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Sonomar Collection: Abandoned is a sound effects library of 346 haunting atmospheres and location-specific recordings. Add authentic textures to your projects steeped in the acoustic properties of desolation and emptiness, or take advantage of the 96kHz sample rate to manipulate as source material for creative sound design.
Armed with a wide array of stereo and Ambisonic microphones, sound designer and recordist Martin Pinsonnault (Big Little Lies, Dallas Buyers Club) and the team at Sonomar bravely ventured into the darkness, capturing sounds from three distinct abandoned buildings throughout Canada including an asylum, prison, and hospital.
Abandoned Asylum contains 56 sounds including room tones, eerie footsteps and scattered debris movements.
Abandoned Prison contains 118 sounds featuring jarring metallic impacts, prison door squeals and bleak ambiences.
Abandoned Hospital contains 131 recordings of resonant ambiences, foley elements such as hospital bed rattles and surgeon’s tools, and haunting designs “”worldized”” through a guitar amp and re-recorded to capture the powerful essence of the location. This collection includes 24 ambisonic recordings that are also available in stereo, as well as 17 additional 5.1 surround sound files created from the source content.
Each sound file is embedded with diligent metadata to help you find the exact sound effect you need with fast, pinpoint search. Enable creativity with detailed descriptions of each recording encompassing both literal sonic qualities as well as the images they invoke. Advanced metadata fields include translated French descriptions and additional info to ensure compatibility across any database search platform such as Soundminer, BaseHead, Netmix, Workspace (Pro Tools), Find Tool (Media Composer), Media Bay (Nuendo), Reaper, Adobe Premiere, and beyond. Sonomar Collection: Abandoned is also included in Pro Sound Effects’ CORE: Pro.
AntiSystem, a brand new collection of 570+ Horror Sci-fi one-shot samples and loops with a technoid approach, created in collaboration with South American sound designer Matias Cerviño and SampleTraxx.
Antisystem delivers tension and excitement with a genre-crossing, detailed hard-hitting sound design. Especially suitable for horror and sci-fi projects, it brings to the table a complete arsenal of unmistakable signature sound effects.
1,6 GB of WAV samples with Key Information, 15 Categories, and 17 Kontakt Instruments ready to be fired in your next project.
Inject a new wave of sonic madness!
Categories:
Atmosphere
Atmospheric Elements
Cinematic Movement
Crescendo
Feedback Larsen
Glitch Stutter
Hit Design 1
Hit Design 2
Loops with Kontakt tempo sync
Low Hit
Low Key Elements
Ramp Up Woosh By
Reverse
Rise
Topping Elements
Features:
1.6 GB of content
15 Categories
570+ Wav samples 48/24 with key information
17 Kontakt Instruments – Full version 5.8 needed
Kontakt Free Player not supported
Sculpted by professional sound designers with dozens of blockbuster advertising credits, these reverse sound effects will lend proper tension to any trailer or track.
Scene Switch: Transitions & Textures features 64 sound elements ready to bring an extra dimension to your cutaways, wipes, time shifts or any kind of motion change.
From subtle swooshes and smooth synth tones to glitched-out, abstract phrases and dramatic noise rushes, as well as serving as a ready-to-go sonic toolkit, this highly malleable bag of tricks is also useful for sound designers looking for inspiring source material to mangle.
With a raw, dark and edgy feel to a lot of the sounds, they are particularly well-suited to Science Fiction, Horror and Dystopian projects. If you're looking for quick fix scene stitch sounds, this one is handy to have around!
A new sound collection of ticking metal and wooden clocks, designed watch and old clock, large mechanism, retro rusty clock, and mechanical gears.
Create up and downtempo metronomic ticking time pass and hypnotizing ticking cues, uneasy ticking tick-tock, design gradually building clockworks, dark pulsating ticking clock, metallic clicks that build tension.
SampleTraxx Clockworks features 4 loop folders at 80-90-100-120 Bpm evolving from half note to the sixteenth note beat plus an extra folder of spare mechanicals sound effects and processed field recording.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biT76c-3qF4
Features:
Loops: 207 Wav – 48/24 – 80-90-100-120bpm – 2 bars
Mechanism: 33 One-Shot Wav samples 48/24
348 Mb of content
100% Royalty-Free
Cutting and stabbing, squishing and handling. A whole bunch of different vegetables are getting what's coming for them in this cut up library that feeds your vegetable cutting scenes needs! All these high quality recordings were done in an acoustically treated studio for increased usability in your projects.
