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Animal Sound Effects Animals Play Track 50 sounds included, 42 mins total $55

50 different animals! Birds, mammals, insects… English and latin names included. All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with Rode NTG1, FEL Clippy XLR EM272 and Sonorous Objects SO.3 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II & Zoom F3 recorders. The library is also available in UCS.

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Insect Sound Effects Beautiful Bugs Play Track 88 sounds included $129
Recorded by renowned innovators of film sound design Ann Kroeber and Alan Splet, the Beautiful Bugs library features an expressive collection of natural and designed insect sound effects including rhythmic cicada swells, dense locust drones, mosquito cries, isolated fly buzzes and more.

The impressive spectrum of emotion conjured by these artful insect recordings ranges from ominous, frightening, irritating, and disgusting all the way to lonely, tranquil, and soothing. Inject mystery and surrealism in your scenes or add unique character and texture to your creature design with impressionistic buzzy swarms, chirpy choruses, and heavy rhythmic pulsing.

Following the acclaimed sound libraries Cinematic Winds, Industrial Sounds with Soul, and Beautiful Bugs is the fourth exclusive release by Pro Sound Effects curated from Sound Mountain: Kroeber and Splet’s venerable private recording collection created over decades of film sound work. Kroeber has since worked on or supplied sounds for film, television, and games – including 6 movies that won an Academy Award® in sound, and 7 additional nominations.

The Beautiful Bugs library brings you 88 insect sound effects that were recorded and designed while working on major feature films including David Lynch’s Blue Velvet and Peter Weir’s The Mosquito Coast. These masterful recordings were captured on excursions in the jungle of Belize, the Alaskan wilderness, muggy summertime North Carolina, and an insect lab in Berkeley, California.

Rich, descriptive embedded metadata helps you find the exact sound effect you need with descriptions that detail the emotional power of the recordings beyond the practical interpretations.

Key Features:
- 88 sound effects (2.55GB)
- 24-bit/48kHz broadcast .wav files
- Descriptive embedded metadata
- 100% Royalty-Free
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Nature & Countryside Ambiences Forest Ambience 1 Central Florida Play Track 73 sounds included, 87 mins total $29.99

The Forest Ambience 1 library focuses on the ambient sounds of Central Florida’s forest ecology. The focus of this library is a collection of as much general background ambience as possible with minimal focus on any one individual element. It also focuses on a Mid Day – Early Dusk time frame.

The range of ambiences include windy gusts through thick canopies, forests alive with birds and bugs, and erie dead silences void of any life recorded near one of the nation’s largest active bombing ranges. Also included are a few plane flyovers and some outdoor trail ambience near an apartment complex as a bonus.

Captured in environments such as:
• Bottomland hardwoods
• Pine Flatwoods
• Scrub
• Upland hardwoods
• Urban nature trail

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Sci-Fi Sound Effects Inaccuracy Play Track 152 sounds included, 15 mins total $22

“INACCURACY” is a collection of 152 digital glitches, errors and malfunctions. These sounds were created using a great variety of audio sources (from vocalizations to, even, designed Sci-Fi weapons) processed with extreme changes in time, velocity and pitch to obtain very direct and aggressive glitches.

The sounds in “INACCURACY” are great for any kind of Sci-Fi production (games, trailers and movies).

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Creature Sound Effects Organic Lifeform Textures Play Track 99 sounds included $12

'Organic Lifeform Textures' by Bluezone Corporation is an inspirational sound effect library offering a selection of 99 ( 24 bit / 96 kHz / stereo ) unusual and mysterious sounds : From huge organisms to tiny insects, unexpected groans to invertebrate creatures moving through mud, this SFX library will offer you ultra high quality malleable textures for all your projects. This downloadable sample pack is very usefull for pro editors, film makers, music producers and video game sound designers.

All sounds were recorded using various sources and processed meticulously using high-end gear. These sound effects have been layered to give you ready-to-use elements. You can easily pitch, modulate, mangle and stretch these sounds to create thousands of variations. 'Organic Lifeform Textures' has been designed to enhance science fiction, mystery, suspense and fantasy video game and scoring projects. Note: The background ambience in the demo is not part of the product but is added free of charge.

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Insect Sound Effects Psychedelic Cicadas Vol. 1 Play Track 18 sounds included, 54 mins total $25

Psychedelic Cicadas Vol. 1 is the first instalment of our cicada ambiences produced in collaboration with Cesar Rodriguez Pulido and Guile Martins.

A huge variety of cicadas were recorded in the Brazilian Savannah – a biome located in the heart of Cerrado, Brazil. Each species has its own tone, pitch and rhythm, and together they form hypnotic polyphonic choirs. Their songs were captured in a multitude of natural acoustic spaces and are accompanied by other local fauna, including parrots, crickets, frogs and dogs.

These rare recordings are perfect for designing natural, omnipresent atmospheres or crafting more abstract, unusual sounds.

Recording by César Rodriguez Pulido and Guile Martins.

Our Audio Craftsmen have carefully edited each sound for maximum sonic clarity so that you can drop each sound directly into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.

All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 48kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.

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Animal Sound Effects SynFauna: Crickets & Cicadas Play Track 110 sounds included $18.99
SynFauna is a series of sound libraries which contain a range of synthetic yet highly realistic animal sounds.

