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Sound effects libraries where the file names and metadata follow the Universal Category System (UCS), championed by renowned sound supervisor Tim Nielsen & more
Introducing our “South African Sirens” sound effects library. Immerse yourself in the dynamic world of emergency response with this diverse collection that captures the essence of urgent action and safety.
Featuring a rich array of siren sounds from different vehicles, whether you’re hearing them from a distance or up close, in robust mono or detailed stereo formats, we’ve got you covered.
What makes this library truly unique? In South Africa the same three iconic siren sounds are utilised across ambulances, police cars, and fire trucks. This means you can creatively mix and match these sounds to convey urgency, authority, or emergency, bringing authenticity and drama to your productions.
Also available as part of the “South African Bundle” collection.
Kyma Ambiences [USO003] is the third sound effects bundle created by Matteo Milani.
The generation of these “Artificial Reality Ambiences” starts entirely in Symbolic Sound Kyma from the processing of white and pink noise by filtering – in the time/spectral domains – and convolving these sources with custom FM, additive, formant and granular synthesis. The composition’s resource of sound material is drawn solely from these processed stochastic sound elements: coloured noise is a raw material already full of life and can be sculpted into a variety of temporal forms, movements and textures.
The interaction with Kyma was typical of a composer who explored a device’s potential for sound transformation like a musical instrument. The goal was to obtain an organic and acoustic quality using only a restricted sound source, in order to evoke real spatial characteristics attached to each invented sound.
The “Kyma Ambiences vol.1” sound effects collection is published @ 96kHz (native) – and is also available as dual-layer separated “Elements”, suitable for recombinant stratification, varispeed and spatial positioning in the surround field (for a total of 112 files @ 96kHz).
This audio library features low-frequency drones, powerful impacts, metallic scrapes, resonant vibrations, and other rare audio textures.
All sounds were recorded using the LOM Geofón, a device that captures low-frequency surface vibrations that conventional microphones cannot detect.
The recordings were made with the TASCAM Portacapture X8 at 192 kHz/32 bit, ensuring maximum detail and sound quality.
Here’s an indispensable toolkit of more movement and handling sounds; falling, dropping, bouncing, smashing and debris sounds of different objects made of wood, plastic, metal, stone, ceramic, glass on various surfaces. Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Drop & Fall
927 pristine files that are clean, impactful and capture pretty much every material, surface and action.
The sounds are broadly grouped as:
Action: Fall, Drop, Bounce, Debris, Smash, Shatter, Break
Material: Rock, Wood, Metal, Plastic, Cloth, Ceramic, Stone, Porcelain, Styrofoam
Object: Household Objects, Furniture, Tools, Kitchenware, Office Objects, Food, Clothes
Surface: Stone, Glass, Ceramic, Metal, Concrete
Style: Close-Up & Distance Perspective, Fast, Hard, Medium, Slow, Soft, In Intervals, Single & Multiples, Rattle, Tonal, Squeaky
What makes this collection handy is the clarity and diversity of the sounds. These meticulously recorded sounds have both practical usability and room for further sound design.
You will get intuitive, detailed naming, UCS compatibility and the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail in 927 pristine sounds. Recorded in 24bit-96kHz.WAV format on our favorite Sennheiser MKH 8040, DPA 4060 and Zoom F3 in A/B and ORTF.
What else you may need
You may also want to check out Drag and Slide Pack for 477 sounds of dragging, sliding, scraping and friction sounds of different objects made of wood, plastic, metal on various surfaces. Our bestseller Crafting and Survival Pack is another option with 1000+ survival, gathering, movement and crafting sounds.
Whistling, fluttering and buffeting wind recorded indoors
Interior wind is a collection of pitched tonal howls, steady breezes and dynamic powerful gusts in stereo and surround. It’s full of whistling, fluttering and buffeting wind recorded indoors. It has more than 3 hours of indoor wind ambiences from houses, apartments, cabins, halls and a car. All files are thoroughly and carefully tagged with metadata and have UCS-compliant file naming.
Characterful wind without man-made sound or birds
It’s a collection of wind from an inside perspective made with years of patience waiting for the right storms to come along while finding different locations with their own character.
Pure singing wind and creaking houses
Mostly recorded at night during the cold winter, the sounds are isolated wind through cracks, crevices, wind shafts and slightly open doors or windows. Some with the structure creaking and moving, others just howling tones. Others are the powerful sound of wind pushing against the wall or roof, adding pressure and buffeting.
