Sound Particles Explorer SFX Cloud 1-Year Subscription
Audio File Management App with 12 months of Sound Effects
The Most Powerful Way to Find and Manage Your Sounds
Explorer is an application that allows you to manage your files with enormous control, for free.
Designed from the beginning to work with and support surround and immersive formats, you get incredible control over them.
Explorer SFX Cloud optional subscription allows you to access over 100,000 professional sound effects.
What is Explorer?
Access all your files easily - from mono to immersive - and organize all your sounds with a fast, modern, and immersive approach.
Listen to your files as they were intended, in any format.
From sound designers to assistant editors, this is the tool that has everything you want to hear in one place.
Spend less time searching for sounds and more time creating.
SFX Cloud Subscription
Get access to over 100,000 professional sound effects (in mono, stereo, multichannel, and Ambisonics) created by Sound Particles' talented and professional partners.
If you subscribe to SFX Cloud, you will have access to both your local libraries and our online ones, which you can organize using all the options Explorer offers.
There are no tiers to this subscription: one subscription gives you access to the full library!
Can't find a specific sound in your local library that would work wonders in your project? There's a very high chance Explorer SFX Cloud will have it.
Improve your workflow, find the sound you need in seconds
Immersive Audio
Explorer supports mono, stereo, surround, and immersive formats (Dolby, HOA, Ambisonics, and more)
Metadata
Playback your files while checking waveforms, channels, sample rate, descriptions, categories, formats, brightness, peak, energy, rating, and much more.
Binaural Playback
Listen to files in the right format, and if you only have headphones, you can hear it in binaural.
Drag Any File
Import or drag files and folders directly to Explorer and categorize them according to the Universal Category System.
I/O Manager
Introducing I/O Manager: Binaural monitoring (including SOFA), advanced routing (with gain), Ambisonics decoding, and much more.
Bass Management
Bass management to empower your listening experience to the fullest.
Playlist Creation
Several organization options: category (UCS), playlists, folders, sample rate, and more.
Flags, Stars, and Number of Listens
Flag your favorite files to have them ready at all times, rate the audio files from 1 to 5 stars, and see the sounds that you've used (exported) the most in the past.
Inspector
See a preview of the audio waveform while you are navigating through the table, see an overview of the properties of your audio file, see the metadata embedded in the file, and add personalized notes to each audio.
Search Tags
Create search tags by category, playlists, folder paths, flagged audios, or even audio file properties such as Sample Rate, File Format, Audio Format.
Search Tools
Search for the keywords you are looking for or exclude certain words, set matching conditions, and have multiple searches at the same time to improve your workflow.
Brightness Levels
Look for the brightness of the file to help you find the sound that best fits what you're searching for.
Time Display
You can have multiple displays in Explorer with different time units depending on the project you are working on, as well as tempo and selection display.
Effects
Quickly add effects to the selected sound before exporting, such as Pitch shifter, Clip Gain (amplify), Polarity inversion, Reverse, Whoosh effect and Normalization.
Convert Files
If you simply want to convert a file between formats the mini editor has a Convert button directly for your desired format to speed up your work.
Export Directly
Quickly export the edited or original file to your project by just choosing the destination location.
Export Options
Export the edited or original file with more options for the exported file (Sample Rate, Bit Depth, File Format, Channels, Metadata, Include Fades, Interleaved).
Spot to DAW
Spot the selected audio directly to your favorite DAW (Live and Audition only available for Mac users).
Spot to Video
All Mac users can spot directly to Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects.
System Requirements
- MacOS 10.13 High Sierra and above
- Windows 10 and above (64-bit only)
- Intel, AMD, or Apple Silicon CPU
- 4GB RAM or more (8GB or more recommended)
- 300MB free storage space
Plugin Formats
AAX Native, AU, and VST3
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