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Featured Sound Creators Road Riders Play Track 290 sounds included $49

Road Riders brings a new twist on what you'd normally expect to hear from a motorcycle.

With a focus on capturing the unique sound of Ducati's higher-end motorbikes, the 2012 Ducati Panigale and the 2011 Ducati Monster.

These titans have a unique sound that can be used for many things beyond motorcycles, including spaceships, cinematic whooshes, and a variety of other sci-fi vehicles.

Road Riders features more than 290 24bit/96 kHz files, all embedded with Soundminer metadata, including:

• 2012 Ducati Panigale (pass-bys, revs, idles, ignition, parts)
• 2011 Ducati Monster (pass-bys, revs, idles, ignition, parts)
• designed pass-bys
• Shepard tone loops for accelerations and decelerations
• Bonus files of the 2012 Yamaha FZ8
• Bonus files of the 2001 Honda Shadow

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Mechanical Sound Effects Transformation Play Track 879+ sounds included $49

Are you looking for robot and transformation sounds?

You're in luck! This library gets you sounds like complex impacts, hydraulic movements, robotic vocal manipulation, breathtaking atmos, drills, shutdowns, startups, UI sounds and much more.

Transformation is produced by Oliver Schmitt aka SOUNDS OF REVOLUTION

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Household Sound Effects Household Play Track 400 sounds included $23

The Household sound effects collection gathers hundreds of domestic sound clips.

The cornerstone clips are there: air conditioners, heating, vent, and fridges. Furnaces and dehumidifiers join clothes washers and dryers.

We haven't forgotten Foley, either. The package includes chairs, stools, switches, and buttons.

Other highlights include over 200 doors, drawers, and windows, and 18 room tones.

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Metal Sound Effects Ilmarinen Play Track 302+ sounds included $28

This collection encompasses the foundations of a blacksmith audio library. Hits, grinds, machinery, tools, and squelches are all included.

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City Life Sound Effects New York Play Track 50 sounds included, 224 mins total $49

Characteristic atmospheres, crowds and room tone recordings made at a variety of locations in and around New York City.

The collection includes 3 hours and 44 minutes of New York ambiences in 50 files – with an average duration of 5 minutes.

So if you want the atmosphere and ambience of New York in sound, this library gets you exactly that!

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Car Sound Effects Rally Cars 02 Play Track 81 sounds included $29.90

The Rally Cars 02 sound effect library includes 81 sounds at 24bit / 96kHz, recorded at actual rally service areas.

It includes Pass-bys, idles, revvings and other car engine sounds. Wroom!

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Game Audio Packs Start Select Play Track 1000 sounds included $33

An abundant collection of handcrafted effects geared toward menus, selection screens, options pages, clickable/touchable events, and interactive modalities.

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Creature Sound Effects WINGS Play Track 1444+ sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
From: $99

We are extremely proud to present our first library, WINGS – a one-of-a-kind sound library.

From tiny insects to small birds, from fairies to dragons, WINGS offers a creative palette with a diverse range of sounds to choose from.

With over 1400 files (more than 4 GB for the 192 kHz version ) we’re confident you will find the perfect sound.

When purchasing WINGS you get 2 packs, our Design category that includes 180 files and the Source category that offers more than 1200 sounds. Featuring the very best of our foley sessions.

All single flaps have been careful edited, allowing for unique speed or rate adjustments.

Pick your preferred version at the introductory prices below:

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Dog Sound Effects Epona Play Track 568+ sounds included $38

More than your average beast sound set, this library brings you a large selection of dog vocalizations, howls, growls, cries, whines, huffs, puffs, sighs, and more.

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Environments & Ambiences Wendland Autumn Play Track 45+ sounds included, 180 mins total $39

A collection of rural autumn atmospheres, recorded in the Wendland region of Germany. A total of more than 3 hours of ambiences included!

Key sound library features:

• Trees and bushes in the wind
• The forest
• Open fields and wetlands
• Shores of Jetzel river
• Open windows at farm house
• Tractors and farm machinery
• Rural garden: morning, day, and evening
• Outdoor restaurants
• Next to a goose shed
• Dannenberg Market
• Hitzacker Graveyard
• On board a small Elbe river ferry
• and others.

