Now that you have Sound Mover to manipulate them to your heart's content and SndControl to attach them to specific events, you probably would like to have more sounds to play with.
The following are various ways to get them. The suggestions are not made in a particular order of merit or preference and are not meant as endorsements for the products mentioned.
• Get yourself a Farallon MacRecorder. It's a little device not much bigger than a mouse that attaches to either serial port and comes with extremely good software for capturing and editing sounds from either its in-built mike or a direct connection to your hi-fi set. It's under $200 from most mail order outfits in the US. Once you have it, you'll be able to create your own sounds and will probably not need the sources mentioned below.
• Join a user group and buy those of their PD disks which contain sampled sounds. Or download the sounds by modem from their BBS.
• If you have a CD-ROM player, you may want to get one of the many PD CD-ROMs available. They usually contain hundreds of sampled sounds and it'll cost you less than downloading them by modem or buying the dozens of diskettes that they'd require.
• Join Compuserve, GEnie, America Online, etc. and download the sounds by modem (expensive, but not necessarily prohibitive if you keep a stopwatch handy). There are literally hundreds of choices available.
• Buy one of the ever growing number of commercially available sound clip collections. Look in MacUser/World for the various ads. As an example, Tactic Software offers sound clips at 49.95 per set.
• Write to :
Michael Hercus
P.O. Box 491
New Westminster, B.C.
V3L 4Y8 CANADA.
Michael is actually one of my Registered Users and has decided to offer sound clip collections for sale to recoup the cost of his own MacRecorder. Just write to him and he'll send you a list of available sounds.
• There would also appear to be a public domain alternative to the Farallon MacRecorder. A file called SID.sit was uploaded recently to the major networks with detailed instructions on building your own digitizer for $20 worth of parts. It includes software to perform the digitizing.
I have downloaded the file, but haven't had a chance to try it.
However, I have heard from at least one person who has tried to build it and failed and another who managed to build it, but at a higher cost of around $40.
Anyway, I just thought I'd pass this bit of information along for what it's worth…
(If you ask for it, I can send you the complete SID.sit file on a disk that also carries other sound related PD source code in C and Pascal. Price is the same as for sound disks above.)
• Registered User Robert "Rabbett" Abbett offers to act as a sounds clearing house and says:
QUOTE:
"Mother Earth's Sound Clearinghouse is looking for a few good sounds!
Hi...got any sounds to share? Got any natural sounds you've recorded in the field or clips from movies or TV or LP or CD? Let's share! Send me a disc and a self addressed stamped return envelope and I'll download your stuff, refill your disc with sounds from my collection and mail your disc back...Don't have any sounds to share? Well, send a disc and a self addressed stamped return envelope and a check for $5.00 U.S. per disc and I'll fill up your disc(s) and return it (them) to you so you can start to have more fun with your Mac....Please make out all checks or money orders to Hot Spots Hawaii...The address is as follows:
Mother Earth's Sound Clearinghouse c/o Rabbett @ Hot Spots Hawaii
333 Maluniu Avenue Kailua, Hi. 96734-2370 U.S.A.
Please allow 2- 4 weeks for return on disc...life gets hectic sometimes!"
- END OF QUOTE
• Write to: Dejal Sound Library, Dejal Userware
12 Scorpio Place, Mairangi Bay, Auckland 10, NEW ZEALAND
Dejal is run by David Lambert, another of my registered users who has a large collection of over 55 800K disks containing over 1,000 sounds (along much the same lines as my own collection). He will send you a disk containing his catalogue of the entire Library, sound by sound, listed by name and by disk, in TEXT format, plus his shareware and freeware programs (such as SndConverter and SndPlayer) for you to try. This disk full of software and the catalogues can be ordered for US$5. Cash, check, international money order, or VISA, MasterCard, Bankcard or American Express credit cards accepted. He can even accept orders via e-mail if paying by credit card. CompuServe: 100033,2435; Internet: 100033.2435@compuserve.com
• Get a Macintosh IIsi, LC, Quadra or PowerBook 140/170: they come with a microphone as standard equipment.
