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Working with Audio/Sound
If you are looking for an easy audio editor, look no further than Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audacity is a free sound editor available to users under the GNU operating system for creating and sharing software applications. Audacity allows you to export sound files as MP3s, Wavs, and even MIDI formats. You may have to get some additional plugins for Audacity like WinLAME - http://winlame.sourceforge.net/ (makes the MP3 export work without error).
Tutorial site for Audacity - http://aquaculturepda.wikispaces.com/podcast4
If you are wanting to create your own music loops or need to manage more detailed Audio files, I recommend going to your local software shop and looking into Sony's Acid Pro or even SoundForge. http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/acidfamily.asp - Acid products and http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/soundforgefamily.asp - Soundforge products.
I used to teach Sony's Acid Music Studio which is great for compiling already produced loops into interesting musical tracks. If you are needing a more professional program, look at the Sony Acid Pro program. It gives you more control over the different layers of loops you add to your score.
If you play your own instrument and are looking for a partner to jam with, check out http://musigy.com/ - where you can connect globally with other musicians and play together online.
Resources for finding Sounds:
AltaVista* Audio Search Engine - http://www.altavista.com/audio/default Search specifically for MP3, WAV, WindowsMedia, Real AIFF, and other sound files on the Web.
FindSounds - www.findsounds.com
FindSounds.com is a free site for finding sound effects and musical instrument samples on the Web. It is a Web search engine, like Google and AltaVista, but with a focus on sounds. Audio files containing obscenities are filtered out so this site is safe for children. Allows you to choose the type of sound file, the maximum file size, and more. Given any sound, FindSounds.com can automatically find similar sounds on the Web. Provides a colored wavform display for any found sound. Also provides a quick list of categories for searching: www.findsounds.com/types.html
KidsClick: Kids' Search Tools - http://www.kidsclick.org/ssearch.html
Several sound search engines on one page, plus special sound collections such as sounds from history, animals, the human body, and national anthems. Not just for kids! A great starting place for finding sounds.
Lycos Multimedia Search: Images, Video, Audio - http://multimedia.lycos.com
Type a search term, then click Images & Video. To narrow your selection, select Images, Video, or Audio and then click GO GET IT!
Podscope - www.podscope.com Podscope lets you search the spoken word for audio and video that interests you.
Podzinger - http://podzinger.com "Using speech recognition technology, PodZinger searches words within both audio and video, not just the metadata, to classify content based on topic and usage. For consumers, PodZinger is the only search engine that allows users to find audio and video content based on keyword searches and then skim the results for relevance the same way they would for text. Consumers can then "jump-to" a specific location in the audio and video without fast forwarding or listening to the entire file."
Searching the Internet for a Certain MIDI File -www.aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/midi/help/midi-search.html Search engine for midi files, which often sound like synthesized elevator music. Midi files cannot duplicate the human voice, so these files are only "instrumental." The significant advantage is file size. An entire song is often smaller than 100 kilobytes.
Singing Fish - http://search.singingfish.com/sfw/home.jsp Search for audio and video. Singingfish only indexes multimedia formats, including Windows Media, Real, QuickTime, and mp3s. Search through categories spanning music, news, movies, sports, TV and radio, and finance.
SoundDogs - www.sounddogs.com/catsearch.asp?Type=1 Search and preview sound effects and production music for free - no account required. Sounds are free to sample. Purchase for clear, top quality sound.
WavSearch - www.wavsearch.com WavSearch focuses on clips of 30-seconds and shorter. Using WavSearch.com you can find almost any major quote from almost any movie or TV show.
Yahoo! Audio Search - http://audio.search.yahoo.com Find audio files from across the Web including music, podcasts, interviews and more.
Web Places: Sound Clips - www.webplaces.com/html/sounds.htm
Sites with sounds to download, listed by category and type of sound files available.
Sound Archives
A1 Free Sound Effects - www.a1freesoundeffects.com/noflash.htm
This site is made for Internet Users who need FREE sound effects for Non-Profit Use and intend to use them in schools, churches, any home computer user, anything that will not make a profit from the use of our sounds.
Midi World - www.midiworld.com
Lots of resources and links for midi files, which often sound like synthesized elevator music. Midi files cannot duplicate the human voice, so these files are only "instrumental." The significant advantage is file size. An entire song is often smaller than 100 kilobytes.
Classical Midi Archives - www.classicalarchives.com
Midi files categorized by classical composers.
Self-Sequenced MIDI Files on the Net - www.aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/midi/search/self.html
Links to sites with midi files of music in the public domain or of those with permission granted from the copyright owner to use their music. Music categories such as Celtic, Gregorian chants, Civil War music, classic rock and pop, etc.
Microsoft Sound Downloads - http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/topic.asp?url=/msdn-files/028/000/124/topic.xml
Free sound downloads from Microsoft (wav and midi).
Guide to Animal Sounds on the Net - http://members.tripod.com/Thryomanes/AnimalSounds.html
The Daily WAV - www.dailywav.com
Music and sound clips. Not organized by category so may be difficult to use unless you know specifically what you're looking for, but has some very funny sound clips. Has both wav files and good quality midi files.
WAVCentral - www.wavcentral.com
Music and sound clips from movies, TV, commercials, and sound effects.
The Looney Tunes Sound Source - www.nonstick.com/sounds
Special Operations.Com: Military Sounds - www.specialoperations.com/Multimedia/sounds.html
Explosions, battle sounds, artillary, music, civil war sound effects and sayings, etc.
Partners in Rhyme: Sound Effects - www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.html
Includes royalty free and public domain sound effects.
