This week we have four new libraries that when put together create the soundtrack from Hell. We have disturbing drones that portend a nightmarish future, tense interior atmospheres that will engulf our subconscious minds, human agony personified through unsettling creaks and squeaks, and bee ambiences from both outside and inside their hive.
Syndrone
Drones & Moods
Syndrone
Play Track
208 sounds included, 241 mins total
$49
'Syndrone' features over 8GB of sinister drones, paranormal atmospheres, and evolving sounds that range between 30 to 120 seconds in length. This massive pack invites you to explore tense dreamscapes, eerie alien environments, epic battle drones and haunted soundscapes from another dimension.
Whether you are working on a post-apocalyptic video game, dark electronic track, sci-fi television series or cinematic trailer for a horror film, this pack will infuse your projects with the distinct mind-bending aesthetics Glitchmachine's samples are renowned for. Let 'Syndrone' lead you into the shadows, dragging you deeper and deeper into the darkest corridors of your imagination.
Syndrome Highlights:
• 400 designed high-tech, drone sound effects – more than 4 hours total
• 8 GB+ of 24 bit/96 kHz WAV content
• Inspired by paranormal atmospheres, haunted soundscapes and eerie alien environments
• Sounds provoke feelings of tension, anxiety, annihilation, and doom
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'Syndrone' by Glitchmachines, LLC is a massive library with over 240 minutes of menacing drones and atmospheres that can send chills down your spine. These complex, evolving soundscapes will spill over your audience and sweep them away into dark, eerie lands. However, while they are abstract, they are not void of personality nor distinction, making them great for paranormal, post-apocalyptic, haunted and sci-fi projects. For sounds of impending doom and hypnotic horror, Glitchmachines, LLC always has you covered.
Abstract Interior Tones
Drones & Moods
Abstract Interior Tones
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80 sounds included, 49 mins total
$19
Abstract Interior Tones is a high-definition collection of synthetic, inharmonic room tones and drones, that are made exclusively to provide sound designers a truly diverse sonic palette for designing neutral, non-intrusive, and spacious soundscapes for science fiction, horror, fantasy, dramas and documentaries. Abstract Interior Tones features 80 24bit/192kHz seamlessly looping sounds, normalised to -23LUFS and embedded with Soundminer metadata.
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Interior ambiences can completely control the mood of a scene, and no one knows this better than Digital Rain Lab. Their new library 'Abstract Interior Tones' is a tense collection of interior ambiences that can fit the needs of sci-fi, horror, fantasy and documentary projects. These sounds bring a variety of textures to your soundscape with hollow buzzing, underwater simmering, high-voltage murmur, evolving walla, bell-like shimmer and much more. They are also highly flexible with their seamless looping and 192 kHz mastered quality. For a handy pack of 80 anxious ambiences, check this library out.
Unsettling Creaks and Squeaks - Extension 1
Foley
Unsettling Creaks and Squeaks – Extension I
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350+ sounds included
$22.50
$17
Unsettling Creaks and Squeaks – Extension I is the first extension to the very popular “Unsettling Creaks and Squeaks” sound library..
It delivers door and furniture creaks and squeaks, creaking leather, rubber and balloons, door handles, disturbing metal on metal squeaks and much more.
This sound effects library is a composite collection of 345 files with even more single sounds of unsettling and and unpleasant squeaking and creaking elements. It’s a great starting point for designing a vast number of different soundscapes in various genres – from just using the sounds as general Hard Effects, through Science Fiction to Horror. All sounds are production ready: Cleaned, edited and leveled, and all with with embedded BWF Metadata.
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The designers at SoundBits are back with a new addition to one of their most popular libraries. 'Unsettling Creaks and Squeaks - Extension 1' is a collection of 345 files that creak, squeak, squeal, creep, shriek, scrape, crunch, rub, and all the synonyms in between. These sounds are up front and iconic, coming from basement, cupboard and metal doors, balloons, train wheels, folding beds, leather gloves, ropes, rubber sponges and soles, wicker baskets, and much more. For sounds that are full of human characteristics like agitation, pain and pressure, this is a library you need to hear.
Beehive
Animals & Creatures
Beehive
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14+ sounds included, 44 mins total
$45
Get the sound of honey bees – inside and outside their hive – with this 96kHz and 24bit Beehive sound library.
All files were recorded outside the town, far away from the roads to capture the clean sound of the hardworking bees.
I had a chance to record those insects before the feeding time, so they were hungry and really active.
My main goal was to capture different sounds, not only the ambiences but also some close ones, like the sound of the bees landing on their landing zone or just the interior sound of the hive.
14 stereo files were recorded with Sound Devices 702, Sony PCM-M10 recorder, two DPA 4061 microphones hidden inside a hive and two Sennheiser MKH 8040 to capture the ambience in front of the hive.
Every stereo AB interior recording can be split to mono to isolate the single buzzes, and the library features a total of 44 minutes of bee sound recordings.
