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THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – WHITE HANDED GIBBON
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – WATUSI
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – CROWING ROOSTER
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – LOVEBIRD
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – GOAT & SHEEP
The Animal Symphony will be a series of animal recording libraries, created to offer a wide variety of authentic animal sounds. Over the next few months, each installment in this series will capture the essence of different animal species.
Get ready to hear the vibrant meerkat symphony with “The Animal Symphony – Meerkat“! This exclusive collection of recordings will transport you to the fascinating world of these curious little desert inhabitants. With a total of 22 audios, each one captures the unique essence of the social interactions and dynamic behavior of meerkats in their natural environment.
General description:
“The Animal Symphony – Meerkat” presents a careful selection of 22 audio recordings (between 3 and 6 variations each) that capture the essence of meerkats as they interact with each other. Each recording has been made with high-quality equipment, including the Sennheiser MKH 8050 microphone and an EM258 capsule microphone, guaranteeing exceptional audio quality. All recordings have been made at a 192 kHz, 24-bit sampling rate to capture every detail and nuance of meerkat sounds.
Featured Features:
– Meerkat Interactions: Discover a variety of sounds that reflect the social interactions, communication and behavior of meerkats in their natural environment.
– Professional Recording: Made with high-end equipment, these recordings capture the authenticity and vitality of meerkat life.
– Exceptional Quality: All sounds are recorded and edited in 192 kHz and 24-bit, offering unsurpassed clarity and depth.
– Diversity in Recordings: With multiple takes and variations, this library offers the flexibility necessary for any type of production.
This collection is ideal for a variety of applications:
– Video games: Add realism and authenticity to natural environments in your games.
– Film and Documentaries: Perfect for soundtracks, sound effects and scenes requiring wildlife sounds.
– Educational Applications: Use these sounds in educational projects to teach about meerkat behavior and life.
– Multimedia Projects: Ideal for any project that seeks to enrich the user’s listening experience.
Technical details:
– Total Audios: 22
– Format: 192kHz/24bit
– Equipment Used: Sennheiser MKH 8050 microphone and EM258 capsule microphone
License:
The sounds from “The Animal Symphony – Meerkat” are available under a royalty-free license, allowing their use in multiple projects without additional costs or royalties.
You are the chosen one to defeat these horrible creatures
You can face a dangerous Dragon, enter the dangerous caves of the Spiders, face the giant Trolls, challenge the skilled Goblin or fight with the terrifying Orc.
From Khron Studio we have created a total of 168 sounds, divided into simple categories and covering the most important actions of 5 types of monster. You will be able to find a large number of variations for each sound that will make your monsters feel more alive than ever.
All creatures have sounds from:
– Attack
– Roar
– Steps
– Pain
– Die
– Some special abilities like flying.
More about the pack
• Intuitive file naming
• All you’ll ever need regarding magical elemental 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.
• Include Dragon sounds
Features
• 168 unique monster sounds
• Number of Audio Waves: 168
• Format: 96 Hz / 24 bits
• Do Sound FX loop: Some
• Minutes of audio provided: 4 minutes and 18 second
This ambiences pack is the result of a short field recording trip / road trip I made in October 2019 around the beautiful land/soundscapes of the Scottish Highlands.
I decided to go with a LCR + AB setup, as while testing different options I found it to be very versatile and relatively light and small. All mics were mounted inside the Cinela Albert basket for more convenience, allowing me to capture multichannel ambiences ( virtually 5.0 surround ) with a single thing to set up, and perfectly sheltered from wind.
I came across rivers, streams, lochs, waterfalls, lochs, harbours, lochs, quiet forests, reindeers slabs and more lochs.
This ” Mini Ambience Pack ” contains 24 sounds /72 files embedded with full and detailed metadata ( Soundminer, Basehead, iXML ).
Spanning five years of meticulous field recordings “Rain, Rivers & Waves” gets you nearly 8 GB of pristine water sounds in all shapes and sizes.
