The NCH Sound Effect Library is a collection of thousands of royalty-free sound effects that can be added to your project.

Open the library using one of the following ways:

Once you have opened the library, you'll see the following controls:

  1. Folder Tree
    On the left hand side, each folder represents a category of sounds. Expand a folder to see its sub-folders, or the list of sounds it contains.
  2. Sound List
    On the right hand side, all the sounds in the currently selected category are listed. This will be empty until a category is selected.
  3. Preview Sound
    Select a sound in the list then click the Play button (or press Space key) to hear it. When you have finished, click Stop.
  4. Download
    Select a sound in the list then click the Download button to download the sound (if it hasn't already been downloaded) and add it to the clip bin of the open project.