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Discover one of the biggest collections of bells ever recorded with nearly 6 hours of sound.
Beautiful Bells BUNDLE contains the solo ringing of 76 swinging bells and 135 stationary bells, captured in 62 bell towers, carillons, chapels, churches, cathedrals, basilicas and clock towers across France, with unprecedented quality. Most of the sounds were recorded inside bell towers.
Swinging bells are struck by a hanging clapper. They have a natural pitch modulation due to the Doppler effect, and a timbre modulation due to varying orientation. They produce a deep and lively sound and are mostly used to announce masses, religious holidays, weddings and funerals.
Stationary bells are struck by external hammers. They have a steady and rich tone, with a long sustain. They are mostly used as musical instruments in carillons, to indicate the hour in clock chimes or to alert the population in tocsins.
Every bell size and pitch is represented in this library, from huge 10 ton bourdon to tiny carillon bells weighing a few kilograms. You will find bells founded from 14th to 21st century with a great variety of timbres and tunings, over a range of more than 5 octaves. The sounds are sorted by note from D2 to G7.
The library contains 2 carillons with 54 bells and 10 bells, available as sound files and virtual instruments (NI Kontakt and EXS24 with round robin).
You will also get 15 peals of multiple bells, called plenum.
By sorting the solo sounds by location, you can recreate authentic bell combinations. You also have the freedom to create any custom combination or use the sounds as instruments in musical scores.
All the sounds in this library were recorded in bell towers or as close as possible to provide great sonic precision and optimal signal-to-noise ratio.
Over 12,000 kilometers were traveled during six months to get you one of the most exhaustive swinging bell collection ever recorded.
• Contains BEAUTIFUL BELLS Vol 1 & BEAUTIFUL BELLS Vol 2
• A total of 227 sounds recorded in 62 locations
• Wide variety of bells (size, age, tuning)
• Contains the ringing of 10 bourdons
• 2 carillons virtual instruments
• Contains peals of multiple bells
• Contains a collection of 10 small ancient bells
• All notes from D2 to G7
• Metadata with detailed information about each bell
• 96KHz/24bit
• Very low noise
• Metadata UCS-compliant
• Mainly recorded with Sennheiser MKH 8040
Wozówka the tortie likes to talk and she likes to purr. And she’s often multitasking, like a typical 21st century person.
Being in the 5th year of her life she has developed a decent vocabulary. She code-switches, too, depending on whether she’s safe at home, or on alert in the woods. Every mood she goes through is marked with a different meow.
Roughly half of the sounds here are made indoors in mono, close miked with a Lom Usi. The rest is made outdoors in stereo with a Telinga.
The library is UCS compliant.
THE POWERFUL MELEE WEAPON KIT
Are you on a quest to take your medieval battle scenes to the next level? Look no further than MELEE WEAPONS, a sound effects library that captures the spirit of melee combat. Smash your production with the clank of swords, the quick slice of daggers, the powerful swing of axes, the crushing force of maces and the sturdy block of shields.
AN ACOUSTIC ARSENAL
MELEE WEAPONS is a true treasure of sounds. It brings you everything you need to design a medieval melee fight on the fly. You get pre-designed weapons like swords, axes, blunt weapons and shields and a huge arsenal of recordings that serve as source material. To make the workflow of this library even more efficient, we made sure that the names of the recordings correlate with each other and decided to set every sound in the recording file to a 100bpm grid normalized to -6db. This way you can create your own melee weapon sounds in no time!
Created for game audio and movie sound design, this collection of pre-designed weapon sounds and carefully recorded source material is the perfect choice for designing epic medieval battle scenes right out of the box.
WHAT’S INSIDE (FILES / SOUNDS)
A comprehensive collection of sounds from various wooden doors of any size from apartments, closets, cupboards, libraries, and many more.
The ROCKS Library is a collection of more than 700 designed rock and stone sound effects, ready to use.
From single stone impacts to large heavy collapsing rocks, avalanches, rockslides sounds, rolling and falling stones, debris sounds….
Originally recorded at 192 kHz with two Sennheiser MKH8040, a Sanken CO-100K and a Sound devices Mixpre 6. Delivered at 96Khz.
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).
Shining Luminescence, bestow life! Raise! Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.
About Essential Magic
Essential Magic sound effects bring you the designed sounds of powerful magic. Partly futuristic and extremely grandiose, these sound effects have substance and the right texture to give you unbeatable offensive and defensive magic!
The texture of the sounds is realistic and flexible for customization. 231 sounds will boost anger, terror, power, even healing, rage and evoke absolute fear!