Great variety and many locations
One of the locations we went to was in a house placed under a 120 meter (394 feet) tall power line. The power lines would resonate with a very low and ominous howl while the pylon would emit a specific note when the wind came from the right direction. Another recording session was done in a small wooden cabin in rural Denmark with all walls moving, creaking and making cracking sounds. Others were recorded in apartments or more traditional houses in rooms and attics.
Getting control of the wind
I looked at the wind direction and open windows and doors on the other side of the house to stimulate air flow and record through the tiny cracks. This way I got some control and could play with the tones and force of the wind.
Recording techniques
The surround files were recorded with an IRT Cross in surround while the stereo files range from XY to ORTF depending on the source.
Everything was recorded with MKH50 microphones on a Sound Devices 744T.
Close, Medium and Distant recordings
The collection has variation in distance to capture both the creaks and movement in the room while others are recorded in closer proximity to isolate a detailed howl or whistle.
UCS naming and metadata
I gave careful consideration to the file naming and metadata of the collection, keeping filenames short and concise while providing extra information in the metadata to help narrow search criteria.
• Quad IRT Cross and Stereo ORTF
• 96 kHz / 24 Bit
• 42 files with an average length of 4,5 minutes
• More than 3 hours of material
• Detailed metadata and file naming
Unlock a new dimension of sounds with our “Modern Office Ambiences” library! Gone are the days of clunky, outdated dot matrix printers and incessant telephone rings. Step into the future with modern office environments that capture the essence of contemporary workspaces.
Featuring quiet zones, open-plan space’s, walkways, foyers, canteens and lobby’s with lively human interactions, and dynamic movements. This library immerses you in the atmosphere of today’s offices.
Get a complete arsenal of unique and original explosion sound effects. All sounds in Explosion SFX Pack are drag-and-drop ready for your project. Every audio file is easily searchable as they were meticulously organized into categories to make it easy to find the perfect sound for your project.
Discover a wide range of sounds perfect for realistic and sci-fi explosions. Acquire sounds for all your destruction needs including grenades, ripping wood, shattering glass, underwater torpedo blasts, distant explosive tails, as well as car and building demolitions among many others. Professionally recorded and designed, these sounds are a must-have to bring your game the polish you are looking for.
THE ULTIMATE WATER SOUND RESOURCE
Discover the versatile world of aquatic audio with WATER IN MOTION, a sound library designed to provide sound designers and game audio professionals with an extensive array of water sounds. This library equips you with the tools to create your very own sound effects and design water foley scenes right out of the box.
Putting sound quality and versatility at the forefront we captured every detail of the water sounds with highest precision. The result is a collection of extremely clean sounding water recordings that let you shape the sonic character to your specific needs! Every sound was recorded with a mono center microphone (MKH 8050 or Sanken co-100k) and a matched stereo pair of MKH 8040s by Sennheiser (note: only the nature-sounds and the designed tools have no mono file).
DIVE INTO THE WORLD OF WATER SOUND DESIGN
The library is split into two main sections: RECORDINGS and DESIGNED TOOLS. The RECORDING folder has every water sound you need ranging from simple bubbles to roaring waterfalls, rain, ocean waves, tons of everyday sounds, experimental water recordings, various movements and tiny to huge splashes. The DESIGNED TOOLS section comes with a vast array of pre-designed water sounds from big splashes, liquid whooshes, magic spell elements and morphing sounds to underwater ambiences and short textures.
Watch the walkthrough video to dive deeper into the world of WATER IN MOTION!
WHAT’S INSIDE (FILES / SOUNDS)
Rain is 4 hours / 7.74Gb of rain on many surfaces.
113 separate files – recorded in 24bit/96kHz. All sounds are UCS-compatible.
Rain is a library of sounds collected since 2011. It features rain recorded as ambiances or beds and as specifics. For me, rain is the same as wind:
if it sounds like white noise, it isn’t interesting. Just like my wind recordings, I have recorded rain where it hits something that makes a distinctive
sound, something with a bit of character, rhythm or feeling.
Over the years, I have recorded rain in M/S, A-B stereo and mono. I have used condensers and contact mics. All of that is represented
in this collection.
Some of the recordings exist in both original M/S versions, as well as the decoded results (XY). In this way, you can get ready-to-use stereo,
or get more control of width (or just the mono signal) with M/S. A few of the sounds were only recorded in mono, and I have left them in as such. They are quite percussive and close-up anyway, so may be used as elements. You also get several seamless loops.
You will find rain on man-made materials, as well as vegetation, and even a couple of rain recordings from Sri Lanka and Tokyo. These have been released previously in their own libraries, but I thought they were both interesting and generic enough to do some good here as well.
This library sounds BIG and has an impressive amount of impact.
