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Spectacular sci-fi sound effects, from robot sounds, spacecraft and lasers to other futuristic sounds
This is a remaster of our 1st library. Every sample has been reworked to punch harder and yet take less headroom. It now has 2243 unique sounds, 648 of these are brand new! That’s more than 2GB of content, running at 1:04:29.
In this pack, you will find everything you need to create amazing Sci-fi impacts and whooshes. You have access to complex cinematic sounds, sources and FX to create your own unique stuff, a special folder of sub and transient heavy sounds to add oomph and punch to any sound, as well the star of the show: the Designed Weapons.
Whether you are looking for a laser sword or an electric hammer, you will quickly find something ready to use in this pack. We have included 20 predesigned weapons complete with whooshes, hits and blocks variations. The 3 new weapons included also have more variations and some extra goodies such as parries or positive and negative blocks.
Everything is in 24bit 96khz and uses the UCS naming convention.
Have fun! :)
AUDIO SUMMONERS
“Tiny Transitions 2” is the successor to the very popular Tiny Transitions sound effects library.
Re-load your ammo belt with not-so-intrusive production elements that come in very handy for any Sound Designer, All-In-One Film Editor or Web-, App- and Game-Developers.
If you already knew the first library you know what to expect: even more, even better and more versatile to bring instant sonic support for all kinds of small animations, motion graphics, pass-bys, menues, projectiles, …
All the subtle motion elements that you need in your everyday work for games, apps, commercial, films or general motion designs.
You get 350 ready to use designed sounds + a composite selection of 320 cleaned and edited source sounds that were used to design the Tiny Transitions. These sounds are mostly different props that are scraping or sliding on different surfaces and also some vocalized whoosh attempts.
All source sounds were recorded with Sonosax SX-R4+ with a Sennheiser MKH8050+MKH30 M/S rig, a Sound Devices MixPre-6 with a MK8060+ATE208 M/S rig and a Sony PCM-D100.
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
Metal Atmosphere is a collection of contact microphone recordings of wire fences vibrating in the wind.
The library consists of 29 recordings ranging from 1 minute to over 10 minutes in length. These have been recorded by taping JrF contact microphones to wire fences and other structures through which sound travels easily.
Most of the sounds are made by the wind “playing” the wires as a huge stringed instrument, while a few others are recordings of submerged wooden fences. The tone is generally dark, even menacing, bringing desolate spaces to mind.
The sounds can be used as backgrounds even if they technically aren’t proper ambiences, as there is a certain degree of similarity between the two channels which creates a fake stereo field. About half of the files also include wind gusts and wind-specific dynamics which renders them easily identifiable as wind sounds, only with extra metal elements added. Additionally there are countless impacts, risers and swells included which can easily be cut out and used as spot effects. All files are recorded and mastered at 24/96 quality which makes them excellent sound design elements ripe for serious processing.
In total, more than 2 hours of metal atmospheres and resonances from unique sources – tagged with comprehensive metadata.
Meet Bleep – The adorable robot vocal library that will melt the collective hearts of your audience. With all the vocalizations you need to give your cute robotic characters a life of their own.
Includes 211 vocals spanning over an amazing array of expressions!
819 8-bit retro gaming sound effects covering all aspects of a games design, UI, character motion, collections, coins, power-ups, achievements, dialogs and more!
You’ll find achievements, alerts, attacks, lasers, bells, blips, bloops, bleeps, bombs, bubbles, button clicks, chirps, explosions, impacts, jumps, shots, sending, receiving, magic spells, reactions, stun guns, space junk, summoning, glitches, confirms, collects, notification, open menu, close menu, connect, disconnect, engage, lock on, whoosh, power on, power off, and swipe to just name a handful but so much more! A total of 12 minutes and 33 seconds of pure 8-bit delights!
Music is only heard in the demo. Downloads are ultra high resolution and without background music.