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Bundles Vaeyan I Play Track 228+ sounds included, 40 mins total $18

This is a special assortment of design fragments from Eiravaein Works. Libraries in the Vaeyan series will be produced over time as new assorted concepts are explored and designed. A welcome addition of flavor for any sound designer’s archive!

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Traffic Sound Effects City Traffic Play Track 53 sounds included, 54 mins total $29

City Traffic brings the daily noise of Berlin to your library. It delivers 10 different locations – split into 55 single takes with metadata embedded.

The library contains recordings of main roads during the morning rush hour, when the trolley car rumbles over the rails and the trucks are roaring through the kettles. In between a bunch of honking mopeds and cars with broken exhaust pipes are fighting for their space. Commuter trains are crossing every minute, the omnibus arrives just in time and the long-distance trains pass the station with squeaking brakes. In the evening it is rainy and at least the suburb calms down a little bit.

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Hum, Buzz & Glitch Sound Effects Transmission Apparatus Play Track 373 sounds included From: $49

Transmission apparatus is a construction kit designed to create a broad range of communication sounds, from real to “alien” broadcasting signals.

The library contains more than 2 GB of data, delivered in 373 files of unique sound material. It’s catalogued in five elements: AM (amplitude modulation), FM (frequency modulation), SSB (single side band – aka ham radio), KYMA (synthesised noises) and VOCAL (unintelligible speeches).

The first three bands were recorded from the output of different radio receivers at 96 kHz via a Crane Song HEDD (Harmonically Enhanced Digital Device) to add warmth and tube/analog sonic color to the recordings. All the samples have been carefully selected from these recording sessions, with the addition of just a little dsp processing to widen the stereo field.

The Kyma folder also contains unique audio files entirely synthesised in the SSC Kyma+Paca(rana) environment. A group of SFX called Vocal is the result of “destroyed” dialogues and vocal sources via spectral processing.

Transmission Apparatus is available in two versions:

96 kHz .WAV version• Audio Format: Broadcast Wave Files (.wav)
• Bit Depth: 24-bit Size: 2.49 GB
• Download size is 1.82 GB (compressed .rar archive)

Native Instruments Kontakt 5 version• Audio Format: NI Instruments File (.nki)
• Sample Rate: 96 kHz
• Bit Depth: 24-bit Size: 1.66 GB
• Download size is 1.64 GB (compressed .rar archive)
• Full version of NI Kontakt 5 required

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Horror Sound Effects Crepitus Play Track 200+ sounds included $18

A very lean library made to offer a quick go-to sound set for designers who need the natural popping, snapping, and cracking sounds of human joints.

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Trucks, Buses & Van Sounds Cars – SUVs & VANS Play Track 1700+ sounds included $309

Buckle up and hold on tight for a huge collection of big wheelers including Hummer H3, Porsche Cayenne, Hyundai H1, Landrover Defender, Mercedes Benz Sprinter, Mitsubishi Outlander, VW Caddy – and there’s more on the list.

Each of these cars comes with detailed individual mechanical characteristics. We used our super-quiet test track in South Africa to deliver the most clean and bright recordings to push your projects to the optimum.

We combined long takes of multi-channel car engine sounds and drive-bys with a comprehensive collection of interior handling sounds such as indicators, ventilation, pedal break, seatbelt and whatever you can think of. Of course, all files contain extensive metadata to provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible.

Our sound designers covered the entire range of possible car sounds.

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City Life Sound Effects CityBeeps COLOGNE Play Track 113 sounds included, 207 mins total $49

This unique library contains atmospheres from Cologne and its surroundings. If you're looking for that certain Germany city sound, you'll find lots of it right here, captured in the city centre, parks, churches, the Rhine shore, the trains, the subway – and the beer garden.

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Hum, Buzz & Glitch Sound Effects CB Radio Play Track 54 sounds included $7

CB Radio is a small collection of static produced by different channels on a 40-channel CB Transducer.

I found a pair of “Realistic TRC-222 40-channel Citizens Band Transceivers” at a second hand store, but only one works.

Here are the sounds the surviving “walkie-talkie” produces: 54 individual sounds for a total of around 15 minutes of static and warble + button sounds and antenna extension and contraction sounds

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Car Sound Effects Rally Cars 01 Play Track 27 sounds included $14.90

Enter the world of rally cars: This library is all about roaring engine sounds. With 27 rally car passby’s – recorded at real races – it’s time to put the pedal to the metal!

