Featured Sound Creator: SoundBits

Posted November 10, 2020 by Asbjoern Andersen in Sound community highlights

Why SoundBits stand out:

Soundbits have been part of the independent community for a long time, and their libraries span a huge number of categories and genres – with releases that are consistently of an impressively-high quality. From abstract ambiences to wild whooshes, their libraries can cover pretty much all your sound effects needs – and if you want to build a solid foundation for your sound design work, their comprehensive bundles easily get you off to a flying start.

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Highlight: STARTER PACKS | COMPLETE BUNDLE

The STARTER PACKS | COMPLETE BUNDLE contains ‘light versions’ of the 80 SoundBits sound effects libraries currently available at A Sound Effect.

Each STARTER PACK contains a hand-picked selection of sounds from the full, original library – letting you easily get up and running with a broad selection of more than 5000+ excellent sound effects, gathered from 80 sound effects packs.

Bundles STARTER PACKS | COMPLETE BUNDLE Play Track 5000+ sounds included $999

The STARTER PACKS | COMPLETE BUNDLE contains ‘light versions’ of each SoundBits | Sound Effects Library that is currently available at A Sound Effect.

Each STARTER PACK contains an appropriate selection of sounds from its original library.

You want to skip the starters an get the main dish right away? –> this way –>

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Explore the libraries from SoundBits below:

Newest libraries from SoundBits:

Bundles STARTER PACKS | COMPLETE BUNDLE Play Track 5000+ sounds included $999

The STARTER PACKS | COMPLETE BUNDLE contains ‘light versions’ of each SoundBits | Sound Effects Library that is currently available at A Sound Effect.

Each STARTER PACK contains an appropriate selection of sounds from its original library.

You want to skip the starters an get the main dish right away? –> this way –>

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Bundles SoundBits Complete Bundle Play Track 35000+ sounds included $2,685.60

The SoundBits | Complete Bundle contains 80 sound effects libraries that are currently available here at A Sound Effect.

LIBRARIES 80

FILES 33420

SIZE 317 GB

With this bundle, you save 20% compared to the sum of all libraries if you purchase them separately.

LIBRARIES IN THIS BUNDLE

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Bundles Hit & Whoosh | Bundle Play Track 8234+ sounds included $858

This comprehensive bundle brings together an incredibly huge amount of impact-, hit-, whoosh-, pass-by- and transition sound effects.
For any motion graphics, action- or scifi movies, cinematics, trailers and whatever else needs an appropriate sonic sense of motion.

The “HIT & WHOOSH | BUNDLE”
21 LIBRARIES | 8234 FILES | 33.38 GB

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Bundles Hard Effects | Bundle Play Track 14241+ sounds included $1,052

The SoundBits | Hard Effects Bundle brings together 24 general sound effects libraries of things at work, mechanics, materials, prop-interactions, friction and movements. Such as cars, (electric) tools, electric toys, doors, real whooshes and impacts, metal chains, a motor scooter, stones, handwriting, buttons, switches, antique props, bowling, animals and more.

The “HARD EFFECTS | BUNDLE”
24 LIBRARIES | 14241 FILES | 57.47 GB

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Best-selling libraries from SoundBits:

Foley Sound Effects Buttons & Switches Play Track 2000+ sounds included $35

This new library gets you a huge collection of all kinds of Buttons, Switches, Knobs, Levers, Sliders – that were pushed hard (and soft).

From small buttons, small mechanics to big levers of different materials.
Perfectly cleaned and edited for direct use.

Whenever there is something to be pushed, pressed, released, hit, clicked, pulled – you’ll find the sounds to go with it here.

All sounds are delivered as BWF tagged, 24Bit / 96kHz wav-files

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Gore Sound Effects Just Gore Play Track 820 sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$40

Welcome to the Bloodfeast. Welcome to 496 files containing over 820 goregeous bone breaking, blood soaking and flesh slicing Splatter SoundFX.

This huge hardgore, construction kit contains all the sounds of gore you need for your horror-, action-, thriller-, slasher-, monster-, martial-arts-, zombie- or fantasy-, movie or video-game.

…and, there is a chainsaw too, of course.

