New Sound Effects: Desert Winds, AI, Mechanisms, Buddhist Nunneries - And Lots More!

Posted August 7, 2017 by Adriane Kuzminski in New sound effects libraries

This week on A Sound Effect, we have lots of highly detailed libraries from the sound designers we’ve all come to love. You can hear sandy, rattling winds in West Texas, a collection of smartly produced AI commands and phrases, intricately designed mechanisms, and strange ambiences and creatures from an imaginative mind. You can also hear authentic WWII aircraft, immersive ambience from a Buddhist nunnery, glitchy screams, character-based footsteps, and all the elements you need for your convivial adventure game. Happy listening!

High Desert Winds 2

Weather Sound Effects High Desert Winds 2 Play Track 59+ sounds included, 165 mins total $70

In the second installment of the High Desert Winds Series, get the blustery sounds of High Desert Winds 2 recorded in the resonant mountains of West Texas. This library was recorded during a massive two-day wind storm with gusts up 75 mph! These extreme winds rattled and shook the house in wonderful ways. The creaking and groaning windows, doors, and walls were vibrating so much that I could record wind for the first time using a contact microphone! There are also recordings of leaf vortexes, sand blasts, tarps popping, umbrella destruction, and much more. If you need the sounds of a stunning desert storm to complement the recordings in High Desert Winds 1, this is the library to check out.

2% FOR THE PLANET:

Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause. I view it as an “artist royalty” for the planet!
KEY FEATURES:

• 90% bird and insect free
• Turbulent hurricane-force gusts ranging from 20-75 mph
• Droning and singing wind whistles
• Open plastic bottle and wine bottle wind whistles
• Mountain ridge top wind
• Desert grass, scrub oak, and pinyon pine wind
• Indoor ORTF perspectives: adobe house, wooden storage shed, and mid-sized truck
• Indoor contact mic perspectives: chimneys, windows, doors, and walls
• Plastic tarps and umbrellas whipping in 50-75 mph winds
• Locations: Davis Mountains, Texas
• Named markers included in each file to help find interesting events. Starting in Soundminer 4.5Pro_v252 you can now read text markers from within Soundminer!
• Marker text included in the Soundminer Description and BWAV description fields.

GEAR USED:
• Sennheiser MKH 8040 Matched Pair
• Aquarian Audio H2a-XLR Hydrophone – Used as contact microphone
• Sound Devices 702
• Rycote ORTF Blimp

FILE LIST:
• View in browser or Download CSV

Need More Winds? Listen to High Desert Winds 1!

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'High Desert Winds 2' by Thomas Rex Beverly is the much-awaited new volume of his clean, interesting wind recordings. With 59 recordings, you'll hear pure 20-75 mph winds in West Texas and everything they shake in their paths: this includes creaking, groaning windows, doors, and walls in a house, as well as winds that spray sand, float across the grass, and tear apart tarps and umbrellas. If this is your first introduction to Thomas Rex Beverly's libraries, you're in for a treat!

Artificial Intelligence

'Artificial Intelligence' is a joint venture between SoundBits and Monte Sound to bring you a very useful and flexible sound library that will give voices to your robots, AI, and user interfaces. With 2,800 words, 6 character voices, and 112 phrases like 'Security breach detected. Please proceed with protocol', you'll have lots of sci-fi scenarios covered with endless word combinations. And with the metadata, retrieving a sound will be as easy as the 'find' shortcut! If you need professionally-designed phrases, this library will woo your players into your futuristic world.

Mechanicals

Mechanical Sound Effects Mechanicals Play Track 350-2000 sounds included From: $135

MECHANICALS brings you everything you need to easily design the sound of mechanical processes – from simple clicking, sliding, rattling or snapping to the most complex mechanical procedures like opening complicated vault doors and treasure chests or clockworks. Your project features some huge machines, robots or powerful mechs? Then this SFX library is your creative tool box:

The CONSTRUCTION KIT contains a huge amount of clean source files to design your own unique mechanical sound effects, the DESIGNED edition gives you an absolutely amazing set of pre-designed sound FX (you’ll LOVE those). The MECHANICALS BUNDLE contains both and it saves you money.

