Click here to download the zip file (FreeSoundLibrary_01.zip) which contains the sounds.

File Size: About 7 megabytes

Short Description: Tech/Sci-fi Sounds. If you would like an example of of the type of music that can be created using the library, listen to Bzzzt Bzzzt, Bing!, a song I created from the sounds in the library, in either ogg or wma format. Please note that the song Bzzzt Bzzzt, Bing! itself is not available under the Creative Commons License.

Long Description/Notes:

The library contains 28 Sounds (laser beams, robotic sounding noises, pulsating effects, etc.). In order to keep the library at a reasonably manageable size, I encoded the files in Ogg Vorbis format with the quality set to 10 (which is the highest setting). If you need the sounds in WAV format, you can use an audio editing program to convert them. Audacity (available at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) is an excellent free program which is capable of importing Ogg Vorbis and exporting WAV.

The sounds themselves are a little on the chaotic side with, in some cases, a fair amount of variation in pitch, volume, etc. You will probably want to "tweak" them quite a bit to suit your needs. For example, you can change the pitch, extract portions of some sounds and recombine them with others, and apply reverb and other effects using Audacity or whatever audio editing software you prefer.

Attribution: The Creative Commons license under which these sounds are licenses states that:

You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).

This does not have to be anything fancy. A link to www.GoodChimes.com from your web site, a mention on your CD notes, or a line in the credits of your video or game would all be fine. For phrasing I would suggest:

This work includes sounds from Ted Kuik's Free Sound Library #1 by Theodore D. Kuik

or something similar. Please direct any attribution links to the main site url, www.goodchimes.com, as subdirectories and page names might get changed and no longer be valid. Thanks.

How the Sounds were Created:

The initial sounds were generated primarily with the DreamStation 1.0 synth, a free (and excellent) synth from Audio Simulation. A lot of the process involved using the "randomize sound" feature repeatedly until I got something that sounded interesting. In some cases I mixed in a few sounds I recorded from various household objects (which I used as PCM waveforms for DreamStation's oscillators).

I then took this "raw material" and did all sorts of things to it with Sonar by Cakewalk, VSampler by Maz Sound Tools, and the aforementioned Audacity to it to get the sound I wanted (pitch shifting, slicing and re-combining, adding effects, etc.)