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Wind, birds, the occasional chattering squirrel and more. A focus on daytime, with some sections covering the entire progression of first light through late morning in ever louder bird sounds. A variety of thrushes, jays, woodpeckers, etc in isolated clips and long ambiances of minutes or more.
• Harmonic Series Drones is an extension of several of my music compositions. Over the past few years, I’ve been very interested in data sonification, writing several pieces that turn real-time weather data into music. This library was created using a drone generator that turns weather data into sound. I built this drone generator for my piece Sitka for piano and seasonal electronics.
• Instead of pulling weather data from Sitka, Alaska, as I did in the piece, I used 2016 daily temperature data from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a fragile place wrapped up in current political drama and now open to drilling. This library is a sonification of 2016 temperature data in ANWR. The highest global temperature on record was recorded in 2016 (2016 Global Climate Report). It is even worse in the Arctic where temperatures are warming at twice the rate of lower latitudes (2016 Arctic Report Card). With this library, you’ll be able to hear the warming, and I hope this library helps to draw attention to the rapidly changing environment of the Arctic.
• Each of the forty-eight drones corresponds to the average temperature of a day in 2016, with twelve drones from each of the four seasons. The drones are built from pure tones made from tightly filtered pink noise. These pure tones are then stacked in harmonic series relationships. For instance, a winter drone might consist of the fundamental and four lowest partials. A summer drone could have the fundamental and partials seven, fourteen, and thirty-two.
• The drones stand on their own without the story. If you never knew they started with weather data, you would still find a variety of pure, rich, microtonal drones with enough variety to fit the mood of any project.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause. I view it as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• In Pacific Northwest: Roosevelt Elk, get a mini-nature collection of ambiences from the Hoh Rainforest, a temperate rainforest on the Olympic Peninsula in Olympic National Park. Hear Roosevelt Elk clack antlers and bugle as they fight for the chance to mate. Hear Pacific Wrens joyous chirps as they dance on rotten logs. Hear the massive sparseness of forests filled with 200-300 foot douglas fir and spruce. Hear haunting reverberations as ravens caw in groves of titans and the Hoh River’s soothing wash, the perfect sound to lull you off to peaceful dreams.
• This library offers you a small collection of both quiet and active nature sounds from one of the wettest forests in North America. Some places on the Olympic Peninsula get over 200 inches of precipitation per year, and that abundance of moisture makes for a magical fern and moss filled ecosystem brimming with soothing ambiences.
2% FOR THE ENVIRONMENT & CARBON NEUTRAL:
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased for the Pacific Northwest Series. Field Recording travel for these libraries was carbon neutral!
• Named markers are included in each file to help find interesting events in an otherwise uniform waveform!
• Marker text included in the Soundminer description and BWAV description fields.
This library is a small collection of handwriting foley on paper. It’s a mix of scribbles, doodles writing and punctuation that will save you alot of time when you need various writing movements and sounds.
All sounds recorded using the Neumann KMR81 and the MA5 Pre.
Moxie Sound and their seasoned recordists are proud to present to you their very first sound effects library featuring the one and only 1979 Volkswagen Westfalia 'Type 2' Camper.
This mini bus has a diesel engine that purs, rumbles, and roars. We recorded every sound this beast is capable of making. If you've got a project with this specific vehicle or a similar one that simply needs sweetening, you will find everything you are looking for here. The older character of this vehicle will no doubt add life to your story.
This library is hilarious. In the best way possible.
Acquired from some very, very good people with the confidence to step in front of a TLM 107, this library encompasses all manners and methods of laughing. Smirks, snorts, puffs, chuckles, giggles, guffaws, hees, haws, roars, cries, and belly laughs. Some are playful, some are unenthusiastic, some are raucous, while others are uncomfortable. Detailed and precise, all of the tiniest nuances are captured from soft breaths to rapid mouth clicks to gravelly throat catches.