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'Mechanicals' by BOOM Library gets you all the sounds you need for an epic archaeological adventure with your robot sidekick. With clean, meticulously designed sounds, you'll have sounds for your machines, vaults, treasure chests, and more with rattling metal gears, heavy hinges, rolling chains, spinning washers, and small ratchets. You'll also receive sounds of clocks, typewriters, slots, bicycles, mechanical calculators... the list goes on! And of course, you can buy the Construction Kit or Designed Edition - or both for a great discount. For all your contraptions' audible workings, check this one out.

Strange Moods

Drones & Mood Sound Effects Strange Moods Play Track 69+ sounds included, 65 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$5

Whether you seek eerie ambiences, mysterious chatter, or a bassy sweetener, Strange Moods has you covered. In this collection, you’ll find over an hour of perfectly-loopable, atmospheric audio. Inspired by such games as Limbo, No Man’s Sky, and Badlands, all 69 files are high-quality 96kHz/24bit WAV files and drag and drop ready.

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'Strange Moods' by Sounds Like George might be his strangest library yet, and that's saying something! This library has all the elements you need in its 65 minutes of content to take your audience on an odd yet intriguing trip, visiting otherworldly species and worlds with insane ambiences and bizarre loops. The library was inspired by games like 'Limbo', 'No Man's Sky' and 'Badlands', so that should give you some idea of what to expect. This is definitely one you just need to hear for yourself, so check out the demo!

WW2 Aircraft

Aircraft - Jet/Propeller Plane Sound Effects WW2 Aircraft Play Track 59 sounds included, 96 mins total
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$150

WW2 Aircraft is a collection of recordings of rare World War 2 aircraft. It features icons such as the Supermarine Spitfire, Bucker Bu-131 Jungmann, North American P-51 Mustang, Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, Grumman F8F Bearcat and others. The library consists of 59 recordings ranging from 13 seconds to over 10 minutes in length. The sounds have been recorded with the Sennheiser MKH416, MKH8040 and the Sony PCM D100.

The library covers exterior flybys from slow to very fast, aircraft taxiing by, engines starting up, idling, revving, stopping and a few takeoffs. It also includes an on-board recording of a Bucker Bu-131 biplane as it starts up, taxies, takes off, flies, lands and then stops. The planes have been recorded at a variety of distances, from close to relatively far away. As an added bonus, one of the P-51 Mustangs recorded had had its guns removed, which caused an awesome whistling sound every time it swooped down at a certain angle.

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'WW2 Aircraft' by Mindful Audio features WWII aircraft from all views. Featuring the well-known Supermarine Spitfire, Grumman F8F Bearcat, Bucker Bu-131 Jungmann, North American P-51 Mustang, and Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, you'll have sounds of these aircrafts from outside perspectives as they start up, idle, rev, and take off, as well as on-board recordings, and ground recordings as they fly by for over an hour and a half of their roars! If you need authentic sounds of these classic symbols of The Second World War, this is your library.

Tek Chok Ling Nunnery / Nepal

World Sounds Tek Chok Ling Nunnery / Nepal Play Track 79+ sounds included, 204 mins total $99

Tek Chok Ling Nunnery library contains one of a kind, unique collection of sounds, recorded both within the walls of the Nepalese nunnery and on the filled with life streets of Kathmandu.

The purpose of the Tek Chok Ling Nunnery is to inspire and infect with the contagious beauty of everyday buddhist rituals, which normally are not accessible for outsiders and ment to be experienced by only a limited group of people, whose entire lives are dictated by their immaculate religious beliefs.

Within those humble advocates of unrestricted faith in a fellow man and a stranger, one can find an inspiration and a proper dose of somewhat distant empathy in the Western world.

The library includes, but is not limited to sounds from both the nunnery and the hectic streets of the capital city of Nepal. The busy streets of Kathmandu carry the beauty of its everyday hustle and bustle sounds, containing a diverse range of city ambience.

