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Soundsnap is the best platform to find and share free sound effects and loops- legally. It is a collection of original sounds made or recorded by its users, and not songs or sound FX found on commercial libraries or sample CD's.

It was originally started by a small group of sound people from all over the world. Our common belief is that sounds and samples should be free for everyone to use in their projects, commercial or not.

Our users are a diverse mix of sound designers, sound artists, web game developers, filmmakers and music producers. Hobbyists and home video makers are welcome too.

What Soundsnap is NOT:

  • An alternative to Myspace, Limewire or BitTorrent.
  • A place to upload your band's songs or your favourite mp3's. Soundsnap is only for sound effects and loops.
  • A place you can upload or find sounds from commercial libraries. All sounds here are original- made or recorded by its users.

We encourage everyone to upload high quality sound FX and samples, helping us make every kind of sound available on Soundsnap.

We are looking for feedback from the community to constantly improve, and we depend on our users for that. So please feel free to leave a recommendation or feedback in the special section of our forum.

I hope you enjoy your time here and Happy Snapping!

Tasos Frantzolas
Soundsnap Founder

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Legal Question
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shocking twist
Posts: 53
 Joined: 2007-07-06

Say, is it legal if I take individual samples, such as drums, from a digital synth and modify them slightly with reverb/distortion?

‹ Legal? Is it made from legal loops? Are the sound effects produced by contributors?
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Submitted by shocking twist on Sat, 2007-07-07 23:33. login or register to post comments

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tasos
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 Joined: 2007-07-02
Hi Shocking. I think that

Hi Shocking.

I think that you 're right.

This is probably a legal way to post those samples. I am not a lawyer, but I suppose that once you have modified the sounds, they become a new sound. Otherwise people wouldn't be able to use these sounds on their songs!

But please do not post 'clean' sounds from digital synths or presets 'as they are'.

I will look into this more, but this is my advice for now.

Thanks and sorry if I deleted sounds that you had the right to post.


Sun, 2007-07-08 15:25 login or register to post comments