A quick roundup of the independent sfx libraries to have hit our inbox this month.
Blastwave FX – Heroes & Villains
Blastwave FX have launched a competition to coincide with the release of their latest library collection, Heroes & Villains. You will need to call upon your most potent and deadly super power for a chance to win: entrants have to post a video of themselves reading a list of sound effects included in the library… in less than 60 seconds.
Check out the submission details on this YouTube video. Or, if you’re feeling tongue tied, you can pre-order your copy here.
Twisted Tools – Metamorph
Metamorph is the brand new sample library from San Francisco instrument software makers Twisted Tools. With over 2GB of audio at 24bit/96Khz, Metamorph’s mash-up of electroacoustic and designed sounds was developed by Italian sound designers BJM Mario Bajardi and Paolo Bigazzi (aka Komplex).
Available now to download for $69. Check their website and Twisted Tools’ YouTube channel for more details.
Dynamic Interference -Submarine Switches
The latest release from Dynamic Interference is an old-school library of cranks and levers, buttons and switches.Check out the product page for more info.
Echo Collective – Updated free collections
Echo Collective have refreshed the sounds in their free collections, adding new libraries and Kontakt 5 instruments. Get your hands on their new, free stuff here.
Samplephonics : Transitional Sound Design
Samplephonics release a new Ivo Ivanov sample library entitled Transitional Sound Design exploring motion, tension, texture and frequencies you didn’t even know existed, resulting in an ear tingling collection of highly useful warped sound samples and twisted sound shaping tools.
Surround Ambiences – Spring Marsh HD 5.0
Freelance sound recordist and sound editor Gabriele Fasano has just launched a breathtaking new collection. Recorded in the wetlands of Tuscany, Italy, Spring Marsh features ambience recordings of between roughly 2-5 minutes duration, that take in frogs, egrets, blackbirds and crows.
Spring Marsh HD is available as a 5.0 package (€30.00) or stereo package (€25.00). (Note: The 5.0 package includes the stereo library free of charge.) There is also a taster that you can download for free.
Check the Surround Ambiences website for more information.
Boom Library – Winds of Nature by Gordon Hempton
Finally, but by no means least, for the next 96 hours Boom Library will be knocking 20% off the full price of their latest release. Winds of Nature is the second collaboration between Boom and award-winning sound ecologist Gordon Hempton, and this time it’s intense roars and desert winds on the agenda.
Winds of Nature is available at the discounted price of €119.00 until 29 October 2013. Additionally, it is also available from Hempton’s own Quiet Planet imprint.
PS – In case you missed it, DS caught up with Gordon Hempton as part of October’s Field Recording Month. Check out Shaun Farley’s interview here.
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