Asbjoern Andersen


There’s been a tremendous number of great sound effects libraries released by the indie community recently – here’s a look at some of the latest ones: This time around, we have recordings from various suburban playgrounds and dog parks, busy university halls and quiet libraries, open car parks and underground garages, valleys and meadows of Central Europe, city streets at night, and museums and markets around Melbourne. We also have roaring jets, buzzing race cars, and charming 8-bit sound effects. Happy listening!
Sounds of Nature: WOODLANDS of Europe
 
  • In this library you will find quiet meadows, valleys, glades and open spots on hills in Central Europe. Everything sounds very airy and open and you can hear many different birds, grasshoppers, crickets, insects etc. All nature recordings are clear and completely free from external noise and other human disruptions. This is why this library will be especially useful for productions taking place in the past, like medieval and ancient times. As well as for historical and nature documentaries.

    All of these nature ambiences are recorded using three different microphone set-ups. A Stereo set-up, a wide stereo set-up and a spaced omnis set-up, which also offers extended frequency response. This brings you 3 variations of each recording. Within these variations the differences are sometimes subtle and sometimes more extreme. These three perspectives can provide flexibility for crosscutting within scenes.

    Get more than 4 hours of unique, royalty-free and especially high quality recordings with this library.

    Recorded in 24 bit / 96 kHz. Accurately edited and mastered to sound as natural as possible. The average length of each file is between 3-5 minutes, so enough time to use in longer scenes without looping.

    For more detailed descriptions about the ambiences in this collection see the metadata in our file lists or listen to the preview montage.

'Sounds of Nature: WOODLANDS of Europe' by Fennec FX is a beautiful collection of quiet meadows, valleys, and glades in Central Europe. These incredibly calm ambiences capture bird choruses including crows and cuckoos and ambient insects like crickets, all without the disturbances of humans. The library includes 4 hours of these soundscapes from three different mic setups, plus it has the detailed metadata to lead you to the right sound. For peaceful, highly-useful nature ambiences, give this one a listen.
 
Parks
 
  • Environments & Ambiences Parks Play Track 32 sounds included, 160 mins total $30

    This library is full of the sound of city and suburban parks.

    You’ll hear relaxing and playful areas like botanical gardens, large and small dog parks, playgrounds, and skateparks, as well as tennis and soccer games. Each track is five minutes long, giving you plenty to work with! Whether you need the relaxing sounds of people enjoying a lazy Sunday or a more active scene with a inner city traffic and recreational sports, give this library a listen. All sounds were recorded using the Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 and a stereo pair of Sennheiser MKH 8020s.

    Visit edible-audio.com for behind the scenes photos, contact information, sound library updates and exclusive deals.

'Parks' by Niels Gabriels has 32 ambiences of various parks. You'll hear relaxing and playful areas like botanical gardens, large and small dog parks, playgrounds, and skateparks, as well as tennis and soccer games. Each track is five minutes long, giving you plenty to work with! Whether you need the relaxing sounds of people enjoying a lazy Sunday or a more active scene with a inner city traffic and recreational sports, give this library a listen.
 
Car Parks
 
  • City Life Sound Effects Car Parks Play Track 24 sounds included, 120 mins total $25

    This library is filled with recordings of parking garages; underground, interior and exterior.

    You’ll hear exterior parking lots next to shopping malls, echoey interior lots, and underground lots with their creepy ventilation and plumbing. In total, you’ll receive 24 recordings that are five minutes each, so there’s plenty to work with. Whether you have a horror game with an unknown creature behind that next car or an action film with a shootout in a parking garage, this library will have you covered. All sounds were recorded using the Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 and a stereo pair of Sennheiser MKH 8020s.

    Visit edible-audio.com for behind the scenes photos, contact information, sound library updates and exclusive deals.

'Car Parks' by Niels Gabriels gets you two hours of ambiences from various types of car parks. You'll hear exterior parking lots next to shopping malls, echoey interior lots, and underground lots with their creepy ventilation and plumbing. In total, you'll receive 24 recordings that are five minutes each. Whether you have a horror game with an unknown creature behind that next car or an action film with a shootout in a parking garage, this library will have you covered.
 
Retro 8 Bit Sounds
 
'Retro 8 Bit Sounds' by Gamemaster Audio is a collection of 1001 video games sounds from the classic era. These wave-based sounds include the sonic symbols we've come to learn to decipher, like power ups, coin pickups, explosions, deaths, jumps, alarms, footsteps, falling, shooting, teleporting, and lots more. You even get a few musical tracks and stingers! Whether you're creating your own twist on Space Invaders or your character humorously gets transported into an 8-bit world, this library has all the bleeps and bloops you need.
 
Interior Ambiences: Tech. Building & Art Workshop
 
  • Recorded at the Technical University of Denmark and at a big Art Workshop in Copenhagen – in collaboration with sound designer and field recordist Rune Palving. This collection of sounds captures the crowds, both loud and more quiet, and the different rooms, halls, and hallway tones that are speciel to such places.

