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The Hydrophone underwater sound effects library gets you a rich collection of water sound effects, captured with a DPA 8011 hydrophone.
It delivers you everything from bubbly underwater sounds, fizzes, droplets, dragging sounds, crab walking (!), underwater footsteps, bathtub drains, waves, splashes – and even an underwater scream.
Dogs is a collection of dog barks, squeals, whines, yawns, growls, drinking, shaking and more.
• Cairn Terrier
• Entlebucher Sennen
• Labrador
• New Foundlander
Skip all the hassle and wasted time trying to find the right sounds. Explainer Video Sound Kit has everything you need to create dynamic sound tracks for video ads, commercials, animations, marketing and explainer videos. Importantly, it’s all royalty-free and an unbeatable time saving value.
As you know, creators of motion graphics, animations and explainer videos struggle mightily with finding the right sound effects for their projects. Sadly, wasting lots of time and energy. That’s why we created the Explainer Video Sound Kit. It’s an all-in-one power pack that gets your project done fast. 1200 designed sounds, cinematic elements, transitions, Foley, natural and organic sounds and a sweet selection of background music all ready to go.
Instantly take your production to a new level of engaging sound. Create compelling audio/video experiences easier than ever. Save time and level up your audio skills like a pro with the Explainer Video sound library!
Distant Blast library brings heavy explosions, impacts and detonations right into your track.
Highlights:
• focused on faraway outdoor explosions
• organic, yet heavily designed content
• wide palette of dark colours, sub-bass rich
• 40 “Distant Blast” and 41 “Even Deeper” files
• native 96/24
• the preview file also contains pads from The Horrid and City Distant 192 kHz.
Bells and chimes are useful in sound design and music production as they are adding organic vibes to your sound.
For this purpose, many esoteric bells and chimes were recorded from various angles, dynamics and with pristine sound quality.
Here you will find not only traditional bells (used in hotels or boats), but also exotic Chinese and Tibetan bells, wind chimes of different sizes and esoteric tuned resonators that generate unusual harmonies and soundscapes.
This is also a great library for further processing, pitch mangling, granulation and sound experimenting.
Adds a lot of sounds of fantasy magic weapons
With this package you will get sounds of swords and magical bows, where you can find everything from elemental magic for each weapon, to impacts, impacts are blood, etc… These sounds are divided into 173 High-Quality sounds:
Magic Sword
Dark-sword
Magic-bow
Elemental Sword
Elemental Bow
Elemental buffs
Elemental Whoosh
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More about the pack
Some sounds have variations with reverb and without reverb.
You can find extended versions of some attacks so you just have to drag and drop.
Intuitive file naming.
The sounds can be used for different weapons (not only swords and bows, you choose).
All you’ll ever need regarding magical weapons sounds.
Features
173 Unique magic elemental spells
Number of Audio Waves: 173
Format: 44.000 Hz / 16 bit
Do Sound FX loop: Yes
Minutes of audio provided: 4 minutes and 19 seconds
Documentation
Bodyfall is an exhaustive multi-volume sound library, designed in collaboration with prize-winning French Foley artist Florian Fabre, and recorded in the famous Hiventy foley studio.
Each volume features 2 different falling surfaces. On each of them, sounds of different parts of the human body:
Chest (simulated with 4 textures of distinct densities, labeled M1,M2,M3 and M4), feet, knees, and hands, have been separated.
All recordings were made from 3 distances (close, mid, distant) with 3 strength levels (hard, medium, soft). Finally, this huge toolbox provides you with infinite combinations to make your own and unique bodyfalls.
Bodyfall vol 1: Generic / concrete & Hard Metal:
Files included: 972 .WAV, stereo & mono files , 24 bit / 96 kHz (416 MB)
Bodyfall vol 2: Wood / Rustic & Metal Grid:
Files included: 974 .WAV, stereo & mono files, 24 bit / 96 kHz (438 MB)
Bodyfall vol 3: Dirt & Wood / Hardfloor:
Files included: 929 .WAV, stereo & mono files, 24 bit / 96 kHz (433 MB). No distant files for Dirt soft impacts.
