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Spaceships, futuristic engines, hyperdrives, warps, pass-bys, power-ups and many other sci-fi sounds
Own the entire Studio Obsidian library, over 17 hours’ worth of 10,000 sounds sculpted by sound designer Nathan Moody. This bundle includes:
ANALOGUE ORDNANCE: Science Fiction Weapon Construction Kit
SHIPSCAPE: Shipboard Ambiences
METALMOTION: Moving Metallic Textures
ULTRASQUISH: Unique Ultrasonic Gore
AEOLUS: Dark Wind Textures
METALLITRONIC: Vibrating Metal Textures
SIGIL: Dark Electro-Acoustic Textures
The all-time classic ARP 2600 was a synthesizer that was an immediate hit with musicians and sound designers when it was released in 1971. Most famously, it’s the very synth that Ben Burtt used to give R2D2 his unmistakeable voice.
Semi-modular in nature and with many handy features like voltage modifiers, lag control, ring modulation, a comprehensive noise generator, sample & hold, and 3 independent oscillators, it comes equipped with more features than you’ll find in many of today’s analog synthesizers.
Thanks to the Alan R. Pearlman Foundation and the non-profit studio The Record Co. I was able to access an original, mint condition ARP 2600 that is beautifully maintained and lock myself in a studio with it to capture nearly 7 hours worth of raw sound design material.
Putting the 2600’s immense sound design potential to use, I created this library to help you give robots a voice, create otherworldly ambiances, score computers with the obligatory “bleep bloops”, and craft larger than life weapons with a distinct retro SciFi flair. I also captured the physical, mechanical sounds of patching cords and moving faders on the synth using a pair of LOM UÅ¡i Pro. These sounds are included in a dedicated subfolder.
The resulting sounds range from droid chatter at various root pitches, impacts, drones, noise, and lots of other sonic source that begs to be pitch-shifted and mangled. In fact, the ARP 2600’s pristine analog circuitry and my high-end recording chain capturing it at 192 kHz means that most of the final material features high-frequency content ranging up to nearly 90 kHz!
This means that you can pitch-shift most of these sounds down by up to 2 octaves and uncover new harmonic content along the way. By recording at 32 Bit with the ultra low-noise Zoom F6 and Rheingold Music cables, these recordings are extremely clean and hold up well to intense processing.
While highly abstract in nature, these sounds are a great basis for building:
Metadata: UCS file naming, SoundMiner, Soundly, BWF
Recording Specs: 24 Bit / 192 kHz for the majority of files. 96 kHz for files with less ultrasonic content, Stereo and Mono recordings.
File Format: WAV
Gear used: Genuine ARP 2600 Model 3620 (1974), LOM Uśi Pro Mics, Zoom F6, Rheingold Music Cables, Radial Pro D2 DI Box
Processing:Â Level adjustment, crossfades, spectral noise reduction for recordings using built-in spring reverb.
Volume 2 invites you to explore the subtle ambiance of echoing spaceship corridors, futuristic structure halls, and mysterious passageways. Seamlessly blending with your chosen music, these atonal sounds create a harmonious audio experience. Craft unforgettable soundscapes and elevate your sci fi game from good to great with immersive soundscapes and atmospheres.
A composite collection of scifi whooshes, space ship pass bys, futuristic transitions, digital sweeps, power downs, power ups and digital stutters.
Over 320 sounds to to give that right sonic treatment to passing by sapceships, jets, fireballs, laser beams, rockets, torpedos and futuristic engines. Also computer interfaces, menu transitions, magical whoshes, worm holes and virtual reality settings will get that intense amount acoustic treatment to not only see the motion.
Even breaks, endings and transitions of all different kinds of electronic music will get that extra kick with this sound library.
Spaceship Interiors is a collection of spaceship interior ambience, room tones and alarms. The library weighs in at 10 GB, and contains 210 soundminer and BWAV metadata embedded files – with a total playing time of over 4 hours! Perfect for your next sci-fi, horror or fantasy project.