You will get hold of the dark side of essential 4 elements of fire, water, earth, air as well as electricity, cyber-magic, magicka, hits, buffing, whooshes, squeaks, sparkling, explosions, bubbles, chimes and more including selective green magic sounds.
Great for film, video, game, advertisements and suitable as sweeteners outside of the magic genre as well.
Here’s a studio-grade pack for all your impact projects and games with the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail.
Keywords, Mood and Style, Elements, Performances
Magic, Magician, Texture, Transition, Pass by, Element, Aura, Angelic, Projectile, Fast, Airy, Water, Earth, Fire Channeling, Whoosh, Force, Energy, Ball, Bursting, Burning, Small Pieces, Sizzling, Crackle, Crystal, Force, Defensive, Protection, Spell, Shield, Fireball, Destructive, Blast, Breaking, Stone, Distorted, Dusty, Sprinkle, Summoning, Evil, Healing, Glittery, Vocal, Buff, Ethereal, Hit, Green Magic, Wild fire, Fireball, Room, Cyber magic, Electricity, Surreal, Zap, Loose, Dark, Bass, Underwater, Creature, Water bending, Chime, Electric, Flame, Liquid, Metal, Rising, Aura, Black, Game, Film, Supernatural
What else you may need
You may also want to check out our Cinematic Whooshes and Transitions SFX Pack for access to 294 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.
Fine Sand Debris is a collection of fine sand being poured, dropped, thrown and cascaded across metal, plastic, and wood materials. The high sample rate of 192k makes these sounds great source material to be twisted and stretched to the heart’s desire.
Feedback is a collection of well… feedback sound effects! Created by digitally misrouting various audio signals in numerous ways to create truly wild sound effects:
Feedback combines the binary precision of digital audio with the unpredictable quality of signal feedback to create a treasure trove of ultrasonic rich sound design material. Use Feedback to flavor your next sci-fi project, bring dramatic tension to a scene, simulate head-aching tinnitus, and so much more!
This is a unique mini-library of useful rain loops, recorded in various settings, and with different level of intensity.
Get creative or just use them as is. These sounds are a nice companion to have when creating beds for rainy scenes. Evocative, emotional, rich and subtle.
Suburbs of Chicago: Spring is filled with various ambiences and room tones all recorded in the springtime. This environment includes distant cars, car pass, motorcycle pass, bird chirps, close and distant lawnmowers, dog barks, leaf rustles, wet streets wind chimes, a tennis match. and even a dripping sewer!
As an added bonus, this pack also includes inside a Hyundai Sonata driving during pouring rain, and while parked. Recordings are all exported as stereo 96kHz, 24 Bit stereo .wav files. Files range in length anywhere between 2 minutes and 55 minutes for ultimate creative control, or for the enjoyment of listening.
All recorded using the Sennheiser MKH8050/30 and MKH20/30 in decoded MS, Audio Technica AT2022 in XY, Zoom H1 XY, and the Sound Devices USBPre2 into the Tascam DR70d.
All files are meta-data tagged and updated using the Universal Category System in Soundminer, Basehead, and Soundly.
Mexican Seaside is a unique Mid-Side collection of ocean sounds gathered during the summer of 2017 in the Yucatán Peninsula – Mexico. It contains sandy and rocky beach ambient sounds, with no human activity. These sounds were recorded at sunrise (on various days) with a Zoom H6 on a Joby GorillaPod and a MS capsule (MSH-6) covered by a Rycote Mini Windjammer. Mid-side allows you to actually adjust the width of the stereo image after it has been recorded. It provides total mono compatibility for recordings that may eventually be played back in mono, such as TV broadcasts.
The package contains a MS-RAW folder plus a LR folder with all the files decoded to stereo for quick use.
100% of “Mexican Seaside” SFX library purchases will be donated to UNICEF México.
The Planets SFX library delivers 40 minutes of designed atmospheres from 20 imaginary, extraterrestrial locations. Different perspectives, sometimes close to the ground, sometimes far away. Some locations are buzzing with geological and biological activity others seem distant, cold and lifeless. All sounds are constant, ranging from one to three minutes in duration and can be easily combined to create unique variations, allowing you to dial in your own planets soundscape.
•Designed planet atmospheres
•20 extraterrestrial locations
•Descriptive filenames
•96 kHz / 24 bit WAV files
•Embedded Soundminer metadata
RPG INTERFACE ESSENTIALS – CHARACTER & HUB
RPG INTERFACE ESSENTIALS – INVENTORY & DIALOG
RPG INTERFACE ESSENTIALS – MAP & PRINCIPAL MENU
This is the fourth and final installment in our sound library series, “RPG Interface Essentials – Pop-Ups“, an essential collection of interface libraries designed especially for RPG or MMORPG games. With a total of 135 sounds carefully distributed in various categories, this installment will immerse you in a unique sound experience.