Extensive information of every track was made, making the search for desired environmental sound much easier, formatted for Soundminer. The library features 3h24min of sounds from Tek Chok Ling Nunnery, Kathmandu and Himalayan mountains.

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If you read Filip Stefanowski's Recording Adventures piece about capturing the sounds of Nepal, you'd know that 'Tek Chok Ling Nunnery / Nepal' is something special. In this library you get a rare perspective of the nunnery with sounds of Buddhist prayers, singing bowls, choirs, instruments, and more. You'll also hear sounds of Kathmandu to include crowds around the stupa, as well as ambiences of wind chimes and changing weather. Whether you need sounds for a documentary or as peaceful ambience in your game, this one is worth listening to.

SWAP_Digital Screams

Sci-Fi Sound Effects SWAP_Digital Screams Play Track 98 sounds included, 12 mins total $15

SWAP is a simple library, but a cool addition to your current collection of Sci-fi sounds because his rarity.

You will find 98 male Digital Screams in 18 files (multiple variations in each file) to evoke human sensations in a digital world.

If the character of your game/movie is being plugged-in to a computerized world or suffering pain in this digital terrain, this collection of unique Screams is great for you.

Scream categories included:
Glitch • Movement • Pain • Plugged-in • Power off • Power on • Simple

A very uncommon library but with good sounds to have. Don’t forget to check out the demo!

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'SWAP_Digital Screams' by MatiasMacSD is a quick pack of experimentally designed screams. With almost 100 sounds on 18 files, you'll hear glitchy, morphed sounds that will add abstract tension and suffering to your soundscapes. It includes scenarios such as 'Plugged In', 'Power Off', 'Pain', and 'Movement' with plenty of variations to give your ambiences an oddly lifelike feel. If you're looking for inspiration for your next project, check this one out.

Footsteps

Footsteps Sound Effects Footsteps Play Track 750 sounds included, 15 mins total $14

Whether it’s for animation, live action production or a videogame – Blue Sugar Audio’s ‘Footsteps’ library will help you bring your characters to life!

This Footsteps library includes 5 types of footsteps: bare feet, heels, sneakers, work boots and dress shoes -each tied to their own little character- sneaking, walking and running on 5 different surfaces: concrete, laminate, dirt, metal and hollow wood. The great variety in high quality samples will help you create three very natural sounding paces.

As a courtesy the library also includes Kontakt files -compatible with the full version of kontakt 5 only- so you can Foley your way through your production in a flash!

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'Footsteps' by Blue Sugar Audio takes an everyday concept and puts a brilliant spin on it. With five different characters of all shapes and sizes, from the big bearded Bruno to little Pippa or barefoot Iggy, you'll easily find the footstep you're looking for. Each character provides walking, running, and sneaking steps on 5 surfaces including concrete, dirt, metal, and wood. It also includes a Kontakt library! For 750 footsteps from a variety of body types, give this one a listen.

Ambient Game

Funny / Comedy / Cartoon Ambient Game Play Track 603 sounds included $39.20

The soundstage is set for an immersive listening experience sending your audience adrift in the ambience of warm and colorful gameplay environments!

Like the legendary titles Spyro the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot, Ambient Game is designed to convey the popular, cozy, family-time game sounds that seasoned users recognize and new generation players love.

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Continuing their game-focused themes, Epic Stock Media has released their warm, pleasant 'Ambient Game' library with over 600 sounds. Based on family-friendly games like 'Spyro the Dragon' and 'Crash Bandicoot', this collection features lots of shimmering, glistening effects like pick ups, coin sounds, treasures, awards, buffs, potions, items and more. For bright, professionally designed sounds that will give your friendly game a sense of magic, wonder, and adventure, check out the demo.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Magic – Alchemy Play Track 4213 sounds included ~~From: $135~~ From: $108

SONIC SPELLS WITH REAL PERSONALITY

MAGIC – ALCHEMY is a professional sound effects library built from real chemical reactions and elemental forces. It delivers short, character-rich magic sound effects perfect for spellcasting, magical UI design, and fantasy storytelling. Designed to sit cleanly in a mix and shimmer with personality, these spell sounds are ideal for games, trailers, audio dramas and more. Real reactions, recorded with obsessive detail.

