This week in the last edition of Sunday Sound Effects Round Up for 2016 we have new libraries from Detunized, Tonstrum, Airborne Sound, and A Sound Effect.

Detunized Announce Storewide 40% Discount And Release Room Tones - Office Building Sound Library 

Office Building features the ambiences have been carefully recorded around midnight or in the early morning hours because during these times employees are usually at home so that the building can unfold its own sounds of ventilations, elevators and wind that blows through tilted windows. Automatic switches occasionally ignite neon lights along the floors or elevator doors open from out of nowhere.

As with Detunized libraries there are 3 different versions...

• Live Pack

  • requires Live 8.4 or higher, 1.2 GB

  • 9 Drum Racks with percussive elements of various

  • door actions

  • 22 Instrument Racks with room tones and

  • elevator drives

  • 94 clips with full length takes

  • for personal editing purposes

  • Price 14 Euros
     

• Broadcast WAV light

  • 23 Takes w/ embedded metadata

  • 24/48, 1000 MB

  • 59 min total playing time

  • Extensive meta-data documents for SM import

  • Price 16 Euros
     

• Broadcast WAV HD

  • 79 Takes w/ embedded metadata

  • 24/96, 5.4 GB

  • 160 min total playing time

  • Extensive meta-data documents for SM import

  • Price 35 Euros

Until January 8th 2017 Detunized Running A Storewide 40% Discount

Another year is coming to an end, days are getting shorter and it is often cold outside. Consider staying at home and indulge your creativity. Until January 8th you can download everything you might have missed throughout the year from Detunized with a 40% discount, even bundles!  Just fill up the cart and apply detu40off at checkout.

Tonstrum Release Rushing Wind

With this Surround Ambience Library, you get 68 pure wind ambiences, recorded in discrete 5.0 with a wide spaced omni setup in the Scottish Highlands. From blustery howling, whirling and rushing gusts to calm and smooth whistling winds, this natural winds library offers a vast palette of wide sounding wind effects to create truly cinematic ambiences and sound designs. 

The library is available in two different formats:

• TONSTURM 19 | Rushing Wind - Surround @ 96 kHz

  • 68 Ambiences 5.0 Surround (Stereo down mixes included)

  • Total Length: 6 Hours / Recorded and mastered @ 96kHz, 24Bit

  • With Stereo Down Mixed versions over 43 GB when unrar´d

  • Price - $159 
     

• TONSTURM 19 | Rushing Wind - Stereo @ 96 kHz

  • 68 Ambiences / Stereo down mixes

  • Total Length: 6 Hours / Recorded and mastered @ 96kHz, 24Bit

  • Price - $99

Airborne Sound Add 4 More Libraries To Their Library Builder Bundle Series

The Library Builder Bundles are designed to be grounded in real-world objects and places. These recent releases take a different approach: they depict imaginary places and provide sci-fi accents and multimedia tools.

Their sound designers broke out their samplers and stacked plug-ins to twist conventional field recordings into otherworldly clips. These 1,315 clips are designed to give options, fill the holes in your collection, and add fresh takes to twist and tweak.

They are also designed light on the wallet. Each pack is $19.

• Whoosh, Sweeps, and Swoosh Sound FX

  • The Eclectic Whooshes sound fx bundle provides new takes of swipes, swooshes, fly-ins, and whooshes.

  • 375 sound fx.

  • 527 megabytes.

  • Price - $19.00

  • The swishes emerge from a variety of themes: fire, energy, storm, electric, cybernetic robotic whooshes and others. There are whoosh-to-impacts, blasts, bursts, whip-bys, and much more.

• Beep, Blip, and Buzzer Sound Clips

  • Blips and boops find their way in projects ranging from modern thrillers to space operas. Beeps and Buzzers was created to add hundreds of extra clips to your sci-fi arsenal.

  • 500 sound clips.

  • 513 megabytes.