You will find these nine types of Pop-ups:
– Enter Or Discover New Territory Pop-Up
– Experience Popup
– Insufficient Resources Popup
– Neutral Pop Up
– Item Received Popup
– Journal Updated Pop Up
– Mission Or Quest Complete Pop Up
– Overwrite Saved And Save Game Pop Up
– Special Event Complete Pop Up
Exceptional Audio Quality:
With 135 sounds presented in 192 kHz and 24-bit, enjoy exceptional quality and clarity in every detail, immersing players in a captivating audio experience.
Designed for versatility:
This versatile sound set is ready to enhance any gaming project, whether it’s a classic RPG or a unique adventure.
More about the package
– Intuitive file naming.
– Use sound effects over and over again, in any of your projects or productions, forever with no additional fees or royalties. Use these SFX in your game, in your trailer, in a Kickstarter campaign, wherever you need it, as much as you want.
– Full mono compatibility.
– All sounds have several variations.
– Use your imagination and feel free to use any sound in an action other than the one described, remember that the world of sound is totally subjective.
Technical details:
– 135 RPG interface sounds
– Number of audio waves: 135
– Format: 192kHz/24bit
– Sound Effects Loop: No
– Total duration: 6 minutes and 38 seconds
Sound Tailor Effects Library enters the void with its 3rd release:
60 sounds, 5+ hours of rich and deep room tones, with a variety of sizes and environments that will cover most of sound editors needs. From a quiet residential bedroom to an reverberant inactive hospital hall, a ventilated office space, or a noisy basement, we carefully chose the right place at the right time, to get the best from those empty spaces.
We’ve recorded with a combination of 7 low noise microphones, 1 ambisonic microphone and 1 geophone, dispatched on a wide rig, to get the best spatial impression, allowing us to deliver a true 7.1.2 format, plus ambisonic, 5.1 and 2.1 versions. The sub channel, provided by the geophone and its low frequency response, has been a shocking surprise for us, and is a real colorful and creative addition.
You can choose between several spatial format combinations, to suit your needs. All versions includes a stereo mixdown, and all files are loopable.
Sound Tailor’s Room Tones is UCS compliant, and delivered in high resolution 96kHz/24 Bits.
THE ALL-IN-ONE WATER SOUND EFFECTS COLLECTION
Create magical water spells, design foley scenes on the fly and always have the right water atmosphere available. Our Water Bundle brings you the best solution for water sound design. Whether you’re working on films, video games or immersive VR experiences, this bundle comes with a huge amount and the versatility of water sounds that you need. Dive into the world of water sound design with Water in Motion, Ocean Waves and Streams and Rivers now!
WHAT’S INSIDE?
Water in Motion
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 detailed recordings and designed tools to create your very own sound effects and design water foley scenes right out of the box.
More Info: https://asoundeffect.com/sound-library/water-in-motion/
Ocean Waves
This collection of ocean waves sound effects is truly one of a kind, offering a wide range of detailed nature field recordings for your projects. From gentle waves splashing onto sandy beaches and the light lapping of water between rocks and stones, to storm-driven surf and the powerful crashing against solid cliffs, you’ll find everything to create the perfect ocean-inspired atmosphere.
More info: https://asoundeffect.com/sound-library/ocean-waves/
Streams and Rivers
Creating this library we travelled to many secluded places to capture the pure sounds of flowing water: gently gurgling springs and small streams in deep forests, calm rivers between rocks or fields and thundering waterfalls splashing down mountains. Bring your projects to life and craft all kinds of flowing water by using, layering and transforming our water sounds in a creative way.
More Info: https://asoundeffect.com/sound-library/streams-and-rivers/
Wind Bundle includes four different sound libraries, providing a comprehensive and versatile collection of windy sounds. By purchasing this bundle you will benefit of a 20% discount.
The SKI RIDE sound effects library is a comprehensive collection of audio recordings that capture the various sounds associated with skiing. This library includes a wide range of ski sounds, recorded on the Italian Alps in the 2023.
The collection features recordings of skiers carving turns on groomed trails, as well as sounds of off-piste skiing through fresh powder and pass bys on the ski slopes.
In addition to the sounds of skiing, this library includes recordings of ski equipment like ski poles, ski boots, ski binding, ski gloves, ski jacket, backpacker, foley sounds like ski boots footsteps and ambience tracks like chair lift and ski lift stations.