Whether you need sci-fi ambiences in surround or stereo, the bundle gives you the tools for doing it properly:
Sci-fi Ambiences Surround Design Box:
• More than 50 ready-to-use sci-fi ambiences in 5.0 surround
• Easy integration: All files loop perfectly and have a uniform length of 40s
• A fresh selection of extremely abstract, organic sounds in stunning sound quality
• Soundscapes, drones, machine, steam, motor sounds, radio messages, eerie textures & more
• Each surround sound is comprised of 5 separate sounds in mono: L, R, C, LS, RS
• Perfectly balanced surround sounds for easy integration in games, cinematics & radio play
• HD 24 Bit / 96 kHz for frequencies up to 40 kHz and easy pitching
• All sounds are royalty free and instantly downloadable
Sci-fi Ambiences Stereo Construction Kit:
• More than 120 sci-fi ambiences in stereo
• Easy integration: All files loop perfectly and have a uniform length of 40s
• A fresh selection of extremely abstract, organic sounds in stunning sound quality
• Soundscapes, drones, machine, steam, motor sounds, radio messages, eerie textures & more
• HD 24 Bit / 96 kHz for frequencies up to 40 kHz and easy pitching
• Easy, effective workflow with comprehensive EBU/BWF and WAV-Metadata (for use in any DAW)
• All sounds are royalty free and instantly downloadable
Sci-fi Ambiences Surround + Stereo Bundle:
Get both versions together for maximum flexibility and some nice savings!
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.
Featuring over 2.4GB of designed sound effects, and over 1.6GB of source recordings, Robotic Lifeforms spans a wide range of robot sounds, from small bots to massive automatons.
• 1,700+ designed sound effects
• 950+ source recordings
• 230+ transforming sound layers
• 160+ morphing sound layers
• 650+ servo file
FOUNDATION SERIES:SCI-FI is a collection of 164 carefully designed and rendered sci-fi sound effects.
FS SCI-FI is everything you need to start working on your new science fiction project.
Seamlessly looping, rich ambiances, weapons, mech footsteps, doors, UI/HUD SFX, pass-bys, robotic movements, transformations and more.
FS SCI-FI is a perfect collection for your next indie project. Created with indie gamedevs/anaimators/filmmakers in mind.
Recently used on: Robot Will Protect You
Download includes additional 44.1kHz 16Bit version for Unreal Engine.
RECORDED WITH: PCM D100, NTG3
CREATED WITH: Pro Tools, Live, Reaktor, Modular
BLURRY DREAMS is a collection of 203 unusual, beautiful-sounding, abstract sounds.
Add a dreamy touch to your next project. Make abstract sounding UIs, implement beautiful and dreamy sounds
into your next game, setup magical notification on your stream and more. Explore magical granular sounds, abstract evolving drones, anime-like swells and pings and hypnotic transitions.
Blurry Dreams was created with game developers, sound designers and streamers in mind.
The collection was created using both hardware and software synths and organic recordings.
All SFX have baked-in Soundminer metadata.
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Senhheiser MKH8060
EDITED WITH: iZotope RX, Reaktor, Adaptiverb, Modular, FabFilter, Pugment, TC Electronics, Pro Tools.
Robobiotics is an exciting new sound effects collection from The Library by Empty Sea. It delivers 3600+ original sound effects for scifi and robots. We’re talking about almost 3 hours of material here.
We spent over a year recording and designing Lasers, Robot Vox, Impacts, Servos, Ratcheting Metal, Ambiances, Transformations, Foley, Vehicle Bys and much much more!
The Red Libraries teamed up with Thibault Csukonyi and Frederic Devanlay to create this new collection called Space Battle Artillery – the first in a series of sound libraries offering sounds from a futuristic fight universe.
This first volume, Artillery, is a series of heavy weapons designed for spaceships, vehicles, robots or on a base.
A mix between Sci-Fi and Steam punk, suited for all types of Sci-Fi universes.
• 20 weapons designed with single shots and bursts (Cannons, Rocket launchers, Gun turrets, Lasers)
• Separate components of each each weapon in the form of synchronized layers, allowing you to make up your own creations by interchanging the different layers.
• A toolbox containing textures, servos, mechanisms, impacts and much more items.