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Whoosh Sound Effects Tiny Transitions Play Track 565 sounds included $36

‘Tiny Transitions’ deivers 275 short Whooshes and other Transition sounds. Instead of the huge, more cinematic transitional sounds that you are accustomed to hear from SoundBits, this sound pack focuses more on the smaller, not-so-intrusive production elements that come in very handy for any Sound Designer, All-In-One Film Editor or Web-, App- and Game-Developers.

All these small motion-supporting elements that you need in your everyday work for game menus, apps, general motion designs, … or as parts of more complex moving stuff.

You get 275 designed sounds + a selection of 290 cleaned and edited source sounds that were used to design the Tiny Transitions. These sounds are mostly different props that are scraping or sliding on different surfaces and also some vocalized whoosh attempts.

All source sounds were recorded with Sonosax SX-R4+ and Sennheiser MKH8050+MKH30 M/S rig.

All sounds come with embedded Soundminer Metadata.

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Metal Sound Effects Just Chains Play Track 973 sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$35

As you’ve probably guessed from the title, this SFX library is all about metal chain sound effects. Various sizes of chains were pulled, dropped, shaken, rattled, whipped, hung, dangled and jingled.

These sounds could come in handy for a wide range of purposes like morning star swings / whips, coin ringing, chain metal armor movements, hoists, addons for footstep movements and many more.

So if you’re after any kind of metal chain sounds, this SFX library is one to get!

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Just Impacts – Basic Play Track 618 sounds included $35

Just Impacts – Simple is a huge collection of plain impact sounds. Metal hits, wood impacts, glass smashes, junk destruction – 618 Sounds in 360 files.

This is a must-have construction kit whenever it comes to a movie or game scene where one object hits another. Think car crashes, robot fights, sci-fi battles or any other kind of impact that needs the right sound effect.

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Creature Sound Effects Screams & Shouts 2 – Humans Play Track 1236 sounds included $45

The “Screams & Shouts 2 – Humans” sound effects library brings you over 1.200 human shouts of pain and death, disturbing screams plus grunts of anger, struggle and attack from several men, women and children.

All sounds have been edited precisely and cut clean for instant use in your projects.

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Materials & Texture Sound Effects Drag & Slide Play Track 550+ sounds included $39

Need the sound of objects being pushed, pulled, dragged, moved – or perhaps sliding and scraping over different surfaces? The Drag & Slide SFX library gets you exactly that: More than 500 dragging and sliding sounds that are ready to be used as they are – or for intense sound design.

Drag & Slide features recordings from sources such as:

Bags, Barrels, Blades, Bottles, Cabinets, Chairs, Coat-hangers, Crates, Dining Tables, Fridges, Frying Pans, Iron Boxes, Iron Tables, Metal Cans, Metal Chairs, Nightstands, Pallets, Paper bags, Plates, Racks, Rakes, Shoes, Shovels, Sledgehammers, Spray cans, Stones/rocks, Toolboxes, Vacuum Cleaners, Various heavy objects, Wooden Boards – and more!

Technical details:

All sounds were cleaned, edited and filled with BWF-Metadata for instant use in your projects – and many of the files in the pack contain more than one sound. Recorded with Sound Devices 744T, 788T, Sennheiser MKH8050, Ambient ATE208, Sony PCM-D100

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Drones & Mood Sound Effects Abstract Ambiences Play Track 60 sounds included
Rated 3.00 out of 5
$40
The “Abstract Ambiences” is a collaboration of SoundBits and Monte Sound.

This bundle offers you a collection of abstract and surreal ambiences, ready to be used in your next production. Wether in surround or stereo, this kit will be sure to please. The bundle offers a full mix, as well as a construction kit to mix and match the stems as you wish, giving you maximum flexibility in post production.
All sounds are delivered in 96kHz / 24bit. All sounds are royalty free.

Think of movies like “Alien”, “Event Horizon” “or games like “Dead Space”, “Doom” or “Bioshock”. But you will also get the right feel and idea for other disturbing-cyberpunk and unsettling industrial dark spaces.
A symbiosis of organic original field-recordings like Room Tones, Construction Sites, Traffic, Fun-Fair, Motors, … and synthetic elements like spectral- and granular synthesis.
60 ready-to-use abstract ambiences in 5.0 surround

Stereo Downmixes of all ambiences included!