  • Price - $19.00

  • The sound bundle presents many families of these popular fx: coarse, raw, and nasal buzzers, fluttering and chattering bleeps, clean and robotic beeps, and more.

• Drones, Tones, and Sound Design Atmosphere FX

  • Sound pros place drone atmospheres in projects ranging from horror flicks to first-person-shooter AAA game titles. That variety demands a matching selection of imaginary ambiences.

  • Light and Dark Drones was created to help. It provides both textured, neutral tones as well as melodic, emotional atmospheres.

  • 115 sound effects.

  • 6.49 gigabytes.

  • Price - $19.00

  • The dark, textured takes present airy, buzzing, shimmering, swirling beds and others. The light drones gather angelic, mystical, eerie, rhythmic tones, and much more.

• User Interface Elements

  • Want to enhance a feature film computer screen action? Need to augment website clicks? Looking for video game menu sounds?

  • Interface Accents was created with these projects in mind. It offers menus, buttons, selections, and scrolling clips.

  • 325 sound clips.

  • 203 megabytes.

  • Price - $19.00

  • The accents emerge from creative families such as crystalline, buzzing, chattering, and fluttering takes. There are notifications, alerts, buttons, switches, readout and scans, selections and menus.

New Libraries From A Sound Effect

'Home Grown Metal' is an eclectic library that presents metal textures and tones with over 1,100 sounds and 76 minutes of content, you will find sounds of mechanisms, coins, CPU fans, cutlery, squeaky metal drawers and doors, grills, yard tools and much more. Price - $45

'Ghosts' by Articulated Sounds is a collection of 3D haunted sounds with spooky hisses, whistles, creaks, whispers and plenty of sounds you can't quite put your finger on. With Ambisonic, 5.1, and stereo formats, you will receive 20 ambiences and 125 elements for VR and 360 video content in the Designed Library and 545 mono sound sources. Price - $30

'Ambience Crowds 2' has nearly two hours of domestic ambiences, from large gatherings in echoey halls to dry reverb-less outdoor chatter. In this collection you will find atmospheres from coffee shops, museums, parks, libraries, restaurant, schools, malls and more, and it contains several recordings of children playing and talking to their parents. Plus, most conversations are unintelligible and will not distract from your characters. Price - $40

'Jackhammer' is a sound pack that features these powerful construction tools from different perspectives. It has five recordings of a jackhammer drilling concrete: one is nearby, another is in a underground parking lot, and three are separated by a wall as the hammer pummels at different speeds. Price - $15 

'Analogue Rotary Telephone' features sounds of a technology whose semiology was passed onto the digital age. This library dissects a rotary phone for all its vibrations, which are captured by a shotgun mic and a contact mic. You can find sounds of Foley such as dialing, picking up, hanging up, and dropping the phone, and the expected sounds of ringing. Price $21

'Urban Berlin Vol. 2' is the next addition in recording the sounds of this German capital. Recorded in the Kreuzberg, Mitte, Charlottenburg and Tiergarten districts, this library features quintessentially urban German sounds with busy biergartens, traffic, Deutsche walla, shopping malls, train stations, antique art markets, playgrounds, landmarks, and tourist spots in the heart of the city. Price - $99

'Shred It' gets you up-close and personal with a paper shredder and all its functions. It features sounds of the motor as the paper goes through in various ways and Foley of paper ripping, tearing and crumpling. Price $9.50

'Dial It Collection' is a sound library of this old-fashioned device from a time when you hoped your best friend's phone number wasn't 399-9999. With 78 sounds of picking up the phone, slamming it, detaching the cable, dialing at multiple speeds, pressing buttons and more, this library features the range of rotary phone noises. Price - $14

The Holiday Season Is Approaching

We will taking a break over the Christmas holiday season and so the next Sunday Sound Effects Round Up will be Sunday 15th January 2016. If you are an independent sound effects producer then please use the Contact Us page to let us know about your releases so we can include them in a future Sunday Sound Effects Round Up.