The library now offers more than 23,000 sound effects on over 180 compact discs for broadcast, feature film and multimedia production applications

Toronto, Canada – July 1, 2010 – Sound Ideas, the world's largest publisher of professional sound effects, has purchased the respected Digiffects Sound Effects Library from its Swedish creator and original publisher, Ljudproduktion AB. The first CDs in this comprehensive all digital collection were released in 1985, and the library now offers more than 23,000 sound effects on over 180 compact discs for broadcast, feature film and multimedia production applications.
“I am very pleased to welcome the Digiffects library to the Sound Ideas product line of professional audio products”, said Brian Nimens – the founder, President and CEO of Sound Ideas. “The Digiffects collection is a perfect complement to our own products, and we look forward to providing these sound effects on CD, on hard drive, and as online digital downloads to our customers throughout the world.”

The Digiffects Sound Effects Library offers more than 15 separate sub-collections of audio in categories that include City, Domestic, Transport, Office, Sports and Vintage FX.   The library is currently available in CD Audio format, and will soon be distributed on the Sound Ideas-owned StockMusic.com download site as 16-bit 44.1 kHz digital Broadcast wav and mp3 320 files. All tracks will be fully embedded with carefully edited metadata that can be quickly organized and searched with the company’s own free MetaDigger download, or with any asset management software.  

Full details about the Digiffects Sound Effects Library can be found at the Sound Ideas Web site. Included are full track listings in Adobe PDF format and an audio demo for each collection in Adobe Flash format.

ABOUT SOUND IDEAS: Founded in 1978, Toronto-based Sound Ideas was the first company to release sound effects libraries on compact disc, and the first to release the sound effects library of a major motion picture studio. The company publishes more than 800 CDs of almost 150,000 sound effects.   It continues to adapt new technology in order to offer quality audio to professional sound designers and producers in the broadcast, post-production and multimedia industries. www.sound-ideas.com

ABOUT STOCKMUSIC.COM: StockMusic.com is a division of The Brian Nimens Corporation, offering online purchase and download delivery of royalty-free music, production elements and sound effects from the Sound Ideas line of professional audio products. www.stockmusic.com