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This library is loaded with some beefy, old-school, mechanical interfacing: buttons, switches, knobs and levers.
The second volume of assorted recording sessions and design fragments from Eiravaein Works.
Libraries in the Vaeyan series will be produced over time as new library concepts are explored and researched.
A second helping of intriguing sonic flavor for any sound designer’s archive!
The Farm Animals SFX library represents an big selection of domestic animal and bird sounds. The sounds were primarily recorded on farms with a focus on vocalizations.
Baby Chicks: Chirps as a group and single.
Chickens: Clucking after laying eggs, squawking when scared, and clucking in a group.
Cow: Single long and short mooing, breathing recorded with close and far distances. Mooing in farm ambience recordings.
Dogs: Single medium-sized mongrel barking. Whining, yelping and aggressive growling. Big mongrel single barking.
Ducklings: Single calls to mother.
Ducks: Quacking as a group and single.
Geese: Calls in a poultry group.
Guinea Fowls: As a group and single.
Horses: Stallion neigh, grunt, breath, snort and head shake. Ambients of a stable (feeding hay, stableman working).
Peacock: Single calls.
Piglets: European piglets squeals and screams, slurping when eating.
Pigs: European big pig grunt, snort, breath, slurping when eating. Vietnam big pig squeal, scream and breath.
Roosters: Old and young rooster crowings. Recorded at close and far distances. As single and in a poultry group.
Sheep: Single sheep’s bleatings recorded at close and far distances. Also contains recordings of milking.
Turkey: Calls in a poultry group.
Get the sounds of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, captured by Ana Monte. It features recordings from places such as busy streets, restaurants, downtown, suburbs, markets, subway and bus rides and more.
Welcome to BLEED, a new sound effects collection designed with the modern trailer and soundtrack composer in mind. Featuring a vast array of hi-tech hits/impacts and stingers, sophisticated transition and passbys, visceral stutters, risers and more.
Features 270 metadata embedded .wav files + comes with 9 Kontakt Instruments in the Photosynthesis engine (Note: Full version of Kontakt 5.5+ required, free player not supported)
Sound Categories:
•Bass
•Impacts-Hits-Stingers
•Larsen-Feedback
•Reverse
•Risers & Stutters
•Synth
•Whoosh & Transition
•Glitcher
Want the sounds of a garage / auto repair workshop? The Auto Workshop SFX library features lots of different tool sounds and general ambiences from automotive workshops (originally recorded for scenes in the Bulgarian feature Godless).
The idea was to capture the sounds at both closeup and off-mic, to be able to fade easily between them. A mono microphone was placed close to the source, and a set of stereo microphones was set up further away, capturing more of the room and echo. The result is very usable, and the ability to fade between closeup and wide shot works very well.
Ringing Rocks has the chiming, beautiful tones of an ancient boulder field. As hammers strike stone, the powerful clangs resonate like church bells and bring to life a natural sonic wonder. Plus, you receive many types of melodic tones, hammering rhythms, grinding metallic stone, resonant scrapes, and much more. If you need rocks unlike any you’ve heard before, listen to Ringing Rocks.
2% for the Planet:
Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause. I view it as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
Welcome to Elemental, a rich source of magic sound effects, focusing on the 5 elements of magic: Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, Ether, plus much more.
We worked over a year with award winning sound designers to create a magic sound library like no other. If you need both cutting edge designed magic sounds as well as raw source recordings with all the different elements and materials, than Elemental is going to be a perfect fit in your collection. Be sure to also check out the launch trailer video as well, featuring all Elemental sound effects. It's a great way to get an idea just how well the Elemental Soundpack works with magic type visuals!
Featuring tons of different spells, casts, loops, impacts, healing, breaths, and much more, we went all out to bring you plenty of options. Just look at the list below or view the full sound list further down to get an idea of all that you get. Elemental features more than 650 files, 3GB of 24bit/96khz .WAV files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer and Basehead metadata.
This sound library contains a wide variety of creaks, squeaks and squeals. All content was recorded using high-quality, professional equipment, such as Sennheiser MKH-8050, Neumann Kmr81i, Rode NTG3, and Sony PCM-d100.
This unique sound library contains 145 files with over 1300 high-quality sounds from a wide variety of sources, including materials such as glass, rusty ladders, wicker baskets, vintage leather jackets, and large ovens. These sounds can be used for traditional foley, eerie horror, or for any sound design you can imagine. Metadata is provided.
SCI FI MECHANICSÂ is a collection of 301mechanical/robotic sound effects.
SFM is a contraction-kit, that allows you to created, heavily synthesized robotic and mechanical sound effects.
Packed with high quality robotic sequences, one-shots, transformations, impacts and experimental mechanical sounds.
Perfect for crafting sound for all sorts of sci-fi/future-tech.
RECORDED WITH: NTG3
CREATED WITH: Pro Tools, Live, Reaktor, Kontakt.
INDUSTRIAL TERROR – Hits & Transitions is a second installment of Industrial Terror series.
