Another thing that’s really exciting: Soundly founders Peder and Christian are huge fans of A Sound Effect, so they brought me on board to be their exclusive distributor of premium independent sound effects! I’m currently working on bringing the libraries from the independent SFX community into Soundly.
So how does Soundly work? Check out the video introduction, read my interview with founder Peder Jørgensen – and download it for free below, so you can try it yourself:
Hi Peder, just what is Soundly?
Soundly is an app for Mac and Windows that gives you access to a big 96kHz, 24-bit sound effects library in the cloud, and let’s you drag and drop sound effects from the cloud library straight into your project. It works with every sound and video editor that we have tested it with, and we’ve tested it with a lot. You can also add effects like pitching, reversing, summing, hear it in real time and have it instantly printed to the sound when you drag it out.
When did you get the idea for Soundly, and how long has it been in the works?
I started doing more and more sound design on my laptop, and it was a drag to always have to have a hard drive of sound effects with me, so I started researching if it was possible to solve this all in the cloud. I’m a decent coder and tested different ideas, and when I got the first test version running, I really felt I was onto something big. I was amazed at how fluent and fast everything was feeling and I just went from there.
I was amazed at how fluent and fast everything was feeling and I just went from there
I’ve been working on this on and off for the last 5 years, and we have been running beta tests for the last two years so it feels like it’s ready to meet the rest of the world.
Download Soundly for free below:
Download for Windows • Download for Mac
Soundly offers a unique cloud based approach to sound effects. How does it work, and how about performance?
Files come down blistering fast from the cloud in very high quality and people often won’t believe it’s possible to do it that fast, but we have done some very smart things to make this work as fast as it does. The servers are running on Google’s own infrastructure so this is very fast wherever you are, and scales perfectly when we are doing stress loads – so I’m very confident the servers will hold up even under heavy load.
Soundly comes with librarian features too, so you can manage your existing catalog too – how does the librarian aspect work?
Yes, you can also use Soundly to index your local sound effects or music and use it as a regular librarian tool.
You can also use Soundly to index your local sound effects or music and use it as a regular librarian tool
It supports meta data in many different formats and you can also import your entire library from other sound library tools.
A cool feature is that you can monitor a local folder, so if you add new sound effects to your sound effects folder they will be indexed by Soundly and instantly available.
I’m really happy to have A Sound Effect on board for the Soundly app – and the independent SFX libraries are gradually being added. The A Sound Effect website will continue to work just as before, of course, and I have lots of exciting things coming up here, too. I look forward to sharing them with you!
There’s also a premium SFX library included. What’s the story behind that one?
The idea behind the app was to join a librarian app and sound effects in one tool. So from the very beginning I’ve been trying to get a good sound library on board. It’s been a lot of work as most people with a good library won’t sell it as a subscription. They want to sell the whole thing for a high sum instead of what we are doing, selling a subscription at $14.99 a month. I knew Christian Schaanning from the sound design community and he has done some great films here in Norway and has also been doing some work in LA on films like Transformers 3. You can check out his imdb here.
I had just lost another Library and met him randomly and drunkenly late at a bar in Oslo… Mid week. I had been to an award show – I do sound for tv and radio adds – and he had had a seminar with some junior sound designers. We made one of those drunken deals where we where going to meet tomorrow and discuss this further, and we actually did.
As it turned out, he has made one of the best sounding sound libraries I’ve ever heard
As it turned out, he has made one of the best sounding sound libraries I’ve ever heard. It wasn’t organized yet, but he promised to get it named and tagged, and he did. We uploaded the library to the beta testers in March, and they instantly loved it. As the library is in the cloud we are constantly adding new sound effects and it’s growing every day. Christian has now joined the company and we are trying our best to save the world, together.
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Who doesn’t recognize the sounds of construction work and the toughest duties ever known to humankind. Drilling, hammering, building and constructing. (Swearing not included). Packed with 237 different sounds to immerse you audience in the true hardwork day to day
Recorded with
Sound Devices 633
Rode NTG3
Rode NT4
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Weapon Mech & Reload Sounds is a sfx library recorded for police / military related film or video games. Recorded at 24/96,(real guns and soft/air guns) with 3 microphones (omni, cardioid and shotgun), you can use one sound or mix the 3 layers together for more impact!
Key Features:
Library ships in 96kHz, 24bit
408 files, more than 800 sounds
Effective workflow: well-grounded Soundminer Metadata
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Lethal Blow is a collection of high quality fight sound effect. It features 925 sound effects; 600 source recording and 325 designed sound effects. It comes loaded with all sorts of sounds – from simple punches to multi-layerd crunchy blows and and meaty hits.
All source sounds ware recorded with top tier microphones; Sennheiser MKH8040 and MKH8060 at 192kHz/24Bit with a Sound Devices recorder.Collection consists of two main categories:
DESIGNED 96/24 (325 SFX)
Bone Breaks – Crunchy breaks, snaps and tears.
Grabs, throws and blacks.
Bright Punches – Punches with meaty bottom and pronounces “beef slap” transients.
Crunch Punches – Punches layered with bone breaks and cracks .
Dark punches – Punches with more of a deep, organic, thump-y sound.
Rips and tears – Fatality-like, gory tears.
Simple Punches – Organic sounding, deep punches that consist of only few layers (compared to other punches).
Punches “Xtra” – Punches without Arm movement/scuffle/whoosh – just a hit that you can layer with your own woos/scuffle
Skull crashes – Gory, slimy skull crashes and splits
Swooshes, whooshes snd scuffles.SOURCE CONSTRUCTION-KIT 192/24 (600 SFX)
Scuffles, arm movements and whooshes – Cotton, denim and nylon.
Snaps – Leak snaps
Flesh drops – Dropped oranges
Cotton transients – Cotton hoodie hit with a soft drum mallet
Real chest punches – Closed fist
Meaty punches – Beefy, organic punches (punching beef steaks).
Lettuce punches and smacks – Deep, wet lettuce punches plus exaggerated transient sounds.
Real chest smacks – Open fist
Meat movement – gory, slimy, beef movements.
Meat Slaps – Beef steaks dropped on a tile floor with pronounced transients
Small crack – cracking eggshells
Bell pepper rips – Tearing, ripping apart Bell peppers for crunchy snaps and cracks
Whooshes and swooshes – Airy whooshes
Fabric Movement – random, cotton cloth whooshes and multiple swishes.325 designed sound effects will get you started right away and save a lot of time when cutting fight scenes.
600 high quality source recordings will allow you to design all kinds of punches, bone brakes and gore sound effects from scratch, exactly to your taste.All sound effects are highly tweakable. You can fine-tune them to your liking; pitch them up/down to remove/add weight whilst retaining details and clarity.
Download includes:
96-192KHZ 24BIT version (925 SFX/562MB)
44.1KHZ 16BIT version for Unreal Engine (925 SFX/264MB)
192KHZ 24BIT BONUS source recordings (58 SFX/30MB)
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Sennheiser MKH8040 + Sennheiser MKH8060
EDITED AND MASTERED WITH: RX, Pro Tools, Brufri, DMGAudio, Sonnox, Fabfilter30 %OFFEnds 1576709999 -
The “Electro-Mechanics ToolKit 2” Sound Effects Library features a wide range of versatile electro-mechanic motors, engines, tools and toys.
All waiting to be cut up, layered, edited and mangled with FX to become spaceship engines, robot movements, sci fi doors, weapon mechanics.
This library is not meant to be a comprehensive tools library but rather a composite toolkit to bring futuristic electro-mechanic machines, devices, weapons, vehicles, … sonically to life.
All cleaned and edited for direct use in your upcoming projects.All sounds have embedded BWF Metadata.
Categories: Air Compressor • Angle Grinder • Band Saw • Belt Sander • Bowling Alley Machinery • Buffing Machine • Turning Lathe • Buzz Saw • Chop Saw • Doors & Shutters • Electric Drill • Electric Screwdriver • Electric Wood Plane • Evacuator • Film Projector • Fine Blanking Tool • Fretsaw • Grinding Lathe • Hand Blender & Mixer • Hoist Industrial • Industrial Vacuum Cleaner • Jigsaw • Mechanic Toys • Metal Saw • Milling Machine • Stationary Drill • Strimmer • Toy Helicopter
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Looking for sounds of a remote controlled car? Here you go: This sound effects library features 170 sound effects of the Reely Core RC Car. You get several on-board and external driving sounds, pass-bys, close-up steering mechanics and idling mixtures, and of course some crashes. All sounds are edited and cleaned for direct use in your upcoming sound design projects. All sounds contain detailed BWF Metadata.
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What’s ahead for Soundly?
