The folks at Soundly - the renowned sound effects platform - are celebrating ten years with the release of the 100,000th sound for their library, and it appears they’ve gone to great lengths to capture it…

What Is Soundly?

If you work in audio post there’s a good chance you’ll have heard of Soundly. It’s a cloud based sound effects library which includes a powerful search engine and the ability to index and organise your entire local sound library with extensive metadata support. Soundly integrates with your workflow and tools and allows you to drag and drop sound effects into any editor. It has custom integration with Pro Tools, Logic, Premiere Pro, Nuendo, Cubase, Reaper, After Effects, Wwise and Final Cut Pro. Importing sounds from Soundly into any of those applications is done through a single button click. Sounds get added directly to your timeline at the current cursor position.

A recent addition to Soundly is Voice Designer – a voice creation tool which can generate speech from text. A variety of different languages, accents and voices are available and there are controls for both speed and pitch. Soundly also recently released – Place-It – a tool based on a popular feature of Voice Designer which faithfully recreates the sound of audio being reproduced through a variety of playback devices in a variety of spaces. Best of all - it’s free to download. You can find out more about that here.

But back to that 100,000th sound… The team went to the remote mountains in Norway to record a wide range of natural sounds, from the soft rustling of leaves and the calming flow of rivers to the echoes in caves and the dynamic sounds of glaciers. Their ultimate achievement was recording the 100,000th sound at the mountain's summit, discover what it was in the video below…

Of the milestone, Soundly say "Today marks not just a milestone but a monumental achievement for Soundly and the Pro Library: our 100000th sound! Captured in the epic mountains of Norway, this sound goes beyond mere numbers. It symbolizes the countless hours of dedication to discovering and producing a wide array of distinctive, high-quality sounds."