All files with 2:30 Minutes length

Perfectly balanced Surround Sounds for easy integration in games, movies and more

Categories:
Doomed Soundscapes, Dark Drones, Futuristic Dungeons, Alien Worlds, SciFi Horror, Weird Radio Messages and Interference and Disturbing and Terrifying Noises, Eerie Textures & more
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Creature Sound Effects Screams & Shouts Play Track 873 sounds included $38

This release features 873 screams, shouts, moans, grunts, hisses from female/male humans, zombies, monsters and creatures. Fantastic for horror, suspense, thrillers, action movies and games

All sounds are 100% dry. Reverb was just applied for the demo.

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Just Impacts – Processed Play Track 321 sounds included $35

Just Impacts – Processed gets you 300+ sound effects of huge, dry impacts – layered and heavily processed for maximum weight.

This will come in handy whenever you need the sound of something huge hitting something even larger. Giant door slams, large hits, huge robot fights, heavy metal drops – oh yes, you got it:

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Cinematic Hits & Transitions Play Track 220 sounds included $40

Cinematic Hits & Transitions features 120 cinematic, epic, heavy, impacts and hits + 100 scary, haunting, transitions and movements

Ideal for your movie and game trailers!

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Whoosh Sound Effects Just Whoosh Play Track 230 sounds included $35

SoundBits | Just Whoosh

222+ pass-by, magic, sci-fi, futuristic, fantasy, whooshes and transition sound FX

Perfect for film, music, or video game projects.

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Crash & Smash Play Track 1110+ sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$39

The Crash & Smash sound effects library contains over 1110 sounds of destruction. For this collection I went on a rampage at several junk yards around my hometown, collecting a vast amount of crash sound effects. This one is highly focused more on crashing sounds with all the rumble and debris, giving you hundreds of variations of glass smashes, rolling stones and stone hits, wood breaks and impacts and metal crashes.

As usual the sounds come perfectly cleaned and edited so you can instantly place them in your timeline or design new sounds with it. Of course they also got some EQ and compression treatment but weren’t further “designed”, so you have nice and flexible source material for your own productions.

All sounds come with embedded Soundminer Metadata sorted in subfolders for:• Glass
• Metal
• Stone
• Wood
• Plastic

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Foley Sound Effects Rummage Play Track 733+ sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$32

Rummage is a collaborative sound library from SoundBits and Glitchedtones with a focus on unsystematic searches through everyday items.
Created especially for projects calling for careful, hasty or frantic rummaging, these 733 files offer up plenty of variation to cover a wide range of scenarios. Featuring searches through paper, pockets, trash, wallets, retro media, wood, tools, bags, wardrobes, metal and lots more… your movie scene, game environment or even music production in need of some Rummage, is covered, or more appropriately, uncovered!”.

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Universal Category System (UCS) Computer & Interface | Sound Effects 2.0 Play Track 1007 sounds included $39

The “Computer Sound FX 2“ Sound Effects Library from SoundBits contains over 1000 designed computer sound effects including interface, noise, glitch, alarm, bleep, processing, loading, interaction, malfunction, access, and 8-Bit SFX.

From simple select and confirmation sounds to more complex loops and processing one shots and alarms, you’ll find a large and composite collection of sound effects to give your interface or animation the right sonic treatment.

The sounds are divided into the following categories:
• Menu:
– Access Granted | Confirm
– Select
– Access Denied
– Open
– Close

• Loading Processing
– Loops
– OneShots

• Glitch | Malfunction
• Mechanic
• Retro | 8-Bit
• Alarms

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Just Impacts | Extension 2 Play Track 500+ sounds included $44

Get 500 sound effects of mainly metal and wood impacts, metal junk hits, crashes, heavy door slams, metal drops, metal wall and oil tank hits in this SFX library.

All sounds were recorded with a RODE NTG-3, a RODE NT-4 and a Beyerdynamic MC950 microphone on a Sound Devices 744T (+ SD MixPre-D). Each sound was heavily edited and cleaned, so there is no noise or other unwanted sounds. The sounds were layered, EQed and compressed for that extra punch – so they can be instantly used to sonically treat your medieval and sci fi battles, fighting and walking robots and anything else that needs some heavy metal treatment.

