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COD 323 Sound Design

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AI Tools

Minimax Provides free noise reduction for voice over recordings. Voice cloning.

VST & Virtual Instruments

List of Free VST Huge list of free VST tools suggested by Ufuk Önen.

Compressor, Saturator, Distortion, Reverb Set of free effect plugins.

Tape Cassette 2 is an audio plugin that emulates the warmth and character of old tape cassettes, featuring an updated interface and improved algorithms for saturation, wow & flutter, and tape noise. It includes a new Type 1 Cassette Impulse Response, VU meters, and selectable oversampling. The plugin adds vintage warmth and texture to tracks or channels and can also be used creatively for experimental sound design.

Paulxstretch It can turn any audio into hours or days of ambient soundscape, in an amazingly smooth and beautiful way. Review the video to get more information. (Tip. FFT size parameter sets the clearance of the recorded track. Play with this to change the timbre of the sound. Higher values are close to original sound)

Speech Enhancer Adobe Speech Cleaner fixes background noise and reverb issues. It is capable of healing problematic recorded speech tracks.

Vital Synth Sound synthesizer.

TyrellN6 is a compact freeware software synth by u-he and Amazona, based on a canceled hardware concept. It features a streamlined, easy-to-use interface for fast workflow.

Keyzone Classic is a sample based piano.

Network Protocol VSTi

XXIIVV — pilot Pilot features 16 voices, and 8 audio effects, each operatable with their own set of commands, and their own FFT visualiser. The complete operation guide can be seen here. Works via OSC on port 49161. Use openFrameworks/examples UDP sender to test commands.

Professional Tools

Room EQ Wizard (REW) Room Acoustics Software REW is free software for measuring and optimizing room acoustics, loudspeakers, and audio devices. It provides tools for testing audio signals, measuring sound parameters, creating various analysis plots, and adjusting equalizer settings to improve sound quality.

Sound Sample Library

Before diving into searching sound samples in an endless ocean of web, review the terminology that might be helpful for you to find relevant sound effect.

List of Onomatopoeias

Words that imitate, resemble, or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. For more information, see the linked articles.

BBC Sound Effects Library The BBC Sound Effects Archive is available for personal, educational or research purposes. There are over 33,000 clips from across the world from the past 100 years.

Sound Bible SoundBible.com offers free sound clips for download in either wav or mp3 format.

FreeSound Community based sound samples. Free to download

Movie Sounds Includes sound samples, dialogues and fx sources from movies.

Open Game Art Free to use digital game assets including sound and music.

Youtube Sound Library (You need to be signed in on your Youtube account) You can access royalty free sound effects and music library of Youtube. If you cannot access, navigate to this page.

Zapslats Cartoon sound effects, available in mp3 format.

Pixabay 90,000+ Royalty Free Sound Effects for Download.

Inspiration

Tutorials

Davinci Resolve

EQ

Reverb

AI Assisted Audio Technologies

Coproducer Co-Producer is a new set of AI capabilities we’re building to help music makers unlock more time creating and less time searching, beginning with Pack Generator.

Quotes

It’s not about the gear, it’s about the ear.

Open Calls

Do your own research frequently on search engines like google and social media apps like Instagram to attend open calls related to the sound. Do not limit yourself with following calls. Use the keywords such as open call, artist residance, sound, soundscape, award, experimental music, music concrete, sound design, sound art...

Free online support from professionals: Composers’ Helpline - Sound Scotland

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