Bodyfall vol 4: Metal / Composite & Wood / Parquet:
Files included: 929 .WAV, stereo & mono files, 24 bit / 96 kHz (433 MB)
Bodyfall Bundle:
All files & surface variations from vol 1-4 included
Does your production need analog tape playback sounds?
Oh, boy, we have some!
Scratching, speeding up and down, humming, noise and crackles, feedback, distortion, wavefolding, damaged tape, spring reverb and even processed with the filter of evil Polivoks synthesizer.
All records were made with analog gear and recorded with 192KHz sample rate for further manipulations.
KEY POINTS:
The Crash & Smash sound effects library contains over 1110 sounds of destruction. For this collection I went on a rampage at several junk yards around my hometown, collecting a vast amount of crash sound effects. This one is highly focused more on crashing sounds with all the rumble and debris, giving you hundreds of variations of glass smashes, rolling stones and stone hits, wood breaks and impacts and metal crashes.
As usual the sounds come perfectly cleaned and edited so you can instantly place them in your timeline or design new sounds with it. Of course they also got some EQ and compression treatment but weren’t further “designed”, so you have nice and flexible source material for your own productions.
All sounds come with embedded Soundminer Metadata sorted in subfolders for:• Glass
• Metal
• Stone
• Wood
• Plastic
Rain City is a HQ sound effects library featuring 84 recordings captured on various indoor and outdoor locations, in peaceful urban environments.
You will find various types and intensities of rainfall, from subtle drizzle on tile rooftops and construction sites, to after-hours heavy rain on the city streets and downpours against car windows, Plexiglas rooftop panels, umbrellas and more.
Need real snake sounds? This compact, hand-picked pack delivers recordings of actual snakes hissing, inhaling and exhaling, shaking, rattling – and striking. Features snakes such as Boa, Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, Mexican Rattler, African Puff Adder, and Gopher Snake.
If you need sounds of gore, this SFX collection is truly something special. Delivering more than 600 sounds of blood, guts, bone breaks, sword and knife stabs and cuts, splatters, spurts, flesh tears, impacts – and sawing – its gets you a brutally effective collection of sounds to work with, both raw and designed.
Quantum is an electromagnetic field sound effect library delivering over 3450 high quality sounds in 1924 files (more than 60Gb), from UI and Impacts over Whooshes to Ambiences, Energy, Retro Machines sounds and many more, this collection has all you need to create an exciting Modern Hard-SciFi audio experience.
From raw recordings to ready-to-use sound effects, all the content has been recorded at 24 bit, 192 KHz.
The Toolkit and Designed sections are delivered at 24 bit, 96 KHz.
All files in this collection use the Universal Category System (UCS) and are tagged with detailed metadatas.
This library is split in 3 different sections :
Captured with different microphones like Elektrouši, Elektroucho Pro and Priezor, we recorded a lot of devices and wild signals which allows you to sculpt, create, and edit your own sounds with more than 340 individual sounds.
Some Devices included in Raw section
3D Printer – ATM – Babyphone – Lamp – Headphones – Speakers – BluRay Player – Cameras – Cofee Machine – Laptop and Desk Computers – Video Game Consoles – Electric Outlets – Razor – Electronic Cigarette – Elevator – Fan – Fridge – Amplifier – Hair Clipper – Hair Dryer – Home Cinema – Router – Blender – Microwave – Shaker – Oven – Audio Recorders – Audio Interfaces – Science Center Devices – Smartphone – Kitchen Devices – Synthetizers – Tablet – TV – Outside Billboard and Devices – Washing Machine – Vehicles
This section provides you ready-to-use sounds (over 1897 individuals sounds in 371 files), all created and designed only from the Raw and Toolkit section materials.
From huge spaceships to tiny interfaces, this collection delivers various sounds from different categories such as Impacts, UI, Ambiences, Whooshes, Pass-By, Energy, Machines, Electricity sounds and many more.
