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Cinematic sound effects, recorded and designed for trailer sound work, as well as sonic impacts, transitions, braams and beyond
Introducing “COSMIC CHARGES,” an innovative sound effects library meticulously developed by Matteo Milani at U.S.O.‘s headquarters. This collection represents a major advancement in our commitment to crafting distinctive audio assets that that reinvent our approach to sound design. “COSMIC CHARGES” uniquely specializes in tonal blasts and impacts, each thoughtfully created from the ground up to ensure unmatched creativity and originality in your projects.
Designed to enrich a variety of media, such as video games, films, TV series, and more, each sound in “COSMIC CHARGES” integrates musical elements, providing a unique sonic identity that can intensify emotional resonance, enhance dynamics, and add richness to your works.
Discover the features of “COSMIC CHARGES”:
Experience mesmerizing sound illusions with Shepard Tones Vol. 2. These can be used as-is or manipulated to fit your specific sound design needs.
Shepard Tones are a unique sound effect that can be used to create a sense of continuous rising or falling in pitch. By combining different Shepard Tones together, you can create interesting and other-worldly sounds.
Crafted using sample-based synthesis, this collection features loopable Shepard tones, enabling you to create endless risers and downers, ideal for sci-fi vehicle sound design or injecting tension into your film, trailer, TV, and game projects.
All sounds are delivered in 24-bit, 96kHz format, allowing for further sonic manipulation. They have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive, UCS-compliant metadata for ease.
In OBSCURUM – DARK DRONES you will find 61 uniquely crafted and designed drone and ambient pad sounds that will transport you to the darkest and most ominous places. Each performance is aimed to be about 3 minutes long to provide lots of versatility for even the longest scenes or trailers. The library is structured into drones and pads that can be of deep and ominous or of dark and aggressive character. This collection is perfectly suited for dark Sci-Fi or Horror productions. Whether you want to create ominous and unsettling atmospheres or moments of high tension, you will find the right sound to masterful set the mood for the audience.
The TONAL ELEMENTS series has a heavy focus on creative sound design. It features assets that can fall anywhere between the classic definitions of a musical element or a typical hard effect aka. sound effect. They might be of rhythmical or sustained nature, they can be atonal or of tonal character, or even fall into the category of noise-like. In a media production, these elements always complete an important task, and that is to convey an emotion or help to tell the story, without being to obvious in the foreground, hence distracting the listener. Any Sound Designer should make use of these powerful tools, as they can make all of a difference when it comes to setting the right mood or triggering the right emotion at the right moment. These elements typically fall into categories like: Ambient Pads, Drones, Risers, Downers, Impacts, Stingers, Textures, Whooshes, etc..
Suspense, mystery, dynamic and epic atmospheres… and action! Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Cinematic Whooshes & Transitions
Cinematic Whooshes & Transitions features 294 unique audio files that will keep your audience on their toes! This SFX pack has both organic and clean sounds and processed sounds of transitions and whooshes, including swipes, futuristic sci-fi sounds, tonal, pass by, power ups/ downs, movement, machine, and more.
You will get brand-new whooshes and transitions, from cinematic and magic to dark sci-fi and anime and movements and nature elements, swishes, flutters, destructive impacts in various speeds and intensity. 294 fresh sounds in 24bit-96kHz .WAV format with easy to navigate naming. With the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail.
Keywords including Genre, Texture, Style, Action, Mood
Whoosh, Cinematic, Trailer, Transition, Metal, Atmospheric, Noisy, Flyby, Bullet, Ricochet, Space, Spaceship, Pass-by, Texture, Saturated, Sci-fi Horror, Flame, Dark, Swoosh, Airy, Stop, Envelope, Power Down, Sub, Frequency, Base, Malfunction, Flow, Flutter, Scream, Vehicle, Motorcycle, Engine, Glitter, Sweep, Robot, Thunder, Crackle, Squeak, Debris, Chopper, Glitter, Abstract, Jet, Engine, Glitch, Siren, Laser, Drone, Fire, Slow, Low, Fast, Airy, Thick, Windy, Warm, Distorted, Liquid, Electric, Double, Glassy
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Cinematic Series SFX Pack for access to cinematic hits, and booms, stingers, trailer tools, and more sound effects.
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Bells From Hell Vol. 1 is a collection of unnerving, tonal sounds designed from the reckoning tolls of bells.
A variation of chimes, bongs and rings from clock towers and church bells were first captured by Our Audio Craftsmen. Through an array of creative processes, they then manipulated these recordings to produce eerie, foreboding and unholy sounds with extensive dynamic range.
