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Summer Sale 2021: 35%off on All Libraries

July 19, 2021 • Kostas • News

Our Summer Sale has started! Here is your chance to save 35% on all our libraries, until August 20th! Whether you need debris and destruction sounds, natural or industrial environments, UI/HUD[…]

We are sponsoring the Berlin International Sound Design Competition 2021

July 2, 2021 • Kostas • News

We’re glad to announce that we are one of the sponsors of the Berlin International Sound Design Competition 2021! The competition invites sound designers from around the world to showcase[…]

Top Quotes by Amazing Sound Pros, Directors, philosophers, and Writers on Sound and music

May 12, 2021 • Kostas • News

The following is a list of top blog quotes from some of our favorite sound designers, field recordists, soundscape ecologists, international speakers on sound, Psychoanalysts, writers, filmmakers, directors, faith healers[…]

Gain Sounds interview with our lead sound designer/founder Kostas Loukovikas

March 15, 2021 • Kostas • Interviews

While working feverishly on the new sound effects library to be released at Sound Ex Machina, Kostas found the time to answer a few questions on the Gain Sounds blog,[…]

A fine collection of rain recordings that are well-sorted and easily loopable. For all scenes in a city, I needed rain sounds for, this library had good-sounding recordings with nice details I could use.
Cornelius Wilkening – Sound Designer
Rain City aims to cover the interaction between rain and the objects around the city, and does so very effectively. The recordings feel intimate, and have a texture often missing with weather sounds.
344 Audio – Audio post production & sound design company
Sound Ex Machina took a different approach with their latest release UI Sounds: Organic. The interface sounds designed specifically to be “catchy and jolly”, from novel sources such as car keys, coffee mixers, toys, vocals, and much more.
Sound Effects Search – Indie Sound Effects Search Engine
A great selection of UI sounds with a human touch – and they’re distinctly non-digital.
A Sound Effect – Indie Sound Effects Marketplace
Laughs library got great quality recordings, with a ton of options. I’ve set these files into background ambiences for film as they are, but the most fun thing to use them for is processing the heck out of them. Pitching way down, really laying into the EQ, exorbitant delay, reverse reverb, you name it. Laughs can turn into horrifying, fascinating things if you stretch them enough.
Isabella Ness – Sound Designer/Mixer
The quality of the recordings in Laughs library is good and clear with no external noises. I also liked the detailed classification of the different laughing categories which made the selection of the samples easy and fast.
Ioannis Kalantzis – Composer, audio engineer, sound designer
Completionists will resonate with the fact it took Sound Ex Machina over a year to record Animal Farm library, as they captured all the activities, weather conditions and animal habits induced by each season.
Designing Sound – Art and technique of sound design
This is a fantastic idea for a sound effects library. Rolling Objects!!!
Zapsplat – Free sound effects & royalty free music library
I can vouch for how good this stuff is. Great call to prayer sound effect that I was looking for! If I ever was doing a middle-eastern project, I would feel a bit precarious, lacking some of the iconic sounds that set the scene. Now I don’t have to worry as much because you filled the gap.
SkyClad Sound – Sound designer
‘Water Flow’ is a brilliant water-themed pack from Sound Ex Machina. This library will allow you to create a calm or dynamic soundscape with the variation that you require for your levels.
CRYENGINE – A game engine designed by Crytek