Crafted with Kyma, Reaktor, Synths and with Nuendo 10
NeoVolt is a carefully curated collection of over 600 electricity sounds across 60 files. Inspired by the iconic Tesla coil zap sound from Red Alert, but with so much more to offer. Perfect for any scenario featuring electricity, magic, or futuristic sci-fi elements. Contains both designed audio and source files.
Discover nearly 7 hours of individually flavoured, hauntingly musical and ever-evolving drones, packaged neatly into 79 of the kind of audio files that you can never have enough of.
In many ways, Aberrant Drones is the sister library of the Augmentation Elements library, as it provides you with the creative tools required to augment your sound design.
Whilst the Augmentation Elements library arms you with tools such as whooshes, risers and stings, allowing you to sweeten specific elements of your sound design, the Aberrant Drones library allows you to augment the mood of an entire scene. Each audio file is populated with richly descriptive SoundMiner metadata, making it easier than ever before to sift through hours of abstract drones.
This is why the metadata is usually described in terms of feeling and mood, like so:
Drone,Sci-Fi,Abstract,Cacophonous,Glowing,Impending Doom
Drone,Sci-Fi,Abstract,Textured,Vibrating,Oscillating,Anxiety
Augment your creative tool-box with Aberrant Drones, and transform your sound design work!
For really in-depth reviews, check out the articles on 344audio.com and strongmocha.com
Robotic Lifeforms Lite Edition features 800+ robot sound effects – from small bots to massive automatons. It includes transforms, morphs & servos – essentials from our larger Robotic Lifeforms Soundpack.
Robotic Lifeforms Lite Edition features:
• 475+ designed sound effects
• 325+ source recordings
• 60+ transforming sound layers
• 100+ morphing and mechanism layers
• 200+ servos, drills, metal, & industrial layers
– all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata
ARCADIA | A comprehensive selection of characterful 8-bit/retro sound effects with a modern touch.
From quivering deaths to delicate locks and intense doors, this collection takes the modernised-retro style to a whole new level. We wanted to create something more interesting and exciting than just being fully faithful to the 8-bit genre.
This collection contains sounds such as: Alarms, Ambiences, Attacks, Calculations, Damages, Deaths, Doors, Errors, Explosions, Notifications, Jumps, Falls, Footsteps, Weapons, Impacts, Item Pickups, Machines, Monsters, Projectiles, Radio Disturbances, Whooshes and Music Tracks. Take a look at our data sheet for the complete list.
All sounds are royalty free and equipped with comprehensive Soundminer metadata for rapid access.
“Robot Voices” is a collection of designed vocal expressions of 50 friendly and very talkative robotic creatures. If Wall-E and R2D2 were throwing a cocktail party this is probably what you would hear! A total of 50 robotic creatures are included.
• 50 Robotic creatures speaking
• Many expressions per robot (25 – 65 individual words and sentences for each robot character)
• Descriptive filenames
• Embedded Soundminer metadata
ROBOTICS SOUND DESIGN TOOLKIT
The Industrial Robot sound collection contains many recordings and performances of an ABB industrial robot. Robot sounds like these are perfect for designing pneumatic doors, sci-fi weapons or robots, futuristic engines and vehicles, hydraulics, spaceships and more.
RECORDINGS OF A REAL ROBOT
Industrial robots perform many different tasks and create, thanks to their flexible movement abilities, a lot of interesting sounds. In order to capture all these sound possibilities, the company we worked with prepared and programmed the robot especially for our recording sessions.
THE RECORDING PROCESS
The robot’s six axes and a sound-proof room provided us with a perfect recording base. We recorded each of the six axes at three speeds from different perspectives in mono and stereo, giving you a fundamental collection that you can use to design all sorts of robot and servo sounds. You also get more specific sounds resulting from different work performances, leading to pitch-modulated movements such as fast and slow acceleration. In addition to the robot recordings, you will receive various snapping sounds, clicks and tool handlings to round off the sound package.
All in all this library contains 142 files with more than 500 individual sounds.
