What is Soundsnap?

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

Artefakt's picture
Posts: 29
Joined: 2007-09-27

Hello everyone, I'm just playing around with sounds at the moment but we do have a musical project on the track, I am what we can call a sound recycler, I want to use any sound I like (including samples if they are legal) to create a musical collage.

This site is the greatest find I have got in years. You guys have really got the spirit of sharing and creating collectively. I will upload the loops I created (mostly industrial/electronica) soon, now it is late and I am going to bed.

By the way, I used many of your sounds in a track I put on my artist myspace. From what I have read here, I am free to do so legaly and I intend on continuing if you let me :), sharing back of course with all the sound I create myself.

Our myspace is currently at http://www.myspace.com/krakmasters

And finally most of all, THANK YOU so very much for this great community!

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There are other revolutionary processes than the new powerful detergent they sell you on t.v.
http://www.myspace.com/krakmasters



Tasos's picture
Posts: 770
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Hi Artefakt. Welcome and

Hi Artefakt.

Welcome and thanks for your kind words.

We 've worked hard to provide a great website for the community. Its very rewarding hearing that people appreciate it.

Listening to your tracks on Myspace, I thought you might like our user Moster X:
http://www.soundsnap.com/user/10
I suppose its track no.1 on Myspace that uses Soundsnap samples, right? You can post it on our forum 'Your work using Soundsnap sounds'.

Keep on recycling :-)

T



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Posts: 2
Joined: 2007-09-28
Saludos a todos, me parece

Saludos a todos, me parece genial este site!
Es lo que estaba buscando, felicidades a los creadores.

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Darwin Naranjo
NegoNet Soluciones Web
www.zonanegonet.com



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Este site es justo lo que

Este site es justo lo que andaba buscando

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Darwin Naranjo
NegoNet Soluciones Web
www.zonanegonet.com



Tasos's picture
Posts: 770
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Hello Darwin, Welcome to our

Hello Darwin,

Welcome to our community.
I wanted to point out that we don't allow other languages other than English on the Forum.
This can estrange some users that don't speak other languages, and create a 'Tower of Babel' effect.

Thnx,

T



Artefakt's picture
Posts: 29
Joined: 2007-09-27
Thank you tasos for the warm

Thank you tasos for the warm welcome, usually on sites like this, we can't really feel the presence of the administrators. But as soon as I submitted some sound, I already got contacted by you via email with a personal non automated message, I was like wow. Small things like this make all the difference and you are doing a wonderful job at making us feel welcome here!

There are other revolutionary processes than the new powerful detergent they sell you on t.v.
http://www.myspace.com/krakmasters

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There are other revolutionary processes than the new powerful detergent they sell you on t.v.
http://www.myspace.com/krakmasters



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Posts: 122
Joined: 2007-09-21
hehe Artefact , exactly my

hehe Artefact , exactly my thought , and many others were like you and me :
" wow... "

...but i didn't want to be all that honest :)

And seriously , i really dont think i have 37 posts :) ...i've posted maybe 5 times here , something's not right...but maybe i'm wrong...



Artefakt's picture
Posts: 29
Joined: 2007-09-27
Indeed, it seems the post

Indeed, it seems the post count is a bit tricky, I have 6 post but I remember making only 2. Maybe a database issue?

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There are other revolutionary processes than the new powerful detergent they sell you on t.v.
http://www.myspace.com/krakmasters



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Posts: 92
Joined: 2007-07-01
Hi Artefakt, A very warm

Hi Artefakt,

A very warm welcome from me as well!

We put a lot of effort to create a license that would actually give our users the freedom we knew they needed. So, thank you for your kind words and the enthusiasm...

As Tasos mentioned above, please don't forget to share your work made with samples from Soundsnap with the rest of us, by posting under the relevant category in our forum.

Happy snapping,

Stamatia.

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"There is no bigger arrogance than reprobating as inexistent anything we cannot conceptualize" Michel Eyquem de Montaigne.



Tasos's picture
Posts: 770
Joined: 2007-07-02
Hi guys, The postings

Hi guys,

The postings counter is not entirely wrong.
It adds up forum posts and audio submitted.

We might improve that to seperate them in the future, after we develop some important functions we 're working on!

T



NenadSimic's picture
Posts: 122
Joined: 2007-09-21
i thought it might be that

i thought it might be that ...forum + audio

happy developping