Magic Sounds from Real Chemical Reactions

No digital fakery here. Every sound in MAGIC – ALCHEMY began as a live experiment — alcohol burning in jars, butane growling through pipes, fuses igniting, water swirling in glass. These are true-to-life textures, captured in a lab-grade recording setup. The result? Magical sound with depth, realism, and spark..

Short, Sharp, and Ready to Use

These are not long, cinematic flourishes. This library is about immediacy — short, dry, punchy magic effects that are easy to slot into your project. Ideal for game asset design, magical feedback sounds, and trailer moments where clarity counts.

Three Spell Flavours: Holy, Cursed, Neutral

Need a healing chime, a cursed hex, or something more ambiguous? The Designed section is grouped into Holy, Cursed, and Neutral categories — giving you emotional options that match your scene’s intent, whether you’re crafting a fantasy RPG or a subtle magical interaction.

Built for Professionals, Whatever You Create

Whether you’re layering magic for a fantasy film, adding interactive audio to a mobile game, or creating rich textures for audiobooks or theatre, MAGIC – ALCHEMY fits right in. It’s mix-ready, flexible, and full of sonic character.

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Foley Sound Effects Grenade Foley Play Track 1374 sounds included $15

A focused collection of grenade foley, captured with precision using replica units. This library provides the essential, clean sounds of tactical handling, interaction, and impacts.

Recorded at 96kHz/24-bit across various surfaces including steel plates, carpet, wood floorings, soil, and grass, this library offers variation for different environments. The recordings feature grenade shakes, surface impacts and rolls, pin pulls, spoon lever ejections, spoon drops, and tactical gear foley, all captured with Lewitt LCT 540 S and Shure SM7B.

This is a practical toolkit for sound designers working in film, games, and other media, providing a tonal and versatile foundation for building realistic military action.

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Game Audio Packs - Game Sound Effects Libraries Spells Variations Vol 4 Play Track 255 sounds included $10.20

Spell Variations Vol. 4 marks the grand finale of our magical sound series, delivering a diverse and powerful collection of spell effects. Inside, you’ll find summonings, blood spells, petrifications, healing spells, dark incantations, and much more!

This volume includes 255 high-quality sound effects, organized into 27 distinct spell types, each with multiple variations (3 to 17) to ensure no spell sounds the same, even when reused across your project.

Each spell type is carefully named and sorted into individual folders, giving you intuitive navigation and maximum flexibility for magical scenes, game effects, or cinematic transitions.

Recorded, edited, and mastered in 192 kHz / 24-bit, these sounds deliver exceptional clarity and full adaptability for pitching, layering, or creative processing.

A must-have library for professional sound designers seeking drag-and-drop magical sounds for video games, trailers, animations, or any audiovisual production.

More about the pack
– Intuitive file naming
– All you’ll ever need regarding magical sounds [Use them again & again
Use the sound effects over and over, in any of your projects or productions, forever without any additional fees or royalties. Use the SFX in your game, in your trailer, in a Kickstarter campaign, wherever you need to, as much as you want to.
– Totally mono compatibility
– All sounds have several variations.
– Use your imagination and feel free to use any sound for a creature other than the one described, remember that the world of sound is totally subjective.
– For any questions or problems: khronstudio@gmail.com

Features
– 255 spell sounds
– Number of Audio Waves: 255
– Format: 192KHz / 24 bits
– Win/Mac: Yes
– Minutes of audio provided: 19:21

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Foley Sound Effects Grenade Foley Play Track 1374 sounds included $15

A focused collection of grenade foley, captured with precision using replica units. This library provides the essential, clean sounds of tactical handling, interaction, and impacts.