The collection includes 97 files recorded in stereo at 96 kHz.
The library delivers around 4 hours of tropical rains, urban storms, shallow streams, large roaring rivers, gentle lapping, heavy surf waves and much more!
We hope this collection will be of great value to anybody looking for outstanding water sounds.
As usual, all our sounds are meticulously recorded, edited with patience and mastered with love.
Sincerely,
Bonson Team
Introducing the ultimate Timelapse Sound Effects sound library designed to meet the highest quality needs for sound designers, videographers, and filmmakers alike. With over 3Gb of sound data and 448 high-quality audio files, this library has everything you need to bring your scenes to life. Whether you’re working on timelapse, timewarp, hyperspace, slipspace, time travel, hyper fast cars, superheroes, and whatever else you may need in this sound category… this sound library has you covered.
This library provides speedy transitions and hyperfast event clusters to equip sound designers and videographers with the sound sources needed to elevate any project. To help achieve your goals, this library features more than 30 different scenes, each carefully curated to cover a wide range of case scenarios. With bustling cityscapes, peaceful countryside ambiences, ocean depths, the roars of fires, from the static of data transmission to the crackle of radio interference, this library has it all packaged up in that zippy super fast Timelapse style.
One Scene, Two Approaches: Longer files and Single Events for the same scene
Each scene includes two unique “audio beds” crafted using a multitude of same-family soundgroups carefully manipulated and tweaked with utmost attention to detail. These audio beds provide a strong foundation for your audio work, and will undoubtedly serve as a solid backbone for your overall sound design. To complement the audio beds, each scene also includes a set of sound group-related passbys, adding even more flexibility and depth to your sound design intention.
Whether you’re a seasoned sound designer or just starting out, this library is an essential resource in achieving high-quality audio for your projects. So don’t wait, take your audio to the next level with this comprehensive sound library!
Welcome to the world of tomorrow
This massive library of futuristic interface sounds has been made by studying all the sounds you will need for your video game or audiovisual product.
We have considered integrating robotic voices, soundscapes, beeps of different tones, sounds to start your game, etc… All these sounds can be used for different options, whether for machines with hundreds of buttons, touch screens, command centers , sound environments for computer rooms… All these sounds will help your product feel alive and get a professional result.
You will be able to enjoy a total of 574 High Quality sound effects divided into:
• Acces Denied
• Acces Confirm
• Hologram
• Get Object
• Question Beep
• Whoosh
• Open Menu
• Computer Beep
• Low Beep
• Tiny Beep
• Denied Button
• Start Game
• Progress Beep Loop
• Computer Room Background Sequence Beep Loop
• Text Loop
• Alarm Loop
• Mecanic System Movement
• Rejection Pop-Up Notice
• Scan Progress
• Vocalizing Robot H3R2
• Vocalizing Robot H2R2
• Talking Robot Type A
• Talking Robot Type F
• Talking Robot Type Z
• Machine Room Background Loop
More about the pack
– It includes metadata integrated in the audio itself, and also in an excel file you will obtain all the additional information of the files.
Intuitive file naming.
– You’ll get all the individual sounds so you can easily adjust them to your project.
– Mix the samples together, you can be creative.
– The names of the files are indicative, so you can use any sounds for another function.
– Everything you will need regarding interface sounds, soundscapes and voices for any game or audiovisual product.
– Totally monocompatible sounds.
– Use the sound effects over and over again, in any of your projects or productions, forever with no additional fees or royalties.
– Use the SFX in your game, in your trailer, in a Kickstarter campaign, wherever you need it, as much as you want.
[Authors]
– Jorge Guillén ([email protected])
Features:
• 574 Sound effects of Futuristic Interface , soundscapes and voices.
• Number of Audio Waves: 574
• Sample rate / bit rate: 48.000 Hz / 16 Bit
• Do Sound FX loop: Yes
• Minutes of audio provided: 16 minutes and 16 seconds
• Supported Development Platforms: All
Recorded at an old WWII-era bunker just outside Halifax, Nova Scotia, now derelict and covered in rust.
