Sound Clips 10,000

Rating:
Summary: By far the best "sample" purchase I have made!
Review: 8 cd's of sounds! Techno-musician's dream! Whoo-Hoo!

Voices in classical and House styles, instruments labeled by key, symphonic, percussion and rock bangs, and ambient sounds for backgrounds or New Age, all in an intuitive package that works much like a file explorer.

Includes a 4 track mixer for loops, and search functions for types of files by instrument, category or Beats Per Minute. Best of all-- no hissing background noise! I really needed some loud guitar for one of my songs, and it turned out so well, you would think I actually recorded one into the song. Nope! Just cut and paste!

Also, unlike other sound collections I've gotten, these are in WAV format, and the interface allows you to copy the sounds you want into folders on your computer with no argument or hassle. Just select the file name and copy to your destination folder, just like any other file. No converting, no opening and saving as a wav, no recording with a wav editor. You don't even have to open the program to do it if you know what files you want.

I usually use this with Voyetra's "Techno EJay". The music sounds 10x as professional, with a tenth of the effort I used to put in when I wrote from scratch.

Rating:
Summary: Great to make techno mixes, but poor in other areas
Review: I'm a web designer and I work with Flash, and I was looking for sounds I could use for sites. It claims to have lots of button sounds but I'm yet to find some. The .wav files are named with numbers, so there no way to search with keywords. You have to explore the CD and listen to each .wav file not knowing what you will get.

But, it is great for making your own techno mixes. You can take bass loops, drum loops ect and mix them together and ajust the levels etc.

I guess the search is still on for sofware or a site to provide me with lots of cool sounds for buttons, mouseovers, etc.

Rating:
Summary: Great to make techno mixes, but poor in other areas
Review: I'm a web designer and I work with Flash, and I was looking for sounds I could use for sites. It claims to have lots of button sounds but I'm yet to find some. The .wav files are named with numbers, so there no way to search with keywords. You have to explore the CD and listen to each .wav file not knowing what you will get.

But, it is great for making your own techno mixes. You can take bass loops, drum loops ect and mix them together and ajust the levels etc.

I guess the search is still on for sofware or a site to provide me with lots of cool sounds for buttons, mouseovers, etc.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent, if poorly indexed, start to a sound library
Review: Unlike the claims of some clip art/sound collections, Sound Clips 10,000 really does deliver what it promises. The sound quality is truly excellent on each clip, and the variety of sound effects and musical tracks is impressive. Given that most sound clip libraries start out at over $100 for substantially fewer sounds, this package is a genuine value for money.

Where some might quibble with its overall utility, however, is the fact that the 10,000 sounds does not mean 10,000 unique sounds. Indeed, there are hundreds of sounds that are more or less duplicated, except for pitch and tone. Personally, I think this range of similar sounds makes sense and will ultimately enhance my use of this product, but I can see that some may feel the claim of 10,000 sounds has been exaggerated.

Still, it's fair to say there are at least seven or eight thousand entirely unique sounds across several different genres. There's everything from rap to UFO samples here. It's likely that you'll be able to find at least one sound to use in any multimedia project you might design.

Sadly, though, the product is made hard to use by the lack of a comprehensive index. In my view, there should have been a complete written record of every single sound, arranged alphabetically and by category. This is especially true of the myriad single note sounds, each done in a sightly different pitch and tone. An index here would be especially valuable because sometimes you want to easily find, say, a C-flat clarinet held for a whole note. Unfortunately, you have no way of doing that with this product as is. If this whole package had been placed on a single DVD, a searchable index would've been easy to include to complement the missing written index.

Despite all this, though, the product remains imminently recommendable. If you're just starting out with multimedia design, you'll instantly get a wealth of sounds that will save you a lot of time and expense.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent, if poorly indexed, start to a sound library
Review: Unlike the claims of some clip art/sound collections, Sound Clips 10,000 really does deliver what it promises. The sound quality is truly excellent on each clip, and the variety of sound effects and musical tracks is impressive. Given that most sound clip libraries start out at over $100 for substantially fewer sounds, this package is a genuine value for money.

Where some might quibble with its overall utility, however, is the fact that the 10,000 sounds does not mean 10,000 unique sounds. Indeed, there are hundreds of sounds that are more or less duplicated, except for pitch and tone. Personally, I think this range of similar sounds makes sense and will ultimately enhance my use of this product, but I can see that some may feel the claim of 10,000 sounds has been exaggerated.

Still, it's fair to say there are at least seven or eight thousand entirely unique sounds across several different genres. There's everything from rap to UFO samples here. It's likely that you'll be able to find at least one sound to use in any multimedia project you might design.

Sadly, though, the product is made hard to use by the lack of a comprehensive index. In my view, there should have been a complete written record of every single sound, arranged alphabetically and by category. This is especially true of the myriad single note sounds, each done in a sightly different pitch and tone. An index here would be especially valuable because sometimes you want to easily find, say, a C-flat clarinet held for a whole note. Unfortunately, you have no way of doing that with this product as is. If this whole package had been placed on a single DVD, a searchable index would've been easy to include to complement the missing written index.

Despite all this, though, the product remains imminently recommendable. If you're just starting out with multimedia design, you'll instantly get a wealth of sounds that will save you a lot of time and expense.