Recorded at 96kHz/24-bit across various surfaces including steel plates, carpet, wood floorings, soil, and grass, this library offers variation for different environments. The recordings feature grenade shakes, surface impacts and rolls, pin pulls, spoon lever ejections, spoon drops, and tactical gear foley, all captured with Lewitt LCT 540 S and Shure SM7B.

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Game Audio Packs - Game Sound Effects Libraries Magic Spell Impacts Sound Effects 2 Play Track 105 sounds included, 4 mins total $11.99
Bring your fantasy world to life with our 105 Carefully Crafted Magic Spell Sound Effects pack. This versatile collection features a wide range of high-quality sounds designed to enhance magical moments in your game, film, or video project. From mystical incantations and powerful energy blasts to enchanting spellcasts and magical transformations, these effects are perfect for a variety of scenarios. Whether you’re creating epic battles, immersive fantasy environments, or magical interactions, these designed sound effects will add depth and excitement, making every spell cast feel impactful and immersive.

Features:
- Fast Spells – 84 sounds
- Medium Spells – 21 sounds
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Trucks, Buses & Van Sounds Renault Master 2.3 dci – Diesel Van Play Track 102+ sounds included, 132 mins total $40

The Renault Master 2.3 dci diesel van sound library is a go-to pack for many transportation-related scenes. It features 102 96kHz files, more than 130 minutes of audio covering different aspects of using the van. Inside you’ll find engine sounds recorded under the hood, stereo recordings from the cabin during driving, exterior passes and different maneuvers and foley recordings.

The library contains:
• 6 engine under-the-hood onboard recordings while driving (38 minutes)
• 10 interior cabin recordings, 6 in sync with engine (54 minutes)
• 70 exterior passby / driving files
• 18 foley sound effects

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User Interface (UI) Sound Effects UI Interaction Elements Play Track 277 sounds included $40

UI Interaction Elements by Cinematic Sound Design delivers a meticulously crafted sound effects library designed to enhance every click, swipe, tap, and notification in your user interface. This collection brings your apps, games, websites, and software to life, providing a rich auditory experience that makes every interaction feel responsive, intuitive, and satisfying.

Inside this library, you’ll find over 200 high-quality sounds, ranging from subtle, crunchy clicks and soft taps to layered futuristic swipes, innovative button presses, toggle switches, and alert notifications. Each sound has been professionally recorded and mastered to ensure clarity, balance, and versatility across any platform or device.

Whether you’re designing a mobile app, developing an interactive game, or building a modern web interface, UI Interaction Elements provides sounds that seamlessly integrate with your visual design, enhancing user feedback and engagement. The library has been meticulously designed, with each sound layered down and optimized for a maximum performance.

Bring your interfaces to life and create a tactile, immersive experience for your users. Make your UI unforgettable, one sound at a time.

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Animal Sound Effects Forests and Mountains Play Track 96+ sounds included, 220 mins total $110

Forest and Mountains features nature and wildlife sounds from California, Washington, and Oregon. Included are a number of bird recordings and forest ambiences, along with some insects, winds, rivers, and rain.

These were recorded over the past three years in various forests, foothills, and mountain environments. A lot of these took place in or near Southern California’s Angeles Forest and San Gabriel Mountains, an area that spans 1200 Square Miles and varies vastly in terrain.

Also included are some sounds from Northern California, along with recordings from the Pacific Northwest.

The recording techniques for this varied as sometimes I went with the recorders running unattended to capture night, dawn and early morning. Other times I’d record while being close by.

Working as a Sound Effects Editor I’ve curated this collection with Editors in mind. Background Ambiences and Spotted FX can really bring a location to life and give it so much story and character and that was a lot of the inspiration behind putting this all together.

The Locations

California (61 Files) – This is where a majority of the sounds from this library were recorded and specifically Southern California. Variety of areas and different environments, mostly around Angeles Forest, from Lower Elevation Foothills to more rugged mid-elevation Mountain Canyons and then much Higher Elevation and more remote terrain. Also included are a few recordings from the Eastern Sierras and Northern California.

Washington (19 Files) – Southern WA in Gifford Pinchot Forest and various Northwest Forest areas near Puget Sound.

