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Authentic animal sound effects, animal recordings and designed creature and monster sound effects.
Multiple high end microphones and recorders were used to record this leopard. There were MS
(mid-side) and mini shotgun microphones. Files can be pitched and mangled for sound design
(creating monster etc sounds).
Rainforest Insects, a richly detailed audio library capturing the vibrant soundscape of jungle life.
With this lemur sound library, you’ll find 18 high-quality audio tracks, each featuring multiple variations. This collection captures the distinctive sounds of these curious animals in great detail.
Easy to Use Structure
All recordings are uniformly labeled to integrate smoothly into your workflow, making it easy to select, combine, or replace takes based on your creative needs. This library includes the typical short calls lemurs produce, such as sharp squeals, brief meows, and rhythmic wails.
Captured at Very Close Range
The sounds were recorded at very close proximity, allowing for exceptional clarity and detail. As with many of our other libraries, we used high-end recording equipment, including:
– Sennheiser MKH 8050
– Sanken CO-100K
– Zoom F6
– Zoom H6
The ultrasonic capabilities of this setup allow for pitch shifting without losing depth or richness, making these sounds ideal for fantasy creature design or realistics purposes.
Professional Standards & Quality
Resolution: Recorded at 24-bit / 192 kHz – 96 kHz, and delivered in the same formats, ensuring outstanding detail and dynamic range.
Editing: All tracks were meticulously cleaned to remove unwanted background noises such as birds, wind, footsteps, or human activity, delivering a clean, professional-grade product.
Ideal Applications
Video games: Add realism and depth to the natural environments of your games.
Cinema and Documentaries: Enrichment of the audiovisual product with authentic sounds.
Educational Applications: Use these sounds in educational projects to teach about wildlife and animal behavior.
Multimedia Projects: Ideal for any project that seeks to enrich the user’s listening experience.
Technical Details
– Total Tracks: 18 (approx. 34 isolated sounds per mic, total of 102 sounds
– Format: 192 kHz – 96 kHz / 24-bit
– Equipment Used: Zoom F6 with Sennheiser MKH 8050 and Sanken CO-100K microphones, plus Zoom H6 for stereo
– Total Duration: 1 minute and 11 seconds
Dive into a world of fantasy with our Creature/Monster Voices sound effects pack, designed to bring an authentic, “real” sounding experience to your project. Crafted specifically for fantasy scenarios, this collection features a wide range of terrifying and otherworldly creature vocalizations, from growls to roars, screams, and more. Perfect for games, films, or interactive media, these high-quality sound effects will add depth, tension, and immersion to your creatures, ensuring they truly come to life in the most fantastical of worlds.
Features:
New Zealand’s landscapes are full of life, from high mountain peaks to quiet fjords, open prairies, lush wetlands, and dense forests. This library captures the sounds of these wild places in stereo and surround.
You will hear Kakas calling in the alpine forests, the rhythmic croaks of frogs at night, distant sheep grazing on the hills, and the powerful crash of waves against the coast. Songbirds fills the shrublands, while fur seals bark along the rocky shoreline.
Recorded in both North and South Island during the spring and summer seasons, this 408-minute library explores the heart of New Zealand’s wilderness.
This library is also available in The New Zealand Collection bundle.
Cover photo by Harry Bradley.
Referenced Species
Australasian Crested Grebe • Australian Coot • Australian Magpie • Black Swan • California Quail • Canada Goose • Common Chaffinch • Common Myna • Common Redpoll • Dunnock • Eurasian Blackbird • Eurasian Skylark • European Goldfinch • European Greenfinch • European Starling • Fur Seal • Grey Warbler (Grey Gerygone) • House Sparrow • Indian Peafowl (Peacock) • Kaka (Bush Parrot) • Mallard Duck • Morepork • New Zealand Bellbird • New Zealand Fantail • Paradise Shelduck • Pied Cormorant (Pied Shag) • Pukeko (Purple Swamphen) • Red-billed Gull (Silver Gull) • Ring-necked Pheasant • Rock Pigeon • Rooster (Feral Chicken) • Sheep • Silvereye • Song Thrush • South Island Pied Oystercatcher • South Island Robin • Southern Bell Frog (Growling Grass Frog) • Tree Frog • Tui • White-fronted Tern • Yellowhammer
Stereo and Surround
Recorded with double mid-side and AB microphone setups, this library is delivered in 5.0 (L/R/C/Ls/Rs) and Stereo.
