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

ricardipus's picture
Posts: 25
Joined: 2007-10-20

Hi all,

Just joined as a result of reading a sidebar item (the horrendous Elle Effeaux column) in Keyboard magazine, which mentioned SoundSnap and one other free audio file sharing network. This one seems to work completely painlessly and has an interface even I can figure out, so here I am!

Sounds (search for "Ricardipus"; there are about a dozen or so) are generally odd-to-noisy electronic stuff, processed with whatever freeware utilities and synths I happen to have had kicking around over the last 15 years or so. There won't be any groundbreaking music, but you might find some interesting noises in the ambient/IDM/electronica vein. Or then again, maybe it's all terrible, but here it is anyway for your delectation ;).

Cheers,
"Ricardipus".



Tasos's picture
Posts: 814
Joined: 2007-07-02
Hi Ricardipus! Welcome to

Hi Ricardipus!

Welcome to Soundsnap and thanks for sharing some cool ambient noise.

I 'm glad you like the website and happy to hear the good news that we got on Keyboard magazine too..!

I 'd like to put you on our 'featured users' block, but we usually don't put people that don't have a photo- we like to keep it colorful...! :-) Let me know if you do that.

C u,

T



ricardipus's picture
Posts: 25
Joined: 2007-10-20
Tasos - thanks! I tried to

Tasos - thanks! I tried to upload a photo but it just didn't work no matter what I tried (80 by 80 avatar .jpg). I'll try again...