All of the recordings in this library are of high quality and have been carefully edited and mastered to ensure they are ready for use in a variety of audio projects, including films, television shows, video games and podcasts. Whether you are creating a documentary about skiing or a commercial for a ski resort, the SKI RIDE sound effects library has everything you need to bring your project to life.
All the files are 24 Bit, 192 Khz, extensive embedded metadata and categorized with the Universal Category System (UCS).
Analog Tape Transitions contains dozens of genuine vari-fi effects created with a restored Akai 4000DS MK-II 1/4 inch tape recorder.
Get plenty of tape stops, rewinds, fast-forwards with 7 different tapes containing music, voice and noise.
Tired of using the same digital rewind sound again and again? Experience the variety and the smoothness of reel-to-reel analog sound.
• Vari-fi, rewinds, fast-forwards
• Mechanical tape recorder sounds included
• Ultrasonic content up to 48 000 Hz for easy pitch adjustment
• 96 KHz/24 bit
• Metadata UCS-compliant
• Recorded with AKAI 4000DS MK-II and Sennheiser 8040
‘Traffic Tones’ will help build flavorful air tones and atmospheres in order to support urban or suburban environments.
This sound library is divided into 2 main sections
1) Traffic Loops
2) Single Event Sounds
The first part of this library comprises a wide variety of long undisturbed traffic loops;
exempt from excessive dynamic fluctuations, and without any incongruous noises (such as birds).
These are non-disruptive atmospheres that you can easily layer up.
Ready to be inserted into your project, they will help you build the foundation of your own soundscape.
The second part of this library consists of ‘single event’ sounds.
They will bring character to your sound-bed and help soundify any story/visual cues.
You will find in this section well-classified eclectic sounds such as whistles, sirens, brake squeals,
but also more than 110 individual horns, and a massive collection of 300+ pass-by of all kinds…
The diversity of sounds delivered in this library reflects the large-scale recording process that took us 5 years to gather the right material, recorded throughout 30 cities in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, from various perspectives in space and time, various weather conditions, various terrain type, and vehicle types.
***Most of the library were recorded in 192KHz, however, in the majority of the recordings, there was no reason to keep this sample rate. Hence we saved some space and converted it to 96KHz unless interesting spectral information was found in these high ranges, in this case, we kept them at 192 kHz.
Immerse your projects in the sounds of “Underwater Movements”, captured to bring your aquatic scenes to life. But that’s not all – as a bonus, we’ve included an array of stunning surface ocean sound effects that evoke the rhythmic dance of waves and the gentle whispers of the sea breeze. Transport your audience beneath the waves and onto sun-kissed shores.
The “Distant City And Morning Parks” Library has been recorded for more than a year, in about 7 different cities and 3 countries. The library is divided into 2 subsections:
1) Distant Cities: The subject of this section is large and small towns in different seasons. Respectively can be heard both classic distant city rumble sounds, as well as light burds activity, distant sirens, train, and car horns, distant traffic, church bells e.t.c.
2) Morning Parks: Mostly recorded early in the morning in spring and summer, when there is light human activity, some footsteps, few dogs, even frogs in the middle of a city park. You can hear birds activity and of course distant traffic. Several fountains, recorded from different distances, have also found their place in this library.
All files are meta-tagged with UCS format in Soundminer.
Enjoy the city from a distance.
Winter in the City features 60 beautifully and professionally recorded ambient sounds of Toronto, Canada, all recorded over the course of 4 winters, 2016 through 2020. All files are mastered in Pro Tools Ultimate and meticulously categorized in Basehead Ultra 2020 and is Universal Category System compliant. They are all checked for phase coherency.
This album features winter city airs recorded around the city in the morning, day, evening, night and vary late night.
Many tracks were recorded in parks, quiet residential streets, downtown core, downtown roof tops, the lakeshore, city squares, and parking lots. These recordings were recorded in sub-freezing temperatures so they don’t have birds or insects and are great for general air fillers and quiet scenes. The album includes Omni Spaced Pair (A/B), ORTF, MS, and XY polar patterns.
Also featured are market places, traffic driving through snow and slush, hockey being played in the park, various activities with people, and winter winds.
Please visit www.TexturesSound.com for more info
Mechanical sounds from a classic vintage Studer A-80 reel-to-reel tape machine including switches, motor, magnetic tape, buttons, levers, metal and plastic spools, reels, spin-offs, and more. Full UCS Metadata.
Carma Studio is excited to bring you a library of over 260 metallic textures!
Startling you with low-end dark atmospheres to high brittle sizzle, this collection of hits & bangs, flutters & rattles, screams & moans, contact scrapes, iced fizzles, contractions, stretching, cracking and more covers the sounds of metal stressed out.
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