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Matter Mayhem
SoundMorph
Announcing one of their largest libraries ever, Matter Mayhem from SoundMorph is all about debris and destruction. Created in collaboration with Frederic Devanlay (Sinematic, Solar Sky) and Cedric Denooz (Future Weapons), it contains over 1,500 sounds rendered as 24bit/96khz .WAV files, including:
– Bomb Blasts
– Blow Ups – Stone, Pebble, Metal, Wood
– Debris – Stone, Wood, Glass, Plastic
– Collapses
– Scaffold Impacts
Matter Mayhem is in Presale until April 28, 2014. Once purchased, it will be immediately available for download in your User Account. Check the website for full details.
Price: $149.00
Alarms
SHAPINGWAVES
Alarm sounds – small, large, hi-tech, vintage, distorted, clean, simple, complex, and much more besides. The core of the library consists of 100+ long, un-looped sounds, and also comes as a construction kit pack to allow more detailed control over the type of alarm, and facilitate the creation of alarm variations.
Current price: $45.00
Usual price: $59.00
Icy Snow HD
Soundopolis
Icy Snow HD came about in March 2015. Here in Michigan, we already had around a foot of snow on the ground, when we also got freezing rain and sleet. This created a layer of fairly smooth ice on top of the snow. So I ran out there with my Sound Devices 702T, and a RØDE NT-4, and started recording!
Quick Look:
Files: 147
Sounds: 147
Size: ~266 MB unzipped
Format: WAV
Fidelity: 96k/24bit
Channels: stereo
Sounds:
– Footsteps on ice-covered snow
– Ice Impacts
– Ice Debris
– Ice scrapping & crushing
– Snow Impacts w/debris
Price: $20.00
Concourse Crowds
Airborne Sound
The latest library from Airborne Sound captures business crowds and corporate crowds from Toronto’s financial district, as well as thousands of bustling commuters, dozens of wandering pedestrians and, footsteps passing by.
Concourse Crowds is intended to add energy and texture,
Price: FREE
Airborne Sound – Concrete Crowds
The Undercover SFX Library
Sonic Salute
The latest offering from Sonic Salute is for espionage, surveillance and ‘The Conversation’ lovers everywhere. It features sounds collected from old analog dictaphones, a portable cassette recorder, and a video camera, as well as weird telephone answering machine noises, tape play, rewinds, etc. and various other mangled and speed-manipulated sounds.
Check out the Soundcloud demo to get a feel for the undercover world inhabited by this ghostly collection.
Price: $54.45 (including VAT)
Sonic Salute – The Undercover Sound FX Library
The Porsche 911 GT3
echo | collective : fields
echo | collective: fields’ latest library is a series of recordings made with the 2014 Porsche 911 GT3 that races on the Pirelli World Challenge series. With full access to the vehicles and the track, up to 13 channels on every movement could be recorded.
The Porsche 911 GT3 library features over 4 hours of audio and 8.5 GB of 24 bit / 96 kHz rendered stereo .WAV files.
Price: $40.00 ($55.00 with USB drive)
echo | collective: fields – The Porsche 911 GT3
Chicago – Urban Atmosphere
Perception Sound / Chris Diebold
Presenting a dynamic variety of the urban soundscapes of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago – Urban Atmosphere features recordings ranging from busy sidewalk ambiences, street corners, crowds, subways, skyline tones, horns, to back alley rumbles. Also represented are iconic Chicago sounds such as the El Train, Lower Wacker Drive, and Michigan Avenue.
Price: $95.00
Howling Winds – Interior
Hzandbits Sound Effects
Howling Winds – Interior is 4 GB of high-velocity air molecules in 42 separate files – recorded in 24bit/96kHz stereo – from an interior perspective.
All have been recorded in stereo, but some files offer a narrow perspective giving more detail, whilst others slightly broader, more expansive tones.
Price: $26.00
Aphelion
Particular-Sound/Frank “Xenox” Neumann
Aphelion is the debut SFX Library from Particular Sound and comes packed with tons of sound effects crafted for cinematic trailer, videos, movies, computer games or music productions (Drum’n’Bass, Dubstep and similar genres). It features new samples processed through modern effects, recorded in 96kHz 24bit WAV.
Price: $59.00
Mopeds
Rune Palving, Peter Albrechtsen, Sonicsalute.com
In collaboration with sound designer Rune Palving (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 1864, and Tordenskjold), and sound designer Peter Albrechtsen (Antichrist, The Queen of Versailles, and The Idealist), Sonicsalute presents MOPEDS SFX Libraries.