    The Technical University files are all surround files, recorded in double MS and mixed into 5.0 tracks. Recorded in very crowded places, like the dining area, and at the library, but also in more quiet places, like the auditorium wardrobes and in the rest rooms.
    The sounds recorded at the art workshop, focus more on the rooms and reverberation found here. The sounds also include, artists working in their own shops, cleaning, writing and painting. All sounds in this collection are stereo.

    The library includes:

    15 surround tracks, 5.0, 96/24 ranging from a few minutes to +7 minutes long. 8.8 GB

    10 stereo tracks, 96/24. From 3-10 minutes long. 2.1 GB

    Equipment used: Sounddevices 702, 744, Mixpre, Sennheiser Mkh8040/Mkh30/Mkh8040

'Interior Ambiences: Tech. Building & Art Workshop' by SonicSalute and field recordist Rune Palving gets you all the creaks, groans, and thick reverberations of university buildings. Recorded at the Technical University of Denmark, this library has 15 surround tracks and 10 stereo tracks of college crowds in hallways, dining areas, libraries, auditoriums, and more. It also includes sounds from an art workshop in Copenhagen where artists write, paint, and clean their shops. For a collection of unique surround room tones, look no further.
 
Race Cars
 
'Race Cars' by Airborne Sound has all the vrooms you could hope for. This library, which was recorded at the Ferrari Challenge, NASCAR, IndyCar, and others, has sounds of race cars practicing, qualifying, and, of course, racing. It includes many perspectives, from near the track, close-ups in the pit stop, and far away ambiences, and captures plenty of pass-bys, backfires, revving, and more. If you need sounds from a day at the races, check this one out.
 
Attack Aircraft Maneuvers
 
'Attack Aircraft Maneuvers' by Airborne Sound is the pro library of fighter jets you've been looking for. This library has 118 sounds of military aircraft like the F-16C, F/A18C, CF18 Hornet, and CT-114 Tutors. These jets tear through the sky as they pass by, doing their climbs, curls, and dive bombs. You'll even get almost romantic metadata like 'CF-18 Hornet jet fighter passing by, breathy and sailing by in the distance' or 'F-16C Fighting Falcon fighter jet passing by to climb with a fiery crackle in the distance'. For a great collection of jets, check this one out.
 
Public Spaces
 
  • Environments & Ambiences Public Spaces Play Track 39+ sounds included, 195 mins total $30

    This library is a collection of room tones from public areas in Melbourne. These atmospheric places include libraries, markets, concert halls, car parks, food courts, museums and more, with each track lasting five minutes long. Much of the metadata even lets you know from where the mic was recording, like the balcony, fruit and vegetable section, or near the elevators.All sounds were recorded using the Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 and a stereo pair of Sennheiser MKH 8020s.

    Visit edible-audio.com for behind the scenes photos, contact information, sound library updates and exclusive deals.

'Public Spaces' by Niels Gabriels is a collection of room tones from public areas in Melbourne. These atmospheric places include libraries, markets, concert halls, car parks, food courts, museums and more, with each track lasting five minutes long. Much of the metadata even lets you know from where the mic was recording, like the balcony, fruit and vegetable section, or near the elevators. For a wide variety of interior ambiences, give this one a listen.
 
Streets at Night
 
  • Traffic Sound Effects Streets at Night Play Track 15+ sounds included, 75 mins total $25

    This library is full of quiet night ambiences in a small city.

    In this library, you’ll hear 75 minutes of atmospheres that include busy highways and far away sirens, quiet intersections as cars pass through, rooftop and bridge underpass ambiences, distant trains and bar crowds, and more. Each track is five minutes long, giving you plenty of loops points if need be. If you’re looking for that distinct tranquility you feel in the twilight hours of an urban area, check this one out. All sounds were recorded using the Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 and a stereo pair of Sennheiser MKH 8020s.

    Visit edible-audio.com for behind the scenes photos, contact information, sound library updates and exclusive deals.

'Streets at Night' by Niels Gabriels has lots of quiet night ambiences in a small city. In this library, you'll hear 75 minutes of atmospheres that include busy highways and far away sirens, quiet intersections as cars pass through, rooftop and bridge underpass ambiences, distant trains and bar crowds, and more. Each track is five minutes long, giving you plenty of loops points if need be. If you're looking for that distinct tranquility you feel in the twilight hours of an urban area, check this one out.
   

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  • Introducing MOTION GRAPHICS, a complete Motion Graphics sound effects library from SoundMorph!

    Motion Graphics focuses on all the elements you might need for sound design on a trailer, a cinematic scene or a visual that is heavy with motion graphics, whether it be abstract or straight forward, Motion Graphics has all the elements and textures you could think of. Motion Graphics are something all of us sound designers run into at one point or another, so this library is an excellent addition to your sound effects tool box.

