[SDL] [Little OT] Free Soundeffects for Games

[Jason]

E. Wing <ewmailing <at> gmail.com> writes:

> <snipped>

> So assuming any of these are sounds you can use, there are several things to
be aware of:
> 
> - The interpretation of the sounds will be very different from sound card to
sound card. So you might want/need to collect a lot of different sound cards to
find the right sound you are looking for. The flip side is that even the worst
sound cards occasionally have a sound you might find interesting. (Well maybe
not the worst...WaveBlaster 1 comes to memory. Bleh.)
> 
> 
> - As far as I'm aware, GM2 never picked up widespread adoption in the mass
consumer market (came way after MIDI had fallen out of favor with games) and
pretty much was only supported by Roland and Yamaha gear, in which case you'll
get either GS or XG extensions anyway.
> 
> 

Actually, I was thinking more along the lines that if the sound card you own has
good reproduction of those kinds of things, you create a short MIDI file
yourself and use the sound card and save to some kind of digital audio file.
This audio file you then play back using SDL's audio stuff. This avoids trying
to match to all sound card MIDI reproduction and the issues you highlighted...

I know GM has a limited library of actual sound effects, but if it is all you've
got it's a better way than nothing.

But it would definitely be a last resort! Better to just do a search on the Net
first to avoid re-inventing the wheel...

-J