LibGuides: DSNA 114: 4D Design: More Sound Resources

Sound FX

PartnersInRhyme
Free Royalty Free Sound Effects by Partners In Rhyme You can use the sounds in Free Royalty Free Sound Effects section in your commercial projects.

Sound Bible
SoundBible.com offers thousands of free sound effects, sound clips, and straight up sounds. These sounds can be used in a variety of sound projects including Video Sound Scores, Movie Scoring, Game Design, Powerpoint Presentations, Prank Calls, Sound Boards, and the list goes on. SoundBible.com is a great source for copyright free sounds.

BBC Sound Effects
These 16,016 BBC Sound Effects are made available by the BBC in WAV format to download for use under the terms of the RemArc Licence. The Sound Effects are BBC copyright, but they may be used for personal, educational or research purposes, as detailed in the license.

Online Sound Resources

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Jamendo has thousands of Creative Commons music tracks.
Make sure to use the Advanced Search to limit your searching to Creative Commons licensed works.
Creative Commons This link opens in a new window
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Search for Creative Commons Licensed images, music, media and videos on a variety of sites.
Please note that search.creativecommons.org is not a search engine, but rather offers convenient access to search services provided by other independent organizations. CC has no control over the results that are returned. Do not assume that the results displayed in this search portal are under a CC license. You should always verify that the work is actually under a CC license by following the link.
Musopen This link opens in a new window
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Recorded public domain music. All materials are in the public domain.
Free SFX This link opens in a new window
Search more than a thousand free sound effects. Alan McKinney of McKinney Sound asked professional sound companies and individuals around the world to contribute sound effects for everyone to use for free. There are some limitations to how you can use the sound effects - read those limitations at http://www.freesfx.co.uk/info/eula/.
Freesound This link opens in a new window
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Search a collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, and recordings of sound effects released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse.

Community Audio (Internet Archive)
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Thousands of audio tracks available under assorted Creative Commons Licenses.
LibriVox
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Search thousands of public domain audiobooks, including fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Primarily in English, but includes more than twenty languages, including German, French, Spanish, Dutch and Italian.
Netlabels (Internet Archive)
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This collection hosts complete, freely downloadable/streamable, often Creative Commons-licensed catalogs of 'virtual record labels'.
Project Gutenberg Audio Books
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Human-read and computer-generated audio books, primarily in English, but other languages are available (including Chinese, Dutch, Italian, French, German, Spanish and more). All materials are in the public domain.
Incompetech
YouTube Audio Library
Soundcloud rafi:ki
YouTube No Copyright Sounds

DSNA 114: 4D Design: More Sound Resources

Sound FX

Online Sound Resources

Detail of Mural Momentum by Julie Kanapaux