More than 5Gb of recordings over 113 tracks from 7 different mopeds, all rendered at 24 bit / 96 kHz audio files.
Ranging from new and non-modified models, to many characteristic sounding (old and wrecked), and one heavily tuned moped.
Price: $72.60 (Including VAT)
Edward – Foleyart Instrument
Tovusound
EDWARD brings high quality and natural randomized Foley Artist footsteps to audio productions, and offers high end recordings and parameters to adjust distance and environment, based on Native Instruments Kontakt engine.
The EDWARD soundpatch gives instantaneous access to thousands of high quality footsteps including different walking speeds, behaviours and surfaces.
Price: $59.00 (excluding VAT)
Tovusound – Edward – The Foleyart Intsrument
SYNC
Audiomodern
| WAV | AIFF |REX
SYNC is a sounding loop based sampler instrument for NI Kontakt, also available on WAV, AIFF & REX.
It focuses on futuristic sounding electronic & glitch drum groove construction kits that blend styles such as IDM, Breaks, Organic, Ambient, and Glitch, among others.
Featuring 38 Construction kits, over 300 loops, and 10 reverb types, Sync has a simple GUI with FX tweaking options.
Price: $29.00 (Usual price: $39.00)
Audiomodern – Sync for KONTAKT
Mechanism
HISSandaROAR
From a pneumatic blast furnace to a century old guillotine, workshop power tools,
antique clockwork Meccano engines and a Mamod model steam engine, domestic
hand tools, sewing machines, a tortured battery drill as well as more contemporary
tools such as a CNC Router and a 3D printer.
Over 20GB of motors & machines, all captured & delivered as multichannel 24 bit / 96 kHz files.
Impacts/Destruction
Jaws of Life
Jaws of Life offers the sound of scissors cutting, crushing and spreading apart doors and hoods. Glass-breaking sounds were created by sledge hammering windshields and exploding windows. Car parts were dragged on pavement. Great for cutting scenes with scattering debris.
Price: $125.00
Jaws of Life – Impacts/Destruction
Ultimate Bullet HD Pro
The Recordist
Over a year and a half in the making with thousands of rounds of ammunition shot, this one of a kind collection showcases higher caliber projectiles passing by inches from multiple sets of extended frequency response microphones.
Recorded in three unique locations with a variety of suppressed handguns and high powered suppressed rifles. The locations include a wide open 380 acre field, a farm ranch with a asphalt roadway and a high mountain dirt logging road. The distances the bullets were shot range from 300 feet to over 1000 feet. Most of the collection is recorded with two sets of stereo microphones and two mono microphones.
Check the product website for more detailed information.
Price: $200.00
The Recordist – Ultimate Bullet Pro
Combat Bundle
Soundopolis
Combat Bundle is comprised of Soundopolis’ two most popular libraries: “Blades” and “Gore Toolkit HD”, and their newest release, “Whoosh, Swoosh & Swing”. There’s a total of 1,373 sounds included. Buy all three libraries together and save 15%!
Go to soundopolis.net/combatbundle to read descriptions and track listings of each library in the bundle, as well as hear preview tracks for each.
Price: $136.00 (Bundle)
Whoosh, Swoosh & Swing
Soundopolis
Whoosh, Swoosh & Swing is a collection of 315 “whipping” sounds on 58 tracks. The sounds were made from a variety of objects including golf clubs, swords, spatulas, fishing poles, cloth, the human mouth, and more. Included in the collection are versions of some of the sounds sped up or slowed down using analog tape, giving them a vintage kung-fu-movie feel. Perfect library for fight scenes!
Price: $35.00
Soundopolis – Whoosh Swoosh & Swing
Tibetan Monasteries
Avosound
The ‘Tibetan Monastery Atmospheres’ Sound Archive contains recordings from the everyday monastic environment of Tibetan monks. Apart from atmospheric recordings of the monasteries in Sachung, Rebkong, Langmusi and the religious centre in Labrang, ‘Tibetan Monastery Atmospheres’ also contains the chanting of the monks as well as the rattle of prayer wheels and various other devices.
Price: $110.00
Avosound – Tibetan Monasteries
Cyborg Collection
Bottle Rocket FX
The Cyborg Collection by Bottle Rocket is an all new library containing an array of sci-fi sound effects. Everything from simple droids to powerful plasma rifles and futuristic transformations are included in this 3.2GB library.
Check the product page for full details on the variety of robots, interfaces, weaponry, vehicles and spacecraft included in the collection. Recorded and edited completely at 96kHz, 24 bit.
All files contain descriptive Soundminer metadata to help make your searches as easy as possible.
Price: $55.00