Jon Lipman
Sound Designer, Sony Pictures
“I’m not sure where you found this robot but it’s just amazing for technical, sci-fi and gadget design. I’m normally pitching down household appliances or car doors to achieve these sort of sounds – thank you for going out and recording the actual thing!!”
Ok, ok, before you hit the preview button…back in school a friend made a short film with lots of fighting and light sabres. Who doesn’t want to try their hand at making those? This was my valiant attempt as a fledgling sound designer. They ain't the real thing but perhaps useful nonetheless. Enjoy!
96KHZ 24BIT • 1.14GB • 340 FILES • META DATA
CYBESPHERE is an extensive collection of 340 meticulously crafted UI/HUD sound effects. This library stands out with its unique blend of classic analog and FM synthesis, alongside multi-layered, experimental one-shots and sequences. What sets CYBESPHERE apart is its focus on gritty, analog-style sound effects, diverging from the typical high-tech, polished UI audio. These sounds evoke a more organic feel.
The collection features a diverse range of UI/HUD elements, including beeps, alarms, computational sounds, opening and closing effects, glitches, and more. Each effect has been thoughtfully designed using both hardware and software.
Recently used on: Robot Will Protect You, TBS’s FINAL SPACE
CREATED WITH: Pro Tools, Live, Reaktor, Modular.
Quadcopter Drone CX10 is a small radio controlled toy with a feisty character that could be described as a robotic version of an angry bee.
This library covers in detail everything you can do with this little neat quadcopter drone. You get sounds of acceleration, deceleration, steady engine fly loops of various speeds, engine revs, fast turns, ground hoppings and takeoffs. In case you need them I also recorded collisions and landings on various surfaces like carpet, metal, rock, plastic etc. Surprisingly these sounds are quite suitable for user interface sounds too.
The steady engine fly loop sounds are really useful when you want to create your own flyby / passby sounds. I can also imagine using this library to add some unique flavour to winged insecty characters in a game or just to richen otherwise bland engine sounds.
The whole library was recorded in 96KHz 24bit quality so these sounds are really flexible if you want to experiment with pitch, stretch and other audio tools.
You get the sounds in two formats: 96 KHz 24 bit and in 44.1 KHz 16 bit, for more convenient ways of utilizing the sounds in games and other media.
This library gives you a variety of heavy hitting Impacts and epic whooshes as well as science fiction fly-by sounds or stabbing trailer synths.
If you need the right Impacts for your next movie trailer or a big pass by for your science fiction short movie, „Whoosh and Push“ will have the right sound for you.
A total of 489 sound effects are in this library. Consisting of 148 impacts and synth effects, and 341 Whooshes and Fly-Bys.
The follow up to SoundMorph's hit cinematic library Sinematic, Sinematic 2 is now here! We've gone all out to bring you the best of the best in designed and source files, more than doubling the size of the first release! Designed in collaboration with the same world class sound designers as Robotic Lifeforms 2 and Sinematic…we are really proud to give you even more awesome Sinematic goodness! This library was created over the last 2 years using extensive high end recording techniques, KYMA, and Euro Rack Modular setups.
Sinematic 2 was created by and in collaboration with Thibault Csukonyi and Boris Haladjian (Robotic Lifeforms 2) and Real Cardinal (BioWare, Sinematic, Microsoft).
Sinematic 2 features more than 1,000 24bit/96 kHz .wav files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata, including:
500 + designed sound effects
550 + source audio files
Deep Impacts
Synthesized Impacts
Risers
Stingers
Lowend Hits
Subtle and Iconic
Passbys
Textures – noise, grit, glitch
Booms
Reversed FX
High Pitched
Motion Graphics
Impulse Responses
Make your futuristic projects shine with sci-fi sounds crafted by some of the finest sound designers in the world and, quite likely, the galaxy. Whether you're looking for sounds of spaceships, futuristic weapons and laser blasters, alien interfaces, advanced science and technology, otherworldly engine pass-bys, powerful robotic sound elements or many other types of sounds from the future, the 1000s of custom-designed science fiction sound effects from the independent sound community give you targeted collections to maximize the sonic impact of your futuristic projects.