59 Surround files + 176 Stereo files
Gear used
Zoom F3 • Zoom F6 • Usi Pro • MKH30 • MKH8040
Metadata
This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadata compatible with Soundly, Soundminer and Basehead.
Night Atmosphere Seaside Village Loops is a collection of sounds recorded on a summer night in a seaside village. In this atmospheric recording you will find seamless loops of crickets, roosters crowing, dogs barking and the distant sounds of a passing train and planes flying high above the village.
The recording was made by a Zoom H3-VR recorder in the Ambisonics A format (24 Bit/96 kHz) and then converted to AmbiX and Stereo formats, which are located in separate folders of this sound pack.
50 different animals! Birds, mammals, insects… English and latin names included. All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with Rode NTG1, FEL Clippy XLR EM272 and Sonorous Objects SO.3 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II & Zoom F3 recorders. The library is also available in UCS.
The Synthesized Nature Loops and SFX pack recreates the vibrant sounds of weather, wildlife, water, natural elements and ambient environments through the lens of expertly crafted synthesized sound design. These sounds offer a unique fusion of the familiar and essential audio from nature with a distinctive synthetic twist. This collection is perfect for game developers and video creators seeking easily identifiable sounds that seamlessly balance the line between artificial and realistic—a harmony well-suited for 2D top-down games and retro-pixelated aesthetics projects. Whether you’re building immersive environments, layered soundscapes, or ambient backdrops, Synthesized Nature Loops and SFX is a versatile addition to your audio toolkit.
From the gentle chirps of a bird falling asleep to the powerful calls for food, this library offers a rich variety of magpie vocalizations. Additionally, it includes foleys recordings of magpies walking on wood and concrete, as well as the fluttering of their wings and a lot of preening.
Magpie Studio is a sound library capturing the vocal journey of young magpies, from their first cries to their early adult calls. This collection tells the story of four chicks that fell from their nest after being abandoned by their parents.
Most of the sounds were recorded in a studio environment in mono, with each chick recorded individually, along with a few stereo recordings featuring all four together. Only one long recording was made outdoors, capturing the moment they were released back into the wild.
The chirping of the young magpies has not been edited individually, as their early vocalizations are not yet distinct enough to be identified as separate “words” or “sentences”. Instead, longer recordings are provided to capture the broadest range of their developing vocal expressions and so categorized by mood. However, the adult magpie’s calls have been carefully edited and categorized by complexity—ranging from simple one- or two-syllable calls to more intricate vocalizations—allowing you to create your own bird conversations.
All sounds were recorded in 96 kHz / 24-bit quality.
P.S.: All the birds regained their strength and were successfully released back into their natural habitat.
MASSIVE CREATURELING – 334 files of Creatureling sound effects, at varying distances and intensities. From gentle snorts and playful growls to aggressive movements and violently loud vocalizations. Massive Creatureling comes in at over 2 hours and 46 minutes, of strangely cute purr-like noises to full-on meltdown outbursts. For your next fantasy or science fiction creature and monster project. Recorded when a strange creature was caught in a cage and waited for animal control to pick it up, they said it was a dog… Massive Creatureling filenames are in the Universal Category System format with additional Metadata baked-in.
Don’t need a Massive amount of Creatureling sound effects? We offer ‘Mini’ sound effect libraries as companions for all of our ‘Massive’ sound effect libraries. All recordings are unique to each library with no overlap. Go Mini today, and upgrade to the corresponding Massive library later, when you need more of that particular sound effect.
*No Animals or Creaturelings were harmed in the making of this sound effects library*
Elevating the legacy of its acclaimed predecessor, Dogs 2 emerges as the ultimate sequel in our canine sound library saga. With an enriched collection that extends beyond the initial range of barks, growls, and whimpers, this sequel artfully captures the diverse tapestry of canine expressions—from the playful frolics of energetic pups to the soulful pleas of longing dogs. This carefully crafted library encapsulates the essence of dogs in a myriad of situations, ensuring that every audio project can be imbued with the most authentic and dynamic dog sounds imaginable. Whether you’re in search of the spirited yelps of a jovial puppy or the formidable snarls of a loyal guard dog, Dogs 2 offers a broad spectrum of meticulously recorded canine sounds, perfect for adding a layer of realism to your creative endeavors.
