Every location is a work of custom sound design, made by a human being.

Pick a place: a tavern, an office, a ship drifting in the dark. Simply move one point, and the room answers while you keep telling the story.

Activity sets the energy. Mood sets the tone. That is the whole interface, so you can use it mid-scene without looking down.

From the riverbank
and the foley table

No AI-generated audio. Rivers and railway platforms in northern Sweden, a fireplace, a box of plates waiting to be smashed, friends at the door pretending to be a horde. Recorded, edited and designed by hand, with a handful of credited community recordings filling the gaps.

Two windshielded microphones hung in branches above a forest stream — 01 · Fettjeån, spaced pair in the branches

A handheld recorder held up to a burning torch in a brick fireplace — 02 · Torch, fireplace

Chopped celery, an axe and a hacksaw on a workbench in front of a recorder — 03 · Celery, axe, hacksaw

Tapping a wine bottle with a wooden spoon in front of a studio microphone — 04 · Bottle, wooden spoon

A microphone stand on a railway platform beside a blue regional train — 05 · Regional train, idling

Broken plates and pottery on a concrete floor surrounded by three microphones — 06 · Plates, after

Boots with small microphones taped to the laces on a wooden deck — 07 · Mics taped to boots

Friends crowding a doorway at night, recording crowd sounds — 08 · Friends, playing zombies

A library set with old books and microphones built in a sunlit room — 09 · Sunroom turned into a library foley studio

A stereo microphone on a beach as someone splashes into a lake — 10 · Not afraid to get my feet wet

Sharpening a chef's knife on a steel in front of a recorder — 11 · Knife on steel

One set of places, wherever the story is told

At the table

Game masters

Host a session and your players hear the same room, in sync, on their own devices. Map the dials to a MIDI controller, save scenes, jump between them with a key.

In the session

Creators and studios

Streams, podcasts, radio drama. A VST3 version for your DAW is in testing now: the same places, with even finer dynamic control over every layer, automatable like any other plugin.

Somewhere else

Schools, theatre, escape rooms?

If you have a room that needs to feel like somewhere else, I'm happy to talk about how Sorle could fit. Send me a message.

info@sorle.se

Places,
and more on the way

Each one is built in four corners: still or frantic, threatening or joyful, and everything in between.

Portrait of Josef Falkensköld — Josef Falkensköld, sound designer

Hi, I'm Josef.

I've spent eighteen years composing music and designing sound for games. Sorle is the tool I kept wishing for: a place that sounds alive and follows the story, controlled with exceptional ease.

I record most of it myself, around northern Sweden and in my workshop, with a few friends who are happy to smash plates or stomp around on a porch at night. If something sounds wrong, or you need a place that doesn't exist yet, write to me. I read everything.

Josef

Foley and playtesting: Martin Gavelin, Oskar Selander, Jonas Nimrodsson, Anders Nyberg, Anton Teljebäck. Music and voice: Lyv, Samtar. Artwork: Sorkin, Irnyo. Logo, icon and interface: Dominic Falkensköld.