It consists of recordings that were used to produce “Cinematic Tension” library – a set of sound design elements for trailers and intense scenes.
Doors, locks, metal tanks, fences, grills and other interesting objects were captured to get extremely interesting sounds for the source material.
Complete your production with detailed, organic sounds, recorded with a pair of high-end contact microphones: Barcus Berry Planar Wave 4000.
Scrapes, textures, impacts, rattle, hits and squeaks of different objects, from small to massive, will add serious punch to your sound design layers!
Main features:
Equipment used: Barcus Berry 4000 x 2, Sound Devices MixPre 6
Daily Doors II continues with a new series of doors that we use on a daily basis. Actions such as opening, closing, slamming, squeaking, rattling, forcing, hitting have been recorded simultaneously from a near and a distant perspective.
Keywords included:
Front Door, Kitchen, Living Room, Bathroom, Bedroom, Corridor, Fridge, Freezer, Oven, Window, Wardrobe, Cabinet, Drawer, Doorknob, Latch, Chain, Sliding Door, Roller Blind, Bin, Cupboard, Curtain, Garage, Car, Case, Gate, Fence, Wood, Metal.
This library is quite self explanatory, ” Planes – Takeoffs & Landings ” is a collection of various commercial jets taking off and landing on a runway.
We recorded as close as possible to the airport fences with a multi microphones setup giving you different sonic perspectives.
The “Source” folder contains 130 files corresponding to 34 different recordings :
– AB stereo (LOM Usi)
– Cinela LCR array (Sennheiser MKH8040 ORTF + MKH8050 Center)
– a shotgun mic following the plane (Neumann KMR81)
The “ Designed” folder contains 46 files / 28 processed sounds such as fast jet fly by or sonic boom.
All the files are 96kHz /24bits and embedded with rich metadata ( Soundminer, Basehead, iXML ) .
Through the development process, we gathered unique sonic materials from the scary inaudible sounds up to the piercing cry of Banshee ghosts. Included are: 14 pre-baked atmospheres, 38 designed sound, and 373 useful source sounds.
It comprises recordings of male and female ghosts, crows, miscellaneous sounds of the house, bells, extensive door knocks from various perspectives, and sounds of ghost trying to enter a room.
The atmospheres are easy and ready to use, containing haunting houses, town, forest, cemetery, thunderstorm, and eerie soundscapes.
The designed sounds are mainly focused on ghosts creature with spooky murmur, breathe, group of ghosts and creepy inhalations.
A filmic sound construction kit for teasers, trailers & promos
‘Warped Choir’ is the latest state-of-the-art sound effects library from U.S.O. which continues to cross the border between music and sound design.
Warped Choir provides a wide range of meticulously crafted stereo and 5.1 surround sound elements ready to be pumped in your trailer, video game or other audiovisual projects.
Warped Choir contains more than 200 massive dynamic impacts, transitions, soundscapes, epic vocal rises and whooshes, all designed from scratch using a choir concert recording as the unique waveform source in the Symbolic Sound Kyma workstation (many thanks to La Coral Salvé – Laredo, Cantabria | www.coralsalve.com).
When it comes to creating new musical ideas, video and sound editors, sound designers, but also composers, can find inspiration in this intriguing must-have collection.
Glass Smash HD from Soundopolis is a large collection of glass breaking sounds, glass debris, and footsteps on glass. Probably the last time you’ll ever have to buy a glass sound effect!
Explosion Fireworks is a 182-track collection of fireworks recordings captured during the local holiday “Nit de L’Alba,” located in Spain, where hundreds of thousands of fireworks are launched. It also includes 8 additional tracks, featuring explosions designed exclusively from the audios in this high-quality library.
The audios are organized with an intuitive nomenclature that allows for easy switching between different microphones, providing the flexibility to select or combine the best recording options. For this collection, high-end microphones such as the Sennheiser MKH 8050 and the Sanken CO-100K were used, along with a Zoom H6 recorder to capture stereo sound. The recordings were made at 24-bit and 192 kHz/96 kHz, ensuring exceptional clarity and depth.
This collection covers a wide variety of fireworks sounds, including firecrackers, close-up explosions, mid-range explosions, ground fireworks, ground spinners, palm tree explosions, roman candle, Whistling Rockets, and various fireworks atmosphere loops. Each audio contains multiple variations, providing the flexibility needed for any production requiring fireworks or explosion sounds.
All recordings have been meticulously edited to remove external noises such as wind, people, or background noise. Additionally, thanks to the ultrasonic microphones used, it is guaranteed that even when lowering the pitch, the richness of the frequencies will be maintained.