This kinetic library is bursting with dark atmosphere, making it perfect for horror and sci-fi projects that require a distinctly unsettling edge.
Sounds have been separated into the following categories:
Bells Of Infinity: Long, evolving, enormous sounds that immerse the listener in haunting tones.
Chaos Bells: Discordant, disharmonious, atonal chimes that hint at the uncanny.
Distorted Bells: Aggressive, heavy and distorted tolls that invoke fear and darkness in the listener’s heart.
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.
CCTS is the perfect addition to the crime show and thriller composer’s toolbox. Specifically designed for attention-grabbing dramas with unsettling, cerebral, and intense characters, and adrenaline-spiking plot twists.
One-shot sub booms and low-end impacts with dramatic bass, angry and sudden downfalls, big whams, bone-chilling metallic textures, frantic clashes, glitchy futuristic hits, dramatic and disturbing explosions, and epic cinematic bangs.
Jump Scares Vol. 3 comprises 100 intense horror impacts. This selection of volatile violins, screaming synths, disturbing explosions, deathly distortion, electro-horror and unsettling screams were designed to make your hairs stand on end!
To guarantee your audiences are leaping from their seats, our Audio Craftsmen have carefully designed each sound effect with multiple manipulated layers. Sources such as human voices, synthesis, violins, electromagnetic waves and more were meticulously manipulated to form each gut-churning impact.
Add some terror and suspense to your next horror project with Jump Scares Vol. 3!
Sounds have been separated into the following categories:
Deathly Distortion:Â Highly distorted sounds intended to alarm and devastate.
Disturbing Explosion:Â Bassy, banging impacts for larger-than-life terror.
Electro-Horror:Â Glitchy, strident scares perfect for discomfiting audiences from head to toe.
Screaming Synths:Â Wailing, grating scares made from synthesised sounds.
Unsettling Screams: Human voices layered and distorted for a terrifying effect.
Volatile Violins:Â Heart-clenching impacts designed around the classic horror instrument.
All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 192kHz, and have been tagged with extensive UCS metadata for ease of use.
Mind States Vol. 3Â is the third instalment of one of our most popular experimental sound effects libraries. Our Audio Craftsmen designed and manipulated a variety of sine waves to produce a truly cerebral, immersive experience of sounds.
Unlike our previous two Mind States libraries, this collection focuses on the transition between mind states, such as drifting between alpha and beta brainwaves or delving deeper into meditative thought. Perfect for superhero films, sci-fi projects, mind- reading characters, meta-narratives and more!
This product comprises a multitude of binaural sounds denoting brain activity, metaphorical mind movement, gradual increases and decreases in pitch, speed-ups and slow-downs, chordal and harmonic brainwaves and varying ambiences full of buzzes, wails and drones.
Sounds have been separated into the following categories:
Ambiences – Experimental ambiences designed to add a 6th sense to your scenes.
Brainwave Fluctuations – Longer sequences of movement perfect for that drifting-in-between effect.
Decreasing Brainwaves – Designed brainwave movement decreasing in pitch.
Increasing Brainwaves – Designed brainwave movement increasing in pitch.
Oneshots –Â Shorter sequences ideal for quicker movement and transitions.
Pads – Gentler designed sounds made for longer transitions and scenes, or for atmospheric purposes e.g. inside a character’s mind.
All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 96kHz, and have been tagged with extensive UCS metadata for ease of use.
Geophonic Design Vol. 4 comprises a unique collection of designed organic recordings captured with the Lom Geofon. These sounds include infrasonic frequencies that go all the way to 10Hz, yielding a darker tonal aesthetic. In this library are cinematic impacts and abstract synthesised ambiences ideal for your more mysterious film, TV and game designs.
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.
Ethereal Risers!
Recorded using a contact mic, an electric guitar string, AND a pair of very blunt scissors!
Perfect for Sci-Fi and Horror projects OR for Cinematic Trailers!
Recorded and exported in 24/192Khz
Guitar Designed originated from source recordings of an expert guitarist playing a variety of articulations across the instrument. Our Audio Craftsmen used a variety of tools to then mangle, distort and transform these into ground-breaking, futuristic sonic elements.
This library includes everything from deep, hypnotic low drones to fast and reactive cinematic stingers, all designed from this players hand-crafted, custom shop instrument. Furthermore, we have also prepared a strong selection of accustomed guitar riffs, licks and phrases ready to be dropped into whatever project you wish!