These recordings were a happy accident, discovered on the way to record something else. This large, heavy steel door has been rusting since wartime, and when I noticed it I immediately knew it would have a unique sonic character. When moved, it produces interesting almost musical tones, rich with harmonics and ripe for processing.
This library includes a variety of sounds generated by interacting with the door in different ways (scraping, punching, and moving at various speeds).
A collection of authentic recordings from churches, ceremonies and processions, recorded in Italy. A total of 60 minutes of ambiences are included.
Each sound file has been carefully named and tagged for easy search in Soundminer and is Universal Category System (UCS) compliant.
(see the full track list below).
Anime Sci-Fi Sound Effects Pack offers a comprehensive array of 499 sound effects, encompassing elements such as lasers, energy, ambience, spaceship, weapons, and UI, to kickstart and enhance the auditory experience of your anime science-fiction video game or animated series.
Created with synthesizers, including the KORG-MS20 and KORG-Opsix, in conjunction with organic sound origins, then processed with various plugin chains, these meticulously designed, ready-to-use sound effects effortlessly immerse your audience into a captivating realm of spaceships and cutting-edge robotic technology.
Discover the Creaky Rope Tension Sound Library, featuring 290+ high-quality mono recordings of rope tension from various angles and speeds. Perfect for filmmakers, game designers, and sound engineers, these pristine 192kHz/24bit recordings offer versatile creative possibilities, making them ideal for ships, swings, sweeteners,and a wide range of other rope and wood related activities.
Defeat these horrible creatures and become a legendary warrior
In the Monster Library Vol 4 we will travel to the depths of the dungeons, and you will have to face dangerous monsters, such as the Behemoth with its scaly skin and thick as steel, the Insectoids with their buzzing wings, Skeletons that return to the world and want revenge, the hideous Aberration and finally the Spectre, with its ethereal form and piercing wail makes fear grip you.
From Khron Studio we have created a total of 120 sounds, divided into simple categories and covering the most important actions of 5 types of monsters. You will be able to find a large number of variations for each sound that will make your monsters feel more alive than ever.
Preview
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Monster includes:
– Behemoth
– Insect
– Skeleton
– Aberration
– Spectre
All creatures have sounds from:
– Attack
– Roar
– Steps
– Hurt
– Die
– Some special abilities like flying.
More about the pack
– Intuitive file naming
– All you’ll ever need regarding magical elemental 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
– 120 unique monster sounds
– Number of Audio Waves: 120
– Format: 96 Hz / 24 bits
– Do Sound FX loop: Some
– Minutes of audio provided: 3 minutes and 26 second
Open Countryside focuses on those airy and wide areas so common in grasslands, valleys, hills, meadows and glades in forests. The recordings took place between Spain and the UK, although they are meant to be as neutral as possible, so they can be used for different places.
Enhance your production with a collection of 130 trailer effects, which includes powerful and textural stingers, whooshes, drones, beds, ambiences, impacts and more. Emphasize tension and create intensive cinematic moments in video games, movies, TV shows and podcasts.
This library was made using various field recordings, which were further processed and designed to add grit, power and impact.
Try these effects in action and your scenes will be overwhelmed with explosive power and tension!
Main features:
Ladies and gentleman, please put your hands together for the most dramatic crowd library you’ve ever heard!
Bravo! Dramatic Audiences places you front and center with laughs, reactions, quietudes, cheers, and applause that will bring your project to life. A wide range of crowds were captured for this library, including those attending live theater, stand-up comedy, music concerts, and more. Venue sizes vary from small to large, interior and exterior, offering great flexibility while matching to picture. The size of the crowds range from as few as 30 people, all the way up to 200, allowing you to mix and match sounds for easy scalability depending on the project at hand.
Fully UCS compliant
Crisp, clean various types of pebble, dust, dirt and grit debris along with smashing rock impacts.
Great for adding some subtle detail to your ‘after the explosion’ sound.
