Ambience Sound Library
Northern Maluku is one of Indonesia’s most remote and biologically rich regions. Spread across volcanic islands, dense rainforests, and isolated ecosystems, this remarkable archipelago is home to an extraordinary concentration of wildlife and endemic species. Recorded across the islands of Ternate, Halmahera, and Bacan, Spice Islands captures the rich acoustic diversity of these tropical environments through immersive surround recordings. From vibrant dawn choruses and hypnotic insect drones to rainforest atmospheres, frogs, birds, and coastal ambiences, the collection offers a deep exploration of one of Southeast Asia’s most fascinating natural soundscapes.
Many of the locations featured in this library required extensive research, scouting, and local knowledge to access. Recordings were made in national parks, protected forests, and carefully selected natural areas chosen for their ecological richness and minimal human disturbance. The result is a collection of pristine ambiences showcasing ecosystems that remain largely unknown to the outside world. Captured with a Schoeps ORTF 3D surround rig and delivered in native 8-channel surround, 5.1 surround, and stereo formats, Spice Islands provides highly detailed and immersive recordings suitable for film, television, games, documentaries, virtual reality, and sound design projects.
More than a collection of ambiences, Spice Islands is an invitation to experience the remarkable biodiversity, atmosphere, and sonic character of Northern Maluku’s tropical wilderness.
- Bitdepth: 24 Bits
Samplerate: 96 KhzAll files are in lossless high definition: wave files in a resolution of 24 bits and 96000 KHz. - Multiple format Option: 4.0.4 / 5.1 / 2.0We cherish our ready-to-use approach. We subsequently offer multiple surround formats for your various needs
- Detailed metadata embedded:
Soundminer / UCS compliantWell-grounded metadata are included with every files easy to import in any sound asset management app (see the file list next to the buying options) - Descriptive file namesWe take great care in categorizing and giving expressive names on each of our files which makes them easy to select even without metadata.
- +7 hours of ambiencesWe selected the best of our recordings.
- Instant download worldwideWe store our files on robust servers, and thus make it easy and fast to download. After your purchase, you’ll get a strong and fast download link(s) to your product(s).
- Royalty-Free LicenceYou get a lifetime non-exclusive royalty-free grant for the use of these samples inside your projects (see the licence for details)
- Recorded at various time of the dayFrom dawn to the deep night, but also in various weather conditions
- Gear used: Schoeps ORTF 3D Surround Outdoor Kit
- Support Green NGOs’ Efforts5% of our revenue goes to various environmental NGO
- Lifetime free updatesYou get unlimited free access to future updates on this product
Total Size Unpacked
| 24 Bits |
| 96 KHZ |
Total Size Unpacked After checkout, you download only what you need! Since the library comes in separate zip files for each format, you can choose what to download and what to not download.
| 24 Bits |
| 96 KHZ |
I’ve always found the recording quality and curation of the Articulated libraries to be well thought out.
My first was the Rustle Tones library, which is my go-to as a nice base layer.
I’ve since bought a few more of your libraries, and they have always been high quality and a safe bet.
Curious Mechanisms has been great. Specifically, I’ve been using S-layer to sample sections of the library and combine different elements for sci-fi mechanisms.
We have been using sounds from the Winter Forest and Undiscovered Libraries on various projects in the past. The provide with nice clean and colorful elements that have proven there added value. The provided meta-data is a great help in finding the desired and right sound-effect.
In the past two years of doing sound editorial, I have been searching for specific quiet sounds that general sound libraries do not provide. When I discovered Articulated Sound website, I found Quiet Streets sound library which had a great collection of quiet, calm, to busy street activity. At times when you are editing a scene you just need a calm street for an evening scene or a midnight of the night ambience. Articulated Sounds helps with subtle sound effects that are very sought after when you need clean sounding effects.
Lovely sounds of quiet spaces– it is always great to have options like these for layering cityscapes. As a sound designer, and developer, I love to support the community which allows such great options for all of us in the field- thanks for making neat sounds!
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Magic Elements vol.1 :
The library is great. It’s mastered in a way that allows for some pretty extreme processing. Thanks! I’ll check out some of the other ones.
I’m finding that I’m using Rustle Tones on every single project at the moment and just wanted to say thanks for such a great library. It’s so useful!!
While I love the exotic SFX library as much as the next guy, what really gets me excited is a well recorded “meat and potatoes” library, since my main clients are animation, where I have to create everything from scratch. Dice is just such a library, when you find all the heavy hitters like Sound Ideas, and Hollywood Edge‘s offering coming up short. Offering plenty of variety to fit any scene, I sure wish I had this a couple seasons ago. Also if you think outside of the box, there’s a lot of these sound you could use in building up some great “punching your teeth out, and spit them on the floor” type of scenes, etc. This is sure to get a lot of use in future projects.
The sonic quality and well grounded metadata are great. It makes finding that sound you are looking for that much easier and lets you focus on creating rather than curating. The recordings found in the Tropical Ambiences Library really helped shape the unique ambient soundscape for the jungle scenes in “Loving Pablo”. The snap, crack and blood pop sounds found in the Bones, Blood, Gore Elements Library helped kick the gore factor up in the film “The Dare”.
With Magic Vol. 2, you guys truly live up to your name “Articulated Sounds.” This is a wonderful library full of detailed recordings and well thought-out sound designs.
It’s clear that the sounds were created by sound artists for sound artists. With Magic Vol.2, Stephane and Vincent have done their due diligence and have anticipated many of the types of scenarios and design moves that you will certainly encounter while building supernatural-type scenes.
My secret weapon in regards to this library, as well as Magic Vol. 1, is the fact that the source recordings of fire, earth, foliage, ice, and air are so good they can be used well beyond just the intended “Magic” scenes and can sweeten and add character to many other types of scenes.
Great addition to any sound designers toolkit!