We have a lot of stuff coming out the door, and upgrading will always be free as this is subscription based. We like to keep things secret before we release new features, but I can say that we are working on a revolutionary way for sound designers and video editors to work together in the cloud. Get on board now and join the revolution :)
• FREE TO DOWNLOAD and comes with 300+ free sound effects, hand-picked from the exclusive Soundly PRO premium SFX catalog
• 2 PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS: PRO ($14.99/m, 5000+ SFX), 24HR pass ($9.99)
• ACCESS sound effects in the cloud from anywhere in the world
• DRAG-AND-DROP whole sound files – or snippets – from the Soundly cloud straight into your DAW, video editing suite or to your desktop
• TWEAK AND EDIT pitch, speed and reverse on any sound, and hear the results in real-time
• IMPORT LOCAL FILES – including metadata -, to easily manage your existing SFX collections
• INSTANT SEARCH to quickly find the sounds you need, across cloud libraries + local files
• THE STORE allows you to get additional free and premium sound effects libraries – immediately delivered as you need them
• BUILT FOR SPEED, as Soundly uses Google’s infrastructure for unparalleled redundancy, safety and speed
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Haunted Doors [D&S] is a collection of 209 old doors sound effects.
HD consist of of 45 designed sounds (Opens, Closes, Cinematic Door Impacts @ 96kHz 24Bit) & 164 source recordings (Door creaks, knob twists & turns, rattling, squeaking, opens, closes, locks, bolts and more! @ 192kHz 24Bit).
All audio files have been recorded at superb 192KHZ 24BIT. Multiple mic positions to capture all
the little details such as loose lock mechanisms, inner rattling, stuttering creaks and rich natural reverbs of empty corridors.Comprehensive Soundminer's metadata. Over 25 different door knobs and handles,
over 10 pairs of hinges, 10 different doors and more! Perfect for horror movies, games and more.LOCATION: Spain, Costa Blanca. Traditional Spanish hacienda before renovation.
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Sennheiser MKH 8060
EDITED AND MASTERED WITH: Pro Tools, iZotope RX (mildly),Fabfilter, Zynaptiq, Waves.16 %OFF -
Footstep & Foley Sounds contains 511 high quality professionally recorded footstep sounds. Surfaces included: concrete, dirt, grass, gravel, metal, mud, water, wood, ice and snow. Plus 141 Foley sounds covering a variety of character movement sounds. A perfect addition to add realism to your footstep sounds.
This pack also includes a variety of 160 bonus sounds effects from our full library Pro Sound Collection. ALL sounds from Footstep & Foley Sounds are included in Pro Sound Collection so if you need more sounds be sure to check it out before purchase.
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Swordfighter is a robust package with sharp sounding swords, heaps of variations and all the extras you need to make a fight come alive. Build unique sword swings with various hits, swooshes, schings, different fighter vocals and impacts on various surfaces. All up there are 137 sword sounds, 93 surface impact sounds, 15 knife throwing sounds, 48 swooshes and 180 fighter vocals.
This version includes two sub-folders: one optimised for a film & TV workflow and the other optimised for video games workflow. Plus a few bonus sounds of a charging army.
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Who doesn’t recognize the sounds of construction work and the toughest duties ever known to humankind. Drilling, hammering, building and constructing. (Swearing not included). Packed with 237 different sounds to immerse you audience in the true hardwork day to day
Recorded with
Sound Devices 633
Rode NTG3
Rode NT4
Seymour Duncan SCR-117 %OFFEnds 1576796399 -
Weapon Mech & Reload Sounds is a sfx library recorded for police / military related film or video games. Recorded at 24/96,(real guns and soft/air guns) with 3 microphones (omni, cardioid and shotgun), you can use one sound or mix the 3 layers together for more impact!
Key Features:
Library ships in 96kHz, 24bit
408 files, more than 800 sounds
Effective workflow: well-grounded Soundminer Metadata
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Lethal Blow is a collection of high quality fight sound effect. It features 925 sound effects; 600 source recording and 325 designed sound effects. It comes loaded with all sorts of sounds – from simple punches to multi-layerd crunchy blows and and meaty hits.
All source sounds ware recorded with top tier microphones; Sennheiser MKH8040 and MKH8060 at 192kHz/24Bit with a Sound Devices recorder.Collection consists of two main categories:
DESIGNED 96/24 (325 SFX)
Bone Breaks – Crunchy breaks, snaps and tears.
Grabs, throws and blacks.
Bright Punches – Punches with meaty bottom and pronounces “beef slap” transients.
Crunch Punches – Punches layered with bone breaks and cracks .
Dark punches – Punches with more of a deep, organic, thump-y sound.
Rips and tears – Fatality-like, gory tears.
Simple Punches – Organic sounding, deep punches that consist of only few layers (compared to other punches).
Punches “Xtra” – Punches without Arm movement/scuffle/whoosh – just a hit that you can layer with your own woos/scuffle
Skull crashes – Gory, slimy skull crashes and splits
Swooshes, whooshes snd scuffles.SOURCE CONSTRUCTION-KIT 192/24 (600 SFX)
Scuffles, arm movements and whooshes – Cotton, denim and nylon.