I recorded all these sounds with my brothers during a trip home to Ireland.
Close to our home (out in the middle of nowhere), there is a little quarry with a lot of sand, dust, stones, rocks and some grass. There was also a broken plough there that gave some nice stone on metal impact sounds.
Equipment:
Line Audio OM1s
Line Audio CM3s
Røde NTG3
Implosion is a sound effects collection of buildings being destroyed with explosives. It features 10 unique building implosions recorded across the country.
Each implosion was recorded with 4 to 14 channels of audio. To offer multiple perspectives, mics were placed as close as 150ft (~50m) and as far away as 2000ft (~600m) from the various explosive demolitions.
Immerse yourself in the serene sounds of nature with The Cabin audio playset, the inaugural addition to a series of captivating audio environment sound effects bundles. Crafted in the picturesque landscapes of New York’s Adirondack Mountains, this playset aims to empower producers, sound designers, and post-production audio professionals to effortlessly create immersive audio set designs. The package includes 89 high-definition sound effects and ambiences, along with 7 impulse responses for use with free and commercially available convolution reverb plugins. Delve into a world of rich, 96 kHz, 24-bit mono and stereo WAV files, meticulously curated to elevate your audio environment with authenticity and depth. Enhance your sonic landscape with The Cabin, complete with The Fridge and The Woodstove audio prop sets, and a bonus general sound effects library to enrich your auditory experience.
3Dimensional Printing is the multicolored result of different recording sessions of a couple of 3D printers (the Sharebot NG – Next Generation and the DeltaWASP 20 40) at Fabb and at FabLab Milan between 2014 and 2015.
All the sounds were recorded directly as uncompressed .wav files through both a RME Fireface UCX and a Zoom H6 Portable Recorder.
Duration ranges vary from 1 to 5 minutes, with the most sonically interesting excerpts from full printing cycles. Lots of pattern and sequences are available for selection and transformation.
Five different transducers were chosen to capture all the sonic details of these mechanisms:
– C-SERIES pro contact microphones, hand-made by Jez Riley French;
– Barcus Berry 4000 Planar Wave System (Piezo crystal sensor+4000XL Piezo Preamp);
– Piezo Film Tab Contact Microphones by Cold Gold Audio;
– Custom Induction Coil Pick-up (also used to create the Unseen Noises collection);
– Zoom MSH-6 MS Capsule (the stereo image of the Mid-Side recordings is rendered as balanced stereo LR files).
A collection of over 530 96k/24bit HD Gore sound effects that comes with an additional 262 48k/24bit sounds! Come and get your body damage galore. Punches, bone, blood, intestines, goops, splats, flesh movement, chewing, tearing, snapping, breaking, blade sounds… It’s BLOODY CARNAGE!
Hear the charming sounds of the 238 wind chimes. The richness of the harmonics helps to create a serene, meditative, dramatic or eerie atmosphere. Be it magic, a town fair, or just a family house porch, these will add that fresh perspective to build character and anticipation!
Wind Chimes pack comes with 238 organic recordings of tinkle, clang, hit, rattle, knock, grab, release, put down, shake, scrape, impact, plink, silence, ring, release actions from different perspectives.
These high-resolution sound files are in 96kHz – 24bit stereo format and includes various techniques, creative takes and loopable sounds.
Action: Tinkle, clang, hit, shimmer, rattle, knock, grab, release, put down, shake, scrape, impact, plink, silence, release, ring
Style: Light, regular, heavy, strong, windy, breezy, tonal, musical, single, short, medium, long, whoosh, flow
Material: Wood, metal, copper, iron, shells, bamboo, with/out bells, thick, thin, long, short, big, small
These meticulously recorded sounds have both practical usability and room for further sound design. Includes detailed and easy-to-navigate metadata and UCS compatibility. Recorded with Sennheiser MKH 8040 stereo pair and Zoom F3, and the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail.
Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Cinematic Whooshes & Transitions for 294 designed sounds of transitions and whooshes, including swipes, futuristic sci-fi sounds, tonal, pass by, power ups/ downs, movement, machine, and more.
City Perspectives is another excellent choice with 56 loopable high-quality urban ambiences. From busy intersections to back streets, vibrant parks to rooftops, 3 hours of city ambiences will serve as ideal background tracks.
Aeolus is a collection of gritty and eerie sound design elements performed entirely by intense winds. These recordings were made on custom-made wind harps, handmade props, barbed wire fences, telephone poles, and other found objects. It is utterly unlike a normal wind library.
This collection of layers and elements of howls, drones, moans, creaks, rattles, clatters, and clanks provides rich material for the creation of unsettling ambiences, eerie presences, spooky room tones, and textural sweeteners for realistic winds. Aeolus is filled with conveniently long takes of piano wire, power lines, barbed wire, and other found and prepared objects that rumble, chitter, chatter, resonate, and whistle, in both gusty and sustained winds. Its sounds are perfect for horror scenes, magical effects, straining force fields, steampunk ambiences, extreme weather, high desert dramatic tension, or rusty post-apocalyptic soundscapes.
This UCS-compliant sound library is not a pure field recording collection; it contains lengthy recordings that are both minimally processed and extremely time- and pitch-altered. Some recordings lasted overnight, then reduced to mere minutes, remapping sound events into unfamiliar cadences or into/out of human hearing range.
Aeolus includes over two hours of raw recordings and twenty additional minutes of designed sounds from the original recordings, ready to use in a project or to serve as a launchpad for further inspiration.
Sounds of the Office
I have included individual sounds of each office audio effect on its own. So you can create your own tailored made office environment!
with phone ringing
Water cooler glugs
Coffee machine
Pen writing
Paper handling
Stapler usage
Office chair squeaks
Keyboard and mouse typing and clicking
Printer Printing, switching on and malfunctioning
Room tone of a room next to a road
Room tone with a computer fan
and people Walla
I have also included some busy office stereo atmos, and a long calm empty office atmos so you can simply drag it into your project (If you don’t have the time to build up your own)
All recorded and exported in 24/ 96kHz
“Quiet Hotels At Night Vol. 2” is the second part of our most popular library “Quiet Hotels At Night”. Comprised of the best pieces of several years of recordings. Imagine you are in a game or a security guard who is doing his regular tour. You find yourself in different corridors, rooms, and stairwells, even in the kitchen of a restaurant late at night. Through the recordings, you can experience a wide variety of settings – from riding a hotel elevator to looking around the lobby. The idea of the library is to include a rich variety of room tones and quiet atmospheres very early in the morning, late in the evening, or at night. The atmospheres in hotels of different sizes and stages of construction are quite distinctive because of their different reverberation, density of walls, doors, etc. Most of the library is focused around silence. You can hear photo-cell lighting at times, distant faint voices at others, or just sporadic sounds coming from places such as doors or footsteps from an upper floor. The stairwells are also very interesting as you can hear the sound of moving elevators stopping on another floor or the sound of pure electricity. This library sequel also includes atmospheres from the interior of moving elevators. You will hear the sound of doors closing, traveling, and doors opening. Room tones from a handful number of bathrooms are included as well. This library has been recorded in Eastern Europe and more specifically in Bulgaria which makes the atmospheres even more diverse and intriguing.
All of the files are carefully and thoroughly meta-tagged in UCS.
Gear used:
Recorders: Sound Devices 833, 664, Sony PCM D100, Zoom H6,
Microphones: Neumann KM184 mP, Usi Pro
Enjoy the night hotels.
Shakers, maracas and rainsticks are great material for sound design and further processing.
For this library I recorded various ethnic shakers, maracas, rainsticks of different sizes and other unusual esoteric percussion instruments, like Kapel’ (circular shaker) or giant-size custom built rainstick.
These percussion instruments were recorded from various angles, dynamics and with pristine sound quality, which can be further processed, granulated or pitch-mangled to push your sound design boundaries further.
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