Hacker News with Generative AI: Sound Design

Tuning Timbre Spectrum Scale (engr.wisc.edu)
Introducing a dissonant octave--almost any interval can be made consonant or dissonant by proper choice of timbre.

Music, Timbre, Acoustics, Sound Design

39 points by Tomte 18 days ago | 4 comments

Variable duty cycle square waves with the Web Audio API (danblack.co)
Lately, I've been playing around with the Web Audio API for a side project I'm working on. I am building a web-based music tracker software for creating audio in the original style of the Gameboy. To faithfully recreate the sounds of the Gameboy, I need variable duty cycle square waves.

Gameboy, Music Software, Programming, Sound Design

57 points by iamdan 46 days ago | 64 comments

Synthesize kick drums that sound real using the power of FM (youtube.com)

Music Production, Sound Design, Synthesizers, Audio Engineering

4 points by codetrotter 118 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: I've been posting a sound I made everyday day for the last year (listenfaster.com)
A minute of sound a day.

Creative Projects, Audio, Sound Design, Music

9 points by listenfaster 136 days ago | 2 comments

Pierre Schaeffer looking back on his career in musique concrète (1987) (mycpanel.princeton.edu)
Musique Concrete is music made of raw sounds: thunderstorms, steam-engines, waterfalls, steel foundries... The sounds are not produced by traditional acoustic musical instruments. They are captured on tape (originally, before tape, on disk) and manipulated to form sound-structures.

Music, History, Sound Design

83 points by ivjw 167 days ago | 11 comments

Video-Guided Foley Sound Generation with Multimodal Controls (ificl.github.io)
Generating sound effects for videos often requires creating artistic sound effects that diverge significantly from real-life sources and flexible control in the sound design.

Video Editing, Artificial Intelligence, Sound Design, Audio Generation

46 points by surprisetalk 176 days ago | 19 comments

"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 193 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 1970-01-01 225 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 253 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 265 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 270 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 281 days ago | 0 comments

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