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We’ve recently added six new libraries with immersive sounds of the Middle East and Southeast Asia and sonic textures for your sci-fi and foley needs. On your world journey, you can explore Turkey, Indonesia and Jordan with sounds of major cities, rural living, bazaars, calls to prayer, and celebrations of Ramadan. If you prefer to follow your imagination, you can also listen to sounds of malfunctioning mecha, otherworldly lifeforms, and objects being dragged on concrete by a rogue A.I. or across a forest floor by an angry Ent. With such beautifully handcrafted and thoughtful libraries, you’re sure to find something you’ll like!
Drag & Slide
 
  • Need the sound of objects being pushed, pulled, dragged, moved – or perhaps sliding and scraping over different surfaces? The Drag & Slide SFX library gets you exactly that: More than 500 dragging and sliding sounds that are ready to be used as they are – or for intense sound design.

    Drag & Slide features recordings from sources such as:

    Bags, Barrels, Blades, Bottles, Cabinets, Chairs, Coat-hangers, Crates, Dining Tables, Fridges, Frying Pans, Iron Boxes, Iron Tables, Metal Cans, Metal Chairs, Nightstands, Pallets, Paper bags, Plates, Racks, Rakes, Shoes, Shovels, Sledgehammers, Spray cans, Stones/rocks, Toolboxes, Vacuum Cleaners, Various heavy objects, Wooden Boards – and more!

    Technical details:

    All sounds were cleaned, edited and filled with BWF-Metadata for instant use in your projects – and many of the files in the pack contain more than one sound. Recorded with Sound Devices 744T, 788T, Sennheiser MKH8050, Ambient ATE208, Sony PCM-D100

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'Drag & Slide' by SoundBits is a wide-ranging library that will save you in a pinch. This library has over 500 sounds of objects being dragged, pulled and pushed over various surfaces. You'll find sounds of rusty barrels scraping across concrete floors, heavy objects being dragged through leaves, an armchair as it squeaks across a wooden floor and much, much more. These sounds were also recorded at 96kHz by Sound Devices and Sennheiser mics, making them flexible enough to be pitch-shifted and layered into larger scenarios. Perhaps a dinosaur is dragging the body of its prey or a ship is crashing onto land? It's up to you!
 
Artificial Life
 
  • Sci-Fi Sound Effects Artificial Life Play Track 477+ sounds included $25

    Artificial Life is a collection of designed and raw sci-fi sound effects dedicated to non-organic lifeforms, alien machinery and abstract expressive articulations. Inside you will find sounds of energy bursts, piercing lasers, heavy sparks, warm synthetic drones and otherworldly textures, whimsical glitchy reactions, beautiful beeps and calculations, and much more.

    This library will be a nice addition to your palette of futuristic sound effects, whether you are working on a video game, motion picture or a music track.

    Artificial Life features sounds such as:

    • Designed / Articulations – Abstract
    • Designed / Articulations – Bursts
    • Designed / Articulations – Reverses
    • Designed / Articulations – Transitions
    • Designed / Impacts and Hits
    • Designed / Interface – Beeps
    • Designed / Interface – Gestures
    • Designed / Interface – Glitch
    • Designed / Interface – Calculations and Telemetry
    • Designed / Texures and Drones
    • Raw / Impacts and Bursts
    • Raw / Interface and Glitches
    • Raw / Textures and Drones
    • Raw / Whooshes

'Artificial Life' by Lesser Vibes has designed and raw sci-fi sound effects for your alien lifeforms and machinery. These sounds are categorized into articulations, impacts, interface sounds, textures, whooshes and drones, offering you a complete and otherworldly soundscape for your game or film. You will find energy bursts, lasers, sparks, glitchy reactions, computations, and more, that can voice your A.I., extraterrestrials, and spaceships - which make you wonder if they may have become sentient. For over 477 sounds of deep space communication and calculation, 'Artificial Life' is worth checking out.
 
Designed Mecha
 
  • Sci-Fi Sound Effects Designed Mecha Play Track 47 sounds included, 7 mins total $25

    Designed Mecha features 47 cinematic mecha / robot sound effects, ambiences, mechanism and servo sounds, impacts, and glitches. It explores the inner and outer mechanisms of an at times slightly malfunctioning mecha and its environment.

    Designed Mecha highlights:

    47 24bit / 96kHz WAV files / UCS (Universal Category System) Meta-tagged
    33 Elements
    14 Sequences

'Designed Mecha' by Gregor Quendel in collaboration with Bend Audio Design, gives you broadband, mechanized sounds that are ready for your game or film. These sounds are powerful and professional and offer a distinct sci-fi edge for the technology in your world. In this library, you will receive 50 sounds of massive machines, A.I., and robotic body suits with whirring inner engines, startups and power downs, ambiences, space movement, and servos. Many sounds could be used for doors, engines, weapons, glitches, malfunctions, and plasma explosions, or layered on to acoustic sounds to give them a sci-fi edge. For buzzing, whirring and splashing booms, here's 'Designed Mecha'.
 
