Avosound Release City Soundscapes - Berlin

City Soundscapes Berlin is a comprehensive collection of Berlin sounds and contains more than six hours (or 61GB) of audio material. The collection will transport you straight to Berlin with a tour of Alexander Platz, a ride on the subway or a stroll through Berlin. Recorded in stages, City Soundscapes Berlin contains recordings from different seasons of the year.

There are everyday sounds from Germany's capital city: street traffic; restaurant and coffee shop atmospheres; public spaces; parks and backyard atmospheres; recordings from the Berlin subway, subway station and railway station; and, last but not least, recordings from the Tegel airport.

• More than 180 Berlin tracks

• More than 6 hours of sound material

• High Definition 24Bit / 96 kHz

• 3 Audio Formats:

• 180 tracks in each format

• 5.1 Surround Sound, Stereo and Stereo MS

• Price $220 / 199 Euros

A Sound Effect Interview With Tony Cariddi From Avid On What The Future Holds For Pro Tools And VR

The emergence of virtual reality (VR) means a lot of changes for the way content is created and used. And in a special interview for A Sound Effect by Jennifer Walden, Avid's Tony Cariddi shares his insights on what the future holds for creatives using Pro Tools for VR content creation.

We are looking into support for Ambisonics. We have really strong tools for surround and automation, really advanced tools that give mixers a lot of control over that. Outside of that, as it pertains specifically to virtual reality, most of our efforts at this point are to make sure that our SDKs — our Alliance Partner tools, are strong and exactly what the development community needs in order to integrate their tools into Pro Tools. For almost 30 years we’ve had a very vibrant developer community that has made plug-ins for Pro Tools, and plug-ins for Media Composer.

There was a company called Two Big Ears that was acquired by Facebook in the spring. Their product is called Facebook 360 Spatial Workstation, and it enables users to wear a headset and do the mix within Pro Tools. It handles all the final encoding for you and syncs it back to the final video for you when you are done. So you can do the mix while you’re in that immersive format without having to go back and forth. So that technology is here today and it is only going to get better and better. 

You can read the full interview on the A Sound Effect Blog.

Pro Sound Effects Offer Freelancer Program Until December 31st 2016

Pro Sound Effects have created their Freelancer Program which is designed to support independent media creators with a more affordable access to their libraries. You can apply for free without any purchase commitment and members will gain exclusive access to insider savings of up to 60% off libraries and software.

The Freelancer Program has just been upgraded to feature their largest-ever product offering since launching last November, including:

• Urban Ambisonics Bundle

• RX 5 by iZotope

• Soundminer

• BaseHead

• Dehumaniser II by Krotos

• Wave Warper by SoundMorph

• And many more!

In addition during December 2016, Pro Sound Effects are offering  150 licenses for the Hybrid Library 2017 for $1,495 instead of the normal $3,995 through their Freelancer Program. New 2017 features of their popular general library include 8,000+ new feature film sound effects and search software designed to speed up your workflow. If you are interested then you can apply now for free to insure early access to the offer.

SoundBits Release Open & Close Library

Open & Close from SoundBits delivers a composite and 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.

If you are not sure or you don’t need so many variations you have the option to buy just one half of this sound library. It was split in half by selecting every other file from the full package. Of course you can purchase part two afterwards.

• Number of files: 502–1005 files

• Quality: 96kHz | 24bit | Stereo

• Total Size: 1,08-2,17 GB

• Price: 21.00 – 37.80 Euros incl. VAT

Boom Library Are Offering 3 For 2 Offer Until November 28th

This is their Black Friday sale and is their only sale of the year. Put 3 Boom Library Products in your cart, use the discount code 3FOR2 at the checkout and the lowest priced product will be free, but only until November 28th.

What's more, each order that uses the Boom library 3FOR2 discount code will be entered into a raffle, with one lucky person winning the Complete Boom Library worth over $6000. If you want more chances to win, complete another order using the 3FOR2 discount code and you will be entered again.

Avosound Black Friday Deals 2016 Until November 27th

Guido from Avosound has been in touch to tell us that they are having their Black Friday Sale until November 27th 2016 with reductions of up to 50% from brands like Sound Ideas, Hollywood Edge, Digiffects and SoundStorm.

Sound Ideas Black Friday Sales Until November 30th

Sound Ideas offers over 500,000 sound effects, production elements and royalty free music tracks for television, film sound design, game development, post-production, and interactive media on hard drive, DVD and CD.

Sound Ideas Black Friday Sale with 50% price reductions includes all Sound Ideas Proprietary Libraries, including Digiffects, Frank Serafine and Hollywood Edge. In addition you can save 20% on all Boom Sound Effects Products too.