Orbital Emitter is proud to present Command Center I – a comprehensive sci-fi sound-set providing a rich arsenal of futuristic sounds for you to quickly build believable sci-fi atmospheres for all of your sci-fi projects!
Inside you will find nuanced environments, futuristic instrument displays, multiple alerts and imaginative lo-fi system sounds. And like the rest of our growing library, this environment sound-set can be customized to your liking allowing multiple possibilities -all from this one sound-set!
Our sound-sets are made up of two main folders labeled as Audio-Scenes and Audio-Stems. The Command Center I Audio-Scenes consist of five long playing scenes representing this star-cruiser command center in various modes of operation; -From busy to calm to high alert and more! Think of these audio-scenes like we dropped microphones into a futuristic space cruiser command center and have captured all of its sounds in real-time!
Our Audio-Stems folder contains the curated sound elements used in creating the audio-scenes. This is where you will find isolated sound elements like tactical scans, lost communications, sweeping sensors, enemy alerts, interface sounds, probe telemetries, stellar mapping, systems under incredible stress, interface sounds and much much more!
If we break down the long playing audio-stems into sound types, they would be as follows:
Also included with our audio-stems are less glamorous necessities like room tones and back-wall system sounds to give your futuristic environments the nuance they deserve. This sound-set is delivered industry ready at 24 bit/48kHz WAV and each sound file contains simple meta-data to make our sound files easy to organize & find. All of our sounds are 100% original, 100% royalty free, created in our sound-labs to transport your audience to the stars!
Thank you for reading! Watch for more from Orbital Emitter coming soon!
Fresh on the heels of our successful Command Center 1 sound-set, we have released another imaginative environment from our Star Cruiser Environments Anthology Collection… Orbital Emitter is proud to present, Command Center 2!! – a comprehensive sci-fi sound-set featuring a rich arsenal of futuristic environment sounds for use in any multimedia project! Inside you will find rumbling room tones, retro-futuristic system displays, stellar scans, trans navigational sequences, tactical perimeter warnings, intricate processing sounds, a booming alert klaxon and much much more! And like the rest of our growing library, this environment sound-set can be customized to your liking allowing the creation of multiple environments -all from this one sound-set!
Is Command Center 2 worth purchasing if you’ve already bought Command Center 1? -We think so! Command Center 2 compliments its predecessor because it was designed to be different in direction and focus. While similar in name and type of environment, the two sound-sets are utterly different from one another while still existing in the same sonic universe. Listen to our demo and let your ears decide!
This sound-set is delivered industry ready at 24 bit/48kHz WAV and each sound file contains meta-data to make our sound files easy to organize & find. All of our sounds are 100% original, 100% royalty free, created in our sound-labs and designed to boldly explore the universe of sci-fi sound!
Orbital Emitter proudly presents The Hangar Bay – a comprehensive sci-fi environment sound-set that gives you the tools you need to build fantastic sci-fi hangar atmospheres quickly!
In Science Fiction, hangar bays are cavernous mechanized spaces housing spacecraft ready for interstellar travel. These futuristic hangars usually have flight crews preparing those craft with last minute repairs and fuel as environmental force fields repel the cold vacuum of space just outside…
The Hangar Bay sound-set contains three long playing audio-scenes and twenty-four isolated audio-stems to give you ultimate creative control over our sounds!
The three audio-scenes are like field recordings from the future -like we travelled forward in time and recorded a hangar bay in real time and then sent those sounds back to the now! The three scenes include a high alert scenario with busy activity and a star fighter launch and landing sequence! There is a night shift scene which is calm and relaxed and finally, a scene that puts you down on the flight deck floor in the middle of all the frantic action! These three sound-scenes are rich with original sounds and designed to be flexible and fun to use!
