Explorer SFX Cloud subscription allows you to access over 100, 000 professional sound effects.
Explorer is a powerful 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.
What is Explorer?
Access all your files easily - from mono to immersive - and organise 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.
Immerse Yourself
Immersive audio
Explorer supports mono, stereo, surround and immersive formats (Dolby, HOA, Ambisonics,…).
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.
Import and Monitor
Drag any file
Import or drag files and folders directly to Explorer and categorise 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.
Organize
Playlist creation
Several organisation options: category (UCS), playlists, folders, sample rate, and more.
Flags, stars and Nr of listens
Flag your favourite 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
Have 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 personalised notes to each audio.
Advanced Search
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, 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.
Edit your sounds
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.
Exporting your files
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 favourite 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.
SFX Cloud Subscription
Sound effects
Get access to over 100 000 professional sound effects (in mono, stereo, multichannel and Ambisonics) created by our talented and professional partners.
Full access
If you subscribe to SFX Cloud, you will have access to both your local libraries and our online ones, which you can organise using all the options Explorer offers. There are no tiers to this subscription: one subscription gives you access to the full library!.
Improve your workflow
You 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.
Version Comparison

EXPLORER
- Unlimited local files
- All Explorer features
- Supports all formats (including surround and immersive)
- Free

EXPLORER SFX CLOUD
- Unlimited local files
- All Explorer features
- Supports all formats (including surround and immersive)
- Online SFX Cloud library (with over 100 000 sound effects)
- Unlimited downloads
- $19.99/month
System Requirements:
OS |
Format |
CPU |
RAM |
Disk Space |
Mac OSX 10.13 or higher Windows 10 or above |
AAX Native, AU, VST and VST3 |
4-core or higher |
8 GB or higher |
300 MB |
Note: Pro Tools 64-bit compatible (PT11 and above) required for AAX |