SFXR - Sound Effect Generator

A programmer going by the handle "Dr Petter" has recently created one of my favorite software synthesizers. It's functionality is fairly simple, and the sounds it creates are often a bit cheesy and low-fidelity, but like the majority of Tweakbench VST plug-ins, it has the entirely redeeming "RANDOMIZE" button. Since I've downloaded it, the first thing I've been doing each morning is generating a couple dozen sounds, previewing through several hundred randomizations. It also has a "Mutate" button which allows one to randomly nudge all the parameters from their current state until they settle to a more favorable place. It's like Darwinism for bouncy stabbing bass and doomsday laser blasts. Convert some of the results to mp3 and make yourself the most aggravating cellphone theme on the block.
 

What I present here is, if you will, an MS Paint for sound effects… or something along those lines. It’s meant to make it dead easy for anyone to whip up a few simple sound effects and save them as .WAV files.

Basic usage involves clicking the left-most buttons to automatically generate random sounds loosely targeted at certain categories. For more advanced users it's possible to spend some additional time to manually create fairly varied and interesting sound effects.

The interface is based entirely around sliders for controlling sound parameters, along with a few buttons. Even if you don’t want to spend time learning about all the sliders you can still have some fun just hammering away at them and listening to the various sounds that come out.

Hopefully this will mean that there's no longer any valid excuse for anyone to get N/A in sound!

No valid excuses.

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Download:

sfxr.zip