As part of their Sonic Drop initiative Avid have released the latest of their Sonic Drops of new content for Pro Tools - Sonic Boom.

Pro Tools Sonic Drop was announced as part of the Pro Tools 2023.3 release. At that time there were six ‘Drops’ of content. Pro Tools Sonic Drops are available to Pro Tools subscribers or perpetual licence holders with active update plans. This initiative was always presented as a rolling programme with monthly updates so the value grows over time.

What Is Sonic Boom?

This month’s Sonic Drop is Sonic Boom, a collaboration with the highly regarded Boom Library. The Boom Library is an extensive high-end library of sound design, sound effects, and foley that has been used widely in film, TV, and games (including various Star Wars productions, Black Panther, and La La Land to name a few). Within their catalog, Boom Library offer both fully designed sounds as well as construction kits of the more raw recordings which you can use to create your own custom sounds. Avid Head of Audio Content Matt Lange opted to use construction kits from four of their libraries for Sonic Boom to have a unique sample pack that is exclusive to Pro Tools users that cannot be found anywhere else.

The construction kits used were CINEMATIC METAL - TITAN, MAGIC – ARCANE FORCES, MECHANICALS, and MATTER. Often the new sounds were created by layering sounds from separate libraries and as well as a large amount of processing to push these sounds further into another world. You can expect to find massive impacts, screaming risers, dramatic whooshes, mechanical grinds, haunting ambiences, and a number of the drum loops were created from sound effects. The drum loops are unique, hifi, textural, and they certainly standout against an abyss of more traditional drum loops.

Check out the Boom Library as their catalog is truly top notch and contains a wealth of inspirational sounds.

The Sonic Drops available so far are:

• Sonic Boom

• Yesterday's Relic

• Spectral Particles

• Analog Snarl - Sub Growl

• Loopcloud Selects Vol 1

• SynthCell Industries

• Tea Time Breaks

• Brutal Vegetables

• PurrCell

• Cinematic Selects

• Pummeled Piano

• Noise Engineering Modular Motifs

• Mike Avanaim Burnin’ Breaks

• Elektron Syntakt Beats

• Eventide H90 Drums

• Kitchen Kit

• Pumpkins

• Rob’s Basement Beats

• Ultra 808s

• Isorhythm

To find out more about how to get Sonic Boom check out the video above and to hear more about Sonic Drop listen to our podcast with Matt and Greg from Avid below. Sonic Boom is available to all Pro Tools users with active subscriptions or Update plans, Access Sonic Drop through Avid Link.