657 Reply by µB

(23 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Note that some old radios have the option to change the band between FM, MW, SW and LW. Check your attic for those late 80s / early 90s ghetto blasters. That's a cheap alternative to pro SW radios; you'll have less options, but browsing the bands feels much the same, so you'll get an idea of it.

Awol, SW has a pretty decent range. The whole point of number stations is that field agents can get their briefings from afar, after all. But yeah, there are american number stations. Here's a list with UTC schedules of active stations:
http://www.spynumbers.com/profiles/enigma.html

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658 Reply by µB

(5 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Please do!

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659 Reply by µB

(1 replies, posted in Bugs and Requests)

Are the youtube and vimeo tags to embed videos in?

Test

Sweet!

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660 Reply by µB

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It even works on Opera. And nobody ever codes websites to work with Opera big_smile

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661 Reply by µB

(43 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Crazy Q is the undisputed master of 80s female pictures.

What's he up to, anyways?

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662 Reply by µB

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Yeah, awesome track! I'd be interested in the title/possible availability too.

When you ask him about it, do you think you could pry away a little info on his side project Mr Dauphin as well? smile

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663 Reply by µB

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http://protracker.de/
ST-XX Disks, classic Amiga tracker samples

http://www.milkcrate.com.au/ub/speakandspell.zip
Speak & Spell samples

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664 Topic by µB

(226 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

Post links to your favorite sample resources.

Don't post:
- Movie/TV/Cartoon/VG speech or sfx
- Silly sound effects
- Drum Loops
- Huge random libraries like http://www.freesound.org/ *)
- Stuff that Google spits out by the million
(Don't get me wrong, all that can be pretty useful, but is ultimately easy to find)
- Memes, unhelpful comments

*) If you find something noteworthy inside a random archive, post it. Just don't link the whole thing.

Do post:
- Single hit (clean) oldskool synths, toys and drums
- Outlandish and interesting things
- VGM instruments are ok
- Specialized libraries
- Stuff you had to dig for
(Think of it as the internet user's equivalent of crate digging)

Essentially we're looking for things that are either good for universal use or make great one-shots

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Drums & Drum Machines

Drum synth samples, old and new (my pick for drum synths)
http://samples.kb6.de/downloads.php

More drum synths, some synth voices as well
http://machines.hyperreal.org/samples.html

Yamaha DD-8, extra cheese 80s drums
http://bedroomproducers.wordpress.com/2 … maha-dd-8/

Scooby feet beat
http://8bitcollective.com/wiki/index.php/Scoobycore

A collection of good oldskool drums and beeps. Note the NI FM7 drumkit (needs freesound.org account).
http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=19852

WDUWSTS' drum samples: Casio MT-45, Roland TR-66, Hing Hon EK-001, Yamaha PSS-795, FM2 (TFM maker)
http://encowell.tumblr.com/post/1575542 … qus_thread

Link hub to a whole lot of acoustic drum samples. Note the 600 MB Open Source Kit
http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2010/06 … full-kits/

Selection of 'classic' drum sounds, quality varies, but very decent stuff in there
http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2010/09 … e-samples/

Fully sampled TR-626. This pack is as complete as it gets.
http://www.illuminatedsounds.com/?p=956

Neatly sampled Roland TR-606, as with the 626 above
http://www.illuminatedsounds.com/?p=1420

godinpants' stabs for breaks
http://www.chkdisbrk.com/111.aiff
http://www.chkdisbrk.com/222.aiff
http://www.chkdisbrk.com/333.aiff

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Instruments & Collections

ST-XX Disks, classic Amiga tracker samples
http://www.archive.org/details/AmigaSou … Packsst-xx

Tracker samples, from modules for modules
http://www.kiarchive.ru/pub/misc/sounds/samples/ft2/

More tracker samples, from the demoscene's Hornet Archive
ftp://ftp.scene.org/mirrors/hornet/music/samples/

Big fat D&B bass stabs, some loops
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CMYJW13Z

Royalty free orchestra instrument samples
http://slib.soundex.co.uk/

Ukulele
http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2010/0 … t-and.html

Thai Khene
http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2009/0 … -pack.html

Woolyss' sample links (some free, some comercial)
http://woolyss.com/chipmusic-samples.php

Pianos, E-Pianos, Toy Pianos
http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2010/07 … oy-pianos/

Very nice Hammond Organ samples, neatly organized folder structure
http://www.illuminatedsounds.com/?p=635

4300(!) single cycle waveforms, perfect for making those 4k or 8k modules
http://www.adventurekid.se/akrt/wavefor … waveforms/

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Consoles & Vintage Computers

Atari

little-scale's chip samples
Atari POKEY Noise Sample Pack
Atari 2600 Sample Pack

Commodore / Amiga

little-scale's SID 8580 Sample Pack
http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2009/1 … -pack.html

C64 MSSIAH default drums (8531)
http://bedroomproducers.wordpress.com/2 … -drum-kit/

Whole lot (320) of C64 samples are included with DR-SID (by the same people who made the Unknown 64 VSTi)
http://www.odosynths.com/vst.htm

Nintendo

Nanoloop sounds & drums
http://www.infradead.bagger288.com/samples

LSDJ kits as .wav
http://inactivex.bp6.com/lsdjdrums.zip

little-scale's LSDJ kits
http://chiptech.milkcrate.com.au/#kits

GB Pocket Music Voices
http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2010/0 … k-rom.html

LSDJ kits on littlesounddj.com, nitro2k01 recommends rex42's kits
http://share.littlesounddj.com/list_files.php

LSDJ group file area. Kits as well as other stuff like instruments, savs and more. Requires a Yahoo account.
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/lsdj/files/

Bucky's instrument rips from classic NES games
http://www.hotdogstorm.com/bucky/samplepacks/

The 2a03 DMC archive, FamiFood
http://2a03.free.fr/?p=pub&type=dmc

Sega

little-scale's chip samples
YM2413 Sample Pack
YM2413 Drums Sample Pack
Sega SN76489 Sample Pack
Sega Mega Drive Sample Pack

Other

little-scale's chip samples
SPO256-AL2 Sample Pack
Phillips SAA-1099

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Vintage Synths

Synth voices & drums. Check the Odyssey and Rogue.
http://machines.hyperreal.org/samples.html

Casio VL-1 stock voices and rhythms, single hit drums and some ADSR voices
http://www.milkcrate.com.au/ub/casio_vl-1.zip

Casio SK-1 stock voices
http://www.milkcrate.com.au/ub/casio_SK1.zip

Casio SA-10 stock voices, as wav and sf2
http://bedroomproducers.wordpress.com/2 … and-loops/

Korg Electribe ER-1 mkII Drums And FX
http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2010/10 … ms-and-fx/

Korg Electribe A1 mkII, sampled in iff format. Protracker, goooo!
http://aminet.net/package/mods/smpl/EA1mkII

Yamaha PSS-470 FM blips (needs freesound.org account)
http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=35839

Farfisa Professional (damaged so certain keys glitch out, packs includes both clean and glitch samples!)
http://www.illuminatedsounds.com/?p=1304

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Toys & Bent Hardware

Speak & Spell samples
http://www.milkcrate.com.au/ub/speakandspell.zip

Two no-name toy keyboards, multi-sampled
http://www.lesproductionszvon.com/Freebies.htm

Misc bent hardware recordings, check their S&S flashs
http://www.roilnoise.com/bending.htm

Sample packs of several rare vintage toys ($$$)
http://www.miniorgan.com/home.php

Two Toy Keyboard packs ($)
http://www.prokits.co.uk/search.asp?opt … Submit.y=0

Link hub to lots and lots of bent hardware samples
http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2010/06 … -glitches/

Pianos, E-Pianos, Toy Pianos
http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2010/07 … oy-pianos/

Bent Casio CA100 1 & 2
http://www.illuminatedsounds.com/?p=1363
http://www.illuminatedsounds.com/?p=1449

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Exotic stuff

Telephone signals and announcements
http://www.payphone-directory.org/sounds.html

Radio Interval signals (including vintage ones)
http://www.intervalsignals.net/

AT&T Text to Speech
http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

The Conet project, recordings of Number Stations
http://www.archive.org/details/ird059

NOAA underwater recordings of natural, man-made and mystery sounds. Great ambiance.
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/sounds.html

Recordings of Northern Lights EM
http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/mcgreevy/

Sounds of vintage arcade cabinets (need creepy voice samples? go here!)
http://arcadearchive.com/

EM Sounds recorded in space - stuff like lightning on Saturn or Sun plasma
http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/space-audio/

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Acapellas

Search 'Tracks' for '[artist] acapella'. Requires registration for download.
http://www.jamglue.com/

Pretty sizable archiv of acapellas/filterpellas, various genres
http://acapellarchives.blogspot.com/

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665 Reply by µB

(23 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I've made a track for the ambient compo with a WIP version: clicky
The bass is clean FM, the chimes are FM that's run through the VST. The voice sample also runs through it (note the compression and frequency filter, FM/AM distortion and overdrive). The ambiance (CW signal, band sweeps etc) is also created by it.

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666 Reply by µB

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m0d said there are quite a few across esper.net

But your better bet is to google up websites of communities, they have most of the recent stuff that's going on covered. Don't have any bookmarked, sadly.

A little OT, but "Slow This Bird Down" by Boards of Canada has the most beautiful little SW outro ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnlkSqcE … =1#t=5m00s

Inspired me to make a VST effect that tries to emulate SW radio distortion effects. Haven't worked on it in a while though. neutral

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667 Reply by µB

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I think the Lincolnshire Poacher is still broadcasting, I used to run into it pretty often actually. I've had Magnetic Fields a few times, too. I don't spend much time with SW anymore, and I don't have a good receiver or antenna. It's still fun to browse the weird stations tho, and I'm a total sucker for the distortion, interferences, crosstalk, RTTY bits that float through SW.

Last time I spent more time with it, I was intrigued by "Bird calls", short, synthesized loops that sound somewhat blackbird-ish and repeat for a long time. Appearently they're masking a RTTY transmission.

I've recorded one here.

Strange you should come up with it now, I had a talk with m0d about SW and other EM transmissions just the other day on IRC. He has proper equipment, and told me how Auroras affect transmissions that bounce off on them. How cool is that?

I'll share a few of my favorite radio/EM links:

http://www.intervalsignals.net/
Radio Interval signals, including some oldskool ones that are pretty rad

http://www.dxing.com/modesand.htm
Good beginner's guide

http://www.ralabs.com/webradio/
Remote controlled SW receiver, pretty decent

http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
The Uber-Version of the above (thanks m0d)

http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/mcgreevy/
Some cool recordings of Auroras

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668 Reply by µB

(31 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)

Big up for FM!! \o/

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669 Reply by µB

(13 replies, posted in Bugs and Requests)

* Akira rolls Haggle +2 *

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670 Reply by µB

(25 replies, posted in Bugs and Requests)

I'm undecided if I prefer fixed or open tags. Boils down to precision vs flexibility.

A cool solution would be to make a list of pre-fab tags for the most common ones to select from, but additionally allow custom entries. That would kill dupes for the most popular tags but still be open for new ones.

Edit: I like the auto-suggestion idea

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671 Reply by µB

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A little icon on the submission a la pouet would be nice, though I agree that tags shouldn't be mandatory

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672 Reply by µB

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genre tags! genre tags!

I mean we have to run a drama-test here sooner or later to get this out of beta. tongue

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