IBC 2002, Amsterdam – September 13, 2002– At IBC 2002, Sonomic™ (www.sonomic.com), the premier provider of sound library management solutions, announced an agreement with the British Broadcasting Corporation to distribute the BBC Sound Effects Collection online. The agreement makes Sonomic the only source for downloadable BBC sound effects.

The BBC’s collection has been widely recognized as one of the best and most complete in the world. In total, the BBC will add over 15,000 new sound effects to Sonomic’s Online Library, including those from the 40 CD “Original Series” the 20 CD “Second Edition”, and over 100 new CDs worth of previously unreleased material. The BBC collection is composed of a diverse array of sounds, including:

exterior atmospheres

equestrian events

household

cars

interior backgrounds

hospitals

comedy

livestock

fantasy

agricultural machinery

humor

animals

communications

schools

water

ambiences

crowds

sounds of European nations

industry

sounds of Asian nations

science fiction

sounds of Latin American nations

All sounds from the BBC Original Series and Second Edition are currently available for purchase and download through the Sonomic Online Library (www.sonomic.com). The remainder of the BBC collection will be available by the end of October.

“The addition of the BBC’s sound effects collection represents a big step forward for the method of distribution we are pioneering through our Online Library and Server products,” said Sonomic CEO Adam Strauss. “Our growing European client base has been requesting this, and we are pleased to announce that Sonomic is currently the only company to offer instant online access to BBC’s commercial and previously-unreleased sound effects collections.”

“Sonomic has built the leading platform for instantly accessing any sounds needed for post and broadcast” said Andrew Thornton, Head of Commercial Development for BBC’s Information and Archives Department. “This will enable online delivery of BBC Sound Effects externally for the first time.”

Sonomic users can search for BBC sound effects by category, keyword, description, title and file name, among other parameters. All sound effects can be previewed as streaming audio before being downloaded in full resolution WAV and AIFF formats. Sonomic offers a variety of online Subscription Packages designed to accommodate the needs of all audio professionals, from individual engineers to entire studios, as well as the Total Library Server for enterprise-level sound management.

About Sonomic
Sonomic (www.sonomic.com) gives you instant access to the sounds you need through a suite of tools designed to optimize production efficiency and enhance creativity. The industry-leading Sonomic Sound EngineTM locates, auditions and imports samples and sound effects with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Sonomic’s flagship Total Library Server integrates your own CD library with the Sound Engine to create a fast, efficient digital resource. Sonomic digitizes, categorizes and indexes your entire CD collection onto a custom-built server, searchable from any networked workstation. The Total Library Server connects automatically to the 200,000 sound (and growing) Sonomic Online Library, featuring the entire collections of Sound Ideas, Valentino, Zero-G, Clack, and many more. The net result is that hundreds of thousands of sounds are instantly available, so you always have exactly what you need right at your fingertips.

About the BBC
Since it was first formed as a company in 1922, five years before it received its first Royal Charter and became the British Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC has been a world leader in programme production. It has pioneered communications in radio, television and online technologies.