. We provide you with the massive audio library without the large cost.

The sound effects are all recorded in 24bit 96khz down to 16bit 44.1khz. These sound effects have been used in many productions such as feature films, video games and all types of broadcast.

What you get:

Purchasing this offer gets you a special code that lets you download 3000 sound effects from Audiohero.com within a year. The sounds you get with this purchase are covered under the Audiohero EULA.

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Want access to a huge sound catalog to grab single sound effects from once in a while? 'Audiohero – The Hero' is the largest subscription from Audiohero. For $299.99, you receive a year-long subscription and the ability to download 3,000 sounds from 250,000 choices under the Audiohero EULA. This collection has ambiences, animals, cartoons sounds, crashes, impacts, foley, guns, and more that will fit your project whether it be a sci-fi game, feature film or an animated television show. Instead of being stuck with a bunch of sounds you won't need, this subscription lets you choose exactly what you want without spending a fortune.

Interface Accents

User Interface (UI) Sound Effects Interface Accents Play Track 325 sounds included $29

A broad selection of sound design interface accents and UI sound fx. Includes a mixture of selection and menu sounds, readout, scrolling and scanning fx, buttons and switches, and notification and alert clips.

Includes over 15 fields of metadata in three formats, including Soundminer.

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'Interface Accents' has soft, smooth-as-butter UI sounds that only Airborne Sound could make. With bubbly, chirping, watery, buzzing, trickling sounds, this library's 325 sounds will add a touch of ear-pleasing notifications to your project. It also includes menu sounds, scrolling and scanning, computing, buttons, alerts, and switches, giving you just about every sound you could need for your futuristic instruments. If you want your audience to feel like they are in the cockpit or the server room, give this library a listen.

Construction Ambiences

Industrial Ambiences Construction Ambiences Play Track 32+ sounds included $45

If you're after the sound of construction sites, this library gets you interior and exterior recordings from construction work such as cobblestone pavers, concrete shredders, harbor cranes, forklifts, jackhammers, stonecutters, metal hammering, excavators and more. A total of more than 2 hours of construction work ambiences are included.

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'Construction Ambiences' by SonicSalute takes you to the heart of earplug-wearing, Arbejdstilsynet-regulating construction sites in Denmark and the huge machinery you can find there. With sounds of cobblestone pavers, concrete shredders, harbor cranes, forklifts, jackhammers, stonecutters, excavators and more, this library has plenty of content in its 2 hours with tracks ranging from one minute to eight minutes. With a variety of perspectives, interior and exterior locations, and surprisingly no clipping, this library should give you a blue collar feel right away.

Backyards & Alleyways

City Life Sound Effects Backyards & Alleyways Play Track 35+ sounds included, 188 mins total $45

Need ambiences from backyards and alleyways? This collection delivers more than 3 hours of atmospheric ambiences from places such as cementaries, gardens, churchyards, school yards, industrial alleyways, castles, apartment complexes, small cities and more.

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'Backyards & Alleyways' by SonicSalute features Denmark from areas hidden in between its buildings. These atmospheric sounds include ambiences in cemeteries, gardens, schoolyards, and apartments from small cities as well as industrial alleys and wintery churchyards with their surrounding magpies, crows and sparrows as thy braving the cold. With the intimate recording style of SonicSalute, you're sure to find memorable sounds and characteristics to please your audience.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gateway Part 1 features 675 files, 1200+ sounds

Gateway Part 2 features 365 files, 600+ sounds

Gateway Part 3 features 772 files, 1400+ sounds

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

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

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

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

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

About Shine and Glitter SFX Pack

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, Line Audio Omni1 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving, foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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