Turkey
 
  • World Sounds Turkey Play Track 36+ sounds included $55

    'Turkey' is a unique collection of 36 sounds recorded during a Turkish journey on the road last summer with an amazing meeting point between Europe and Asia through incredibly diverse landscapes, cultures and traditions. What an unusual and surprising journey from Istanbul through the plains of Anatolia and Aegean coast during Ramadan. This library includes:

    • The muezzin leading a call to prayer recorded from different perspectives
    • Villages and countryside
    • Markets and big bazaar
    • Cities: Istanbul and Antalya
    • Calls to prayer in and from mosque

    This collection provides authentic and interesting sounds recorded through the western part of the country using DPA, Neumann and Audio Technica mics powered by an Atea Mixy. All Faunethic tracks include Soundminer metadata tags.

'Turkey' by Faunethic is a beautifully perceptive sound library that feels more like a documentary than a sound list. This collection, which was gathered during Ramadan all across Turkey, captures insight into the daily life of the massive city of Istanbul and the plains of the Anatolia and Aegean coasts. It contains sounds of muezzins lifting their voices for centered and passionate adhans, people playing games and enjoying coffee, a teenager leading prayers, and the beauty of happy voices as people see each other in Istanbul's busy markets during the holiday. For sounds that celebrate humanity and community, here's 'Turkey'.
 
Jordan
 
  • World Sounds Jordan Play Track 32+ sounds included, 80 mins total $45

    'Jordan' is a unique collection of 32 sounds recorded and produced with high-quality equipment. From the northern part of the country to the Red Sea, this collection includes:

    • Desert ambiances from Wadi-Rum and Petra, the “tresor” of the country.
    • Villages, cities and countrysides with nice reverb from the canyons.
    • Various indoor and outdoor markets and bazaars.
    • The muezzin leading the call to prayer at different hours from different perspectives and acoustics with wide and long reverb from the hilly landscape.

    This collection provides authentic and interesting sounds recorded through the western part of the country using DPA, Neumann and Audio technica mics powered by an Aeta Mixy Recorder. All Faunethic tracks include Soundminer metadata tags.

'Jordan' by Faunethic gives you 80 minutes of lush nature, bustling cities, and peaceful countrysides from northeastern Ruwaished to busy Amman to the peaceful Wadi-Rum desert and the Red Sea. It has calls to prayer that ring spectacularly through the hills and echo off buildings, joyful conversations within the bazaars of Amman, and desert ambiences with bird calls and wind that gusts across the ridges of the canyons into the valleys. For 80 minutes of diverse sounds from humankind's historic homeland, check out 'Jordan'.
 
Indonesia
 
  • World Sounds Indonesia Play Track 53+ sounds included, 116 mins total $55

    'Indonesia' is a unique collection of 57 sounds recorded and produced with high quality equipment of DPA, Neumann and Audio Technica mics powered by an Aeta Mixy. This collection provides authentic and interesting sounds recorded on three different islands during national festivities for nice diversity! This collection includes:

    • Villages and countrysides of Java and Lombok.
    • Forest: from volcanoes and tropical places.
    • Market: from small to big, outdoor and indoor
    • City: busy to calm, day and night.
'Indonesia' by Faunethic by Faunethic is a library full of sounds of rural villages and major cities from three of the country's islands: Java, Bali and Lombok. You can hear sounds of children laughing and playing football on the Pemeturan coast of Bali, cows and dogs on the volcanic Lombok island, people walking through markets of Yojakarta, and busy city traffic and airport ambience in the country's second largest city, Surabaya. You will also hear worshipful singing, thunderstorms, night ambiences filled with crickets, tropical ambiences, and more in this 80-minute library. For the diverse sounds of a beautiful Southeast Asian country, have a listen to 'Indonesia'.
   

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Popular sound effects this week:

 
  • 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)

    Anime Epic Combat Sound Effects: Behind the Scenes / Making of | WOW Sound
  • 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.

  • 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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  • 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!

  • Foley Sound Effects World of Secrets Play Track 149-1718+ sounds included From: $50

    World Of Secrets is a collection inspired by those mysterious and beautiful objects and furniture, meticulously designed by 15th to 19th century’s craftsmen. Those geniuses used their art to protect what had to remain confidential or secret.

    One of the mentors of that art was Leonardo Da Vinci, master of inventions, designing incredible mechanisms for his machines. After much research, and a large photo review session, Red Libraries has designed this collection of modules to assemble as you wish.
    A bookcase, a desk, a sarcophagus, a hidden door, a statuette, a cane with a retractable blade, a poison ring, an old grimoire.. each of them will reveal its secret mechanism, from the delicate parts assembled by the jeweler, to the smooth slides of hinges designed by the cabinetmaker.