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Environments & Ambiences Abandoned Bomb Shelters Play Track 71 sounds included, 165+ mins total $39

Abandoned Shelters – The Danish Bunker Coast features mysterious and eerie sounds recorded in and around abandoned bunkers along the Danish West Coast.

The gathered ambiences form a comprehensive resource of steady winds, heavy gusts, rustling undergrowths as well as single waves and strong surfs that constantly stream and break through these inhospitable areas with concrete remains all around.

A big part of the library was recorded inside the bunkers where the strong nature elements of wind and water are transformed into heavily comb filtered textures and dark atmospheres.

Read the full Bunker story here

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Bird Sound Effects Birds Of Prey Play Track 900+ sounds included $199

Birds Of Prey delivers an extraordinary collection of flying raptors: Buzzards, cranes, eagles, falcons, goshawks, vultures, owls and more.
The wildlife of the skies represents itself with calling, chirping, shrieking, cawing, screeching, growling and other unique bird voices.

Whether aggressive or social, anxious or relaxed, melodic or irregular – get ready for a concert of the remarkable!

The collection offers more than 3.6 GB and more than 900 sounds in 160 files of high-quality material.

Includes the following birds:

Black Chested Eagle Buzzard • Common Buzzard • Citron Cockatoo • Major Mitchell's Cockatoo • Umbrella Cockatoo • Blue Crane • Cape Crow • African Fish Eagle • Bald Eagle • Bateleur Eagle • Booted Eagle • Eastern Imperial Eagle • Golden Eagle • Martial Eagle • Stellers Sea Eagle • Tawny Eagle • White Tailed Eagle • Greater Kestrel Falcon • Lanners Falcon • Pygmy Falcon • Saker Falcon • Taita Falcon • Pale Chanting Goshawk • African Cuckoo Hawk • African Harrier Hawk • Harris Hawk • Red-tailed Hawk • Hadeda Ibis • Yellow Billed Kite • Barn Owl • Snowy Owl • Spotted Eagle Owl • African Grey Parrot • Cape Vulture • Monk Vulture • Palmnut Vulture

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Mechanical Sound Effects Elevators Play Track 200+ sounds included $27

The Elevators library was recorded over a period of one year, and comes with over 100 movement and metal impacts from elevators, around 50 elevator cab travels and over 60 elevator door slides and variations.

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Environments & Ambiences Water Movements Play Track 96 sounds included
Rated 4.00 out of 5
$25

Recorded by a quiet Swedish lake in late summer of 2014, the Water Movements sfx library is filled with splashes, drips, walking/running, moving, small water creature simulations, and much more.

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City Life Sound Effects Berlin Balcony Play Track 6+ sounds included, 131 mins total $29

Traffic and city atmospheres recorded from a balcony in Berlin at different times and weather conditions.

More than 130 minutes of ambiences included!

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Just Impacts – Processed Play Track 321 sounds included $35

Just Impacts – Processed gets you 300+ sound effects of huge, dry impacts – layered and heavily processed for maximum weight.

This will come in handy whenever you need the sound of something huge hitting something even larger. Giant door slams, large hits, huge robot fights, heavy metal drops – oh yes, you got it:

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Wylie Stateman

Supervising sound editor,
The Hateful Eight, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill: Vol. 1

A Sound Effect is an excellent resource for us to keep our animated films sounding unique and exciting.

Gabriel Guy

Re-recording Mixer, Walt Disney Animation Studios:
Frozen, Big Hero 6

A Sound Effect is a great asset to have discovered.

We found the site very easy to navigate, purchasing and downloads were effortless and the effects themselves are awesome! Asbjoern has done us all a great service.

We’ll definitely be back!

Wayne Pashley

Supervising Sound Editor/Re-recording Mixer, The Lego Movie & Mad Max: Fury Road

There are many great independent sound effect libraries available these days. The main problem with having so many, is keeping track of them!

A Sound Effect is a great hub, and is one of the first places I visit to look for sounds by category or genre. I started coming here to see if I could find libraries that I knew I had heard, but forgot WHERE I had heard them.

And in the process discovered libraries I never would have found otherwise. Great work! Keep it up!

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Sound designer:
Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit trilogies

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Director, Digital - Source Sound Inc.

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