A Sound Effect
A Sound Effect is home to a huge, curated collection of sound effects, hand-picked from some of the best sound creators in the world. A Sound Effect helps you browse, search and preview to find the sound effects you need. Need something in particular? We’re always glad to help find it for you. A Sound Effect makes it easy to get sounds from as many individual sound creators as you like, in one go, all covered by one single license. With A Sound Effect, you can now search, preview, compare and get exactly the sounds you’re after, all in one place. The libraries from the independent sound community are created by some of the best sound designers in the world, and they’re highly targeted. The selection is huge and gives you a fantastic-sounding, affordable and focused alternative to conventional, cover-it-all sound libraries. Here, you simply pick the sound libraries you need, as you need them. Oh, and by getting sounds from the community, you support individual sound designers.
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Freesound
Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, and all sorts of bleeps, released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse. Freesound provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a "sounds-like" type of browsing and more, upload and download sounds to and from the database, under the same Creative Commons license, and interact with fellow sound-artists! We also aim to create an open database of sounds that can also be used for scientific research and be integrated into third-party applications. Using the Freesound API researchers and developers can access Freesound content a retrieve meaningful sound information such as metadata, analysis files and the sounds themselves. See the developers section and the API documentation for more information. Freesound API usage is free for non-commercial use, but it can also be licensed.
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SFX Cellar
Hand picked collections of royalty-free sound effects to add impact to your video. A wide range of royalty-free sound effects sorted by category. Unlimited royalty-free sound effects, available in mp3 format and high quality WAV format. Embedded metadata. Clearance for any personal or commercial project. With the SFX Cellar free version, enjoy new sounds added every month and enjoy a wide range of royalty-free sound effects available in mp3 format. You can get started completely for free. All tracks in our catalog are royalty-free. That means that you don't have to pay any royalties to use them. Our licensing is simple, you can download unlimited music and use it in any production, on any platform worldwide: from YouTube, vimeo and other social media videos to TV advertisements, podcasts, commercial films or video games. You can adapt the music for your project by cutting, fading, editing the length, changing the sound or adding voice over.
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