Sonniss Is Close To Its 1 Year Anniversary
We took a look at this new way of buying sound effects back in the early days of Sunday Sound Effects Roundup and now as Sonniss approaches its first anniversary, Tim McHugh who is the powerhouse behind Sonniss got in touch to give a sneak preview of the new developments he and his team are working on to improve this independent Sound Effects Site.
They will be releasing an entirely new feature set and the product page will be fully-interactive and you will be able to buy single files, with a waveform view on every track, an instant search results with a Boolean string search. You will be able to follow your favourite sound designers with real-time instant notifications and activity feed updates. The aim is that there will be no waiting around and every single track in the database will be available, sortable, searchable, listenable and of course purchasable.
Chuck Russom FX Announce Bullets Sound Library
Chuck describes Bullets as a violent collection of bullet sounds! Featuring bullet impacts on various surfaces including; dirt, flesh/body, glass, car, wood, and metal. Bullets also includes multiple variations of bullet whizby sounds. Ready to drop into your project!
Bullets has 600 sounds all recorded at 24bit / 96K as BWF files with embedded metadata and costs $75.
Mikkel Nielsen Is Working On A New Sound Effects Collection Round The Back
Michael from Sonic Salute has tweeted that he has a new library underway and shared some pictures showing some of the locations. The topic of the new collection is backyards, alleyways and spaces between buildings. Watch out for this new library....
Moon Echo Audio
Cooper Skinner from Moon Echo Audio has been in touch to tell us about the sound effects collections they are offering, which seem to bridge the gap between sound design and music composition.
Wild Montana Winter
Anyone working with sound on location will know that gathering clean nature recordings without man-made noise is becoming more and more difficult in today's world due to human expansion and modern technology. Wild Montana Winter has over an hour of material from the unpolluted sonic landscapes around Lost Trail National Wildlife Refuge. The sounds, with many clocking in over 4-5 minutes, detail the beauty of natural phenomenon of this desolate, frozen, vast and untamed terrain. Metadata has been added to help you to easily navigate through this natural collection of sounds and Cooper says that Wild Montana Winter is extremely popular with documentary people and you can buy it for $49.
Movement Essentials
The abstract sounds found in Movement Essentials are designed to help to create and enhance musical and cinematic soundscapes by allowing you to layer and manipulate audio in an almost limitless number of combinations. This 500+ sound effect library features minimal, yet intricately detailed organic and synthesized sounds that can be used to add depth, motion, or transitional effects to a plethora of film, animation, apps, video games, musical projects and more! what's more each sound has 5 or more variations to further assist creativity, complexity and flexibility. You can get Movement Essentials for $39.
Shadowscapes
"The shattering of rational thought that becomes replaced with the most disturbing of intentions. The uncontrollable urges that drive the mind to become demented and unhinged. The cacophony of hazy voices, that relentlessly beckon from the inside of ones own head". Moon Echo Music have tried to embrace the decay of the human psyche with Shadowscapes. This anxiety-inducing 2.6GB sound effects suite features 100 soundscapes inspired by all things maddening, is intended to add bleak, atmospheric tension to projects in the horror, sci-fi, fantasy, surrealism and music production. Utilising processing effects including granular synthesis, pitch shift and complex delays, the sounds can be used individually or carefully layered to add density to your own morbid creations. Have a listen to the textures of Shadowscapes and get ready to lead your audience down the path of pure melodic mental mayhem! You can buy Shadowscapes for $69.
Cooper told us that that Movement essentials and Shadowscapes are both finding favour in the fields of animation and motion graphics. He also has used the art of Daniel de Wit for the covers of these libraries.