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More than 400 diverse swipe and whoosh transitions and accents drawn from a variety of sonic textures including airy, chattering, choppy, thin, subsonic, thunder, granular, and many more.
Each clip is trimmed and carefully organized in folders and with extensive metadata.
Over 9 hours of carefully recorded exterior ambiences, from cities, streets, squares and stations, to natural environments such as forests, parks and waterfalls.
These recordings were made over a four year period, mainly in locations across Europe, including the streets of Malta, the Black Forest in Germany and city squares in Lithuania.
• Busy city streets and roads with traffic, trams, people, etc
• Quiet suburban streets, parks and squares
• City and town squares with people and distant traffic
• Wet streets with traffic and people, during and after rainfall
• Canals and boats
• Airport Taxi area
• Outdoor parking lots
• Rooftop and balcony recordings
• Walla
• Countryside ambience with birds
• Forest and lagoon
• Sea and waves
• Waterfalls
• Rain and thunder
All sounds were recorded and edited at 24-bit / 96kHz, with embedded meta data.
Synthetic Sphere is a collection of spatialised synthetic pads, mixed in an ambisonic format for a complete 360 interactive soundtrack. Multiple layers of pads, tones and amorphic FX are spreaded across the sphere, resulting in a truly immersive experience. These pads include gentle movement across 3D space, creating rich ambiances but without catching to much of the listener attention.
This collection is great for post production, VR/AR experiences, game developers and any real-time 3D audio engine.
All files are tagged and categorized for your convenience – supporting tag filtering browsing applications.
This package includes 10 Samples – Total 51 minutes of content.
Supported formats: First Order AmbiX and Stereo (Total of 20 files).
Download a B-Format Ambix demo here: Demo
The library is also available in a stereo only version.
Mountains of Europe features nature sounds and ambiences, captured in different mountain forests and areas of Central Europe at different times of day. All ambiences are very quiet and serene and recorded at high altitude.
Mostly the birds are at distance and you can also find some tracks with only wind blowing through the trees and rustling leaves. Sometimes a buzzard circles around in the sky or a raven flies by. You really get the sensation of being in a rough and remote mountain landscape, the ultimate ‘in the middle of nowhere’ feeling.
All nature recordings are clear and completely free from external noise and other human disruptions, which is why this library will be especially useful for productions taking place in medieval times and nature documentaries. The average length of each file is between 3-5 minutes, so enough time to use in longer scenes without looping.
All of these nature ambiences are recorded using three different microphone set-ups. A Stereo set-up. A wide stereo set-up. And a spaced omnis set-up, which also offers extended frequency response. This brings you 3 variations of each recording. Within these variations the differences are sometimes subtle and sometimes more extreme. These three perspectives can provide flexibility for crosscutting within scenes.
Get approximately 4 hours of unique, royalty-free and especially high quality recordings with this library. Recorded in 24 bit / 96 kHz. Accurately edited and mastered to sound as natural as possible. For more detailed descriptions about the ambiences in this collection see the metadata in our file lists or listen to the preview montage.
The Future Weapons sci-fi sound effects series is back with our newest and most cutting edge library yet: Future Weapons 3. We made this one huge, both in size and scope. In fact, since we are concluding the Future Weapons series, we wanted to do it with a bang, so we made this one the biggest of the 3! It has over 29 weapons and categories! Future Weapons 3 was created by SoundMorph in collaboration with Nikolay Semenov and Vedran Kapetinic.
Future Weapons 3 features more than 750+ files, 1.2 GB of 24bit/96khz .WAV files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer and Basehead metadata.
From bustling Athenian markets to the rocky Mediterranean coast, this library is a great snapshot of what Greece sounds like. Essentially it’s two very different libraries in one really useful package!
Athens
This historic city sounds old and it sounds new. Busy markets and crowds fill the streets beneath the Acropolis, while a few blocks away the city is alive with busy traffic and eurocentric motorbikes.
We captured street buskers, back alley murmurs, bustling city squares, markets, heavy traffic, skylines and even a religious sermon!
Crete
Nature dominates here and we got our ankles wet recording all she has to offer. Big surf, coves and gurgling rock pools. Mountain goats, crows, roosters and an early dawn chorus. Insects of the Agia Erini Gorge – more Cicadas than you can shake a stick at!
Whether it’s Game of Thrones or the next Bourne film, this beast will help bring your locations to life!
Los Angeles Skylines is the first release of the Series 2000 collection from Kai Paquin. This library features understated traffic beds to build Los Angeles city ambiances. Covering a variety of different locations from the coast of Santa Monica to the Mountains of Pasadena, this library contains over 4 hours of rooftop and overlook recordings.