Experience the vibrant soundscape of the Brazilian Pantanal, one of the world’s largest tropical wetlands.
Blacktone Studio is a boutique post-production studio and a leader in sound design for film and television, with a track record of over ten years dedicated to creating soundscapes that enrich the narrative of the stories we work on.
Based in Madrid, our studio features advanced facilities, including a Dolby Atmos mixing stage equipped for cutting-edge post-production, designed to deliver the highest quality in every project. From our earliest productions to our work on major international films and series, our passion for sound, pursuit of technical perfection, and commitment to storytelling have established us as one of the most prominent studios in the industry.
“Blacktone Studio Master Collection Vol. 1” marks this decade of excellence in sound design and field recording by the Blacktone team, representing our sonic legacy—a collection that encapsulates the essence of our work over the years. This generalist library, with over 250 GB and more than 5,000 high-quality files, offers an immense variety of sounds, organized into more than 300 categories and subcategories under the international UCS classification system. Each file is meticulously cataloged and includes metadata in both English and Spanish, optimized for seamless integration into international projects and aligned with industry standards.
For the release of this library, Blacktone Studio has partnered with Surround Sound Lab, our label specializing in field recordings and sound library distribution, to ensure that every file is fully prepared for professional use. With over 50 sound libraries already in its catalog, Surround Sound Lab brings not only experience in editing, mastering, and distribution but also a shared commitment to quality and innovation. This collaboration allows the “Blacktone Studio Master Collection Vol. 1” to reach the market through Surround Sound Lab’s infrastructure, offering professionals a unique, trusted tool used daily in our own studio.
This collection is a unique and special collaboration, created specifically to capture and share the essence and legacy of our sonic work over the past ten years.
Although it is not part of the “SSL Complete Collection” bundle, which includes the full catalog of SSL series libraries, current bundle users will receive access to this exclusive edition at a special price as a token of our appreciation for their continued support.
“Blacktone Studio Master Collection Vol. 1” is a sonic celebration combining the best of Blacktone Studio with Surround Sound Lab’s expertise in distribution, available to those seeking quality and authenticity in their sound design.
Garden and nature in Autumn. Sparse bird songs, busy gardeners, dogs barking with pleasant echoes, roosters calling, jets and propeller planes passing by, as well as moments of dead silence, hunters’ gunshots, and eerie rustling in the depths of the night; the awakening of nature and residents during the early morning hours, and much more.
‘Suburban Wilderness IV’ is the fourth library in my series of long-term recordings in a German allotment environment. This area is a remote place surrounded by forest, featuring cottages, ponds, and abundant natural sounds. The library combines suburban, residential, and forest ambiences into a cohesive soundscape.
‘Suburban Wilderness IV’ contains 34 unique ambiences recorded in Germany during Autumn, specifically on October 31, 2024, from 1 p.m. until 1 p.m. the following day. From these 23 hours of recordings, I selected and edited the best moments, compiling them into a 6 GB sonic journey through time — from afternoon to evening, through the night, and into the morning and midday hours of a residential forest area.
To capture the dead silence of the night, I used an extremely low-noise matched pair of Rode NT1-A microphones along with the Tascam HD-P1 recorder.
The total duration of the library is approximately 3.5 hours. Most of the ambiences range from 5 to 10 minutes in length, though some are longer, and a few are shorter.
‘Suburban Wilderness IV’ was recorded in AB stereophony at 48 kHz, 24-bit resolution.
An extensive collection of tropical sounds from three continents containing premium soundscapes with a focus on clarity and isolation. Strategic field techniques and months of fieldwork in remote habitats produced rare recordings that offer precision building blocks for creating immersive, unique, and controllable environments.
“Morning Atmosphere Seaside Village Loops” is a unique collection of sounds recorded on a warm morning in a seaside village. In this atmospheric recording you will find seamless loops of crickets, rustling leaves on the trees, birds singing, dogs barking and the distant sounds of a train passing by, as well as planes flying high above the village.