It is a collection of dark, distorted, ear-piercing, industrial hits, impacts, crashes and transitions.
IT Hits & Transitions is an expansion pack that focuses in single, sharp hits and transitions rather than evolving, textural impacts and whooshes (as heard in Industrial Terror).
Collection consists of 145 carefully designed and rendered sound effects.
Unique processing of organic field recordings combined with modular processing makes it both grounded in reality and creepy. This collection is a perfect choice for any kind of horror genre.
RECORDED WITH:Â Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Senhheiser MKH8060 + DPA 4060
CREATED AND EDITED WITH: Pro Tools, Live 10, Reaktor, EOS2, Discord4, Modular
20 classic card sounds used in games, cherry-picked from Sonic Worlds' larger comprehensive “Playing Cards” library.
The library was recorded with the most commonly-used card deck used by casinos, magicians and hobbyists alike.
The library uses a close Mic perspective for that “in your face” sound used in games or film scenes where you want focus and create an impact.
Alien Atmospheres is a sound effects library that suggests alien presence, covering wildlife, weather, vehicles and ambiences.
These effects are perfect for use as backgrounds in sci-fi films, but can be used elsewhere.
We captured recordings at 4 exotic locations, layered tracks with analogue & digital synthesizers, human and animal voices to bring you 3GB of the most interesting sound effects.
Loading Sounds is a collection of various VCRs, CDs, Cassettes and Game console recordings focused on their mechanical requirements to play music or movies. There are even Printers loading paper and car CD players loading damaged CDs. The sounds are useful for the beginning of tracks, youtube video or sound effects for a movie, game or multimedia project.
Get up close and personal with British engineering in this superb motorcycle sound library!
This library is sampled from a brand new 2017 Triumph Street Twin 900 cc motorcycle. It combines classic motorcycle engineering with modern technology to create a truly unique sound.
In this library you get a large variety and perspectives of revs, idles, drive bys up to 50 mph, drive ups, drive aways, engine breaking, onboard driving, accelerating and more! Enjoy feeling like you’re riding this brand new modern vintage motorcycle!
Binaural and Ambisonic ambiences from Cromer Beach on the Norfolk North Coast. No people, mixture of Sandy and Stony beach, lovely crisp ambiences. Variety of distances will make this very useful for anyone working with VR work.
All recorded with the Sennheiser AMBEO VR and a Zoom F8.
Combination of Heavy and Light Waves
B-Format Ambisonics and Binaural Stereo Files.
Sonomar Collection: Speed Machine contains 266 rich vehicle recordings of the legendary 2006 Campagna T-Rex. Featuring pass bys, gear grinds, accelerations and more, this collection contains lively vehicle sound effects and maneuvers that are full of character.Â
The Campagna T-Rex is a powerful three-wheeled vehicle with the ability to go from 0-60 in a staggering 4.1 seconds and reach a high speed of 140 mph. To create this library, recordist and sound designer Martin Pinsonnault (Big Little Lies, Dallas Buyers Club) and the Sonomar team utilized top-notch recording techniques to capture aggressive, expertly-handled driving maneuvers on a closed course.
Use the purring hum of a 155-horsepower engine as a stand-in for Japanese motorcycles and other high-powered vehicles. Let the distinct tone of a 1200 cc engine act as a punchy sweetener to existing vehicle sounds. Or pitch and process to create the engine quality that your project requires. Groups of synced recordings provide a variety of perspectives to maximize your optionality and adapt to your specific editing needs.Â
Each sound file is embedded with comprehensive metadata to help you find the exact sound effect you need with fast, pinpoint search. Enable creativity with detailed descriptions of each recording and their specific sonic qualities. Advanced metadata fields include additional info to ensure compatibility across any database search platform such as Search by PSE, Soundminer, BaseHead, Netmix, Workspace (Pro Tools), Find Tool (Media Composer), Media Bay (Nuendo), Reaper, Adobe Premiere, and beyond.
Electromagnetic Design contains a wide variety of unique and abstract designed sounds including glitches, electronic movement, ambiences, futuristic elements and more.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded sounds using electromagnetic coil pickups which capture signals and noises from devices. We used speakers, desktop monitors, computers, keyboard, mouse, room heaters, lights and even from a dehumidifier to generate the effects, all in 24Bit 96kHz allowing for further manipulation!
These recordings were then meticulously edited, designed and meta tagged, providing you with a suite of sounds suitable for Science Fiction, Horror, Abstract and Dramatic Films, Games and Television projects. The included sounds work well for machine, weapon, transition, gunshot, futuristic devices and many other types of sound effects.
Here are the included folders:
Electronic Movements: Transition, whoosh, whip and buzz fly bys to bring your scene to life.
Flowing Currents: The sounds of electricity flowing, great for design sections, animations and game audio effects.
Future Technology: The sounds of spaceships, tractor beam, neural interfaces, signals and alarms.
Glitches: Some seriously glitchy sounds, great for modern trailer design, radios, transmissions and Sci-Fi scenes.
Magnetic Ambiences: The warmth and flow of electricity, channelled into ambiences that fit both in a sound effects and musical context.