Each location was recorded for 15-20 minutes so you can find a variety of interesting moments like sirens, street walla, and trucks while having the flexibility to cut around those moments or be able to reuse the same recording on multiple scenes without it repeating.
Additionally, the library was carefully tagged with metadata, including flags in the recording pointing out where moments that pop out of the bed are making it easier to find specifics to cut in or around.
Sounds for the Castles library were collected in four castles – museums (medieval, renaissance and baroque) in southern Poland. My intention was to record sounds of old doors, furniture and every interesting prop I could find, in authentic acoustic environment. Some of the spaces were very reverberant, some just have a bit of ambience, but all are authentic and add specific colouration to sounds. Also, part of the sounds was recorded outside.
As always, visiting those places, I found many interesting characterful objects – most of them are heavy wooden or metal. So expect a lot of creaks and squeaks. Where I could, I recorded variations and versions from different POVs.
Another important part of the library are Background Activities.
Editing sound for films, I always find myself in need for adding some background life to scenes. We all love great foley, but having isolated background activities recorded in real spaces adds another level of realism. So wherever I found interesting spaces, we performed some activities and movements on old stone or wooden floors.
It’s not supposed to substitute foley, syncing it step by step. But it will help to create separate layer of atmospheres.
We also found medieval Torture Chamber, which inspired us to record some of the tools, distant movements of chains etc. but also some screams, all with real dungeon reverb.
Objects and activities include:
A chest • chain • crate • door • floor • footsteps • handle • locks • metal objects • movement • stone • tool • trapdoor • window • wooden objects
Sound categories:
Doors – 145 files • BG Activities – 49 files • Props – 20 files • Furniture – 16 files • Screams – 12 files
This soundpack is created for use primarily in video games and simulators to simulate the sonic characteristics of a Volvo B7TL double-deck bus with Wright Gemini Eclipse bodywork in the United Kingdom from 2002.
Features:
This library is all about picking stuff up and putting it down, whilst you rub your beard, pop pills and type with your toes. It's a collection of foley sounds that we always seem to need, but often can't find. Each track includes multiple movements of the object in question. The recordings are mono and unprocessed, so they sound natural and can be easily placed in your stereo field.
All tracks recorded with a Sennheiser 416 microphone, through a Buzz Audio – Elixer preamp.
This small, highly focused sound library features drones and textures created solely with sounds from a 1950’s Cable upright piano.
These sound effects range from low, dark, and pulsating, to high and shimmering and could easily work in sci-fi, suspense, thrillers, or fantasy. While they can sound otherworldly, the sounds are actually quite organic. The sounds were made with looped and layered tone clusters and ambience recorded inside the piano – no granularization, synthesis, or additional processing like reverb were employed.
They can be used alone or mixed with other sounds to great effect.
Money is just over 21 Mb of coins and notes/bills being handled. You get 34 files in 24bit/96kHz quality. All files are UCS-compliant.
This collection contains sounds of coins being handled, counted, poured, dropped – in hands, on tables and in a cash register drawer. There are also a few sounds of bills/notes/paper money being handled and counted. The whole thing was recorded in the studio, meaning a nice, dry sound to build on. The coins and bills used were a mixture of various international currency.
You get:
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 a great selection of gory sounds with Bones & Flesh – including bone-breaking, cracking and crunching, flesh ripping and manipulations, different kind of stabs, and many other disgusting sounds.
All the sound effects have been created from original recordings.
Need silencer / suppressed weapon sound effects? Here's a very special collection of weapon sound effects, recorded in collaboration with the makers of the world's best suppressors: SilencerCo – a leader in gun silencers innovation.
The SILENCERS DESIGNED weapon sounds come as pre-designed, “ready-to-use” SFX. You’ll get perfectly mixed silenced gun sounds that will save you precious time and energy when it comes to time-critical projects. Each weapon shot comes in three styles.
MECHANIC: The sound focus lies on the mechanics of the weapons. The sound is cold, uncompromising and very close.
REALISTIC: This version is for the purists. The most realistic and well-balanced sound of a suppressed weapon.
RICOCHET: The most characteristic version. You hear the typical high-frequency fizzle of a suppressed weapon shot.
Each file contains 4 versions of a shot to ensure flexibility and alternation. Get your hands on more than 400 high quality SFX delivered in more than 100 files.
The DESIGNED version also contains recordings of automatic shooting and impressive gunfire bursts, all silenced of course with the SilencerCo suppressors. We assure you best quality and impressive SFX – high quality recorded and produced in 96 kHz and 24-bit by our devoted sound designers, including well-grounded Soundminer metadata.