In this library you will find sounds of nature recorded during the afternoon near the city of Loulé, Algarve, Portugal.
After working these sounds in post-production, this library comes with 18 nature sounds.
Welcome to Mutant Insects – Flying! This library gathers a wide range of oversized designed flying insects along with an extremely rich source recordings toolbox. If you need flying insects or just wing sounds in general, than this is the library to get! This collection allows you to quickly and easily create every flying creature and mutant you might have in mind, but also is very helpful to sweeten or emphasize details with natural layers for real life documentaries, games or feature films. These insect sounds are more impressive than the sounds of real life insects so we called them “MUTANT insects”. This collection is used in several Hollywood productions such as by Tim Nielsen (Senior Sound Designer) on the Dark Crystal series. Created by Red Libraries by Frederic Devanlay (Solar Sky, Future Weapons) and Thibault Csukonyi (Robotic Lifeforms 2, Sinematic 2)
“This library is a dream come true for anyone designing or cutting insect wings. The variety of sounds to play with is amazing, and I find myself going back to this library again and again anytime I have to play in the ‘insect’ world. Wonderful sounds indeed!”
– Tim Nielsen (Star Wars, Toy Story 3, Dark Crystal – Senior Sound Designer)
Nolan Sound Library – ALL IN ONE Bundle.
Get 1825+ Files in one bundle: Trains, Norway Nature, Nature Soundscapes, Radio Noises, Motocross, Foley Sounds, Spain Ambiences, Planes, Airports, New York Life, Mountains Winds, Forests and many more…
Also includes the NSL in ATMOS Format for big productions.
In this library you will find ambient sounds at night in a city.
The sounds were recorded on city of Faro at night in different locations.
In these sounds you will find pedestrians, cars and motorcycles passing by among others.
Twit-twoo, it’s Vol. 2!
Bird Whistles Vol. 2 brings you even more sounds made by bird call-making whistles and toys. Enjoy this dawn chorus of crazy and quirky squeaks, slides, glissandos, tweets, hoots and more!
This entertaining collection is ideal for injecting a sense of whimsy, humour and energy to your cartoons and animated projects. You can layer and mix these sounds to build your own choruses, or manipulate them further to generate truly unique calls and effects..
Sounds have been separated into the following categories:
Chicken Or Turkey: Featuring long, low groaning and lots of idle clucking.
Cuckoo: For highlighting a loose screw, or creating your own woodland ambiences.
Owl: Even more hoots and kooky, mysterious bird calls.
Sliding Chirps & Tweets: The gliding whistles of eccentric songbirds and warblers.
Squeaky Chirps: Very high-pitched, sometimes strident calls. Can also be used for birds of prey.
Water Whistle: Energetic warbles and whistles accompanied by the drops and splashes of a water whistle toy.
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.
For those who need a broad palette of nature sounds without redundancy, I’m pleased to offer Sky River Sound Nature Essentials Bundle: Volume 1. This bundle contains all of the sounds of the essentials collections from Death Valley, Alaska and Spring in the Pacific Northwest.
This is big set of scary sound effects, that will make your game, or any other project performance much more impressive!
Dark, evil ambient loops, ambient noises, scary sounds, heavy rumbles, moans, metal squeaks, scratches, cracks, debris sounds, sub bass sound FX, background white noises, thunder strikes, electric sounds, engine loops, electric sparks and many, many more!…
Looking for animal sound effects for your projects? The independent sound effects community has recorded a huge number of original animal sound libraries, covering everything from tiny chirps to earth-shattering roars.
From animal sounds heard in Antarctica’s freezing cold to the wildlife of the scorching hot deserts of Namibia, the sound libraries have been recorded across the globe - giving you unique atmospheric ambiences, as well as rare and expressive recordings of individual animals.
So whether you need sounds of domestic animals like cats, dogs, horses and cows, or wild animals like lions, tigers, bears and wolves, you'll find them in these sound libraries. You can also find sounds from exotic and endangered species like pandas, gorillas, elephants and rhinos, or discover the sounds of birds, reptiles, amphibians and insects.