    Motion Graphics was created by and in collaboration with sound designer Rostislav Trifonov (SoundMorph Elemental library contributor).

    Motion Graphics features 650 24bit/96 kHz .wav files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata.

    The library features:

    • 450 + designed sound effects
    • 190 + source audio files
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    • Impacts
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    Designed and sourced entirely from Richard Devine’s personal and exclusive Eurorack modular synths and processors collection, the Modular UI soundpack combines the retro, clean sound of analog with the futuristic tech of the new wave of advanced analog and digital synthesis from modular synths, evoking flashbacks of iconic sound design heard in both classic and modern sci-fi films.

    The Modular UI soundpack gives you access to sounds created by one of the masters of modular synths and sound design, and is sourced from equipment that would take a lifetime to purchase and assemble, giving an incredible value to this soundpack both artistically and financially.

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  • Introducing MOTION GRAPHICS, a complete Motion Graphics sound effects library from SoundMorph!

    Motion Graphics focuses on all the elements you might need for sound design on a trailer, a cinematic scene or a visual that is heavy with motion graphics, whether it be abstract or straight forward, Motion Graphics has all the elements and textures you could think of. Motion Graphics are something all of us sound designers run into at one point or another, so this library is an excellent addition to your sound effects tool box.

    Motion Graphics was created by and in collaboration with sound designer Rostislav Trifonov (SoundMorph Elemental library contributor).

    Motion Graphics features 650 24bit/96 kHz .wav files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata.

    The library features:

    • 450 + designed sound effects
    • 190 + source audio files
    • Whooshes
    • Impacts
    • Risers
    • Stingers
    • Low end and Sub Bass
    • Impulse Responses
    • Passbys
    • Textures – noise, grit, glitch
    • Ambiences
    • Buttons and Clicks
    • Mechanical Elements
    • Granular effects
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  • Modular UI is an advanced user interface library designed by world-renowned sound designer and musician Richard Devine.

    Designed and sourced entirely from Richard Devine’s personal and exclusive Eurorack modular synths and processors collection, the Modular UI soundpack combines the retro, clean sound of analog with the futuristic tech of the new wave of advanced analog and digital synthesis from modular synths, evoking flashbacks of iconic sound design heard in both classic and modern sci-fi films.

    The Modular UI soundpack gives you access to sounds created by one of the masters of modular synths and sound design, and is sourced from equipment that would take a lifetime to purchase and assemble, giving an incredible value to this soundpack both artistically and financially.

    Utilizing many Eurorack modules that have not yet been released to the public and containing samples equally suited to sound designers and electronic musicians alike, Modular UI is in a class by itself!

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    Animal Hyperrealism Vol IV is a sound library containing animal vocalisations, from real to designed creatures totaling more than 2000 individual sounds in 294 files. The sounds were recorded in zoos, and wildlife centers.

    The asset list includes but is not limited to: hippos, hyenas, vultures, dwarf mongooses, elephants, African cranes, parrots, tigers, pigmy hippos, rhea ostriches, brown bears, pheasants, wildebeests, African wild dogs and many more. The content has been recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K, an Avisoft CMPA and a Sennheiser 8050 for center plus two Sennheiser MKH8040 for stereo image.

    The resulting ultrasonic spectrum is rich and allows for truly extreme manipulation of the content.

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  • Kawaii UI Bundle is the ultimate bundle for cute user interface sounds.
    In this Bundle you get both volumes of our Kawaii UI libraries.
    Kawaii UI + Kawaii UI 2

    These libraries provide an adorable blend of cute, satisfying interface sounds, crafted to enhance user experience and feedback.
    Bring your games and apps to life with the Kawaii UI Bundle.

    It’s ideal for creating joyful menus, delightful HUDs, playful navigation and notifications, engaging pop-ups, and expressive text.

    Kawaii UI Trailer
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    The source recordings inside are a treasure trove of physical button presses, clicks, pops, taps, mouth sounds, toks, shakers, general synthesised UI sounds, FM bells and telemetry style sounds.. Kawaii UI Bundle provides you with the essential building blocks to craft your own distinctive designs.  Combining these elements gives sound designers a robust sonic palette to create new UI sounds.

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  • Vegetation Footsteps is a detailed collection of footwear and movement variations recorded on dry leaves and forest floor textures. Featuring walk, run, sprint, scuff, pivot, and single step actions, this library captures the nuanced crunch and rustle of layered vegetation underfoot. With performances in sport shoes, sandals, leather shoes, high heels, and barefoot, each sound is designed for realistic character movement across natural environments. Ideal for games, film, and animation, Vegetation Footsteps offers clean, focused assets for building immersive terrain interaction.

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  • A collection of 103 bowling sound effects.


   

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