• Library ships in 96kHz/24bit High Definition Audio
• 3 styles per shot – 4 variations per file
• 400+ HD SFX in 100+ files
• Effective workflow: well-grounded Soundminer Metadata
• Full PDF sound effects list for Silencers – Designed here
With the SILENCERS CONSTRUCTION KIT, you get our multi-channel source recordings so you can balance and mix the sounds just the way you want to. It contains more than 10GB and comes with rich weapon variety: 8 pistols, 11 assault rifles, 6 rifles, 4 shotguns and 2 submachine guns, including for example the pistols Glock 23, Walther PPK, HK USP 9, the assault rifles AK47, HK 416, Sig 556, CZ Scorpion, the submachine gun HK MP5, the shotgun Benelli M2 and many more. You can check out the list of weapons below. Additionally, you also get lots of bullet drops, bullet pings, handling, mechanics, ricochets, ricochet fly-bys, tails and whiz-bys to not miss any sound when designing your suppressed weapon sounds for your projects.
All of the recordings are delivered in 96 kHz, 24-bit, giving you the best quality for heavy editing, pitching, and FX processing while keeping a top notch level of clarity and precision. To provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible all files contain extensive metadata.
Assault Rifles:
Noveske 8 inch • Noveske 10 inch • AK 47 • Colt AR 15 • FN SCAR 556 • FN SCAR 762 • HK G3 • HK 416 • Smith & Weeson M&P15 • Colt M16 • SIG 556
Submachine Guns:
HK MP5 • CZ Scorpion
Pistols:
Glock 19 • Glock 21 • Glock 23 • Colt 1911 • Ruger SL 22 • HK USP 9 • HK USP 40 • Walther PPK
Rifles:
Armalite AR 10 • Chiappa Little Badger • Christensen Arms 338 Lapua • Desert Tech DTA SRS 308 • Tikka T3
Shotguns:
Benelli M2 • Benelli Super Black Eagle • Remington 870 Tactical • Saiga 12
Get BOTH the DESIGNED and CONSTRUCTION KIT versions of Silencers in one bundle, for maximum firepower and flexibility – at a very special price.
Get the sounds and ambiences of Jamaica in this very special sound effects library, featuring 4 hours of authentic recordings.
Recorded over three years, the Jamaican Vibrations SFX library includes walla sounds of Jamaican patois chatting, urban and village ambiences, high mountain atmospheres, forest sounds, car rides, coffee farm working sounds, wooden house sounds, Beaches, as well as cooking sounds from a wooden house kitchen. So if you’re looking for the real sounds of Jamaica, here they are:
DOOM is a modern sound effects library of cutting-edge cinematic impacts, complex stingers, one-shot tones and dark percussive elements with a dirty, authentic sound.
The follow-up to the popular Raptus SFX library, DOOM features a full spectrum of original sound effects, dedicated to sound designers, sound editors and composers needing a high-impact, destruction feel in their productions.
DOOM is delivered with 10 Kontakt preset banks and 3 Multis to get instant inspiration, as well as stand-alone WAV files. A full version of Native Instrument’s Kontakt is required to use the Kontakt patches. Without Kontakt, you can use the included WAV files.
Get the next level of cutting-edge sound effects with DOOM:
Icy Snow HD is a unique collection of ice debris, stress, cracks, and impacts, as well as snow impacts and footsteps. The local weather produced a foot of snow covered in less than an inch of ice. Very unique sounds!
This SFX library gets you a unique collection of sounds from Colombia.
It features everything from forests and jungles, swampy marshes, quiet villages, farms and sounds from the countryside. Many of the locations are teeming with birds, crickets, flies and other insects, frogs and even a few farm animals.
Both atmospheric daytime and nighttime recordings are included.
Hurricane Winds features some of the biggest and most violent winds hitting the Danish coastal area in many, many years. Both both interior and exterior recordings are included.
In hindsight, it's been crazy and stupid to be recording at some of these locations, but here they are – three years of unique storm recordings.
• 21 tracks of hurricane/storm recordings from a yachting and commercial harbor. Wind screaming as it flies through rigging, wires, masts etc. Plastic covers, structure, flags moving.
• 6 tracks of hurricane/storm in the city. Trees moving, wind howling, small debris passing.
• 2 tracks of storm in the forest. Trees creaking, as wind moves through tree tops.
• 9 tracks of interior recordings. Roof moving, draft from windows. Small debris hitting window.
Demolition Aftermath is the perfect sound library if you’re looking to add a cinematic and realistic edge to your project. Featuring a total of 6 categories and 299 high-quality sounds, this collection provides a wide range of impactful, ready-to-use sound effects.
Inside the library, you’ll find carefully organized sounds across the following categories:
– Buildings collapsing
– Vehicle crashes
– Glass: impacts, cracks, and shattering in various intensities
– Metal: twisting, impacts, and bending
– Rocks: avalanches, impacts, and crunching textures
– Wood: creaks and impacts in multiple intensity levels
Each category is structured into separate folders, with multiple variations for each type of sound, giving you maximum creative flexibility and precision when selecting the perfect sound for any moment.
As with nearly all of our libraries, each sound has been recorded, edited, and mastered at 192 kHz / 32-24 bit, ensuring exceptional audio quality and top-tier adaptability — ideal for professional sound designers and anyone seeking a fast, drag & drop workflow.
We had a blast creating this library: we were able to collaborate with several companies that allowed us to break, manipulate, and record a wide variety of materials in real-world conditions, ensuring you get the most authentic and powerful sounds possible.
Recording equipment used:
– Sound Devices MixPre-6 II
– Sanken CO-100K
– Sennheiser MKH8050
– Zoom H6
– Tascam Portacapture X8
More about the pack
– Intuitive file naming
– All you’ll ever need regarding demolition sounds [Use them again & again
– Use the sound effects over and over, in any of your projects or productions, forever without any additional fees or royalties. Use the SFX in your game, in your trailer, in a Kickstarter campaign, wherever you need to, as much as you want to.
– Totally mono compatibility
– All sounds have several variations.
– Use your imagination and feel free to use any sound for a creature other than the one described, remember that the world of sound is totally subjective.
– For any questions or problems: [email protected]
Features
– 299 sounds
– Number of Audio Waves: 299
– Format: 192KHz / 24 bits
– Do Sound FX loop: No
– Win/Mac: Yes
– Minutes of audio provided: 22:59
On a recording trip to the smaller Danish port town Struer, I came across an abandoned empty oil tank. Inside I found two giant wires attached to the floor and the ceiling of the tank, almost like a huge 2 stringed double bass. I’m telling you the reverb in there was longer than the Eiffel Tower on a cloudless day !
On the outside this was just an empty abandoned building, but it turned out it was not empty at all because it was full of sound and a few dead birds. I’m glad I was curious enough to go inside for a closer investigation and not just pass by.
After several hours of concentrated recording, it was nice to get my ears back out in dry air. I’m happy there are no open sends to Valhalla in real life but experiencing the eternal resonance on the low frequencies from the wires was absolutely amazing.
Abandoned Oil Tank was recorded with a LOM basic Ucho stereo pair, a Zoom H6 and the LOM Geofon. All files are in 96 kHz/24 bit and contain the original recordings.
The result is a unique sound effect library including balloon pop impulse responses from a truly unique location that very recently became even more unique since word says that the oil tank is no more and has abandoned this world.
327 individual sounds – all tagged with Universal Category System (UCS) metadata.
Church bells from Middle Ages to early 20th century. European traditional bells made in bronze. Various churches, bells and sound perspectives. From near field recordings recorded in church towers to far field recordings – soundscapes of bells in countryside/city, small town, villages…
Maritime bells included (old sailing/steamships from the 19th century). Recorded in the Museum of Maritime History.
Finest equipment used like: AKG, Sennheiser,…mics, Sound Devices recorder/mixer. (Few recording captured in mono with dynamic mic-high sound pressure/level)
Metadata tagged with list of equipment and approximate age of bells.
Check the sound list for further info.
THE DOOR SHUTS ON THIS COLLECTION
Every sound a door can make is included in this collection, from openings and closings to slams, creaks, and rumblings. Including wooden and metal doors, gates, cupboards, refrigerators, sliding doors, electric doors, lift doors, and more.
ANTIQUE, AUTOMATIC, BARREL LOCK, BIT KEY, BUMP KEY, CARGO ELEVATOR, CHAIN, CLOSE, CLOSET, COMMODE, CREAK, DISHWASHER, DOOR CLOSER, ELECTRIC, FOLEY, FREEZER, FRIDGE, GARAGE, GATE, HANDLE, HINGE, HOPPER WINDOW, HYDRAULICS, INDUSTRIAL DOOR, LATCH, LEAVE AJAR, LEVER, LOCKER, MECHANICS, MECHANISM, METAL, METAL GRID, MICROWAVE, MODERN, OLD, OPEN, OVEN, PASSENGER ELEVATOR, PUNCHCARD, RATTLE, ROOM DOOR, SECURITY DOOR, SHUT, SHUTTER, SLAM, SLIDE DOOR, SLIDING BOLT, SQUEAK, SWING DOOR, TURNING KNOB, VEHICLE, WINDOW, WINGED DOOR, WOOD, WOOD SLAT
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