Audacity is a free sound editor available to users under the GNU operating system for creating and sharing software applications. Audacity allows you to export sound files as MP3s, Wavs, and even MIDI formats. You may have to get some additional plugins for Audacity like WinLAME - http://winlame.sourceforge.net/ (makes the MP3 export work without error).
Tutorial site for Audacity - http://aquaculturepda.wikispaces.com/podcast4
If you are wanting to create your own music loops or need to manage more detailed Audio files, I recommend going to your local software shop and looking into Sony's Acid Pro or even SoundForge. http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/acidfamily.asp - Acid products and http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/soundforgefamily.asp - Soundforge products.
I used to teach Sony's Acid Music Studio which is great for compiling already produced loops into interesting musical tracks. If you are needing a more professional program, look at the Sony Acid Pro program. It gives you more control over the different layers of loops you add to your score.
If you play your own instrument and are looking for a partner to jam with, check out http://musigy.com/ - where you can connect globally with other musicians and play together online.
Resources for finding Sounds:
AltaVista* Audio Search Engine - http://www.altavista.com/audio/default Search specifically for MP3, WAV, WindowsMedia, Real AIFF, and other sound files on the Web.
FindSounds - www.findsounds.com
FindSounds.com is a free site for finding sound effects and musical instrument samples on the Web. It is a Web search engine, like Google and AltaVista, but with a focus on sounds. Audio files containing obscenities are filtered out so this site is safe for children. Allows you to choose the type of sound file, the maximum file size, and more. Given any sound, FindSounds.com can automatically find similar sounds on the Web. Provides a colored wavform display for any found sound. Also provides a quick list of categories for searching: www.findsounds.com/types.html
KidsClick: Kids' Search Tools - http://www.kidsclick.org/ssearch.html
Several sound search engines on one page, plus special sound collections such as sounds from history, animals, the human body, and national anthems. Not just for kids! A great starting place for finding sounds.
Lycos Multimedia Search: Images, Video, Audio - http://multimedia.lycos.com
Type a search term, then click Images & Video. To narrow your selection, select Images, Video, or Audio and then click GO GET IT!
Podscope - www.podscope.com Podscope lets you search the spoken word for audio and video that interests you.
Podzinger - http://podzinger.com "Using speech recognition technology, PodZinger searches words within both audio and video, not just the metadata, to classify content based on topic and usage. For consumers, PodZinger is the only search engine that allows users to find audio and video content based on keyword searches and then skim the results for relevance the same way they would for text. Consumers can then "jump-to" a specific location in the audio and video without fast forwarding or listening to the entire file."
Searching the Internet for a Certain MIDI File -www.aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/midi/help/midi-search.html Search engine for midi files, which often sound like synthesized elevator music. Midi files cannot duplicate the human voice, so these files are only "instrumental." The significant advantage is file size. An entire song is often smaller than 100 kilobytes.
Singing Fish - http://search.singingfish.com/sfw/home.jsp Search for audio and video. Singingfish only indexes multimedia formats, including Windows Media, Real, QuickTime, and mp3s. Search through categories spanning music, news, movies, sports, TV and radio, and finance.
SoundDogs - www.sounddogs.com/catsearch.asp?Type=1 Search and preview sound effects and production music for free - no account required. Sounds are free to sample. Purchase for clear, top quality sound.
WavSearch - www.wavsearch.com WavSearch focuses on clips of 30-seconds and shorter. Using WavSearch.com you can find almost any major quote from almost any movie or TV show.
Yahoo! Audio Search - http://audio.search.yahoo.com Find audio files from across the Web including music, podcasts, interviews and more.
Web Places: Sound Clips - www.webplaces.com/html/sounds.htm
Sites with sounds to download, listed by category and type of sound files available.
Sound Archives
A1 Free Sound Effects - www.a1freesoundeffects.com/noflash.htm
This site is made for Internet Users who need FREE sound effects for Non-Profit Use and intend to use them in schools, churches, any home computer user, anything that will not make a profit from the use of our sounds.
Midi World - www.midiworld.com
Lots of resources and links for midi files, which often sound like synthesized elevator music. Midi files cannot duplicate the human voice, so these files are only "instrumental." The significant advantage is file size. An entire song is often smaller than 100 kilobytes.
Classical Midi Archives - www.classicalarchives.com
Midi files categorized by classical composers.
Self-Sequenced MIDI Files on the Net - www.aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/midi/search/self.html
Links to sites with midi files of music in the public domain or of those with permission granted from the copyright owner to use their music. Music categories such as Celtic, Gregorian chants, Civil War music, classic rock and pop, etc.
Microsoft Sound Downloads - http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/topic.asp?url=/msdn-files/028/000/124/topic.xml
Free sound downloads from Microsoft (wav and midi).
Guide to Animal Sounds on the Net - http://members.tripod.com/Thryomanes/AnimalSounds.html
The Daily WAV - www.dailywav.com
Music and sound clips. Not organized by category so may be difficult to use unless you know specifically what you're looking for, but has some very funny sound clips. Has both wav files and good quality midi files.
WAVCentral - www.wavcentral.com
Music and sound clips from movies, TV, commercials, and sound effects.
The Looney Tunes Sound Source - www.nonstick.com/sounds
Special Operations.Com: Military Sounds - www.specialoperations.com/Multimedia/sounds.html
Explosions, battle sounds, artillary, music, civil war sound effects and sayings, etc.
Partners in Rhyme: Sound Effects - www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.html
Includes royalty free and public domain sound effects.
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