An Exclusive Behind The Scenes On Designing Sound – With Jack Menhorn
Go behind the scenes on Designing Sound, a vitally important resource for insightful, original sound articles, guides and news from the sound community
Go behind the scenes on Designing Sound, a vitally important resource for insightful, original sound articles, guides and news from the sound community
When you need the sounds of the future for your projects, here are 14 SFX libraries that give you some brilliant sounds to work from
The Foley Collection Total Pack is a bundle featuring +70 Kontakt instruments with a total of 4000 individual sound effects at a very special price.
Included in the bundle are a number of footsteps, clothing sounds, laugh tracks, mountain bike  and more libraries.
Please note that these libraries require the full version of NI Kontakt 4+ (not included).
Chad Glenn from The Coil just told me that they’ve released their very first SFX library: Indecent Machines – an industrial sci-fi sample collection of cybernetic machines, featuring sounds such as Mutant robotics, mechanical snippets, evolving textures, rhythmic artifacts and menacing atmospheres Check out their demos below, and grab the library for $49 here!
The Hard Drives sound effects library features recordings of four hard disk drives (3.5 inch – 5400 & 7200 RPM). All essential hard drive sounds are included (boot up, read/write/copy/delete, power down) that will work great for general computer sounds and ambience.
Each hard drive was opened up, manipulated, and ultimately destroyed to create a collection of raw, abstract and unique sounds. Found materials such as metal, cardboard, plastic, and tools were used to control the hard drive's motor, platter, and head actuator. These sounds work especially well for creating the sounds of mechanical robot movements, electric motors, and futuristic machinery.
Earlier this month, Mark Camperell from Empty Sea Audio told me that the team had released an all-new library: Robobiotics. A year in the making, Robobiotics features more than 3600 sounds and more than 3 hours of material combined. Sounds include Lasers, Robot Vox, Impacts, Servos, Ratcheting Metal, Ambiances, Transformations, Foley, Vehicle Bys and much Read more
Robobiotics is an exciting new sound effects collection from The Library by Empty Sea. It delivers 3600+ original sound effects for scifi and robots. We’re talking about almost 3 hours of material here.
We spent over a year recording and designing Lasers, Robot Vox, Impacts, Servos, Ratcheting Metal, Ambiances, Transformations, Foley, Vehicle Bys and much much more!
The Optical Drives sound effects library features recordings of computer optical disc drives (two internal desktop CD/DVD-R and one internal laptop slim CD/DVD-R slot-load).
Two induction coil pickups were used to record the electromagnetic fields emitted by the drives, capturing a very unique set of sounds and textures. These range from sharp percussive bleeps, glitchy static and noise, to electromechanical motor sounds, and drones. You'll find use for many applications, including UI interface design, transitions, sci-fi, robot/servo sounds, technology, and computer sound effects.
Recordings include all functions of the DVD drives, e.g. disc loading, reading, writing/burning, spin up/down, errors, and disc ejecting. Also, each drive was taken apart and manipulated to create additional sounds.