Just imagine: A calm kitchen environment featuring your favourite vegetables getting prepared for that beautiful vegetable dish your serving tonight! Or: Picture a cold, dripping cellar featuring your favourite evil guy, stabbing the hell out of a canary melon! No? Oh well you get the point: Vegetable sounds can be used for a lot of things…. and you probably knew that if you're here.
The BEASTIARIUM: Monsters & Creatures library delivers more than 1700 sounds of monsters, attacks, breathe, hits, death and other related sounds.
The library contains hundreds of high-quality sounds created using various recording, processing, and synthesis techniques.
Version 0.6 is out: 24 types of monsters, 1773 sounds.
RAW CELLO FX features manipulated and mangled cello sound effects designed to provide the full character of the instrument and harmonic richness in order to create a completely unique set of organic samples between music and noise, intimate and vivid bold sounds expanding new possibilities out of this instrument.
Different techniques and less-than-conventional microphone placement have been used to create gorgeous harmonics and a wide array of interesting sounds. We “played” with fingers and hands, different bows against the strings, objects and kitchen utensils, bowing, scraping or hitting single and multiple strings or parts of the wood body.
The collection features designed hits, bow, crescendo, screech, woosh, swell, bonus fx folder and is ready for trailer and soundtrack projects.
The Gore library contains 257 total sounds of squishes, smashes, squelches melee weapon attacks, zombies and more. All effects have been thoughtfully named and crafted into multiple variations making them extremely flexible and easy to use. This library will work well if you need ready to use sounds for your game or if you’re a sound editor needing some extra material for your latest project. Sounds are well rounded and simple enough to fit Sci-Fi, Horror, Fantasy and any other genre where you might need some blood and guts.
Sound types include:
We’ve raided the SFX Source vaults to bring you a 500+ sound collection of the best, most popular and most useful designed production elements to add to your audio box of tricks. Created for those moments when inspiration may be running dry, all of the sounds are ready to drop straight into your project to use as they are, or can be chopped, layered, mangled and processed to your liking.
A’mixed-bag’ sound library featuring deep tones, scary atmospheres, ambient textures, whooshes, transitions, loops, user interface sounds and much more. This one is really handy to have around, you never know what you may find to bring that idea to fruition!
SampleTraxx is back with SHOCKING SIGNAL, a collection of big screen alarm, disturbed cinematic feedback, ping, distortion and re-amped production elements.
Shocking Signal is all about alerts, notifications, danger, disaster, emergency, panic red alerts, sirens, warnings, static, bad signals, blasts, broken circuits, electrics, glitches, neon, power and anything requiring sophisticated and extreme sound design.
Providing new and experimental sound materials generated using the most cutting-edge digital techniques, this collection is designed to suit the needs of people who want to add something unique to their production.
Dedicated to sound designers, experimental composers, cutting edge electronic music producers, busy post-production facilities, video editors, broadcast radio/TV stations.
Featuring 170+ sound effects with detailed Soundminer metadata in 96/24 HD resolution ready to be fired in your favorite DAW.
A collection of spooky scary sounds, ideal for your video game, film, TV show, radio play or any other project. Mostly classic horror style.
SciFi Drones is a composite collection of very disturbing and scary futuristic spaceship ambiences, Sci-Fi Drones and organic, surreal alien-atmospheres.
Each drone is 2 minutes long, with very versatile variations in each file. And whether it comes to futuristic horror settings, abandoned sci-fi corridors, large spaceship halls, haunted basements or open space in an alien galaxy, this will set the right tone.
Fantastic for any sci-fi project – and will also set the tone equally well for other disturbing cyberpunk projects and scary industrial spaces.
This library is a hybrid-production; A symbiosis of organic original field-recordings like Room Tones, Construction Sites, Traffic, Zoo-Animals, Motors and synthetic elements. Lot’s of spectral and granular synthesis. And lots of sound designing, of course.
Feast your eyes on this expertly crafted realistic zombie sound pack!
(Recorded and exported in 24/192 khz)
Featuring horrific sounds from both male and female voices artists, this pack is tailor-made to suit any project aiming for a more realistic and grittier take on the undead.
Including:
Groans, Snarls and Gargles (both Passive and Aggressive)
Tearing
Biting
Squelching
Hordes
Wooden Boards Breaking
Scratching + Clawing against wood
Glass Shattering
(Basically, everything you would hear in the zombie apocalypse)
All suitable for any form of media.
Only sounds from the pack were used in the example.
Sacrificial Chants contains a vast collection of demonic chants and whispers in a range of ancient and forgotten languages. These devilish sounds will make a bone-chilling addition to your collection of horror sound effects and will be perfect for use in scenes involving demonic rituals, paranormal events, satanic worship and ancient tribal chants.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded human vocalisations (male and female) of sinister and unnerving chants with professional voice actors. These recordings have then been purposely processed and manipulated to be as unsettling as possible. The files have been edited for maximum usability and can be dropped straight into your session timeline.
All sounds were recorded in 24Bit 96KHz allowing for further manipulation and experimentation, and contain extensive metadata to make navigating and finding the right sound as simple as possible. Almost all of the sounds are provided dry (without reverb).
Sacrificial Chants is broken up into 6 separate folders, each with its own distinct character voice. These include:
Whispering Witch – An old and cruel witch whispering dark spells in an ancient language.
Dark Wizard – A dark wizard performing summoning chants in a forgotten language.
Evil Nymph – A twisted and demented water nymph that has been turned to the dark side.
Demonic Monk – A religious scholar who is possessed by an evil and cunning demon, speaking bible verses in Latin.
Tribal Shaman – A tribal witch doctor channelling dark spirits and casting a wicked curse upon the enemies of his tribe.
Reptilian – A shapeshifting extra-terrestrial being who invades the minds of her enemies through sinister whispers.
These beasties bring extreme female vocalizations for fighting, action, pain, basic emotional reactions, general gibberish speech and some English words. Get ready for hardcore screaming, shrilling, power shouting, hoarsing, whispering, death rattling, laughing, crying, choking, wheezing, yelping, moaning, groaning, panting, breathing and more.
– 3 different voice characters with various styles: Eris, Kali, Zisa
– 989 files, start and end without silence gaps for immediate implementation
– 192 kHz / 24 bit file resolution with ultrasonics, 783MB unpacked
– source files – cleaned, with basic equalisation contour
– volume normalized to -18 lufs, files under 300 kB to -3dB
– possibility to contact the library author to have made custom vocalizations and quotes for your project
Summon twisted spirits from the dark realm with Nuances of Fear! A nuanced collection of scary sound effects, exploring the wide variety of different sub-genres of horror.
This exclusive library was designed by a team of sound designers, with credits including Disney+, Facebook, League of Legends, Ratchet and Clank, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, Ark: Survival Evolved, Oculus and many others.
Upgrade your collection with over 312 bone-chilling designed and 270 source sound effects. All sound effects come in 24bit 96kHz, including detailed naming conventions and rigorous Soundminer-embedded metadata.
All source sound effects were recorded with Sound Devices 788T and a LCR setup of two Sennheiser MKH 8040’s and one MKH 8050. The source audio was recorded in excellent conditions and post-processed additionally for crystal clear quality.
Library Review:
“RT Sonics’ Nuances of Fear library has some very innovative and detailed sounds that I find myself returning to again and again when I need some inventive elements and unique detail. Nuances of Fear is definitely one of my favorite horror libraries. Great work, guys!”
Angelo Palazzo
Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer. | Stranger Things 3, Frozen 2, Star Trek: Discovery, Alita: Battle Angel.
Jump scares, Distorted SFX, Scary Resonances, Bowed Metal and Glass, Ominous Stingers, Distorted Screams, Metal Scrapes, Ghost Whispers, Psycho Stutters, Dark Magic, Reverses, Transitions, Scary Atmospheres, Psychological Drones, Pulses, Evil Vocal Growls, Granular Textures and much more
High Frequency Feedback Loops is a 57 sound collection of harsh, piercing analogue noise sourced from a No-Input Mixer being pushed to its limits. With constant ringing tones, random oscillations and lots of signal screaming in the higher frequency range, this library is a useful addition for your audio toolkit.
Think situations where a character's hearing is impaired, for constructing glitching communications and old school computers loading or to heighten the tension in horror and science fiction scenes. Whatever the requirement, if your next project calls for some seriously intense high-register noise, this one's got you covered.
