{"id":6541,"date":"2014-01-15T16:55:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T23:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2015-11-07T21:04:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T04:04:23","slug":"that-fembot-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=6541","title":{"rendered":"That Fembot Sound…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Growing up as I did in the 70s and 80s, I was exposed to the glory of 8-bit sound effects when I was a kid.\u00a0 These kinds of synthesized sounds invariably accompanied the revelations of fembot characters, like on the old Bionic Woman<\/a> show.<\/p>\n

Since then, electronic beeping sounds have been one of the pleasures of my technosexuality, and I like to “hear” electronic beeping and similar sounds when I see some nice scenes or images, or even when I imagine them.\u00a0 Sadly, to my ears anyway, modern reproductions tend to sound like someone’s iPhone making sounds rather than the otherworldly and coldly electronic sounds I heard when I was young.<\/p>\n

Well, in the interests of doing my part to rectify this, I’ve recorded 20 different true 8-bit electronic sound effects that can be used by our video and content producers.\u00a0 Some of these can also just be enjoyed for their own sake.\u00a0 These were produced by an Atari 8-bit computer via emulation, so they’re about as close to authentic 8-bit sound as you can get and they’re crystal clear and ready to be spliced into any video project.\u00a0 All sound files are monaural 44100Hz, 32-bit, Windows PCM audio (.WAV)<\/del>, and compressed for download using 7-Zip<\/a>.\u00a0 If anyone wants them in a different audio format, just let me know and I will oblige.<\/p>\n

EDIT:<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve upgraded and expanded my original set of sound effects files, and they now include some more fembot beeping options, and a whole range of servo motor sounds.\u00a0 Sound files are now in 320kbps mp3 format.\u00a0 They can be downloaded in one 43MB file:<\/p>\n