Sound Clips

[Fred Katzel]

Hi
Does anyone have a collection of sound clips, ie: bells,
whistles, clapping, etc. that could be used in PowerBasic prog.
Fred

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[Scott Slater]

Fred,

You could always download some "Desktop Theme" packs for Windows. These usually have a good bit of .WAV files in them.



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[Lance Edmonds]

I do not believe that is good advice if you are producing a commercial application or if you intend to distribite the app in any manner because those sound clips are copyright by Microsoft Corporation.

If you want royalty-free clips, then the best advice would be purchase a sounds-effects CD that permits commercial usage and redistribution. Another suggestion would be search the net for suitable WAV samples... www.dogpile.com may be a good place to start such a search.

Out of curiousity, I searched for "free sound effects" and I found links to many free WAV repositories. Take a look at http://search.dogpile.com/texis/sear...-search&fs=web

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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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[Fred Katzel]

Hi
Possible my request was too general, I was more looking for sound
clips that could be used with PowerBASIC's PLAY statement.
Fred

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[Tom Hanlin]

Oh yeah, this is the PB/DOS forum, isn't it?

The problem here is, the PLAY statement is really intended for playing music. A better bet would be the SOUND statement, which gives you much finer control over the generated sounds.

It's relatively easy to generate sirens, wolf whistles, and similar effects using SOUND. It probably wouldn't be too hard to make something that sounds vaguely like clapping. Bells are liable to be tricky!

There used to be a fair amount of source code for this sort of thing floating around. Let me see what I can dig up.


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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff