also for one off commercially produced and recorded sound effects from libraries I use http://www.sounddogs.com/
Torley
· 1 year ago
@Ewan: The latter. A lot of the latter.
@Ann: I'm a big Moby fan. Haven't seen that before, thanks for the tip! He continues to have a distinguished voice in an ocean of nonsensicalness.
@Dizzy: Some of these sites with a lot of gems, I wish they were easier to search/organize! Looks like the market is wide open for a better sound meta-search that really catches on.
Ordinal Malaprop
· 1 year ago
Soundsnap is certainly the place to which I go first. Apart from the convenience of the interface, it has a simple and easily understandable licencing system: "it's all free, use it how you like".
Soundsnap also absolutely excels in providing bleeps, buzzes, twings and electronic noises in general.
I do use Freesound, and have indeed contributed to it, but I confess that I do not think I properly understand the ramifications of the Sampling Plus licence or whatever it is called, and this worries me. Still - it is better for detailed source recordings I would say, particularly those of an obscure mechanical nature, and the quality is higher.
SoundDogs is very much aimed at the commercial market, and while it has a wide selection of stuff, the costs of the proper quality files are prohibitive for the average SL developer. I would rather obtain something _close_ to the target for free, and edit and blend it with Audacity or some such. I could perhaps see myself using it for a very specific topic where the sound had to be precisely accurate - perhaps a replica machine of some sort.
Dedric Mauriac
· 1 year ago
I read your post the other day and just recently had a need to find a sound for a client. I checked out soundsnap and found a sound to start off with. I love the licensing here. Optional/Recommended attribution, and free to use however you like as long as you don't hand out the original sound commercially on its own, in a collection of sounds, or without transformation. I ended up altering the pitch of a bicycle bell to be lower so that it resembled a trolley sound. Awesome!
Torley
· 1 year ago
@Ordinal: I like the initial simplicity of Creative Commons; it's definitely appealing to those who want to take action and use media without worrying about the consequences of misunderstanding.
I used to buy some stock sound sample CDs, but found them kind of wasteful after I chose only to use a few clips out of the 100s (or 1000s) on a disc. I like paying for what I actually use. But, in that "grab bag" dept., I haven't found a better deal than this: http://www.masterbits.de/mp1_e.htm It's mainly for music production but has lots of weird sounds, including one-shot percussives, that can be used elsewhere. It's somewhat dated now and hasn't been updated in a stretch of years.
@Dedric: Nice audio manipulation! I sometimes think, "What would Ben Burtt do?" and he's had so many remarkable insights in sound design.
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Nice find Torley! I love using sites like this and to counter people that swear up and down that all machinma with music must be violating some artist's copyright.
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
also for one off commercially produced and recorded sound effects from libraries I use http://www.sounddogs.com/
@Ann: I'm a big Moby fan. Haven't seen that before, thanks for the tip! He continues to have a distinguished voice in an ocean of nonsensicalness.
@Dizzy: Some of these sites with a lot of gems, I wish they were easier to search/organize! Looks like the market is wide open for a better sound meta-search that really catches on.
Soundsnap also absolutely excels in providing bleeps, buzzes, twings and electronic noises in general.
I do use Freesound, and have indeed contributed to it, but I confess that I do not think I properly understand the ramifications of the Sampling Plus licence or whatever it is called, and this worries me. Still - it is better for detailed source recordings I would say, particularly those of an obscure mechanical nature, and the quality is higher.
SoundDogs is very much aimed at the commercial market, and while it has a wide selection of stuff, the costs of the proper quality files are prohibitive for the average SL developer. I would rather obtain something _close_ to the target for free, and edit and blend it with Audacity or some such. I could perhaps see myself using it for a very specific topic where the sound had to be precisely accurate - perhaps a replica machine of some sort.
I used to buy some stock sound sample CDs, but found them kind of wasteful after I chose only to use a few clips out of the 100s (or 1000s) on a disc. I like paying for what I actually use. But, in that "grab bag" dept., I haven't found a better deal than this: http://www.masterbits.de/mp1_e.htm It's mainly for music production but has lots of weird sounds, including one-shot percussives, that can be used elsewhere. It's somewhat dated now and hasn't been updated in a stretch of years.
@Dedric: Nice audio manipulation! I sometimes think, "What would Ben Burtt do?" and he's had so many remarkable insights in sound design.