The sounds are highly useful for both films, documentaries and game projects, and can be used to create realistic or designed sonic environments, as well as for monsters, beasts, fantastical creatures, aliens and so much more.
Bark, bleat, buzz, caw, chirp, croak, growl, hoot, hiss, meow, moo, neigh, oink, quack, rattle, ribbit, roar, snarl, squeak, tweet
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A: Yes, they're royalty free, and no attribution is required
Q: Who has recorded and designed these sounds?
A: They're created by the independent sound community, and have been recorded by some of the best recordists and sound designers on the planet. There's a constant flow of brand new sound libraries coming from the community, giving you the absolutely freshest sound effects available anywhere. Oh, and by getting sounds from the community, you support individual sound designers and sound recordists – that’s a pretty cool thing too.
Expand the timbre of your horror violins and cellos with CIRCUS, a sinister sample pack featuring 180 WAV sounds of screeching or high-pitched string noises, perfect for horror music and dark sound design.
This collection offers a curated selection of screeches, high-tension tremolo, heavy jeté strokes, dark demonic textures, finger patterns, chaotic string elements, clock loops and bow accents.
Create haunting atmospheres, perfect for horror, thriller or experimental soundtracks. Every element has been designed to unsettle and disturb, blurring the line between music and noise.
The asset list includes but is not limited to: hippos, hyenas, vultures, dwarf mongooses, elephants, African cranes, parrots, tigers, pigmy hippos, rhea ostriches, brown bears, pheasants, wildebeests, African wild dogs and many more. The content has been recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K, an Avisoft CMPA and a Sennheiser 8050 for center plus two Sennheiser MKH8040 for stereo image.
The resulting ultrasonic spectrum is rich and allows for truly extreme manipulation of the content.
Unleash the raw power of fire, water, earth, and air with this comprehensive 9 GB sound library featuring 3050 high-quality sound effects across 630 files. Whether you’re designing cinematic soundscapes or enhancing video games Four Elements delivers the tools you need to harness the energy of the natural world.
A treasure trove of raw, organic, and processed sounds including seamless loops divided into Fire, Water, Air, Earth and Explosion categories. Customize every detail with an extensive selection of sound components.
Game-ready sound layers featuring Impacts, Whooshes, and Textures as seamless loops. Elevate transitions and enhance atmospheres with loops and pre-designed sound layers.
A collection of ready-to-use sound effects divided into Attack, Bend, and Explosion categories for quick integration into your projects. Perfect for high-energy scenes and immersive storytelling.
Four Elements gives you complete creative control, blending organic recordings with processed sound layers to meet the demands of any project. Master the forces of nature with Four Elements. Let your creativity ignite.
Keywords:
Elements, Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Wave, Water, Liquid, Rock, Cast, Stone, Pebble, Torch, Gas, Flame, Campfire, Sizzle, Burst, Scrape, Whoosh, Impact, Texture, Attack, Bend, Bending, Explosion, Processed, Surge, Quake, Hit, Flow, Burn, Ignite, Drop, Smack, Destruction, Rumble, Hiss, Blow, Wind, Cloth, Movement, Underwater, Bubble, Ocean, River, Lake, Firework, Firecracker, Bang, Blast, Detonation, Magic, Fantasy, Forces, Fire Magic, Water Magic, Earth Magic, Fire Air, Fire Effect, Fire Whoosh, Water Whoosh, Seamless Loop, Loop, Fire Cast, Water Cast, Earth Cast, Air Cast
The Seagulls sfx library includes 28 tracks of both single, isolated seagull screams, and bigger flocks of nesting seagulls, calling out to each other and their chicks. There are plenty of classic call sounds, but also some weird throaty and raspy screaming, and what could sound like seagull laughing sounds.
All tracks are recorded with the very useful zoom function of the Telinga microphone and dish.
Library includes both untreated tracks, and noise reduction processed tracks in two separate folders. Noise reduction processed tracks have carefully been cleaned up with a CEDAR NR system.
Though these birds are in an abundance around most harbours and industry around here, they are not always easy to record. You mostly hear them from a distance, or from places not easy to access. When you try to get close to them, they will usually fly away.
Many hours have been spent on rooftops, gardens, backyards, a junkyard, and different harbours to get this material.
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