UK Residential Room Tones is a distinct collection of ambiences captured from different types of rooms in residential areas of the UK, perfect for layering with other ambiences, or filling in natural tone under dialogue scenes.
These sound effects will make an amazing addition to your audio collection and work perfectly in documentaries, films, commercials, video games and various other projects.
Our Audio Craftsmen captured ambiences from a wide variety of rooms which differed in size, height, distance from traffic and their locations. We have covered: living rooms, bathrooms, bedrooms, hallways, stairs and more from different flats and apartments and then meticulously edited them so that you can drag them straight to your projects.
All of the files are provided dry in 24 Bit 96kHz allowing you for further sonic manipulation. Furthermore, all the sounds in the library are extensively tagged with metadata and are UCS complaint making it more easier to find the right sound you need.
Victorian Pump Organ is our new steampunk-inspired Kontakt library made in collaboration with Stuart Keenan from Glitchedtones. With 50 different patches including sound design, drum kits and foley, this instrument is perfect for musicians and sound designers to make everything from sea shanties, period style music from the 1800s and early 20th-century all the way to EDM tracks and horror/atmospheric scores.
Stuart Keenan from Glitchedtones faithfully captured a Victorian Pump Organ (built-in 1865, Canada) at a studio in Newcastle with 4 different microphones positioned for treble, bass and stereo room mic perspectives. Our Audio Craftsmen meticulously edited the samples and programmed 50 patches and integrated them into our Kontakt interface giving film composers, music producers, sound designers and game developers a vast array of options to create music and compositions in various genres.
There are 9 main patches including 3 melodic patches, 4 chord patches and 2 foley patches with the organ adjusted at different stops. We also recorded genuine major, minor and complex chords helping people with less knowledge in music theory to write songs and chord progressions. We also covered foley patches with keys, squeaks and pedal sounds to add an essence of natural character.
Our in house composers built additional designed patches which include; Harp like arpeggiators, ethnic instruments such as the harmonium all the way to electro leads, game boy organs and dubstep inspired basslines. We even manipulated samples and built patches for metal and rock music.Â
We have included patches for a variety of circumstances like abandoned church organs, space generators and creaky room voices. We have also included low subsonic impacts and rumbles to add weight to your sounds and music. Some of the patches like glorious arp, telephone arp, tweeting birds, drunken organ, sea shanty organ, harmonica and cathedral hits are ideal for adding texture and interest.
Our user-friendly Kontakt interface provides a variety of controls that encourage experimentation within the patches. We have included a mic mixing section with ADSR where you can adjust the levels for treble, bass and stereo (multiple mics) if you need to add more width to the mix. The built-in Arpeggiator and Step Sequencer are great for generating hundreds of variations in seconds.
We hope that you will take the opportunity to try out this fascinating and timeless instrument.
Kontakt 5.8.1 or higher is required.
NOTE: This library does not run in the free ‘Kontakt Player.
Loaded with true organic whooshes that were recorded in an isolated, dead silent and well treated studio, Natural Whooshes delivers what you can expect from Silverplatter Audio: a highly usable collection of high quality whooshes, swooshes and swishes. Perfect for transitions, combat, speed sweeteners, and so much more.
As sound designers, when we need “those whoosh sound effects”, we always need more than a handful. With this library, you’ll get plenty. With 388 sounds recorded with 20 different props, this collection brings you a wide range of tones and articulations, from deep and large Whooshes to fast moving Swishes.
Recorded with a Sennheiser MKH 8040 Stereo Pair through a Sound Devices MixPre 6.
Water and Waves is our new sound effects library created in collaboration with our friends at West Wolf Audio.
This library features an inspired selection of authentic water ambiences from a range of stunning locations, including Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, as well as recordings taken from The Black Sea and The Agean Sea.
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.
Some of the sounds included in this library include rough seas with crashing waves, calm water lapping, lakeside ambiences with boat engines, various cave ambiences with dripping and rushing water, forest streams and water splashing against the hull of a sailboat.
This epic collection of sound effects gives you all the tools you need to design detailed and authentic aquatic soundscapes and is perfect for use in film, tv and video games with a seaside or lake setting.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Our Christmas pack brings you a range of festive recordings perfect for your Christmas scenes.
Our recordings have been captured both in the snow and studio. The bulk of our library includes Elf Tinkering and toy-making inside Santa’s factory! We also have a range of human, elf and reindeer footsteps pulling the sleigh. Finally, our talented team have recorded all kinds of vocal performances from Santa’s grotto to elves working.
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 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Interior Vibrations Vol. 3Â is the third volume in our Interior Vibrations collection.
This collection was captured by our Audio Craftsmen with a stereo pair of contact microphones, used experimentally to generate a range of unique textural sounds. It features drilling, scraping and a diversity of movement performed on various metals and a guitar.
These raw recordings are made for further design and are great for adding an abstract edge to your projects. Or try including them in horror and sci-fi projects for some unsettling sonic texture.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 192kHz 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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