Looking for creepy ambiences? The Horrid delivers 4 dark ambient / industrial / horror compositions and their complete stem layers (22 files included – a total of more than 70 minutes of ambiences), for when you need to create a truly unsettling atmosphere.
Use a single track, or combine and remix your own variations. Rather than static tones, you will find significant, evolving themes here. Seamless loops, metadata included.
Need futuristic sounds? Sci-fi Evolution is a massive compilation of more than 1700 audio files – and it covers a lot of ground! Check out the full selection below.
The Torture Chamber puts you right into the perspective of the torture victim. Featuring screams, power tools, floor creaks, bone breaks, shackles, struggles, room tones and more. We captured and designed effects inside and outside of the studio, all in 24Bit 96kHz, allowing for further manipulation.
All vocalisations (and most of the effects) are provided without reverb, so that you can drop them straight into your mix and add your own spatial effects. Perfect for use in Film, TV, Game and horror productions.
Here are the included folders:
Foley: Sounds from both the victim and torturer, including different weapons of choice and the sounds of struggling.
Vocalisations: Screams, shouts and other terrifying vocals.
Ambiences: Roomtones and other elements to build your horrifying chamber.
Incidental Effects: Bursted pipes, distant dog barks, and rat movements to accent the world around your room of pain.
“SURREAL” is a collection of 100 Sound Effects for creating surreal moments in your productions and allows you to generate a bizarre experience to mess up with the listener mind.
The sounds were created using a great variety of sources such as: transverse flutes, kalimbas, thunder drums and electric guitars to give the effects a more meaningful and emotive feeling.
But if you are looking sounds to induce tension and suspense, this library is great for you too.
Crazy atmospheres • Drones • Detuned piano: Atmosphere, rarities and reverses • Atmospheric guitars • Atmospheric kalimbas • Glitches • Whooshes • And much more
The sounds are great for any kind of production (games, trailers, movies).
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.
“REVERSE” is a collection of 32 Sound Effects created using reversed sounds processed with extreme changes in speed and pitch.
You will find atmospheric and surrealistic production elements that works on their own to induce time, tension and mystery, or you can combine them with your current collection of production elements to create a more rich and complex sound.
These sounds have a cinematic feeling and are great for any kind of Sci-Fi or horror production (games, trailers, movies).
If you want to terrify your audience - whether it's for a game, movie or another project that calls for bone-chilling sounds - the horror sound effects libraries from the independent sound community are a fantastic tool for making that happen.
They give you everything from haunting ghost sounds, gruesome and gory sound effects and demonic possessions, to frightening and disturbing ambiences, screams, whispers and grotesque zombie sounds - making sure your audience will get a sonic experience that's sure to leave a mark.
Bones breaking, breathing, chains rattling, creaking doors, demonic laughter, footsteps, ghostly whispers, gore splatter, heartbeats, knife slash, monster roar, music box, screams, screeching violins, siren, stabbing, thunder, water dripping, wind howling, zombie groan
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Q: Are these sounds royalty free?
A: Yes, they're royalty free, and no attribution is required
Q: Who has recorded and designed these sounds?
A: They're created by the independent sound community, and have been recorded by some of the best recordists and sound designers on the planet. There's a constant flow of brand new sound libraries coming from the community, giving you the absolutely freshest sound effects available anywhere. Oh, and by getting sounds from the community, you support individual sound designers and sound recordists – that’s a pretty cool thing too.
The second part of the tournament begins!
This is the second volume of our “Fight Fury” library series, in which you will find at your disposal 445 high-quality sound effects so that you can create the best fighting experience in your video games, movies or audio projects.
In this volume we have focused on sounds that we thought were missing in our first volume, such as various announcer voices, special hits, special bone breaking effects, a high variety of bone and blood sounds, etc. (See full list of sounds in the Metadata PDF).
All of our sound effects have been previously recorded with ultrasonic microphones such as the Sanken CO-100K at 192kHz-96kHz and 24-bit, later edited at 192kHz and finally also distributed at 192kHz – 24-bit, so whether you are a sound designer or just want to drag any of the sounds into your project, you will be guaranteed the highest possible quality.
For this library, you can separately purchase the construction kit called “Veggie Fury”, with which we have created all the bone, gut and blood sounds, so that you too can create your own version of these sounds.
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
– 445 unique fight sounds
– Format: 192KHz / 24 bits
– Do Sound FX loop No
– Minutes of audio provided: 7 minutes and 25 second
Forged in Fury Vol. 1: Modular Sounds for Epic Combat
Break down, customize, and master every detail of your combat effects with Forged in Fury Vol. 1, a collection of 394 brutal sounds in 192kHz/24. Includes katana, heavy axe, metal claws, and layer-by-layer edited vocals for total control.
🔪 Katana (193 sounds):
Double whooshes, precise slashes, impacts, blood splatters.
Mix layers of edge and secondary effects (e.g. combine a quick whoosh with a feminine scream).
🪓 Heavy Axe (96 sounds):
Powerful whooshes, crushing blows, equip sounds, blood effects.
Combine the roar of metal with the sounds of breaking bones.
🔗 Metal Claws (37 sounds):
Mechanical opening/closing, scratching, cutting whoosh.
Ideal for fast movements and surprise attacks.
🗣️ Male & Female Voices (68 Sounds):
War cries, moans of pain, grunts of effort.
Use them alone or synced with weapon effects.
✨ Key Feature:
Each sound includes its own editable layers (e.g. whoosh + impact + blood). Do you want a bloodless ax swing? only the whoosh of a katana?, only blood? Modify it instantly.
🎚️ Studio Quality:
Recorded in 192kHz/24-32 bits, delivered in 192kHz/24 bits. Perfect for toning down, adding distortion or manipulating without losing clarity.
More about the pack
– Intuitive file naming
– All you’ll ever need regarding katana, heavy ax and claw [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 other than the one described, remember that the world of sound is totally subjective.
The Zombie Apocalypse has arrived, and the virus is spreading fast. This comprehensive sound library features 20,000 high quality zombie sounds, making it the most complete zombie sound collection ever released.
Expert Vocalizations
In today’s films and video games, zombies have four distinct vocal archetypes. The renowned creature voice talents from The Monster Factory have expertly performed all these vocalizations, covering every genre of zombie imaginable—from the fast-paced, ultra-rabid freshly infected to the slow, hauntingly wailing undead. Our team has been trusted by AAA video game companies for over 15 years, contributing creature vocalizations to games like Star Wars Outlaws, Dead by Daylight, Until Dawn, Hellblade 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, and many more. Their expertise in creating immersive audio nightmares is highly sought-after in the industry.
More Actions and Variations
Unlike typical sound libraries that limit diversity by offering only a few choices, Zombie Apocalypse delivers a wider range of actions and variations. With more options for nuanced performances, you can ensure that the sounds match every movement and action of your characters. The Zombie Apocalypse library covers a wide range of actions and intensity level, including:
• Breathing, Walking, Running
• Idle, Detection, Attacks
• Pain & Death sequences
• Biting, Chewing, Choking, and much more!
For the full list of actions, click here.
Voice Layering Options
For greater customization, we recorded each action with a consistent phonetic script, ensuring that different voice techniques can be perfectly layered together. You can mix 2, 3, or even 4 different voice techniques, giving you endless possibilities to create unique zombie sounds or even non-zombie creatures. Though designed primarily for zombies, this library’s layering capabilities make it versatile enough to design an array of creatures and monsters. It’s the most flexible collection of creature vocalizations available.
Distant Microphone Recording
While recording, we used a second Sanken CO-100K microphone positioned 3 meters away from the first, adding depth and nuance to the recordings. These distant microphone audio files will help you create richer ambiances, ensuring that not all zombies sound the same or come from the same distance.
Unparalleled Level of Audio Quality for Unparalleled Level of Terror
Recorded at Tone Studio in Montreal by James Duhamel, the Zombie Apocalypse library offers pristine audio fidelity with a 192 kHz/24-bit sample rate. This, combined with the talents of trusted voice actors and the increased variety of actions and variations, the layering option to keep your listeners immersed and on edge, makes Zombie Apocalypse the most complete and unique sound library on the market. If it is not the first zombie sound library you have bought, this one will definitely be your last.
Rich Metadata Embedded
Every file comes with UCS naming and detailed metadata, including file descriptions and keywords, ensuring that you can quickly find the right sounds for your project.
This release features 873 screams, shouts, moans, grunts, hisses from female/male humans, zombies, monsters and creatures. Fantastic for horror, suspense, thrillers, action movies and games
All sounds are 100% dry. Reverb was just applied for the demo.
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