sfxr

Posted by Derek Yu Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:32:00 GMT

sfxr

Hells yes! The ever-inventive Dr. Petter has released a free sound program that lets you easily create retro-style sound effects:

What I present here is, if you will, an MS Paint for sound effects… or something along those lines. It’s meant to make it dead easy for anyone to whip up a few simple sound effects and save them as .WAV files for playback using most game/media libraries like SDL or pygame.

This really beats holding a microphone in my teeth while I beat a robot to death with a rusted pipe!

(Works in Linux, too! Thanks, PoV!)

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  1. BMcC said 39 minutes later:

    Nice! Very nice.

    This should prove useful…

  2. Terry said 43 minutes later:

    Awesome! I’m using it to make explosion sounds for my game.

  3. Nurykabe said about 1 hour later:

    I like this !

  4. Tr00jg said about 1 hour later:

    Oooh neat! bookmarked for future use

  5. thomas said about 2 hours later:

    Great little program, fun to use and saves me the hassle of browsing through sound libraries.

  6. Jäd said about 2 hours later:

    This was pure niceness. :D

    I will use it for sure (:

  7. keturn said about 3 hours later:

    Nice for prototyping, sure, but players will notice the difference. And I think you’ll find that you get a lot more respect for the titles you publish where you actually did hold a microphone in your teeth while beating things with a rusty pipe.

  8. Smithy said about 4 hours later:

    People become choose to become game developers to get showered with respect…

  9. Smithy said about 4 hours later:

    Haha!

    Engrish!

  10. Digital Tools said about 4 hours later:

    This is really a great app. Very good approach and I wonder why nobody else made something like this before. I did get my effects in a similar process: putting together some basic oscillator stuff and playing with the pitches. Anyone else here did it like that?

  11. Jink said about 6 hours later:

    fuck yes, I’ll be sure to use this

  12. Circy said about 6 hours later:

    Amazing :) I’m shocked that something like this wasn’t released sooner actually.

  13. itqguy said about 6 hours later:

    Thats so cool. I actually spent hours looking for a program that does just that and managed to run into one by accident today.

    I’ll just keep them to use for later.

  14. Radix said about 7 hours later:

    At one point I made sound effects by making noises with my mouth and mucking with them in a sound editor. I got quite good at it, and had an action game project in which all the sounds were fairly similar to the SNES megaman games, and I was fairly happy with it. Some time later I came back, and found I could hear the saliva in every one of the sound effects and it made me want to vomit.

  15. mr. podunkian said about 7 hours later:

    pixel made a program like this, which is included with pxTone, though this one has a bit nicer of a GUI and stuff

  16. !CE-9 said about 14 hours later:

    this is what I wanted to be when I grow up. downloads immediately

  17. !CE-9 said about 14 hours later:

    @keturn & Smithy: actually, I chose to become a game developer to beat things with a rusty pipe.=)

  18. Trotim said about 17 hours later:

    Incredibly awesome.

  19. Shadowrice said 1 day later:

    This is a fantastic tool! I love it!

  20. Bob said 1 day later:

    I’ll use it to make samples for songs.

  21. Del_Duio said 1 day later:

    I’ve already made some awesome spaceage effects and cool ray gun blasts with it. This thing is GREAT!!

    Anyone else notice you can get the same exact coin sound your hear on Super Mario Brothers?

  22. Redhades said 2 days later:

    I know a bunch of chiptune artists who are loving it.

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