All sounds were recorded and have been brought to you here at the music industry sample rate standard of 48kHz, and 24 bit-depth. Whether you’re working on your latest film, designing the soundscape for a video game or producing a great new track; this library has something for all.
Cymbals From Hell Vol. 2 is a haunting collection of raw and designed gong sounds, brought to you as the successor to one of our most popular horror libraries to date. Crafted from various types of gong recordings, this library brings you the creepiest stingers and harshest resonances to terrorise your audiences.
Made in collaboration with Igor Tikhonov from KEDR Audio, who captured various types of gong sounds and several performances using both Mid-Side and omnidirectional A/B microphone techniques to encapsulate an expansive stereo-field and the richest gong textures.
Our Audio Craftsmen then meticulously edited and designed them to make the most frightening and disturbing sounds including harsh, distorted gong rumbles, horror stingers, low heavy gong rumbles, mangled hits, and much, much more.
All the sounds are extensively meta-tagged and are UCS complaint so you can easily find the sound you need and are in 192kHz/24bit allowing for further sonic manipulation.
Monochrome is a premium sound library for composers, sound designers and experimentalists fusing a rough electronic aesthetic with film and trailer sound design for a unique set of modern sonic tools.
Heavily processed ambient field recordings, short and long build-ups and transition effects, hits, slams, abstract foley fx, a vast selection of risers, cinematic kicks and hyper detailed impacts, found sounds patterns played in real time, then chopped and sculpted into percussive textures.
Monochrome is simultaneously alluring and disorienting with its experimental aesthetic. There are long, dissonant and amorphous echoes manipulated beyond identification, intimate atmospheres with an identifiable aesthetic and and hi peaks of emotional resonance.
Monochrome is a collaboration between SampleTraxx and French sound designer Julien Caraz.
450+ Wav sounds all labelled by key to guarantee ease of use when played with pitch-related compositions.
This comprehensive bundle brings together an incredibly huge amount of impact-, hit-, whoosh-, pass-by- and transition sound effects.
For any motion graphics, action- or scifi movies, cinematics, trailers and whatever else needs an appropriate sonic sense of motion.
Impacts & Cinematic Hits is made up of epic drum hits, bright percussive splashes, dark tribal drums, abstract shots, and textured slams as well! This mini-set is designed to be used quickly on any media project!
Impacts & Cinematic Hits is part of our Mini-Set Series that specializes in bite-sized sound effect packs with less than 20 sound files to choose from! The small file count helps get creatives like you to the fun part of your projects quicker! And one special feature found in Impacts & Cinematic Hits is that some of the sound files contain variant passes all within the same WAV file! That means you’re getting 29 individual sounds across the 18 sound files!
Listen to our demo to hear the drums and picture how well they will integrate into any media! Whether you want to add punctuation to a film, short, video game cue or music production, these sounds will elevate whatever creative you are making!
Try Impacts & Cinematic Hits with our other mini-sets and get ready to bring your creative to the next level!
To learn more about Mini-Sets and what makes them so cool, check this out!
MINI Door Creaks – 30 files of Door Creak sound effects, from several squeaky and creaking doors. From quick and sharp metallic squeaks to slow growling wooden basses. Mini Door Creaks comes in at over 13 minutes, of loud and vocal doors. Bring the slow rising tension and heightened senses to your next horror project. Recorded at 192kHz and 32bit, using microphones capable of recording ultrasonic frequencies. Mini Door Creaks filenames are in the Universal Category System format with additional Metadata baked-in.
Looking for a Massive amount of Door Creak sound effects? We offer ‘Massive’ sound effect libraries as companions for all of our ‘Mini’ 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.
Thunder Drums is a sound effects library designed to deliver powerful low-frequency impacts, rumbles, and strikes for cinematic sound design. It features non-traditional percussion instruments, including a thunder tube (spring drum), loose drumheads, and large plexiglass sheets, struck with mallets and drumsticks to produce a wide range of impacts, thunder-like rumbles, deep strikes, and heavy drum hits.
In addition to raw recordings, the library includes designed elements enhanced with granular processing, distortion, and impulse response reverbs. Perfect for sound design in film, games, and trailers where powerful hits and low-end energy is needed.
All sounds were captured using a Sennheiser MKH 8050 microphone and Zoom F6 recorder at 32-bit / 192kHz, and are delivered as 24-bit / 192kHz WAV files. The library includes 185 files (512 sounds), is 3.7 GB in size, and is fully UCS-compliant with embedded metadata.
Unleash the Terror: Introducing “Risers” – A Haunting Sound Effects Collection
Prepare to plunge into the depths of fear with “Risers,” a meticulously crafted sound effects album designed to elevate the tension and dread in your projects. This comprehensive collection is divided into two chilling sections: powerful Risers and unsettling Stutter Glitch Risers.
Drawing inspiration from the darkest corners of horror, “Risers” is built upon a foundation of terrifying elements. Immerse your audience in the grating sounds of grinding gears, the piercing intensity of screams, and the bone-chilling echoes of horrific groans. We’ve woven in the unsettling buzz of anxious flies, the clanging resonance of iron chains, and a pervasive undercurrent of unsettling horror symphony to create a truly atmospheric experience.
This album boasts a rich tapestry of sound, incorporating both a multitude of acoustic instruments for organic texture and depth, alongside diverse synthesizer sounds for unique and unsettling sonic landscapes.
Inside “Risers,” you’ll discover:
All sounds are delivered in pristine WAV format, recorded at a high-fidelity 96000K sample rate with a 24bit depth, ensuring maximum audio quality and flexibility for professional use.
These chilling and innovative sounds are perfect for:
We’ve included three demo previews showcasing a glimpse of the terror that awaits. These are just a small sample of the unsettling sounds within “Risers.”
Captured in the depths of Kiskendo Cave, Yogyakarta, this field recording album explores the untouched acoustic beauty of an ancient underground space. The album features the natural rhythms of water dripping from stalactites, the ambient resonance of the cave’s vast chambers, and the soft cascade of spring water echoing through stone corridors. Each sound was recorded in its raw form, offering an immersive listening experience that reveals the cave’s stillness and power. Whether used for ambient projects, sound design, or quiet reflection, these recordings transport listeners to a world hidden beneath the earth—where nature speaks in echoes and time slows down.
Robert Fulton Esoteric Series Trinity Bundle Vol. 1 – ACQUA / AR / FUEGO (Air, Water & Fire) combines three meticulously crafted volumes (Vol. 1 – Third Element – ACQUA, Vol. 2 – First Element – FUEGO, Vol. 3 – Second Element – AR) into a single premium SFX library. Drawing on over seven years of field recordings, this bundle delivers 470 unique sounds reworked in 24 bit/96 kHz Hi‑Res WAV: from lapping waves and bubbling streams to crashing waves and colossal tsunamis, from crackling flames and roaring firestorms to thunderous eruptions and ash‑choked roars, from subterranean springs and tidal surges to razor‑sharp gusts and phantom breezes. Every sample has undergone advanced post‑production to guarantee an immersive, noise‑free experience that elevates your projects.
Perfect for sound designers, composers and immersive creators working in film, video games, VR, trailers and art installations, this elemental library unlocks the full spectrum of nature’s sonic palette.
Step into the realm of cinematic magic with this versatile collection of elements that ignite the imagination and elevate storytelling. From the sweeping whoosh of movement to the atmospheric drones that set the mood, each sound adds depth and dimension to your audio landscape. Experience the exhilarating rise of tension with risers and bass, and the rhythmic pulse of synth hits that propel the narrative forward. Delve into the mysterious wobbling whooshes and ethereal synth trills, offering a rich palette of textures to create immersive cinematic experiences that captivate audiences.
SENTINEL is a cinematic sound library crafted by French sound designer Julien Caraz, known for his raw, visceral approach to audio storytelling. Created exclusively for HorrorSound, this collection is a deep dive into organic sonics, stylized textures, and hybrid cinematic intensity.
Built for composers, trailer editors and sound designers, music producers working in film, TV, video games, and dark audio environments, SENTINEL delivers cutting-edge audio assets that push the boundaries of traditional sound libraries.
At the core of SENTINEL is a versatile collection of pulsing, tempo-synced loops, clearly labeled with BPM and key information. These elements are purpose-built to provide the foundation of your cues—delivering tension, momentum, and a sense of narrative progression with ease.
What’s Inside
Over 750 high-quality WAV sounds, broken down into:
430 Loops
Fully stemmed and mixed for maximum flexibility
BPM + Key labeled
Rhythmic beds, pulsing grooves, evolving patterns
320 One-Shots
Braams
Impacts & Hits
Drones & Abstract Textures
Risers
Signature Sounds
Designed For
Film & Game Sound Design
Horror, Thriller & Sci-Fi Scores
Trailer Music Production
Ambient & Experimental Music
Audio Post & Immersive Installations
Available in three separate versions:
Complete – 750+ sounds $99
Loops Only – 430 sounds $69
One-Shots Only – 327 sounds $49
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