A
joint venture with Lucasfilm led to the 1990 release of
the highly successful Lucasfilm Adventure Series Sound
Effects Library. This marked the first time that well
known sounds from a renowned motion picture studio were
made available for commercial use.
The concept of releasing material from the world's most
recognized film studios has since inspired the production
of sound effect libraries from Hanna-Barbera, Turner
Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros., Universal
Studios, Jay Ward Productions and the Saul Zaentz Film
Center.
The company's signature product, the award-winning Series
6000 "The General", was released in 1992 as a
40 CD collection - a stunning assortment of sound effects
that covers all the bases - from ambiences to zebras, with
4 CDs of sound designed effects especially produced by some
of the industry's most well known names. Many other specialty
products, and a series of Series 6000 Extension libraries,
have followed The General. In particular, the Series 6000
Extensions offer updated sets of general effects, including
comprehensive selections of recent vehicles, communications
and weapons.
Innovation and a commitment to technical excellence have
continued to set Sound Ideas apart from the competition.
SuperSearch, the company's own search software, allows the
user to locate required sound effect or music clips, make
their own electronic notes in the software, and print selected
tracks and notes to create detailed production records.
In recent years, Sound Ideas has also produced multi-platform
sound effect libraries - products that contain the standard
red book CD audio format, plus mp3 and .wav files for easier
use in the multimedia editing room. With innovations like
these, it's no wonder that Sound Ideas' products are being
used on every continent around the world.
Another Sound Ideas product, The Mix Music Library, has helped cement the company's reputation as a producer of high quality professional royalty free broadcast music. Sound Ideas offers a regularly refreshed variety of buyout music, along with several broadcast production elements products, like the popular Elements Café series.
And what does the future hold? Sound Ideas has now released
the Immersion 5.1 Surround Sound Collection, produced
by the respected feature film mixing team at Point One
Studios. This collection of over 200 ambience effects
offers 6 channels of source material available in .wav
file format, along with a red book stereo mix for convenient
auditions.
The most recent addition to the Sound Ideas product line is the Ultimate SFX Collection on Hard Drive. Offering the complete Sound Ideas sound effect and production element product line, the product provides the complete contents of 100 different collections - more than 600 CDs of audio, fully digitized in broadcast wav file format, and embedded with all relevant metadata. Customers get a choice of either the Mac or PC platform and 3 different sample formats: 16 bit / 44.1 kHz, 16 bit / 48 kHz, or 24 bit / 48 kHz. With more than 120,000 sound effects and production elements, this astonishing "everything you need in 1 box" set is ready for easy drag and drop use, since it also comes packaged with Soundminer. Sound Ideas also offers fully customized hard drives - customers get to choose exactly what products, sample rate and computer platform they need and the drive is specifically made to order for their needs.
The Sound Ideas sound effects and music collections are also available for custom licenses to create cellular phone ring tones, mobile content and entertainment, and other specialty uses that require unsynchronized audio - like games, software, toys or promotional items.
Over the past 30 years, Sound Ideas has certainly left
its mark on the professional broadcast and film industry
and it shows no sign of slowing down. A determination
to continually improve industry standards for buyout sound
effects has kept the company at the forefront of audio
excellence for a quarter of a century. Sound Ideas delivers
the goods, offering an immense variety of contemporary
and vintage sound FX. Dedicated to the world of professional
audio, Sound Ideas also keeps its ears tuned to the future
needs of sound designers and producers through the creation
of new material and the adaptation of new technology.