Alien voices, blaster shot, computer voice, drone engine, force field, futuristic door, glitch, hover engine, laser beam, morphed metal, pulse, quantum leap, robotic voice, sci-fi alarm, space ship, teleportation, time warp, tractor beam, warp drive, whoosh.
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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.
Spell Variations Vol. 4 marks the grand finale of our magical sound series, delivering a diverse and powerful collection of spell effects. Inside, you’ll find summonings, blood spells, petrifications, healing spells, dark incantations, and much more!
This volume includes 255 high-quality sound effects, organized into 27 distinct spell types, each with multiple variations (3 to 17) to ensure no spell sounds the same, even when reused across your project.
Each spell type is carefully named and sorted into individual folders, giving you intuitive navigation and maximum flexibility for magical scenes, game effects, or cinematic transitions.
Recorded, edited, and mastered in 192 kHz / 24-bit, these sounds deliver exceptional clarity and full adaptability for pitching, layering, or creative processing.
A must-have library for professional sound designers seeking drag-and-drop magical sounds for video games, trailers, animations, or any audiovisual production.
More about the pack
– Intuitive file naming
– All you’ll ever need regarding magical 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
– 255 spell sounds
– Number of Audio Waves: 255
– Format: 192KHz / 24 bits
– Win/Mac: Yes
– Minutes of audio provided: 19:21
Florida Thunder by Eric Berzins contains 111 distinct wav files with over 200 dry thunderclaps and over 300 thunderclaps with rain. All files were recorded in the US state of Florida between 2021 and 2025. Florida has more lightning strikes than any other U.S. state! All files have been meticulously edited and cleaned, and have embedded UCS-compliant Soundminer metadata.
Audiobeast is proud to present our second sample library; the only library of its kind to focus entirely on weapons being fired in urban environments! For this recording session we were given access to a military training site known as a FIBUA (Fighting In Built-Up Area) consisting of streets with a variety of buildings, vehicles, and exclusive permission to fire weapons in several locations. Pictures of the street and gas station locations and firing points are included.
The aim of this library was to offer the slapback type tails needed for gun sound design for convincing city scenes in film, games and tv production. It’s always been difficult to find gun recordings in a city environment so we hope this library helps sound people everywhere.
This Library contains over 3 GBs of weapons being fired in multiple urban environments, a street, outside of a gas station and inside of a tower block. 218 WAV files of single shots, bursts and many with multiple takes, all recorded at 96 khz 24 bit, with heaps of information on microphones used and distance from the firearms.
Various distances were captured, from the DPA4062 on the guns themselves, to the distant other end of the street 100 metres away. To add, some mics were positioned around corners, a nearby graveyard, through walls and in armored vehicles to capture a variety of perspectives.
Minimal cleanup on the recordings was carried out very carefully so as not to introduce any artefacts into the recordings, they are presented as raw as possible.
If you need a wider selection of interior gun recordings please check out our first library – The London Warehouse Firearms library
Animal Hyperrealism Vol III is a library containing sounds themed animal vocalisations, from real to designed creatures totaling more than 1700 individual sounds in 279 files.
The sounds were recorded in zoos and wildlife centers. The asset list includes but is not limited to: european red deers, monkeys, reindeers, hornbills camels, crickets, tamarins, boars, frogs, red ruffed lemurs, parrots, and many more.
The content has been recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K plus a Sennheiser 8050 for center image and a couple of Sennheiser MKH8040 for stereo image.
Part of the cheats section of the library features samples recorded at 384KHz. For these sounds an additional microphone was employed, specifically the CMPA by Avisoft-Bioacoustics which records up to 200 KHz. This microphone was used to record most of the library but the 384KHz format was preserved only where energy was found beyond 96KHz not to occupy unnecessary disk space.
All files are delivered as stereo bounce of these for mics, though in some instances an additional couple of CO100K was added to the sides.
The resulting ultrasonic spectrum is rich and allows for truly extreme manipulation of the content.
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