    Three versions are available
    + a complete bundle:

    Objects and furnitures designed: Features the designed sounds of furniture and objects – many hiding secret features and functions – such as:
    A Bookcase, Cabinet, Case, Chair, Chest, Coffer, Cupboard, Desk, Enigma Decoding Machine, Safe, Secret keys and locks, Statue, Sarcophagus, Telescopic Cane, Water Lock – and a number of wooden and metallic mechanisms


    Gear & specs: 744T + EAA Micromix • Schoeps MS Couple • KM 82i Neuman • 2 KM 184 Neuman • DPA 4060 • Barcus berry contact mic • 96 kHz/24bits, 149 .WAV, stereo and mono files (243 MB)

    Objects toolbox: A wide range of elements to create your own objects, mechanisms, or secret furniture ; we’re offering toolboxes which leave you infinite possibilities of combinations, from the more simple towards the more complex, wherever your imagination leads you.


    Gear & specs: 744T + EAA Micromix • Schoeps MS Couple • KM 82i Neuman • 2 KM 184 Neuman • DPA 4060 • Barcus berry contact mic • 96 kHz/24bits, 488 .WAV, stereo and mono files (494 MB)

    Furniture Toolbox: Sound design elements for you to design your own intricate furniture – features mechanical, wooden and delicate sounds for you to unleash your creativity on.


    Gear & specs: 744T + EAA Micromix • Schoeps MS Couple • KM 82i Neuman • 2 KM 184 Neuman • DPA 4060 • Barcus berry contact mic • 96 kHz/24bits, 1081 .WAV, stereo and mono files (2.4 GB)

    Complete bundle: Features everything above, for a fantastic selection of interesting sounds, at a great price.


    Gear & specs: 744T + EAA Micromix • Schoeps MS Couple • KM 82i Neuman • 2 KM 184 Neuman • DPA 4060 • Barcus berry contact mic • 96 kHz/24bits, 1718 .WAV, stereo and mono files (3.47 GB)

  • Get a huge variety of simple or complex lockdown mechanism sounds with a wide array of different latches and impacts with Lockdown, a performable Kontakt instrument and sound effects library.

    We brought in dozens of props big and small to generate a massive array of source material recorded at 24 bit 192kHz. These included cameras, carabiners, wrenches, rack cases, knives, can openers, tongs, crimpers, solder suckers, file cabinet doors, vehicle doors and servos and much more – all with multiple unique performances per set.

    Great care was taken to record each performance with the highest sonic quality and detail. We chose a pair of MKH50s in XY as our primary setup, creating a big, clean stereo image on every sound.

    Lockdown is divided into two parts –
    elements and designed:

    The elements collection has all of the source recordings in their unaltered states. Each sound is edited, cleaned, volume matched and carefully metadata tagged.


    The designed collection uses samples based on the elements recordings that have been transformed into entirely new and different sounds using heavy processing and layering. It was created to produce interesting design and transition sounds quickly and easily. Lockdown includes over 500 fully lockdowns of all sizes and scales.

    Lockdown highlights

    • more than 1700 elements files
    • 192 kHz source recordings
    • 500 heavily designed sounds
    • 96kHz designed collection
    • 2 full kontakt instruments (full version of Kontakt 5.5 required)
    • soundminer and bwav metadata

    Note: Can be used without Kontakt too!
    All Kontakt instrument libraries include fully unlocked and accessible metadata tagged .wav files. You don't need any version of Kontakt to use these files as a standalone sample library.
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Latest sound effects libraries:
 
  • 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
    •  Fabrics – 57 SFX
    • Zips – 8 SFX
  • 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.

    Check the sound list for additional info.
    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.

  • Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects BIAS Play Track 70 sounds included, 11 mins total $15

    Unleash sonic chaos and chilling unease with BIAS, a collection of 70 sound effects of pure cacophony and dissonance (24 Bit / 48 kHz, wav, UCS).

    Dive into a world of cacophony: hear the anguish of tortured laments and the bewildering clash of instruments colliding in discordant harmony.

    Venture into the realm of dissonance: encounter the haunting movements of rare, detuned pianos, the nerve-jangling friction of intense violin interactions, and unsettling textures that weave a palpable sense of dread.

    Although it is a simple and small library, BIAS is not for the faint of heart. Is aimed to the sound designer, trailer composer, and artist seeking to evoke unease, tension, and the beautifully broken.

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  • Suburbs Of Denver: Evening is the second in the Suburbs of Denver Series. Recorded on the same balcony as the first pack, but this time, between the Evening hours of 7:15pm to 9:53pm. Around 2 and half hours packed into 14 audios files. Similar to the first pack, you’ll hear loud cars, motorcycles, airplanes, sporadic bird chirps, and more! All metadata is tagged using the Universal Category System in Soundminer, and also searchable in Basehead, and Soundly. Recorded at 32 bit, 192 using the LOM MikroUsi Pro into a Zoom F3 Recorder.


   

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