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

sunics's picture
Posts: 13
Joined: 2007-11-17

Hi there,

just wondering if there is an option to customize the icons displayed with the samples ? I'd like to put something a bit more intuitive on my samples than just the odd time-waveform :-)

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tasos's picture
Posts: 757
Joined: 2007-07-02
Hi Sunics, Welcome to the

Hi Sunics,

Welcome to the community.
What you are doing with images and sound is very interesting.
Tell us more about this.

Unfortunately, you cant customize the waveform image. It was kind of a pain to get it to work properly and we dont want to play around with it too much.

I like its colors and the waveform display definitely has room for improvement, which we can do at some point in the future.



sunics's picture
Posts: 13
Joined: 2007-11-17
Hi Tasos, No problem, I was

Hi Tasos,

No problem, I was expecting that this could be a bit tricky and understand your point, even more so as it looks neat if all icons are of the same appearance.

Thanks for your welcome and the comments on the image-based approach. It's really very simple. I have developed a mathematical transformation between sound and image (both ways). So image-editing/synthesis and audio-editing/synthesis become one and the same, as sound and image are equivalent.

Some snappers may know the concept based on spectrograms (e.g. MetaSynth or Enscribe). Same deal here just that the images displayed are much easier to understand and more distinct (so I believe). But hey, you decide !

More info on my website ;-)

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See sound - hear images !