Smoke

[dpletts]

This is a sort of trailer for a small collection of ambient sound clips.

It can be downloaded here.

The collection of sound clips include a selection of short (approx 7 secs) clips. These are the files with the .ogg extension. Each file is dedicated to a particular note from the pentatonic scale as denoted by the letter. The number is an indication of the general pitch of the sample. 1 = highest; 2 = lowest. These clips are used for the trailer.

Smoke1 to Smoke4 are 2 minutes in duration making use of the shorter clips above. The b suffix indicates that they have had effects applied and some of the deeper frequencies have been filtered out. The numbers again indicate the general pitch.

The remainder are just a collection of effects.

If these sounds are of interest to you thay may be downloaded (18.03MB) here.

David P

[davegee]

Hi David,

Which software, apart from PTE, supports .ogg files for editing purposes?

Nothing on my computer appears to support this extension.

DG

[dpletts]

Hi Davy,

Which software, apart from PTE, supports .ogg files for editing purposes?

Audacity loads and saves .ogg files for editing. I use 1.3 beta (unicode). Someone has put on the net what looks like a new 2010 version, but, as far as I can tell its not.

Regards,

David P

[davegee]

Thanks David,

They won't load in either Audition or Soundbooth. They won't play in Windows Media Player either.

DG

[dpletts]

Hi Davy,

It's a shame that some audio software hasn't incorporated ogg-vorbis compression. My version of Windows Media Player (11) pretends that it can't play files with the extension .ogg, but in reality it can play them. I suspect that a computer needs vorbis.dll and vorbisfile.dll in the system.

I can't comment on the Adobe software as I can't afford it and as far as I am aware I can achieve the results I need from the cheap and cheerful software which, out of necessity, I have to use.

Two of the main audio software engines, Bass and FMod support ogg-vorbis, so does SDL which I use for my own software. Strangely the latter doesn't support MP3, possibly because of the licensing conditions.

Do you think that supplying samples in ogg-vorbis form is a no-no? If so, I won't do it again.

In the meantime I have attached the .ogg files converted to mp3 - hopefully it will work.

David

smokemp3.zip

[thedom]

Hi David,

Congratulations for this very interesting demo.

You prove that PTE can be used very efficiently to show an attractive & abstract show and not only photographies.

Thanks for sharing.