The Freesound Project: Free Sounds

The Freesound Project: Free Sounds

29 May, 2007 | 8.25AM

• Written by: Scott Paradis
• Filed under: Music News: samples, stems

The Freesound Project is a user-driven, collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds, samples, noises, glitches, pops, vocals, crashes, booms and just about anything else you can possibly imagine . The samples are tastefully and painstakingly tagged for easy navigation. 

Users can browse the Freesound library using a variety of intuitive methods, including Tag Clouds and the very cool ‘sounds like this’ matching engine.

In addition to the oddball ‘found sounds’ and organic recordings, the library contains a large assortment of percussive elements, classic synthesizer samples, and a large collection of user-compiled ‘sample packs’.

So whether you’re looking for that perfect sample to complete your next masterpiece or you’re just throwing together a strange voicemail to annoy your mates, be sure to check out amazing assortment of audio the Freesound Project has to offer.

Here are a few random selections from the Freesound library:

“Furniture being dropped three stories into the alley right outside my window by Jamaican construction workers at 7:30AM on a Saturday morning. Harlem, NYC, 4/27/2004” [Link]

“A recording of the Doppler heart monitor that doctors use to check out baby’s heart during pregnancy checkups. This was was made on February 28, 2007 at Sutter in Berkeley, CA by plugging my Marantz recorder into the Doppler instrument.” [Link]

“A crunchy bass loop. made with a stratocaster guitar playing flageolets. Processed with a tube compressor, octaver and amp sim.” [Link]

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