Ideal Applications:
– Video games: Add realism and depth to the natural environments of your games.
– Cinema and Documentaries: Enrich your audiovisual productions with authentic sounds.
– Multimedia Projects: Ideal for any project that seeks to enrich the user’s listening experience.
Technical details:
– Total Audios: 182 (907 sounds individually)
– Format: 192kHz – 96kHz/24bit
– Equipment Used: Zoom F6 recorder with Sennheiser MKH 8050, Sanken CO-100K, plus a Zoom H6 recorder for stereo sound.
– Duration: 16 minutes and 07 seconds.
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – GOAT & SHEEP
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – CROWING ROOSTER
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – LOVEBIRD
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – WHITE HANDED GIBBON
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – MEERKAT
THE ANIMAL SYMPHONY – WATUSI
Product Description:
“The Animal Symphony – Alpaca” offers a collection of 15 high-quality audio tracks, with a total of 54 individual sounds. The audios are organized with an intuitive nomenclature, allowing you to easily exchange the different microphone jacks and choose which one to use or combine them all. Using two high-end microphones, the Sennheiser MKH 8050 and an EM258 capsule microphone, along with a Zoom H6 recorder for stereo sound, we have captured every detail and nuance of these sounds. Recordings were made at 24-bit and 192kHz/96kHz, ensuring professional clarity and depth.
This collection offers a wide variety of cries and other sounds made by alpacas. These sounds are perfect for adding realism and authenticity to your projects. With multiple takes and variations, this library provides the flexibility needed for any type of production requiring sounds from these animals. All recordings have been carefully edited to remove external noises, such as other birds, wind or people. Furthermore, thanks to the ultrasonic microphones used, it is guaranteed that whoever decides to tone it down will still get a rich frequency.
Ideal applications:
– Video games: Add realism and depth to the natural environments of your games.
– Cinema and Documentaries: Enrich your audiovisual productions 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 audios: 15 (With a total of 54 individual sounds)
– Format: 192kHz – 96kHz/24bit
– Equipment used: Zoom F6 recorder with Sennheiser MKH 8050 microphone and EM258 capsule microphone, plus a Zoom H6 recorder for stereo sound.
License:
The sounds from “The Animal Symphony – Alpaca” are available under a royalty-free license, allowing their use in multiple projects at no additional costs. You can use these sound effects in your games, trailers, Kickstarter campaigns, and more, as many times as you like.
“The Sound of Survival” is a comprehensive sound library designed for survival games, inspired by the most iconic titles in the genre. It consists of 598 fully categorized sound effects, recorded at the highest possible quality in 24 bits, and available in two sampling frequencies, 192Khz and 96Khz. This extensive sound collection has been meticulously crafted with the needs of those who want practically all the sounds of a survival game in one package in mind, offering an immersive and realistic auditory experience for your game project.
Preview
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Sound categories include:
– Character: Encompasses a wide variety of sounds related to the actions and expressions of the playable character, from drinking and eating to exertion and attacks, adding depth and realism to the character.
– Construction: Contains sound effects related to the construction and demolition of objects in the game, such as building structures and destroying objects.
– Crafting: Includes sounds of crafting and object creation, from crafting neutral materials to creating food and items made of metal, stone, and wood.
– Environment: Offers sounds that immerse players in the game environment, from lighting a bonfire to the crash of a falling tree, creating an immersive experience in the game world.
– House: Includes sounds related to interactions in indoor spaces, such as opening/closing doors and drawers, contributing to the sense of exploration and inhabiting interior spaces.
– Inventory/Bag: Comprises sounds of manipulating the character’s inventory, from picking up items to moving tools and various items in the player’s bag.
– Tools/Items: Contains sounds related to various tools and items, such as lighting and extinguishing torches, repairing objects, and using tools in the game.
– Weapons: Includes sounds related to weapons and attacks, from the swish of a spear to the impact of arrows, adding realism to combat sequences.
– Pick-Up Materials: Encompasses sounds when picking up various materials, such as wood, stone, metal, and other essential resources for crafting and survival.
This library provides a complete range of sound effects to enhance immersion in survival games, from in-game action to the subtle sounds of the environment. With “The Sound of Survival,” game creators can take the survival experience to a new level.
More about the pack
– Sample rate available at 192khz and 96khz.
– Intuitive file naming
– All you’ll ever need regarding survival 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 other than the one described, remember that the world of sound is totally subjective.
– For any questions or problems: [email protected]
Wind ambiences is a collection of mono, stereo and surround recordings ranging from light breeze to powerful storm. Cold and tonal gusts, detailed swirling and strong buffeting wind. It’s more than 2.5 hours of material full of character with a focus on a cinematic sound avoiding birds or man-made noise. All files are carefully tagged with metadata and have thoughtful UCS-compliant file names.