Oregon (16 Files) – Lakeside Recordings in forest and marsh at Klamath Lake in SE Oregon.

The Birds

Prominent / Specific Birds (36) (Closer Mic Perspective and more detailed) (* denotes multiple versions)

Acorn Woodpecker, Barred Owl, Black-headed Grosbeak, California Towhee, *Canadian Geese, *Fox Sparrow, *Great Horned Owl, *House Wren, Northern Flicker, Oak Titmouse, Pacific Wren, Pileated Woodpecker, *Raven, Robin, *Song Sparrow, Spotted Towhee, Swainson’s Thrush

Other Birds Featured (17) (Mixed together from various perspectives, calm to busy depending on time of day, and then closer to more medium and distant sounds.)

Acorn Woodpecker, American Coot, California Quail, California Towhee, Cassin’s Finch, Fox Sparrow, Great Horned Owl, Hose Wren, Mallard, Mountain Chickadee, Northern Flicker, Nuttall’s Woodpecker, Oak Titmouse, Pied-billed Grebe, Common Poorwill, Raven, Red-tailed Hawk, Spotted Towhee, Steller’s Jay, Western Tanager, Western Wood-Pewee, White-breasted Nuthatch, Wilson’s Warbler, Wrentit, Yellow-throated Blackbird, Zone-tailed Hawk

General Forest (9) – A mix of some wildlife (Chipmunk, Deer, Bullfrogs), and more general lighter forest ambiences.
Insects (7) – Crickets from various perspectives and different forests along with some Grasshoppers.
Rain (4) Light to heavier in a canyon with dense vegetation, some with distant birds.
Rivers (5) Smaller detailed creeks to faster moving rivers.
Wind (11) A mix of calm to heavier with gusts, vegetation, and tree creaks.

Metadata
Detailed with descriptions and markers and photos to easily navigate and allow for options when searching. UCS was used to categorize and various bird species are identified. I’ve also labeled the metadata with what I consider Lower Elevation (up to 1500 feet), Middle Elevation (2000-5000 feet), and Higher Elevation (above 5000 feet). Included are the season of the year which was mostly Spring and Summer. Using Open-Tier in Soundminer you can use these to help get a bit more specific to particular environments.

The Gear

Sound Devices MixPre-3 & 6 | Zoom F3 & 6 | Sony PCM-D100

Mics

Sennheiser MKH 8020 | Sennheiser MKH 8040 |

Sennheiser MKH 30 | Clippy EM 272

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Game Audio Packs - Game Sound Effects Libraries General UI Sounds Play Track 136 sounds included $10

Hello Creators!

Here’s my new pack: “General UI Sounds“

I wanted to create a sound pack to cover different situations in an user interface.
I hope you enjoy implementing this sounds in your project!

Making-Off

All this sounds were originally recorded with a Zoom H6 (cardiod microphone), and were processed in Logic Pro X, mainly editing the recorded material but also I used the Logix Pro X sampler.

Some considerations

1. Keep in mind this sounds can be used in a variety of situations, I put a name to the SFX but this doesn’t mean it can’t be used in other contexts.

2. The sounds are in 44.1Khz/16 bit format. I have the original files at 96khz/24bit also, if you need this format, please contact me.

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Car Sound Effects BMW Z4 E89 2009 sports car Play Track 221 sounds included, 47 mins total $65

All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, Line Audio Omni1 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.

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Universal Category System (UCS) Toy Quadcopter Play Track 10 sounds included $8

Toy Quadcopter is a focused mini library capturing the playful and high-pitched character of a toy drone in motion. Perfect for film, TV, games, and interactive media, it offers a variety of flight sounds, close fast pass-bys, slow passes, motor modulations, and essential electronic signals.
This collection includes take-off and landing sequences, beeps for syncing, calibration and low battery warnings, as well as servo engine textures and detailed proximity recordings. Recorded with precision and clarity, it’s a compact but rich toolset for designing scenes that call for small UAVs, gadgets, or sci-fi elements.

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