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Sound Ideas Canada Ltd. (also known as Sound Ideas) is a Canadian audio company and the archive of one of the largest commercially available library in the world. It has accumulated the sound effects, which it releases in collections by download or on CD and hard drive, through acquisition, exclusive arrangement with movie studios, and in-house production.
Sound Ideas also purchased the Digiffects SFX Library in May 2010, released the Frank Serafine SFX Library as their own in September 2015 and purchased the Mike McDonough SFX Library in August 2016.
Its flagship collection, the General HD, provides 46,423 high definition sound effects delivered on hard drive. Its largest collection, the Ultimate Hard Drive, provides more than 286,000 sound effects available on hard drive. Both contain a wide variety of sound effects which can be added to film soundtracks, TV shows, or video games and other media applications during post-production and come with worldwide licensing.
After long-time rival The Hollywood Edge (a former subsidiary of Todd Soundelux) filed for bankruptcy protection in 2014, Sound Ideas acquired the rights to The Hollywood Edge's sound libraries and began distributing them on its website.
Initially the library was produced on reel to reel tape, because the audio quality was superior to that which was available on vinyl . In 1983, the company's collection was the first sound effects library released in the compact disc format. The company has since published more than 200 different sound effects and Royalty Free Music collections as well as hundreds of Royalty Free Music CDs under its own copyright. In the 21st century, everything from Sound Ideas is available digitally as a download or on hard drive.
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