You can use the sounds right away. No further editing needed. But you can, of course… :)

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Whooshes & Impacts Play Track 245 sounds included $36

Whooshes & Impacts is a large package of futuristic and magical Whoosh sound FX and heavy weight Impact sound FX.
Whooshes & Impacts features 245 heavy, sci-fi, mysterious, magical, futuristic, epic, impacts, whooshes, swishes, pass-by FX

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Foley Sound Effects Handwriting Play Track 2000+ sounds included $36

If you need the sound of handwriting, this SFX library delivers: It gets you 841 files containing more than 2000 different handwriting – sounds from different pens, pencils, crayons, chalk on blackboard, felt pens, markers, even brushes and writing in sand, and carving in stone. All this in many variations from writing words and sentences, strokes, periods and doodling. So if you’re after the sound of writing, here it is:

List of writing tools used:
• Ball Pen
• Fountain Pen
• Felt Pens
• Pencil
• Chalk
• Edding
• Text Marker
• Whiteboard Marker
• Feather/Quill
• Wax Crayon
• Graffiti Can
• Water Colour
• Writing in Sand
• Metal carving in Stone

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Door Sound Effects Open & Close 1005 sounds included
Rated 4.00 out of 5
$49

This sound library delivers a composite and very versatile collections of sounds of all kinds of things that can be opened and/or closed.
Obviously there are several doors, hatches and drawers but also lots of other opening and closing sound effects that will come in handy in your everydays sound design work, especially for Cartoon productions and Game Audio. You will also find, Roller Shutters, Boiling Pot Lids, Umbrellas, Water Boilers, Boxes, … most with several variations.
You can use the sounds as they are or use them for intense sound design.

All Sounds were recorded with Sennheiser MKH8050 + Ambient Emesser 208 MS-Rig in a Sound Devices 744T and 788T and also with a Sony PCM-D100.

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Creature Sound Effects Screams & Shouts 2 – Monsters Play Track 940 sounds included $45

The “Screams & Shouts 2 – Monsters” sound effects library brings you over 940 shouts of pain and death, disturbing roars plus grunts of anger, struggle and attack from several monsters and zombies.
Additionally you get 250 clean untreated vocalized human monster sound to create your own designed monsters with it.

This is the go-to sound effects library to give your monsters an unpleasantly threatening, disgustingly haunting and ferocious voice
All sounds have been edited precisely and cut clean for instant use in your projects. These sounds fit very well in any scifi, horror, action, fighting or fantasy game, movie or any other audio-visual production.

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Universal Category System (UCS) Just Whoosh 3 Play Track 575+ sounds included $38

Just Whoosh 3 brings you 575 recorded whoosh sound effects. Some of the props used include: Cloth blankets, jeans, leather and nylon jackets, fishing rods, boom poles, bamboo/wood/metal/plastic sticks + ropes with things like spatulas attached to one end (!), chains, a torch, and some cars passing by.

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Metal Sound Effects Just Metal | Bundle Play Track 2350 sounds included $70

This bundle features two powerful metal sound effect packs at a special price:

• Just Metal – Scrapes & Scratches: Tons of nasty metal squeaks, squeals, moans and sliding sounds.
From subtle, soft squeaks and harsh, brutal metal shrieks to long and deep metal moans

• Just Metal – Squeaks & Moans: A huge collection of harsh, disharmonic, nasty metal scrapes, scratches, slides and grinds. From short, high-emphasis scratches to long and heavy metal scrapes.

Created in collaboration with David Klaschka, this bundle delivers if you’re looking for heavy duty metal-on-metal action sounds.

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Metal Sound Effects Just Metal | Squeaks & Moans Play Track 950 sounds included $35

Just Metal – Squeaks & Moans features tons of nasty metal squeaks, squeals, moans and sliding sounds.

From subtle, soft squeaks and harsh, brutal metal shrieks to long and deep metal moans – perfect for your games, multimedia, music or movie projects.

And of course, you can use these sounds as sound design elements for any frightening transition effects.

This collaboration with David Klaschka gives you all you need, whenever there is any heavy duty metal-on-metal action needed.

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Rock / Stone Sound Effects Just Stones Play Track 578 sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$39

The “Just Stones” sound effects library brings you a huge amount of sounds created with stones. Ranging from impacts, shatters and rolling stones to scrapes, slides, water hits and tickling fine derbis.
All sorted in sub folders and with embedded metadata, and recorded with Sennheiser MKH8050 + MKH30 mix setup in 24Bit and 192kHz, cleaned, edited and downmixed to stereo. Since many of the sounds are quite mono-ish you can download the complete library also as mono files from only the MKH8050 mic.