Included sounds / Keywords
Ambience – Impact – Robot – Electricity – UI – Alarm – Radar – Energy – ForceField – Generator – Machine – Vehicles – Spaceships – Alien – Scanner – Calculation – Data – Hologram – Transmission – Glitch – Static – Interference – Whoosh – Interface – SciFi – Retro – etc…
This is a NEW section that we wanted to introduce with this library. The Toolkit section is organised in different categories (Energy, Drone, Forcefield, Machine…ect..) to allow you to easily create your own Retro Hard Scifi sounds. We have decided to share with you a useful creation tool process by giving you presets for famous Reaktor ensembles like S-Layer, Dron-e and Whoosh to combine with several dedicated Reaktor maps directly linked to the Toolkit samples.
For more information about the Toolkit section, you can watch the tutorial video below
The Airborne Sound Kitchen sound effects library includes over 150 culinary sounds.
The package includes appliances: blenders, toaster, fridges, and freezers. There are tools, too: glasses, knives, bottles, dishes, and cans. Also included is the work that ties it all together: cooking, cleaning, preparing, and chopping. Includes over 10 fields of Soundminer metadata.
MOVES is a collection of character foley clothing and gear movements that cover a large range of characters such as Special Forces, Medieval Soldier, World War Soldier, Policeman, and High-tech Soldier among many others.
MOVES will make a great addition to your sonic arsenal and help you achieve that personal character sound that you have in your head. MOVES does not replace a Veteran Foley artist, but will come in handy if you have a restricted budget or if you need a good sound to enhance the movements of your characters.
You get several walks, runs and stop movements for every type of character.
Two versions included:To speed up your workflow, the library comes with two versions of the same content, tailored for people working either in the Video Game or the Cinema industry:
• Video Game Workflow: For every variation, you will have a single wav file, making it ideal for people who like to have every sound already cut and ready to be used in their DAW or middleware. It consists of 772 sounds.
• Cinema Workflow You will find several variations of the sounds in single wav files here. It consists of 151 wav files sounds.
And as mentioned, both versions are included, so you can pick whatever works best for your way of working.
Features props and characters such as:
Bullet-proof vest, medieval chain mail, dress, leather jacket, old robot, policeman, World War II soldier, Special Forces, Thin Android, Winter Jacket, medieval foot soldier, plastic character, rattle character, shield, sword, weapons, helmets, high tech soldier, winter jacket
As always, all sounds are embedded with useful Soundminer metadata. I really hope you will find this collection inspiring and useful in your future projects.
Have a great day designing your new characters with MOVES!
Best wishes,
Michel Marchant.
Quiet Hotels At Night is the first one of themed library series in which you’ll go through night hotels. The package includes 27 stereo tracks with evening and night atmospheres from hotel corridors and rooms. The library is recorded mostly in large hotels in Bulgaria, Sweden and Romania. You will hear a variety of quiet atmospheres from empty corridors and rooms, air conditioners, bathrooms, an empty lobby bar with working refrigerators, to low activity from neighbouring rooms and backgrounds, screaming from a distant room, etc. Room tones and ambiеnces are suitable background for any audiovisual projects.
All files are meta-tagged in Soundminer
Gear used: Sound Devices 633. Neumann KM184 stereo set, Sennheiser MKH8020 stereo set
Enjoy your stay at the Night Hotel.
The Cars In Motion sound library gets you exterior sounds of cars driving at different speeds, slow/medium/fast/very fast pass-bys, reverse sounds, accelerations, braking sounds and a lot of additional files. You’ll find different engines, and cars with different character.
From a small BMW 114i through to a powerful Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.7 V8 with Magna Flow exhaust, up to a fast twin turbo BMW 640D F12. In addition to cars there are also files covering big machines like tractors and excavator.
The library features 561 WAV files with total length of 340 minutes, recorded in 96kHz and 24 bits with a Sound Devices 702, two Sennheisers MKH 8040, Rode NTG3 and Sony PCM-M10.
• Audi A4 Allroad 2.0 TFSI – 73 files – 73 minutes
• Audi A4 B8 2.0 TDI Avant – 11 files – 10 minutes
• BMW 114i E87 – 20 files – 10 minutes
• BMW 530D E60 – 55 files – 21 minutes
• BMW F12 640D Gran Coupe – 87 files – 49 minutes
• Excavator MF 860 – 30 files – 20 minutes
• Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.7 V8 – 62 files – 51 minutes
• Renault Kangoo 1.6 16V – 71 files – 32 minutes
• Renault Master II 2.8 dTi – 21 files – 13 minutes
• Renault Master F3500 dCi135 – 30 files – 12 minutes
• Tractor Case II CX90 – 15 files – 10 minutes
• Volkswagen Golf II – 26 files – 13 minutes
• Other Cars – 60 files – 23 minutes
Many years of trekking in the Dovre mountains (Dovrefjell) at heights from 900 to 1200 masl. and temperatures reaching down to -20°C, has led to many unique recordings.
My main goal when on Dovrefjell was to capture the “sound” of the harsh climate that dominates up there. Subsequently it was hard to avoid the ever restless wind. But it can be quite tricky to capture the sound of wind (or rather the sound of wind on or through objects) and there are only some “sweet spots”, in this vast high altitude climate scattered with rocks and tiny trees, that will generate a good recording.
These recordings were done crouching behind rocks, on cliff sides, on top of summits, behind weathered shelters, old mountain farms and bushes. Partially freezing my hands of, operating recording equipment.
The Hybrid Electric Car SFX library features a collection of exterior and interior sounds from a 2007 Toyota Prius. A majority of the recording was conducted at El Mirage Lake, a six mile long dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert, 90 miles north of Los Angeles.
This barren landscape, unique for its miles of completely flat terrain, is a popular filming location for automobile commercials and feature films. The recording sessions took place late in the evening and early in the morning, when the surroundings were completely silent.
An ample collection of exterior pass bys, starts, and stop recordings on pavement, gravel, and dry lake bed are included. Speeds range from 5MPH to 80MPH from only running on the electric motor/battery pack, to pushing the Prius’ gas engine towards its max. Other sounds such as washer/wipers, electric motor and gas engine idling complete the collection.
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Essential Audio Pickups and Small Item Sounds contains 280 Foley sounds designed specifically for Video Game Sound Designers who need the usual Pick-Up sounds and SFX for common small items, including: Keys, Coins, Access Card, Pills/Health, Latches, Locks, Chains, Bags, and many many more!
Features:
Number of Audio Waves: 280
Sample rate / bit rate: 44,100 Hz / 16 bit
A large collection of crowd reactions such as cheers, applause, laughter, boo’s, heckling and more from a variety of crowd sizes. Enhance an existing concert, sports or event crowd or build one from scratch. Also included are crowds clapping to the beat for music.
'Asia Reminds II – Japan Ambiences' delivers a generous amount of recordings (more than 5 hours total) from a trip to Japan. It's divided into three distinct ambience types: City ambiences, Nature / Town ambiences and Trains / Stations ambiences & FX folder.
You obtain three format folders : Stereo / MS / 5.0 Upmix
'Asia Reminds II – Japan Ambiences' ambience types:
City ambiences include recordings from Osaka to Tokyo such as geek Denden town & Akiharaba Arcade-Pachinko room, Stroll in Nishiki market, Kitanomaru Park, Famous Shibuya crossing and more.
Nature / town ambiences include recordings from famous Kyoto Bamboo Forest, Philosopher's path, Kibune-Kurama Forest and more.
Trains / Stations include recordings from Osaka / Kyoto / Tokyo Stations, Stroll in Fujikyoko Line, Railroad Crossing and more.
FX include gashapon machine, Crows & Birds, Train doors etc…
'Asia Reminds – Japan Ambiences' : with a total of 76 audio files in each of these folders: STEREO (48 kHz / 24 bit), MS & UPMIX 5.0 (96 kHz / 24 bit).
It also includes 117 FX sounds.
You have access to two download folder :
Get ready for adventure: Ancient Game gets you 1500+ designed and source MMO / game-ready audio assets. Step into a world of fantasy with Ancient Game – The Legendary RPG Adventure Game Sound Library by Epic Stock Media! Includes Magic, Warfare, Gore, Treasures, Mechanisms, Monsters, Loop-able ambiences and more! All in 96k / 24 Bit for optimum clarity and supernatural sound.
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