Subways & Streetcars

Subways & Streetcars is a professional sound library featuring the sounds and environments of a modern major metropolitan transit line and 3 different vintage early 20th century electric passenger streetcars. This 4.38 GB library is built for sound designers, as well as musicians and composers looking for fresh sonic ideas to explore and manipulate. The sounds are standard WAV files that can be used in any audio program, and you'll find each WAV clearly named and organized to make searching a breeze. The Kontakt presets take it a step further and put all of that excellent content into an easy plug-and-play interface, whether you're using it for music creation or pure sound design.

The modern high-speed Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train system is located throughout the greater San Francisco Bay region. We recorded all 3 car models (Type A, B, and C cars), capturing a variety of underground and surface lines, riding at various speeds, track conditions, and passenger densities. You'll also find authentic environmental ambiences in and around a variety of stations. We also recorded a classic urban metro rail unit from the Key System, an urban streetcar network that once served Oakland, CA and the San Francisco East Bay until the late 1950s. The third streetcar type is an Interurban Combine from the Petaluma-Santa Rosa Railroad. This combination passenger/freight unit served as a link between communities around Marin County at the turn of the 20th century until the mid-1930s. The last streetcar in this collection is a metropolitan single-car tram from the 1930s, most likely originally used in Melbourne, Australia.

We’ve also designed 35 distinct dark, dystopian rail atmospheres, pads, and evolving drones. They provide stylistically compatible moods and textures to the source content and are excellent on their own, when used in any context. This library includes a convenient CSV file for easy import into many common sound library database tools. We’ve also carefully programmed all of the content into powerful instrument interfaces for Native Instruments' Kontakt virtual sampler (VST, AU, AAX). Each preset includes a number of important sound-shaping and mixing features, RAM-efficient sample loading and unloading, and a great collection of convolution impulses, with lots of different spaces and special FX to choose from.

Key Features:

• High-Quality Recordings: Features sounds from modern and vintage transit systems including BART, Key System, Petaluma-Santa Rosa Railroad, and a 1930s Melbourne tram.
• Extensive Content: Includes 379 sounds, 8 Kontakt 5.1 .nki instrument presets, and 24-bit / 48 kHz uncompressed stereo PCM WAV audio.
• Sound Design Tools: Offers 35 dark, dystopian rail atmospheres, pads, and evolving drones, along with convolution impulses and sound-shaping features.