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Spectacular sci-fi sound effects, from robot sounds, spacecraft and lasers to other futuristic sounds

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Drones & Moods Dark Deepsea Drones Play Track 8 sounds included, 51 mins total $22

Venture into the unknown with Dark Deepsea Drones, consisting of 8 long drone soundscapes:

Soundscapes included:
1 Into the Deep (6:50)
2 Pressure Induced Hallucination (5:51)
3 Abstract Mytosis (2:23)
4 Aquatic Appocalypse (4:31)
5 Obscure Entity (4:12)
6 Lost in the Abyss (12:26)
7 Drifting Away (9:21)
8 Amongst Jellyfish (5:34)

Artwork by Annemie Van Roey

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Destruction & Impact Dark Dimensions 1 – Dark Science-Fiction Cinematics Play Track 126 sounds included $59

Hard hitting and dark science-fiction sounds and effects, all delivered in high definition 96kHz / 24bit.

The AUDIO IMPERIA “Dark Dimensions” series is specifically designed for dark and aggressive science fiction trailer campaigns, using the talents of sound designer and renowned producer Paul Ortiz.

It comes with custom Kontakt Patches, using powerful open-source engine Photosynthesis, and requires the full version of Kontakt 5.4.2.245 or higher (the patches will not run in the free Kontakt Player).

Dark Dimensions 1 includes:
Booms • Downers • Drones • Designed Hits • Futuristic FX • Pulses 3/4 • Pulses 4/4 • Reversed FX • Risers • Slow Stingers • Whooshes

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Sci-Fi Dark Sci-Fi UI Play Track 1000+ sounds included $60

Are you looking for a dark-sounding user interface sound library? Something that calls back to movies like Prometheus or Oblivion? Then look no further. This library is made for sci-fi films and games, with its futuristic loops, drones, transitions, buttons, glitches and plenty more. These are the sounds that can flesh out the advanced technology in your spacecraft's cabin as it wanders deep in the outer limits of the universe.

Dark Sci Fi User Interface Sounds gets you:
• 1000+ Sounds
• 1.27 Gigs
• Beeps, Buttons, Glitches, Loops, Drones, Calculations, Transitions, Ons, Offs, and More!
• Stereo 96kHz/24bit
• Metadata included for programs like Soundminer

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Drones & Moods Dark SciFi Drones Play Track 116 sounds included, 232 mins total $35

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.

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Drones & Moods Dark SciFi Drones + Construction Kit Play Track 379 sounds included, 379 mins total $50

A bundle containing a collection of very disturbing and scary futuristic spaceship ambiences, Sci-Fi Drones and organic, surreal alien-atmospheres. This special bundle gets you both full mixes, as well as drones carefully split into logical frequency layers for maximum flexibility.

This gives you better control, allows you to do your own mix of these elements, and you can combine and mix the different layers across the ambiences using drag&drop to create nearly endless variations. It also makes it easy to do creative up-mixes to surround.

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Drones & Moods Dark World Vol. 1 Play Track 50+ sounds included, 250 mins total $75

‘Dark World’ is a collection of 50 drones and moods (250 mins +) that explore ideas of designed spaces.

Blurring the lines between score and sound design, ‘Dark World’ combines sound effects and musical instruments to create tense, beautiful and eerie moods. Made for composers and sound designers and ideal for surround sound placement.

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Hum, Buzz & Glitches Data Disruption Play Track 200 sounds included ~~$15~~ $11.25

Databending: A digital art form where flaws in digital systems are exploited and used for creative purposes.

Data Disruption contains 200 sounds sourced from raw computer files which have been interpreted as audio data. Bitmaps, executables, plugin files and more have been exploited to bring you a unique, varied collection of sound effects and atmospheres ready for a range of productions.

This sound collection has 100 'raw' files which include harsh, random data noises, intense drones and a versatile selection of glitch one shots as well as 100 processed sounds which were subject to extreme editing and mangling to deliver an array of abstract sonic artefacts.

Most useful for scenarios where computer technology – known or otherwise – is glitching out, these sounds are best suited to Science Fiction productions which call for the noise of broken communications, signal failures, ailing machines, industrial settings, planetary ambience and dystopian soundworlds.

That's not to say they won't also come in handy for Glitch/IDM music producers looking to build up an original collection of sounds for their latest kit, or for the creative sound designer to further shape these sounds into anything from user interface clicks, blips and bleeps to surreal soundscapes and beyond.

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Electricity Data Processing Play Track 160 sounds included, 14 mins total $40

Data Processing is a sound effects library that emulates the movement of data and adds digital texture to your sound design.

Use these effects as building blocks to build digital, robotic, harsh, abstract and glitchy sound design or music. Also great as user interface elements.

We recorded and designed data transfer from 5G, WIFI, Solid State Drives, USB-C and more, as well as using analogue synthesizers, guitar pedals and raw data files to enhance the library.

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Hum, Buzz & Glitches Designed Circuits Play Track 272 sounds included, 46 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$35

Designed Circuits captures the essence of electric circuits and transforms them into something new. It features special sound effects, ambiences, glitches, drones, and more, that range from heavily designed to basic elements.

Recorded with a LOM Elektrosluch 3+, designed with various fx tools.

Created in collaboration with sound designer Will Organ.

Designed Circuits highlights:

272 24bit/96kHz WAV files / Meta-tagged
58 Ambiences
17 Glitches
24 Hums
52 SFX
44 Harmonics
29 Interferences
38 Noise Bursts
10 Source Recordings

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Fire Designed Fire Play Track 255 sounds included, 34 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
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Designed Fire explores the further sonic realms of a powerful element. It features special effects, ambiences, swooshes, whooshes, fly-bys, drones, textures, glitches and more, that range from heavily designed to basic elements.

Created in collaboration with Thibault Csukonyi.

Designed Fire highlights:

255 24bit / 96kHz WAV files / Meta-tagged (Soundminer)
89 Swooshes / Wooshes
75 Short elements
29 Impacts
28 Winds
34 Textures

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Ice Designed Ice Play Track 48+ sounds included, 10 mins total $15

Designed Ice features creatively designed field recordings to create both exciting ice sound effects and evolving textures, that combine the natural sounds of ice with otherworldly and experimental digital post-processing.

Designed Ice highlights:

48 24bit / 96kHz WAV files / Meta-tagged (Soundminer)
21 Elements
17 Evolutions
10 Source Recordings

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Sci-Fi Designed Mecha Play Track 47 sounds included, 7 mins total $25

Designed Mecha is all about exploring the inner and outer working mechanisms of an at times slightly malfunctioning mecha and its environment. It features various kinds of mecha / robot sound effects, ambiences, mechanism and servo sounds, impacts, and glitches.

Created in collaboration with Bend Audio Design.

Designed Mecha highlights:

47 24bit / 96kHz WAV files / Meta-tagged
33 Elements
14 Evolutions

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Drones & Moods Designed Rocks Play Track 63+ sounds included, 12 mins total $15

Designed Rocks features crumbling and cracking rock sound effects, shattering glitches, evolving textures, and everything in between.

Created in collaboration with field recordist Bryan Hirst.

Designed Rocks includes:

• 63 24bit / 96kHz WAV files / Meta-tagged (Soundminer)
• 28 Evolutions
• 25 Elements
• 10 Source Recordings

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Destruction & Impact Designed Weapons Play Track 216 sounds included, 8 mins total ~~$60~~ $40

'Designed Weapons' by Cinematic Sound Design features a selection of designed weapons, weapon loadings, re-programmings, interface sounds & cinematic backgrounds. Designed specifically for 'First Person Shooter' games and any game & media project, where guns, sci-fi elements are essential, this unique product delivers a massive palette of sounds for your production library.

Product Details:

• 86 Designed Weapons: Bursts & One Shots
• 30 Cinematic Atmospheres & Drones
• 97 Sci-Fi Re-programmings & Weapon Loadings
• 3 Distant Explosions
• 216 files in total

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Sci-Fi Digital Dust Play Track 128+ sounds included $40

Digital Dust delivers 128 tracks of pure digital bit-crushing distortion, deep atmospheric drones, and ear-piercing interface sounds.
Digital Dust is not your usual clean and modern computer command sound effects library. All sounds have been designed from real world electrical or organic recorded sounds.

Granulated, stretched, pitched and mangled in endless chains of plugins and hardware, for very different and almost apocalyptic kinds of rogue computer command sounds. The samples can easily be stretched or processed even more, for even weirder sound fx.

The library contains:
26 Drones/atmospheric beds. All are minimum 1 minute long, and are easily loopable.
61 Glitchy, bitcrushing FX.
41 Otherworldly signal FX.

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Horror Distorted Perception Play Track 146 sounds included, 44 mins total $25

Need to create a tense atmosphere to induce madness, craziness and fear in your Horror or Sci-fi project? DISTORTED PERCEPTION is the library for you.

Abnormal melodies, strange sound movements, transitions and distorted cinematic impacts are some of the things you will find in this collection; sounds with a distorted, saturated and tense feeling to grab people’s attention and provoke fear, tension and suspense in them.

You can also use the sounds to enhance musical productions or create some nasty and crazy musical moments, thanks to a nice selection of percussive elements. The library contains two musical compositions using only the sounds in this library (using the percussive sounds with some of the atmospheres and transitions). Apart of being a great library for Horror or Sci-fi games and movies, this collection works well for trailers too.

Sounds included:
Atmospheric elements: Abnormal melodies, feedback and tense drones • Cinematic basses • Saturated bass drops • Distorted cinematic impacts • Sci-fi impacts • Sound movements • Noises • Percussive elements: Drum kicks, distorted drum kicks, hi-hats, snare drums, movements and sequences • Transitions

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