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Tovusound – India Ambience / CityBeeps Cologne
Tovusound have made available two ambience packs that will transport you to the heart of Europe and South Asia.
The India Ambience sample library contains the sounds of big cities, nature, people and vehicles. Featuring 178 sounds recorded in 96 kHZ / 24-bit ORTF Stereo, India Ambience should prove a welcome addition to sound editors, sound designers and audio producers needing to fill in backgrounds or transitions with sounds from the region.
https://soundcloud.com/tovusound/citybeeps-cologne-preview
CityBeeps Cologne is a set of the city centre, parks, churches, the Rhine shore, the subway, the trains, and wonderful animal world of Cologne. Featuring 113 sounds recorded in 24-bit / 96kHz ORTF Stereo.
Released: October 2014
Price: India Ambience – €89.00 / CityBeeps Cologne – €59.00
Tovusound homepage
India Ambience product page
CityBeeps Cologne product page
Heavy Metal Impacts – HISSandaROAR
HISSandaROAR return with over 1900 metal impact sounds. From empty grain silos to rubbish skips and metal gates, this library pack offers not just practical ready-made sound effects, but also plenty of room for experimenting to create your own stingers.
Each sound captured with MKH8040 ORTF stereo, MKH8050 and AKG D112 microphones at 24-bit/192kH, and the library itself weighs in at a whopping 32GB. Check out this behind the scenes video to get a glimpse of how the library came together.
Released: October 2014
Price: USD $179.00
HISSandaROAR homepage
Heavy Metal Impacts product page
Water Movements – Sonic Salute
Want to be able to match the sound of footsteps going through water, with a more distant perspective? Or maybe you want to cut seamlessly between near and far? Water Movements sfx library may just be your rescue!
Recorded by a quiet Swedish lake, in late summer of 2014, the Water Movements fx library, is filled with splashes, drips, walking/running, moving, small water creature simulations, and more. All recorded with a close up mono mic, and a set of distant mics, set at 3-9 meters away from the source.
Released: November 2014
Price: $25.00
Sonic Salute homepage
Water Movements product page
unEarthly Ambience – James Dean
unEarthly Ambience is 27 designed background ambiences that have been created from original field recordings and modular synthesiser recordings. The result is a mixture of organic textures, thick industrial machine rooms, and futuristic sci-fi atmospheres.
unEarthly Ambience product page
Released: September 2014
Price: $20
Hurricane Winds – Sonic Salute
Another new one from Sonic Salute, Hurricane Winds contains both interior and exterior perspectives, and has been culled some of the biggest and most violent winds hitting the Danish coastal area over the past three years. For authenticity’s sake, the sounds are presented ‘as is’ with no edits or cuts.
The Hurricane Winds library contains 38 tracks all recorded at 96KHz /24-bit and features:
– 21 tracks of hurricane/storm recordings from Yachting, and commercial harbor. Wind screaming as it fly’s through rigging, wires, masts
– 6 tracks of hurricane/storm in the city. Trees moving, wind howling, small debris passing.
– 2 tracks of a storm in the forest. Trees creaking, as wind moves through tree tops.
– 9 tracks of interior recordings. Roof moving, draft from windows. Small debris hitting window.
Check the product page for full details.
Sonic Salute homepage
Hurricane Winds product page
Released: October 2014
Price: $25.00
Bloody Nightmare – SoundMorph
Bloody Nightmare is a modern horror cinematic library aimed at the most cutting edge bone chilling productions out there. Whether you work in sound design, as a composer, trailer editor or as an electronic musician, Bloody Nightmare is a valuable new wave of Horror sounds that will surely cause visceral moments of terror and dread!
Bloody Nightmare features 550+ sounds and 4.4GB of 96khz / 24-bit of horror impacts, glitches, stingers, nightmare pulses, breaths and whispers and stutters, choppers and cuts, to name but a few. All embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata.
SoundMorph homepage
Bloody Nightmare product page
Released: October 2014
Price: $99.00
Just Gore / Just Impacts SoundBits
Soundbits’ Just Impacts Bundle offers three collections in one, giving a total of 960 files of hits, impacts and smashes.
The ‘Just Impacts – Simple’ provides a construction kit of sounds for further processing and manipulation, whilst the ‘Just Impacts – Processed’ and ‘Just Impacts – Designed’ are perfect as mix-ready sounds for quick fx laying.
Each collection is available to purchase separately. However, there is a 30% discount on the bundle. Normal ‘Impacts’ bundle price: EUR 105.00. Discounted price is EUR 73.50 until the end of November.
Just Gore is 496 files containing over 820 bone-breaking, blood-soaking and flesh-slicing sound effects. This construction kit contains all the sounds of gore you need for your horror – with extra chainsaw on the side!
Soundbits homepage
Just Impacts product page (bundle)
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Released: October 2014
Price: EUR 73.50 (Impacts Bundle), EUR 45.00 (Just Gore)
Interact – noisecreations
Interact is a royalty free collection that provides interface, menu and HUD sound effects, specifically aimed at game audio professionals. Interact collection contains: Alarms, Selections, Notifications, Glitches, Transitions
Noise creations homepage
Interact product page
Released: October 2014
Price: £6.00
Los Angeles: Feel The Street – Stavrosound
Steve Papagiannis returns with another library of metropolitan cityscape backgrounds. At almost five hours, Los Angeles: Feel The Street is a full-bodied and rich attempt at capturing the city traffic, street level and diffuse sounds of a congestion-laden city. Presented as 34 96KHz/24-bit BWAV files.
Stavorsound homepage
Los Angeles: Feel The Street product page
Released: October 2014
Price: $49.00
Sound of Italy – Roberto Serra
Sound of Italy is an italian sound effects library for films, commercial, musics, games and other multimedia applications. Organised into ten principal categories, Sound of Italy is a collection of all manner of sounds with a distinctly Italian flavour .
Cars, ambiences, cooking and Folk music are but a few of libraries available to purchase separately, or as one Complete collection. Check the website for full licensing information.
Released: October 2014
Price: Individual libraries range from €25-€30. The complete collection is €230.00
Trot & Gallop – Foley Collection
Foley Collection – a traditional foley audio library based on Kontakt patches – has a new addition to it’s Foley Collection. Trot & Gallop has been added to the Total Foley collection pack, which is available from the Foley Collection website.
Released: October 2014
Price: €549.00 for the FC999 Total Foley Collection. Other packs and bundles are available.