Voices are special. Voices are unique. While you may get lucky and be able to pin these joyful laughs nicely to a particular character or voice in your project, they are most powerful when used creatively as layers, one-off events, and definitive signatures in a product, scene, or design. All recordings are captured at 192 kHz to give you the utmost flexibility when stretching and modulating these assets, and we most definitely recommend that you do!
We understand. This is a specialized library that you may not need to frequently call upon in your everyday sound work. But suddenly, when you really can use a good laugh, it will be there, chock full of chuckles, ready to rock.
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!
Glistening bursts of ear candy from Async Audio. Ideal for UI sounds, item sounds, or to add some sparkle to your next project.
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Haunting Ambiences contains dense, multilayered horror construction kits. Everything you need to build a world around your scenes with separated stems. We captured and designed field recordings from multiple countries, voices, instruments and synthesizers all in 24Bit 96kHz allowing for further manipulation.
These dense ambiences include split stems to encourage experimentation, allowing you to add or subtract certain elements, balance them or combine them with sounds from other construction kits in the pack. Perfect for your horror films, video games or escape room/live experiences.
Here are the included Construction Kits:
Haunted Factory: Moving gears, pipe bursts and the deafening buzz of industrial lighting.
Haunted Forest: Weird birds, crows, wolves, owls, tree creaks and much more!
Haunted House: Distinct creaks of a wooden building under a bed of creepy winds and clocks.
Haunted Neighbourhood: Dog barks, crickets and clocktowers sit above layered crickets and streetlights.
Haunted Sewers: Build a wet and dripping scene with flowing water and more distinct drips echoing through.
Haunted Swamp: Misty wind, bugs and water splashes suggest an evil presence, combined with frogs and more!
Nightmare: A discomforting array of voices, hums, and rumbles.
Zombie Apocalypse: A crowd of Zombies are taking over the city, breaking into anything they can find.
Torture Chamber: A deep and surreal ambience with screams, drills, tools and other torturous sounds.
Fresh on the heels of our successful Command Center 1 sound-set, we have released another imaginative environment from our Star Cruiser Environments Anthology Collection… Orbital Emitter is proud to present, Command Center 2!! – a comprehensive sci-fi sound-set featuring a rich arsenal of futuristic environment sounds for use in any multimedia project! Inside you will find rumbling room tones, retro-futuristic system displays, stellar scans, trans navigational sequences, tactical perimeter warnings, intricate processing sounds, a booming alert klaxon and much much more! And like the rest of our growing library, this environment sound-set can be customized to your liking allowing the creation of multiple environments -all from this one sound-set!
Is Command Center 2 worth purchasing if you’ve already bought Command Center 1? -We think so! Command Center 2 compliments its predecessor because it was designed to be different in direction and focus. While similar in name and type of environment, the two sound-sets are utterly different from one another while still existing in the same sonic universe. Listen to our demo and let your ears decide!
This sound-set is delivered industry ready at 24 bit/48kHz WAV and each sound file contains meta-data to make our sound files easy to organize & find. All of our sounds are 100% original, 100% royalty free, created in our sound-labs and designed to boldly explore the universe of sci-fi sound!
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.
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.
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.
The Burger Kitchen contains a wide variety of food preparation, eating and handling sounds captured in our foley suite by our team of Audio Craftsmen. These tasty sounds will make a great addition to your collection and will be perfect for use in food commercials, feature films and video games.
We recorded and consumed a wide selection of meats, vegetables, fruits and kitchenware to bring you the most authentic sounds for your productions. Many of the recordings include a ‘foley performance’ giving you a natural and dynamic movement of the given prop. The 75 included files are provided dry in 24Bit 96kHz allowing for further manipulation and contain extensive metadata to make navigating and finding the right sound as simple as possible.
Some of the included sounds are: Burger crunching, lettuce tearing, sauce squirting, onion chopping, tomato squeezing, sausage whooshing, cheese melting, tin impacts and much, much more to make your audiences stomach rumble.
Welcome to The Burger Kitchen!