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Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Cinematic Hits & Transitions 2 Play Track 333 sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$45

SoundBits “Cinematic Hits & Transitions 2“ description:

The Cinematic Hits and Transitions 2 sound effects library from SoundBits delivers 222 cinematic, epic, heavy, impacts and hits – ranging from very deep, earthshaking hits, to brutally distorted and mangled impacts. Some are dry, some with extra huge reverbs, others get you an instant attack while some come with a build-up for that extra tension. Lots of starts and tails of the sounds can be combined with each other to give you even more.

But that’s not all. There are also 111 scary, haunting, unsettling and weird transitions and movements that instantly give you goosbumps and add that extra suspense for your productions. Lots of new sounds were recorded and got merged with existing SoundBits | Sound Effects. This fusion got mangled, crushed, edited and designed to create this cinematic experience.

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Universal Category System (UCS) Just Transitions | SciFi Movements Play Track 321 sounds included $35

A composite collection of scifi whooshes, space ship pass bys, futuristic transitions, digital sweeps, power downs, power ups and digital stutters.
Over 320 sounds to to give that right sonic treatment to passing by sapceships, jets, fireballs, laser beams, rockets, torpedos and futuristic engines. Also computer interfaces, menu transitions, magical whoshes, worm holes and virtual reality settings will get that intense amount acoustic treatment to not only see the motion.
Even breaks, endings and transitions of all different kinds of electronic music will get that extra kick with this sound library.

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Crash & Smash | Designed Play Track 450+ sounds included $49

The “Crash & Smash – Designed” sound effects library contains 350 sounds of destruction.

You get 5 categories (Glass, Metal, Stone, Wood, Plastic) each with 50 edited, layered and designed sounds of destruction and demolition. Additionally you get 100 mixed heavy Crash and Destruction Sounds in 5.0 Surround.

These were fully created and designed in surround not just upmixed. You also get the downmixed versions in 2.0 Stereo.

All sounds were designed from the original Crash & Smash.

You can easily create a vast amount of new crashes by combining, layering and arranging these sounds. Comes with embedded Sound Miner Metadata.

Available in two versions:

Crash & Smash – Designed (Full):
Number of files: 450 Files (350 in stereo + 100 in 5.0 Surround)
Quality: 96kHz / 24bit / Stereo
Total Size: 2,99 GB

Crash & Smash – Designed (Stereo only):
Number of Files: 350 Files
Quality: 96kHz / 24bit / Stereo
Total Size: 1,45 GB

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Universal Category System (UCS) Computer & Interface SFX Play Track 650 sounds included $35

Computer Sound FX from SoundBits features 650 computer noises, glitches, digital distortions, stutters, bleeps, signals, interfaces, buttons, loading and feedback

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What others are saying about SoundBits:

If you’re in need of sound design material with an electronic edge, the SoundBits Whooshes and Impacts are an excellent choice. I’ve used the Whooshes and Impacts bundle for my TV series Scorpion It’s great material for use in video games too.
– David Barbee
Worked with Warner Bros. Studios, TODD Soundelux and Sony Pictures Entertainment as Sound Effects Editor on Star Trek, Number 23, CSI: NY, Angel, and many more.

Soundbits continues to deliver…I use the design stuff regularly in my shows and the foley libraries are invaluable to any effects editor’s library.

Fantastic libraries of sci-fi sonic goodness that I’ve been using for a few years now and they never fail to impress (especially layered) – now that Saro is also doing more conventional libraries with his ambiences and foley sets, the collection has become really well rounded and I rarely cut a show that doesn’t dip into my soundbits arsenal!

A great palette especially for the sci-fi realm. The whooshes and impacts are an especially welcome addition to my library. I like layering then processing them further to get really beefy unique sounds . Good stuff Soundbits!

– Jon Lipman, MPSE
Sony Pictures

Fantastic sound library! Thanks so much for your work
– Eusebie Siebenberg (on Just Impacts | Extension 2)

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More about SoundBits:

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How to create horror sound effects that are truly scary (and gory!)
Find out how to create your own horror sounds, brutal gore sound effects, scary ambiences and ghoulish monster vocalizations in this exclusive guide:

Read the guide here

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Soundbits has just released three all-new impact sound effect libraries – here’s what they sound like, and how they were made: