Hacker News with Generative AI: Sound Design

"You've Got " AOL sound files (aolsucks.org)
In 1995, Wired magazine's AOL forum located Elwood Edwards -- whose voice recorded the sound file "You've Got Mail" -- and had him record ten additional sound files.

Nostalgia, Internet History, Sound Design, Audio Files

18 points by ColinWright 10 days ago | 3 comments

How the McLaren F1 got it's sound (soundcloud.com)
Excerpt from panel discussion on "What makes a supercar?" held by Auto® 2012 automotive design conference in Zagreb, Croatia. Peter Stevens, designer of McLaren F1 speaks on how McLaren F1 got it's sound.

Automotive Design, Supercars, Sound Design

22 points by 1970-01-01 42 days ago | 4 comments

Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment? (ycombinator.com)
It occurred to me that we often use colours in our terminals and code editors to highlight test failures, linting errors etc, but we don't typically use sounds. Has anyone integrated sound effects in any way?

Programming, Software Development, User Experience, Developer Tools, Sound Design

234 points by jack_riminton 70 days ago | 328 comments

The "Star Wars" sound engineer explains how the lightsaber sound was created (twitter.com)

Sound Design, Filmmaking, Star Wars

6 points by mcenedella 81 days ago | 2 comments

If you love something set it free – AKWF Waveforms now in public domain (2015) (adventurekid.se)

Creative Projects, Public Domain, Music, Sound Design

35 points by Tomte 87 days ago | 3 comments

How the Hidden Sounds of Horror Movie Soundtracks Freak You Out (2016) (atlasobscura.com)

Horror Movies, Sound Design, Music

13 points by thunderbong 98 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Using AI to generate custom sounds from text (image-effects.com)