Cymbals From Hell Bundle is a disturbing collection of sound effects which includes three of our most popular horror libraries. Bringing you the nastiest, harshest set of designed elements and raw recordings, this bundle has more than 420 files with a total run time of 430+ mins. (18.94 GB).
Two of the included libraries are made in collaboration with Igor Tikhonov from KEDR Audio, who captured various types of gongs, Tibetan bowls, various bells in several performances using both Mid-Side and A/B microphone techniques to encapsulate an extensive stereo-field and different textures. Cymbals From Hell Vol. 1 has been recorded in a studio environment and played by a professional percussionist, with the intention of providing the most dynamic range and disturbing playing style. Our Audio Craftsmen carefully edited and designed the sounds to make the most frightening and bizarre effects.
This bundle contains harsh-bowed cymbals, distorted gong rumbles, horror stingers, heavy drones, risers, cinematic, mangled hits, gut rumbling sub sounds, dark-unsetting chimes, magical bells, weird sci-fi drones and much, much more.
This array of sounds is perfect for your films, video games and other projects, giving you everything you need to build compelling horror and sci-fi soundscapes.
You will be saving almost 30% of the total cost of the individual libraries when purchasing this bundle, an excellent value for money addition to your horror sound effects libraries.
– “TRUE-TO-LIFE RAIN SOUNDS FROM THE TROPICAL CITY-STATE OF SINGAPORE”
The distinct sound of tropical rain against Singapore’s skyscapes and streets
As part of our Ambient Sound Series focusing on the specific, distinct Soundscape of Singapore, we went on a journey to capture high definition sounds of the city-state.
Scaling high above the city’s skyscapes all the way down to Singapore’s busy streets, we captured the sound of rain unique to the city-state, all in this extensive library.
For sound designers and editors looking for the sound of rain unique to this small, vibrant city
Singapore Ambiences – Rain is a collection of high definition sounds of the unique rain ambience of various locations in the country. From light drizzles to heavy apocalyptic tropical thunderstorms with rolling rumbles and cracking booms of thunder included. Recorded by a team who have worked on projects for Marvel Studios, Universal Studios, Riot Games and the Discovery Channel, these recordings are clean, accurate and of high quality.
Like all IX Sound Libraries, this collection is meticulously edited and embedded with detailed descriptive metadata utilising the Universal Category System (UCS).
This collection is compatible with Soundminer, Pro Tools, Basehead, AudioFinder and other popular sound effects library search engines.
The files will be delivered in Stereo/Mono Wav format at 24bit, 48kHz.
Psychedelic Cicadas Vol. 3 is the latest edition of our cicada ambiences produced in collaboration with César Rodriguez Pulido and Guile Martins.
A diverse collection of cicada species were recorded in Cerrado, Brazil for this library, yielding wild, weird and wonderful choruses. Add texture to your soundscapes and creations with these insects’ captivating tones, pitches and rhythms – along with the sounds of other local wildlife found in the valleys of Cerrado.
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.
Hydrophonic Design Vol. 1 is the latest of our water-themed collections. This library is overflowing with sounds recorded with our dual-mic over and underwater set-up.
These recordings – captured with the Sennheiser MKH50 and Aquarian H2a Hydrophone – have been carefully designed by our Audio Craftsmen to produce a huge variety of dopplers, impacts, oneshots and ambiences. Worldise your space battle scenes with brassy hits and sci-fi gun shots, or add suspense to underwater game sequences with moody ambiences and bubbling pass-bys. Bring the fun to your sound design process with this versatile collection!
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 192kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
The latest in our collection of Historical Weapons sounds is a symphony of shing-ing, clunking, thudding, clashing and ringing impacts for all your combat and battle design needs! This library focuses on shield-based sounds, with additional recordings of weapon-on-weapon fights.
Using our multi-mic configuration (comprising the Sennheiser MKH50, Røde NTG-3 and Line Audio CM4 Stereo Pair), our Audio Craftsmen recorded two professional swordsmen going head-to-head in multi-move melees using wooden shields, spears, swords and axes.