Inside the audio-stems folder you will find the isolated audio elements used to make the audio-scenes! There you will find massive environment backgrounds, hurried activity sounds, pressurized valves hissing, mechanized lifts, bombastic alerts, repair sounds and the cinematic star fighter launch and landing sequences, isolated! The Hangar Bay sound-set is full of futuristic industrial sounds -on a massive scale! And the best part about our sound-sets is that they are so easy to use! Just drag and drop into any DAW or NLE have fun creating your own fantastic environments!
Orbital Emitter’s sound effects are designed to be at home in any motion picture, television show, video game or whatever sci-fi multimedia you can create!
All of the sound-sets in our Star Cruiser Environments Anthology Collection are 100% royalty free, delivered industry ready at 24 bit/48k WAV and each sound file contains simple meta-data to make our sound files easy to organize & find. All of our sounds are 100% original, created in our sound-labs and designed to boldly explore the universe of sci-fi sound!
Thank you for reading and watch for more sci-fi sound from Orbital Emitter coming soon!
Motherships delivers a variety of mind-blowing interstellar mothership drones, transmission noises, inspiring indoor and outdoor ambiences.
It also features detailed computer room sounds with modern beeps and buttons, disturbing mechanical devices, machine room atmospheres, sci-fi radars, laser pulse and energy beams, heavyweight reactor rumbles and many more.
Orbital Emitter is proud to present Star Fighter Cobalt – the second release in our Star Fighter Flight Series!
This comprehensive sound-set provides a rich arsenal of futuristic space fighter sounds for you to use in all of your creative sci-fi productions! Building off our first release, this new and unique star fighter sound-set features powerful engine blasts, interior cockpit perspectives, sync’d interior and exterior flight perspectives, an epic launch and landing sequence, robust fly-bys and two types of powerful weapon blasts presented with varying perspectives! You can use parts of this sound-set to create your own spaceship sounds or simply drag & drop our audio-scenes and audio-stems into your productions as-is! It’s up to you how you want to enjoy our sounds!
What we hope sets this sound-set apart from other space craft sounds from other companies is that our space ship sounds are meant to sound complete– like an actual field recording of a futuristic space fighter taking off, flying around, engaging in battle and landing… All in ONE Sound-Set!!
The Star Fighter Cobalt sound-set contains 32 individual sounds spread over 20 audio files and times out to over 12.5 minutes in total length. It features 24bit/96khz stereo WAV files – embedded with meta-data to help keep the sound files organized.
All of our sounds are 100% original – 100% royalty free – designed for believability, creativity and cinematic impact. We hope you enjoy our sci-fi sounds!
Orbital Emitter is proud to present our first 3 in 1 Sound-Set Bundle, The Upper Decks!
This bundle is made up of of three distinct sound-sets focused on environments found within many science fiction stories and media! The Upper Decks Sound-Set Bundle is comprised of The Control Room, The Medical Bay and The Science Lab!
Each of these environments contain meticulously crafted audio-scenes representing the three environments as well as the curated audio-stems (that are the isolated elements the scenes were made from.)
This sound-set is brimming with imaginative sounds and you have the ability to customize them any way you wish!
The first in our bundle is The Control Room – a somewhat cramped environment with futuristic tech sounding over the hum of nearby power systems. The mood is urgent and a bit rough around the edges- by design! Retro tech mingles with a lone AI speaking and a massive background rumble…
Next is the Medical Bay where the crew goes to be medically evaluated and healed using futuristic techniques. The mood is calm but controlled as a medical procedure unfolds before your ears! There are medical scans, anesthesia fields, healing apparatus and more!
Last is the Science Lab where mysteries are explored using the latest in futuristic scientific equipment! There are vibrant scans, dense subatomic extrapolations and neural data streams that will inspire your imagination!
All of our environments also include the less glamorous necessities like room tones and background rumbles to give your creations the believability they deserve.
The Upper Decks is a great value featuring a diverse palette of creative sounds for you to explore.
Just drag and drop our scenes or stems into any DAW or NLE have fun creating your own fantastic environments!
Orbital Emitter’s sound effects are designed for anyone to use- from industry professionals to fans looking to add dimension to a home video or whatever sci-fi multimedia you can imagine!
