Royalty free sounds?

News & General Discussion
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Where can I get royalty free sound effects and music for my game?

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I’d highly recommand my personal sound heroes http://www.soundrangers.com

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This site has a lot of free music: http://www.jamendo.com/en/albums

If someone knows another one similar please let me know :slight_smile:

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Musopen has lots of classical music recreated by composers and donated to public domain.

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Another great collection of music that is user submitted, would be at Featured Audio
Now keep in my mind, there are HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of songs there at Newgrounds. So you are most likely to find music that meets your needs. :slight_smile:
-Blayke :smile:

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I love freesoundproject.com

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Also, Kevin MacLeod’s site is a great resource for royalty free original music.
http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/

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www.sounddogs.com…you can set the start and end times for each clip, so instead of paying $10 for a long sound effect where you’re only going to use some of it, you pay like $2.50 for the part you want.

–Eric

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There’s some good stuff on that site. There’s great stuff to be all over the place if you spend time in google. However just be aware of the license when you’re browsing a site.

For example someone mentioned http://freesound.org which has a slew of quality stuff on it. But the license while royalty free is essentially credit-ware and not purely public domain.

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I’d like to second sounddogs.com - all of the sound for Zombieville USA came from them (except for the music).

On a somewhat related topic, if you’re looking for a decent, free audio editing software, I found something called “Audacity” for mac, which helped a lot with editing/layering different sounds I got from sound dogs. It’s no pro tools, but for simple edits, layers, speed/pitch adjustments and fade outs it was super valuable.

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I found Wavepad to be much more pleasant than Audacity. It’s only $49. I linked it below.

Still, nothing beats that old SoundEdit from back in the 68k days. I miss that program. :frowning:

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Bear in mind that Jamendo is Creative Commons-licensed music. Creative Commons is very permissive, but you definitely want to look into if the specific album allows derivative works, and on what terms.

Best,

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I agree with Arges… when you are searching for content (music or art), you need to be mindful of the licensing.
Creative Commons is a great thing and if you aren’t familiar with it, you should be. It has many different ‘flavors’. Flickr has page that explain each type of license… Flickr: Creative Commons

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Most of these I have to pay for, what sites can I get completely free sound FX from?

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I’m extremely happy with Logic Pro, but it’s definitely overkill for anyone who’s not running a recording studio as well as doing game dev. Kicks butt for doing multi-track location recording though.

Alex.

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Actually, if access to GarageBand and a basic synthesizer that allows you to modify the characteristics of a waveform (such as Noise.io Pro on the iPhone/iPod Touch), you can create just about any effect you could possibly need from scratch.

In the meanwhile, is there anything actually wrong with sampling existing sound effects (royalty free or otherwise) and mixing them to the point that the base sounds can’t be identified? It’s not like there’s someone out there randomly doing low-level deconstruction of the audio on every piece of multimedia in existence, right? (Besides, they’re probably all busy harassing the hip-hop/rap/r&b industry…)

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I recommend Band in a Box. It is not cheap – at $149, I believe but you can write your own tunes and it will supply chords and orchestration. Also it will generate melodies and orchestrate them.

Also just start getting to know musicians. I have gotten to know so many musicians because of using their music in my films, that now they ask me if I will use their music.

I am just starting to get into the commercial end of film making so of course, I will be licensing this music from the musicians I have been using in the future.

As long as I make non-commercial films even if they are for television, I don’t have any problems finding musicians.

You can also generate sound effects with Band in a Box. I also use Adobe Audition and you can generate sound effects with that program too.

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I can give you 2 very good sources for free music too:

both are free of any rights to any performing rights organisations.

greets
harry

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I use http://shockwave-sound.com , they have got a good collection of both royalty free music and sfx.

The site is owned by Bjørn A. Lynne, Mr Amiga mod tracker musician many of us know from the 90’ies.