This library includes shield holds and push-offs, spear pole hits, spear scrapes to a shield edge, metallic sword clashes, axe clinks on a shield boss, a metal shield spinning on the ground and being picked up, spear hits on a wooden haft, sword slide cuts and much more! Perfect for TV, film, game and documentary projects requiring the exciting, natural tones of authentic historical weapons!
Sound have been separated into the follow categories:
Shield Groundwork: Sounds of a wooden and metal shield dropping onto the floor, spinning on the floor and being picked up.
Shield Impacts: A huge variety of sounds where a spear, sword, wooden stick and axe hit different shield parts.
Spear Fights: Recordings of spear head and pole combat sequences.
Sword Impacts: Swords sliding off each other, being pressed against each other, and clashing together.
Each file contains multiple takes of the named action.
All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 192kHz, and have been tagged with extensive UCS metadata for ease of use.
You would never guess these sounds are from an acoustic instrument…
Our Audio Craftsmen have used raw acoustic guitar recordings to design a variety of futuristic and horrifying sound effects including drones, stingers, risers and impacts.
Manipulate your audience’s emotions by creating creepy and uncomfortable atmospheres with this unique sound effects library!
These sounds have been separated into the following categories:
Drones: 20 evolving atmospheres with a generous amount of low frequencies, perfect for designing science fiction and horror ambiences.
Impacts: 10 hits and impacts to make your audience jump, ideal for trailer sound design.
Riser & Transitions: 30 risers sound effects processed with various reverbs and delays to smoothly transition between scenes.
Stingers: 10 terrifying stingers to give goosebumps to your audience.
Flesh, Bones & Gore Vol. 2 is the second instalment of 344 Audio’s hard-hitting gore sounds. This library features cringe-worthy bone crunches, voracious monster bites, and wet, textured tearing of flesh.
Using a selection of vegetables and fruit, our Audio Craftsmen performed and recorded unnerving, gory impacts intended to make audiences recoil. These were then edited for use in your horror-thriller projects and moments, including fight sequences, slasher attacks and creature transformations.
The library contains three folders:
Bone Crunches: Quick and drawn-out bone cracking.
Flesh Tearing: Flesh being aggressively torn, ripped and attacked.
Monster Bites: Chomping into and munching on a victim’s flesh.
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.
Exterior Vibrations Vol. 2 comprises textural, tonal sounds recorded with two stereo-figured contact microphones. Our Audio Craftsmen performed dynamic movements across metal, plastic, and water found in the outside world to yield an abstract selection of odd scrapes, drags, knocks, squeaks, taps and other impacts.
These raw recordings are ideal for adding immersive and uncanny texture to your creations. Their resonant, slightly unnerving quality also facilitates design and processing for horror and sci-fi projects.
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.
Ghostly Presences Vol. 2 is the second volume in a collection of ambiences created specifically for use in your horror genre projects.
Combining Synth-generated drones and manipulated voice recordings to build haunting and unsettling horror ambiences. This library comprises a variety of sounds crafted for layering or individual use. Included are ghostly chants, deep drones, pulsing synths, haunting whispers and more; a perfect selection for enhancing your horror soundscapes in Film, TV and Game Audio projects!
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.
The Foley Vault is home to an ever-growing collection of original Foley recordings.
Each library was captured by professional Foley Artists on our in-house Foley Stage using a Sennheiser MKH50 microphone.
These sounds were originally performed for a variety of feature and short film projects. They have now been compiled and released for you to edit and implement into your own film, game and television productions.
Little Boxes is a curated collection of four unique sound sets designed to compliment one another sonically and texturally. These textures move from acoustic to electroacoustic to analog synthesis – all programmed into beautiful Kontakt 4 instruments (full NI Kontakt
4.2.3 or later required).
A small device meant to be hung flat on the wall, the balls will swing and strike the strings if the ground begins to move.
This box was shaken, plucked, strummed, performed and ebowed to produce a beautiful palette of acoustic string textures.
In Kontakt those sounds evolved into a group of instruments that ran from folksy, zither like patches to lush, shimmering pads.
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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