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Bees are not only one of the most admired and feared insects, they also have one of the most recognizable sounds—and Dawid Moroz from Soundholder had the guts (and assumed lack of allergies) to capture them. 'Beehive' contains over 40 minutes of these hard-working arthropods from both inside and outside their hive at various perspectives and distances. The sounds were captured with four different microphones, including the beloved Sound Devices 702 and the Sennheiser MKH 8040. There's no beating around the bush on this one—if you need bee sounds, this is the library for you!
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Whooshes
Whooshes & Transitions
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150 sounds included
$10
$5
Whether you work in film, game or music production, it's a standard requirement to have a wide range of whoosh and transition sounds at your disposal. With raw, organic textures alongside heavily processed Doppler FX, the sounds in this library can be mixed together to create a multitude of variations which will give your projects a real edge. Featuring power ups and downs, spacecraft passbys, robotic movement, machine failure, future technology sounds and more, Whooshes & Transitions features 150 unique audio files ready to process to your liking or drop straight into your production.
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Destruction & Impact
Bullet Impacts
Play Track
320 sounds included
4 out of 5
$35
Prepare for impact! This EFX Bullet Impact collection features a huge number of impacts into cars, metal, walls, water, body impacts, as well as passbys, ricochets and underwater passbys.
A must-have for for actual bullet and combat sounds – and for adding oomph to many other types of impact sounds too!
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Sci-Fi
Signal Frontiers
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1108 sounds included
$40
Signal Frontiers is a huge collection of cutting edge futuristic sounds for interfaces, robotics, space machinery and more. The library contains 1000+ uniquely designed assets and covers everything from web interface to spaceship consoles, telemetry and ambiences, offering an unparalleled variety for any project. Signal Frontiers features more than 1000 stereo 48 kHz/24 Bit sounds, all Soundminer friendly.
Sound effects include:
Alarms • Confirmation • Computation • Data Scanning • Denial • Drones • Glitch • Navigation • Noises • Simple Tones • Telemetry and Transitions
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Foley
Edward Extended
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35.600 sounds included
$99
Edward – Extended is the revised version of Edward – The Foleyart Instrument: Edward – Extended features more than 35.000 individual sounds, 43 combinations of shoes and surfaces, as well as a powerful new engine, vastly speeding up the Foley workflow and possibilities.
Includes the following surfaces:
Asphalt • Carpet • Concrete • Diamond • Dirt • Grass • Dry Grass • Gravel • Hardwood • Leaves • Metal • Rocks • Timber
Includes the following shoes:
Sneaker • Boot • Business • Heel • Slipper • Barefoot
Key Features:
• 35.600 real Foley sounds in HD quality @ 24Bit, 96 kHz
• 43 combinations of shoes and surfaces
• Unique recording setup to easily change footstep distance
• KONTROL S-SERIES support
• Different walking speeds and behaviors
• Automatic left/right-foot diversion
• EdV3rb IRs inside the instrument
• Requires NI Kontakt Version 5.4.1 or higher (not included)
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City Life
Berlin Ambiances I
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31 sounds included, 114 mins total
$26
Berlin Ambiances I is 114 minutes/3,69 GB of pure Berlin in 31 separate files – recorded mostly in 24bit/96kHz quasi-binaural stereo, with Primo EM172 omni capsules.
This collection contains stealth recordings of various Berlin locations, including a good deal of train sounds and, well, Berliners!
I went to locations such as the Bodemuseum (crazy natural reverbs), the Hauptbanhhof (enormous, diffuse train station-ambiance) and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (great restaurant vibe and busy foyer). All this captured during January 2015, with a head-worn set of near- or quasi-binaural microphones.
Why quasi? Because the microphone elements are not entirely behind the Pinna (that thing protruding in front of the ear-canal), which means the true, 3-dimensional binaural experience isn't there. In this setting, my head shadow acted more like a Schneider disc or such, which means these recordings should translate better to speakers than, say, a Neumann dummy head. Btw: the non-binaural recordings were done in October 2013, using just my Sony PCM M10 recorder.
All in all, a collection of useful ambiances for your next Berlin-esque project.
You get:
People, places and trains!
Interiors and exteriors
Metadata included in CSV and ODS (OpenOffice) formats
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Mechanical
Gun Foley
Play Track
387-958 sounds included
From: $35
The EFX Gun Foley collections feature gun handling, munitions handling, shell case drops, clip insertions and removals, cocking/uncocking, weapon drop and slide sounds – and much more. Great for actual gun handling sounds, but also highly useful for designing other mechanical sounds!
Two collections are available:
Gun Foley Pack 01:
Gun Handling
387 sounds, 181 MB
Gun Foley Pack 02:
Shells, Clip and Weapon Drops, slides and more
571 sounds, 365 MB
Buy Gun Foley Pack 01 and 02 together in the Gun Foley Bundle – and save 20%!
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