Start-up sounds

Forum thread started by Socapex_2K on Thu, 2009-02-12 23:17

Hello, I've come up with two start-up sounds that might be of interest. What do you think?

Start-up v1

Start-up v2

These are ogg files.
Cheers, Socapex_2K

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Comments

Re: Start-up sounds

by richienyhus - 2009-02-16 05:24

I get redirected to their main page from the links.

Re: Start-up sounds

by Socapex_2K - 2009-02-24 22:30

Sorry about that. Here's the working links:

Start-up v1
Start-up v2

Re: Start-up sounds

by stkarnivor - 2009-02-25 04:13

I like them, especially the shutdown sound. My only critique is that they sound too similar, you should try adding more distinction between them.

Re: Start-up sounds

by cb88 - 2009-02-25 05:28

I don't like either of them myself too chaotic... the BeOS Max PE boot sound is awesome have you heard it?

Re: Start-up sounds

by Socapex_2K - 2009-02-25 15:57

No I haven't heard those, and I too felt mine were very charged. I've never made OS sounds before so I was basically having fun. The second version is an attempt to make it a bit lighter. Who knows if I'll make more, beeps and dongs are probably easy to make though.

EDIT: By the way there's know shut-down sound. The other version is just because I didn't know which one to pick.

Re: Start-up sounds

by tigerdog - 2009-02-26 23:12

A great first effort! I much prefer something featuring an acoustic sound, so the second sample is my favorite of the two. The lighter sound fits Haiku's overall "light" presentation. My all time favorite startup sound, from *any* OS, is the 12-string guitar startup sound that was bundled with the ancient BeOS 5 "Developer's Edition" distro. I think it originally came from BeOS5 PE. Light, bright, clearly acoustic with just enough synthesized sparkle'n'fill ambience to make it interesting.

Re: Start-up sounds

by nonne - 2009-09-19 03:24

The start up sounds aren't available anymore, shame cause I was curious about how they sounded.

I think something harmonic played with a shamisen (Japanese string instrument) would fit nicely as Haiku start up and shut down sound.

Re: Start-up sounds

by bmidge - 2009-09-21 22:17

I'm also interested in hearing them if you can get them back up.

Re: Start-up sounds

by michaelvoliveira - 2009-09-21 23:40

Only my haiku that's start up sounds don't play in start up? Someone has the same problem?

Re: Start-up sounds

by cb88 - 2009-09-21 23:51

They weren't harmonic I remember that much :-)

I checked web.archive.org but there wasn't a backup of the page

@michaeloliveira Haiku doesn't have a startup sound by default I think there is a preference menu to set it up though

Re: Start-up sounds

by michaelvoliveira - 2009-09-22 05:23

Thanks for your reply cb88,

but is *exactly* what I mean to say

I checkout sound pref. and set a startup sound, but haiku don't play my .wav file at startup ;)

Re: Start-up sounds

by BeRReGoN - 2009-09-22 08:09

You can listen and play some shamisen there:
http://www.itchu.com/e/e_shamisen_sound.html

I like the sound of this instrument :)

Re: Start-up sounds

by nonne - 2009-09-25 08:57

Yeah, a slow harmonic theme played with shamisen and taiko drums should suit Haiku well. There are some vids on Youtube for those who are curious about the sound of those instruments.

Re: Start-up sounds

by bbjimmy - 2009-09-25 22:27

Staretup sounds are not implemented yet.

to play a sound at startup, edit the file:

/boot/home/config/UserBootsctipt

add:

sleep 5
playfile /path_to__file/filename

Re: Start-up sounds

by oscarcp - 2009-09-29 11:49

I think we can get ideas from the current games and soundtracks from Japan. For example, I think that the Okami OST is a great point to study.

I made a pseudo startup sound in Nudge (inudge.net), tell me what you think. Have in mind that i'm not a musician :)

http://inudge.net/inudge#/69kc

Re: Start-up sounds

by StoroZ Gneva™ - 2009-10-06 20:57

Hello,

Activities I have decided to develop a sound scheme for Haiku. I have some already developed, buyout spread here. If you are satisfied, you can include them in the system and use, in which case I will work on refining existing sounds and develop missing.

http://rapidshare.com/files/289559788/sound.zip.html

Regards,
StoroZ Gneva™

Re: Start-up sounds

by redeyeglasses - 2010-01-17 05:11

http://inudge.net/inudge#/bdem I looked at oscarcp little thing, and the website was interesting so I made one too

Re: Start-up sounds

by reneManqueros - 2010-01-17 09:56

links are down :(

Re: Start-up sounds

by stellarpower - 2010-02-03 16:40

Here's a link to the soundtrack from the game 'Ace Combat 5', which is a fighter jet-type game. Have a look at 'Title' and 'Arcade Title'. They're quite technical, and too military-like for Haiku, but I like the feel of them. Have a browse through the whole thing, as there are some great tunes-great for home video projects!