I used a double NOS setup, with Sennheiser microphones and recorded in various conditions, including choppy, gusty, whistling, howling, calm, airy, swirling, and more. The slightly wider placement in NOS compared to ORTF helps to diffuse the less tonal wind characteristics.
Most of the recordings were made during winter, when the barren trees provided a tonal quality that allowed the wind’s characteristics to stand out without being overpowered by noisy leaves. I included both very tonal and more noise-based layers in the collection, making it easy to create layers and control the ratio between them. I also added nine variations of expressive mono recordings that were captured in close proximity to sticks and other debris, creating tonal resonances that sound beautifully natural and full of character.
I gave careful consideration to the file naming and metadata of the collection, keeping filenames short and concise while providing extra information in the metadata to help narrow search criteria.
• Quad NOS, Stereo NOS and Mono
• 96 kHz / 24 Bit
• 39 files with an average length of 4 minutes
• More than 2.5 hours of material
• Detailed metadata and file naming
Footsteps Bundle comprises all three of our Footsteps libraries. Inside are runs, walks, jumps, scuffs and stops performed on a wide range of surfaces, all recorded in our acoustically-treated Foley suite.
These surfaces include: wet and dry concrete, broken glass, dirt, gravel, leaves, laminate, pallets, carpet, rocks, metal and wood. Movement on these surfaces were expertly performed, captured and edited by our Audio Craftsmen to provide you with a useful variety of steps.
Achieve a natural, unprocessed sound in Film, TV and Game projects with these footsteps – all without leaving your desk. Convenience and quality rolled into one!
Vol. 1 is delivered at 96kHz, while Vols. 2 and 3 are delivered at 192kHz. The entire bundle is delivered at 24Bit and tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
AN UNRIVALED WORLD WAR II FIREARMS LIBRARY
Bring your World War II-themed games and movies to the next level with this biggest-ever World War II firearms library. Recorded at an extraordinarily high quality with the most modern techniques, it includes weapons from all sides of the infamous conflict.
Containing 25 renowned World War II firearms, from the first assault rifle to pistols with designs still in use, this pack has the most important weapons of the Second World War period. With both shots and mechanical sounds, it is an absolute must for any sound design for movies and interactive media focused on mid-20th century combat.
action, assault, automatic, bipod, blowback, bolt, brit, buckshot, bullet, bursts, close, collar, drop, gas, gauge, gun, handheld, machine, magazine, mechanical, muzzle, pistol, rattle, recoil, rifle, semiautomatic, shotgun, submachine, war, weapons, WWII
96KHZ 24BIT • 720MB • 922 FILES • STEREO • UCS META DATA
Micro Bots 2 is the highly anticipated second installment of the popular Micro Bots sound effects library. This comprehensive collection features a wide variety of mechanical and future/robotic tech sound effects, ranging from granulized robotic movements, heavily synthesized and vocodized servos, reversed and distorted robotic movements, to complex and simple servo sequences.
With 272 granulized robotic movements, 59 resynthesized robotic movements, 74 reversed and distorted robotic movements, 50 complex servos, and 467 simple servos, Micro Bots 2 offers a diverse and extensive selection of sound effects that can be used to enhance the robotic sound design. In total, this library features an impressive 922 sound effects, providing a rich and versatile palette of audio assets for your creative projects.
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Sennheiser MKH 8060
CREATED AND EDITED WITH: Pro Tools, Live 10.
Ocean Waves – East Coast of Taiwan features powerful Pacific Ocean waves fizz and roar in the east coast of Taiwan. Recorded from Yilan to Hualien, covering 6 different locations, gravel beaches and rocky shore with close and distance perspectives of vivid ocean waves. Hear the unique crackling and ascending hiss as the waves wash over pebbles beaches, and strong punches as the waves hitting the hard rocks.
Bird sounds have been carefully removed, providing you pure useful recordings for your creative works.
This library includes 40 stereo files recorded in AB or XY at 96 kHz. Approx. 156 minutes total.
Additionally, this library was carefully tagged with rich Soundminer metadata, including marks in the recordings highlighting interesting sounds.
All the recordings were recorded, edited and mastered with care and love.
Ever been stuck alone in an old creepy elevator?
Well now you can relive that experience, with this sound pack!
Including;
Movement of a service elevator
Flickering lights
Pressing lift buttons (with and without lift movement)
Opening and closing of heavy doors
Recorded and exported in 24/48khz
Suitable for and horror based projects (Game or film)
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