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

SpaceTug's picture
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Joined: 2008-01-13

Hi all,

I've just released a piece of freeware software called TeleQ which uses wav files and DirectSound to create sound environments. I've used Soundsnap files heavily in creating the packs available on the site.

The Editor part of the software allows you to design 'TelePacks' which are sound environments that can be saved and exported for others yo load into the Player. The Editor allows you to place sounds (fixed or randomly) in 3-D space, randomise/set the frequency, looping and movement to create the environment you're looking for. You can control how often the sounds are played through a hierarchy of spawning 'SoundThreads' which are shown visually.

The Player quite simply lets you load up a TelePack, play, and listen. Hit About to see the attributions and links to the original sound file sources.

A big thanks to all who have and continue to create these sounds which have and will continue to have a big place in this project.

Info and download here.



SpaceTug's picture
Posts: 2
Joined: 2008-01-13
V2.0 is out, which includes

V2.0 is out, which includes a DirectX Web Installer to check the DirectX version for anyone who had problems with the previous version. Please also check you have .Net 2.0 installed.

There's also been quite a few new TelePacks added to the site since my last post.