All of the sounds in this Bundle are delivered industry ready at 24 bit/48k stereo WAV and each sound file contains simple meta-data to make our sound files easy to organize & find. And everything we create is 100% original, 100% royalty free and designed to teleport your creative to the stars!
Thank you for reading and watch for more sci-fi sound from Orbital Emitter coming soon!
From the Moons of Saturn to the internal workings of a warp engine. These ambiances will set the tone for all types of futuristic soundscapes. These textures are blended phase modulations and distant radio waves that will drop right into your DAW and transport you to outer space!
Bluezone presents ‘Alien Spacecraft Sound Effects’, a new sample library offering a wide range of inspirational spaceship sfx. Backed with complex and varied sounds, this sci-fi sample library brings you production-ready elements as: alarms, alien synthetic textures, exterior and organic interior background sounds, reactor rumbles, explosions, futuristic interface and beep sounds, spacecraft passby, machine room ambiences and more.
Every sound in this cutting edge collection will stimulate your creativity: All these samples were created from hardware synthesizers and field recordings, and have then been twisted to add an inspiring alternate-reality sonic character. WAV files are provided as 24 Bit / 96 kHz and sorted in 11 folders. In order to give you ready-to-use sounds for your productions, all samples are royalty-free for all your commercial projects.
All sounds have been created, programmed and optimized for use in TV, film, trailer and game music. I give this pack a thumbs-up because the recording quality is high. Not only that it features some creative sounds, but the usability of this pack will find its way to plenty of producers.”
Bluezone Corporation presents 'Cargo – Spaceship Sound Effects', a new sci-fi sample library covering a wide range of elements including cockpit and interior ambiences, interface and beep sounds, reactor rumbles, spaceship passby sounds and more. Created with a large selection of high quality recordings and then meticulously layered, this downloadable sample pack will enhance your creative potential with as many as 138 highly usable sounds.
All sound files are named according to their content and sorted thematically. WAV files are provided as 24 Bit / 96 kHz and sorted in 11 folders. In order to give you ready-to-use sounds for your productions, all samples are royalty-free for all your commercial projects.
'District 10 – Mothership Sound Effects' from Bluezone Corporation contains over 178 complex science fiction SFX. This massive sound library was created with meticulously sampled sources and twisted using complex synthesis techniques: organic textures, command center ambiences, interior and machine background sounds, explosions and debris, alarms, beep and interface sounds, alien mothership textures and much more. This sample library comes to you in 24-bit high definition and is licensed to you as royalty-free so you can use it in your commercial projects at no extra cost.
Orbital Emitter is proud to present Star Fighter Alpha – a comprehensive sci-fi sound-set providing a rich arsenal of futuristic space fighter sounds for you to use in all of your creative productions!
In Science Fiction, star fighters blast across the cosmos leaving other vessels in their fiery wake.
These nimble craft fly at incredible speeds engaging in battle and patrolling the stars. Countless movies, video games and media have featured these sleek space ships at the center of their adventures.Â
Where would you begin sound designing one of these nuanced spacecraft? You could probably spend hours just finding the right real-world jet fighter sounds to start… Then comes all the effects and balancing just to make them sound authentic. With deadlines looming and the need for cinematic and convincing science fiction sound being higher than ever, wouldn’t it be great to have a foundation of cinematic sci-fi sounds at your fingertips?
Star Fighter Alpha contains powerful engine blasts, advanced cockpit displays, aligned interior and exterior flight perspectives, robust fly-bys, searing weapons blasts and more! Each sound file is designed to be flexible, enabling you to pick and choose from our long-playing sounds to customize your own creations, quickly!
This sound-set delivers at 24 bit/96kHz WAV and each sound file contains meta-data to make our sound files easy to organize & find. All of our sounds are 100% original, 100% royalty free, created in our sound-labs and designed to boldly explore the universe of sci-fi sound!
Check out our other Star Fighter sound-set, STAR FIGHT COBALT which is an excellent companion to this one!
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