Also, I personally believe that we should keep the sounds simple, and light, whether for start-up or not. The ones on Windows are so overpowering, annoying, and noisy. I think that having few, quiet sounds reinforces the concept of Haiku.

Re: Start-up sounds

by stellarpower - 2010-02-07 21:43

http://www.bluelaguna.net/music/acombat5ost/mp3s.php

Re: Start-up sounds

by stellarpower - 2010-08-20 15:07

Actually, why not just leave it to the user to decide. What I find as great start-up sounds probably won't appeal to others. I would choose something personal, a clip from a song that I love, rather than use a Haiku-esque sound.

Re: Start-up sounds

by sparklewind - 2010-08-21 07:28

What do you mean? You can already choose now, and you will be able to even if default sounds are added.

Re: Start-up sounds

by stellarpower - 2010-08-21 11:52

I know that it can be changed now, I just meant that quite a bit of time could be put into choosing a start-up sound when possibly many users will want to choose something else immediately or won't have their speakers on at boot-up and therefore don't want a sound. That time could be better spent helping with technical development.

Re: Start-up sounds

by sparklewind - 2010-08-22 10:32

I think that if we have a nice default sound, few users will change it. I have never seen any sound packs for Windows for example, people just think it's Ok the way it is. Also, paving the way for a no-defaults mentality is not good IMO. It leaves the user with an unpolished experience. I don't think making default sound files would slow down development on other things that much. Many people who are good at art, interface design or music aren't as good at programming and vice versa.

Re: Start-up sounds

by andrewclunn - 2011-04-25 02:48

I know it presents language localization issues, but I envision an opening haiku as the start up sound. Something like:

Just a moment now
The system is starting up
Welcome to Haiku

Spoken in a soft female voice.

EDIT -

Actually considering the 5-7-5 structure. Perhaps it's best to apply that to a c-scale. G followed by a B (holding both) then another G but an octave up from the first (the fifth, seventh, then fifth notes on the scale). Definitely in strings. Something like this:

http://myspacefilehosting.com/lmxxe/Haiku_Start_Up.wav.html

Re: Start-up sounds

by neue - 2011-04-26 15:24

Anyone considered something that mimics the Japanese Rail and Tokyo Metro station tones? Always found them a lovely piece of sound design.

e.g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkl-UfUVTA8

Re: Start-up sounds

by Reiso - 2012-01-29 13:31

I think we shouldn't make sounds for everything. People are forgetting that start-up sound had a purpose long time ago. It isn't simply a decoration. Start-up sound was used in the early days of computing to indicate that audio systems were working fine, and also inform user about critical errors. That is why Mac's have boot-up sound, which indicates that computer is working. There is however no need for shutdown sound and that is why Mac doesn't have a shutdown sound. Besides I suppose shutdown sound would slow down a shutdown process as audio system would have to be kept open a while longer.
I have designed two simple sounds, start-up sound and shut down-sound. Nothing fancy just informing user that everything is fine.
I've posted them on one of my websites http://www.nordicwild.fi/HaikuOS/

P.S. If you like it someone please move it to another place. I don't want to host these forever.

P.s Intersting article about Tokyo metro system sounds:
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/ambient_signifi

Also here are some samples from japanese train sounds:
http://www.japanprobe.com/2007/07/08/japanese-train-departure-melodies/

Re: Start-up sounds

by bbjimmy - 2012-01-30 16:48

Why not post them on Haikuware?

By the way, http://www.nordicwild.fi/HaikuOS/ has no sound files.

Re: Start-up sounds

by commodorejohn - 2012-09-20 20:51
bbjimmy wrote:

By the way, http://www.nordicwild.fi/HaikuOS/ has no sound files.

They are there, they're just only linked via the HTML5 audio element, so those of us without HTML5 browsers get a blank page. The individual files:

Welcome.mp3
Logout.mp3
Question.mp3
Question2.mp3
Error.mp3

I don't care for the timbres (the shamisen is pretty tinny and the the sine-type noise sounds too Windows Me-ey, to these ears,) but I really like the melodies on "Welcome" and "Question." (Though "Question" might be a little long to be played every time a prompt comes up...)

Maybe I should play around with this myself...

Re: Start-up sounds

by spinach - 2013-10-10 17:45

am i the only person who'd prefer MIDI files for system sounds? there've gotta be some sounds that could be included for just such a purpose, which would sound better than the usual packaged MIDI sounds in every OS (generalMIDI? i don't remember at all). playing a simple arpeggio (such as the konami green laser as heard here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKIcsLw7V4I) would be neat, simple enough, suitably iconic, with no drag on the system. but oh, how i wish i could hear any of the proposed sounds in this thread.