Snaps – Leak snaps
Flesh drops – Dropped oranges
Cotton transients – Cotton hoodie hit with a soft drum mallet
Real chest punches – Closed fist
Meaty punches – Beefy, organic punches (punching beef steaks).
Lettuce punches and smacks – Deep, wet lettuce punches plus exaggerated transient sounds.
Real chest smacks – Open fist
Meat movement – gory, slimy, beef movements.
Meat Slaps – Beef steaks dropped on a tile floor with pronounced transients
Small crack – cracking eggshells
Bell pepper rips – Tearing, ripping apart Bell peppers for crunchy snaps and cracks
Whooshes and swooshes – Airy whooshes
Fabric Movement – random, cotton cloth whooshes and multiple swishes.325 designed sound effects will get you started right away and save a lot of time when cutting fight scenes.
600 high quality source recordings will allow you to design all kinds of punches, bone brakes and gore sound effects from scratch, exactly to your taste.All sound effects are highly tweakable. You can fine-tune them to your liking; pitch them up/down to remove/add weight whilst retaining details and clarity.
Download includes:
96-192KHZ 24BIT version (925 SFX/562MB)
44.1KHZ 16BIT version for Unreal Engine (925 SFX/264MB)
192KHZ 24BIT BONUS source recordings (58 SFX/30MB)
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Sennheiser MKH8040 + Sennheiser MKH8060
EDITED AND MASTERED WITH: RX, Pro Tools, Brufri, DMGAudio, Sonnox, Fabfilter30 %OFFEnds 1576709999 -
The “Electro-Mechanics ToolKit 2” Sound Effects Library features a wide range of versatile electro-mechanic motors, engines, tools and toys.
All waiting to be cut up, layered, edited and mangled with FX to become spaceship engines, robot movements, sci fi doors, weapon mechanics.
This library is not meant to be a comprehensive tools library but rather a composite toolkit to bring futuristic electro-mechanic machines, devices, weapons, vehicles, … sonically to life.
All cleaned and edited for direct use in your upcoming projects.All sounds have embedded BWF Metadata.
Categories: Air Compressor • Angle Grinder • Band Saw • Belt Sander • Bowling Alley Machinery • Buffing Machine • Turning Lathe • Buzz Saw • Chop Saw • Doors & Shutters • Electric Drill • Electric Screwdriver • Electric Wood Plane • Evacuator • Film Projector • Fine Blanking Tool • Fretsaw • Grinding Lathe • Hand Blender & Mixer • Hoist Industrial • Industrial Vacuum Cleaner • Jigsaw • Mechanic Toys • Metal Saw • Milling Machine • Stationary Drill • Strimmer • Toy Helicopter
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Looking for sounds of a remote controlled car? Here you go: This sound effects library features 170 sound effects of the Reely Core RC Car. You get several on-board and external driving sounds, pass-bys, close-up steering mechanics and idling mixtures, and of course some crashes. All sounds are edited and cleaned for direct use in your upcoming sound design projects. All sounds contain detailed BWF Metadata.
20 %OFFEnds 1576623599
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sorry for my language, but this is fucking amazing!! drag and drop works perfectly, playback is fast, the only thing right now is lack of sounds, but that is ofcourse will change in the near future as i imagine. Again amazing app!! Will be going for paid subscription asap.
Fantastic, thanks Linas, glad to hear that! And indeed, there’s much more content and features on the way – stay tuned :)
Just curious about adding libraries. Is that only for the Subscription version?
Is there any way to get my Filemaker database into your program? I have a ton of sound effects that are using the Filemake as the search engine. But I see i can drag my folders into your program but how do I get my database to link to it?
Just got word from Peder at Soundly that he might be able to help with that Filemaker database :) You can email him at mail@getsoundly.com
Awesome app, thank you
Hi there, I am very impressed with what I had seen of this software and I am extremely interested in using this in my workflow, but have a few questions. I have a pretty extensive sound library on a server and was wondering if your software will allow me to add all of libraries and then search them locally? I was also wondering if the the metadata feature allows you to add metadata to preexisting libraries? If you could answer these questions for me, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Hi Anthony,
Thanks so much for checking out Soundly!
Yes, there is no limit on the amount of local files you can index if you subscribe to Soundly. In the Soundly Free version, there is a limit of 2500 local files.
You can add metadata to whatever audio file you have indexed in Soundly, and Soundly will also print this meta data to the wave file itself.
Thanks for your interest in Soundly! We are very happy that you like it!!
Best Christian
Soundly