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sfxr

Derek Yu — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:32:00 +0000

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!)

"sfxr" by Redhades

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:59:05 +0000

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

"sfxr" by Del_Duio

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:18:53 +0000

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?

"sfxr" by Bob

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:42:49 +0000

I’ll use it to make samples for songs.

"sfxr" by Shadowrice

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:25:14 +0000

This is a fantastic tool! I love it!

"sfxr" by Trotim

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:01:56 +0000

Incredibly awesome.

"sfxr" by !CE-9

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:53:50 +0000

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

"sfxr" by !CE-9

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:50:24 +0000

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

"sfxr" by mr. podunkian

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:37:34 +0000

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

"sfxr" by Radix

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:13:43 +0000

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.

"sfxr" by itqguy

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:23:38 +0000

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.

"sfxr" by Circy

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:08:25 +0000

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

"sfxr" by Jink

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:07:03 +0000

fuck yes, I’ll be sure to use this

"sfxr" by Digital Tools

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:43:31 +0000

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?

"sfxr" by Smithy

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:32:13 +0000

Haha!

Engrish!

"sfxr" by Smithy

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:31:47 +0000

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

"sfxr" by keturn

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:16:14 +0000

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.

"sfxr" by Jäd

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:19:47 +0000

This was pure niceness. :D

I will use it for sure (:

"sfxr" by thomas

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:14:05 +0000

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

"sfxr" by Tr00jg

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:51:03 +0000

Oooh neat! bookmarked for future use

"sfxr" by Nurykabe

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:47:53 +0000

I like this !

"sfxr" by Terry

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:14:45 +0000

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

"sfxr" by BMcC

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:10:58 +0000

Nice! Very nice.

This should prove useful…