SynFauna: Crickets & Cicadas contains a varied selection of sounds based on insect calls.

Features:
- 110 audio files in 96kHz 24 bit WAV format
- 10 species of cricket and 9 species of cicada
- Synthetic yet realistic isolated insect calls, with no unwanted background noise
- Loop and “OneShot” files provided (depending on the type of sound made by the insect)
- UCS compliant file naming and metadata, allowing for easy searching in sound library management tools
- Available for commercial or personal use without attribution
View a summary of included sounds here

View a full list of included files here

Also available:
- SynFauna: Flying Insects
- SynFauna: Frogs
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Insect Sound Effects Ultrasonic Insects Bundle 2024 Play Track 3000+ sounds included, 221 mins total $200

Want to get brand new sound material from nature? Get all the sounds from Ultrasonic Insects Volume 1, Ultrasonic Insects Volume 2 and Ultrasonic Insects Volume 3 at a special price.

Recorded over three years, Ultrasonic Insects Bundle contains more than 130 insect songs and flights, recorded with precision, patience and love. All insects were recorded in quiet environments or studio with close-miking for unparalleled quality. Each insect is identified by its scientific name.

Get the isolated song of 75 species of bush-crickets, grasshoppers, crickets, cicadas and other noisy insects. Pitch down the sounds up to 4 octaves (and even more!) and find inspiration for your next project: creatures, monsters, unreal insects or animals but also computer beeps, alarms, lasers… there are plenty of sounds to be created.

KEY FEATURES:

• 27 species of grasshoppers
• 21 species of bush-crickets
• 12 species of crickets
• 4 species of cicadas
• 12 species of flying insects
• Rare death’s head hawk-moth vocalisations
• 2 species of Madagascar hissing cockroaches
• 20 stereo ambiances recorded with MKH 8040

SPECS:

• 192 KHz/24 bit
• Metadata UCS-compliant
• Each species is identified with scientific name, common name and picture
• Solo insects recorded with Sanken CO-100K
• No insects were harmed while recording this library (except a few mosquitos!)

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Animal Sound Effects Ultrasonic Insects Vol 1 Play Track 1000+ sounds included, 44 mins total $69

Get the stunning sounds of solo insects recorded with unprecedented quality and ultrasonic frequencies. Discover the hiss of Madagascar hissing cockroaches, the song of crickets and grasshoppers from France and the flight of bees with extreme details. Ready to design sound for beasts, aliens, machines or futuristic UI ?

KEY FEATURES:

• Solo insects, no background ambience
• Recorded with Sanken CO-100K and Sound Devices 633
• Ultrasonic content up to 96 000 Hz, allowing crazy pitch-shifting and sound design
• 20 species of crickets, grasshoppers and cicadas from France
• 2 species of Madagascar hissing cockroaches
• 2 species of bees

SPECS:

• 192 KHz/24 bit
• Metadata UCS-compliant
• Each species is identified with common name, scientific name and picture
• No insects were harmed while recording this library

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Animal Sound Effects Ultrasonic Insects Vol 2 Play Track 1000+ sounds included, 87 mins total $79

Recorded over an entire year, Ultrasonic Insects Volume 2 contains dozens of new insect songs recorded with love, precision and a lot of patience! More than 3 000 kilometers were traveled to get to 12 beautiful french sites sheltering common and endemic species. All insects were recorded in quiet environments with close-miking for unparalleled quality.

Want to get brand new sound material from nature? Listen to the songs of those tiny creatures, pitch them as much as you want and find inspiration for your next sound design.

KEY FEATURES:

• 22 species of grasshoppers, crickets, bush-crickets and cicadas
• Rare death’s head hawk-moth vocalisations
• 5 species of flying insects
• Solo insects recorded with Sanken CO-100K
• 8 bonus stereo ambiances recorded with MKH 8040

SPECS:

• 192 KHz/24 bit
• Metadata UCS-compliant
• Each species is identified with scientific name, common name and picture
• No insects were harmed while recording this library (except a few mosquitos!)

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Insect Sound Effects Ultrasonic Insects Vol 3 Play Track 1000+ sounds included, 91 mins total $79

Ultrasonic Insects Volume 3 contains dozens of insect songs recorded with a sonic microscope: the Sanken CO-100K. For this library, more than 3 500 kilometers were traveled to get to beautiful french sites in French Alps, Pyrenees Mountains and Massif Central. All insects were recorded in quiet environments with close-miking for unparalleled quality.

An ultrasound detector was also used to find very high-pitched bush-cricket songs. Some of the raw sounds might need a little pitch-shift to be audible to everyone.

Get some new material from nature with the song of dozens of new species of bush-crickets, grasshoppers, crickets and cicadas. Pitch the sounds up to 4 octaves (and even more!) and find inspiration for your next project.

KEY FEATURES:

• 28 species of bush-crickets, grasshoppers, crickets and cicadas
• 5 species of flying insects
• Solo insects recorded with Sanken CO-100K
• 7 bonus stereo ambiances recorded with MKH 8040

SPECS:

• 192 KHz/24 bit
• Metadata UCS-compliant
• Each species is identified with scientific name, common name (when it exists) and picture

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