[casual_games] Res: Tools for creating sound effects

[Austin Haas]

I blogged about a couple of sound fx libraries that we use: http://blog.pettomato.com/?p=21

I've heard a lot of people say that they go download sound fx from free websites, but in my experience the quality and convenience of a good sound library is hard to beat.

-austin


On Sat Feb 03 11:02 , Hal Barwood wrote:

> Second the GoldWave recommendation -- very nice and powerful for 

> essentially no money compared to the "pro" stuff.  Meanwhile, get a 

> microphone, make some sounds!  Or, does anyone have a library of effects 

> they'd like to recommend?

> 

> 

> Austin Haas wrote:

> > Common Lisp Music and CSound are free libraries for procedural sound synthesis.

> > 

> > -austin

> > 

> > 

> > On Sat Feb 03 07:57 , Jose Marin wrote:

> >> I need a tool to procedurally create the sounds, maybe from some sinoidal wave noise...

> >>

> >> ----- Mensagem original ----

> >> De: Ron <lists at rzweb.com>

> >> Para: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List <casual_games at igda.org>

> >> Enviadas: Sábado, 3 de Fevereiro de 2007 13:51:25

> >> Assunto: Re: [casual_games] Tools for creating sound effects

> >>

> >>

> >> It's not free ($45), but I use GoldWave to edit sounds.

> >>

> >> http://goldwave.com/

> >>

> >> Ron

> >>

> >>

> >> Joe Pantuso wrote:

> >>> Generally speaking you need some sort of source material to manipulate.  

> >>> It is very difficult to create sounds out of thin air, you generally 

> >>> start with one or more sounds collected from physical sources (animals, 

> >>> machines, hitting one object with another object).  Given your question 

> >>> I'm betting you have a bit of a learning curve ahead of you.

> >>>  

> >>> Read this; http://filmsound.org/starwars/ 

> >>> and browse around that site in general.

> >>>  

> >>> Source material you can play with for free; http://www.sounddogs.com/

> >>> Once you've narrowed in on something you can buy hi-res material cheap.

> >>>  

> >>> A free tool; http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

> >>>  

> >>> Have fun!

> >>>

> >>>  

> >>> On 2/3/07, *Jose Marin* <jose_marin2 at yahoo.com.br 

> >>> <mailto:jose_marin2 at yahoo.com.br>> wrote:

> >>>

> >>>     Hi.

> >>>

> >>>     Is there some free tool for create sound effects for games?

> >>>

> >>>     Like explosions, weapons sounds, etc.

> >>>

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