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October 31, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Happy Halloween to your ears

TAGS: Consumer and lifestyle, Creative Pro

Here's a short seasonal sound clip for you, (remixed here with no ambient sound) engineered by yours truly with Apple's awesome Soundtrack Pro. I ask three things: Play this through speakers (If you must play it through headphones, do so at a very low volume the first time); please don't reveal the contents to anyone; and please do pass it along, but pass a link to this blog entry instead of deep-linking to or copying the WAV file.

While this is harmless aural holiday fun, it has many potential uses. If you have a big amplifier--I'm thinking a guitar amp--play this when the street is packed with trick or treaters. At a red light with your windows rolled down is fun, too, provided that you and your passengers react appropriately. Or a friend may appreciate having this as a shutdown sound for their new copy of Vista.

My employer and I are not responsible for any consequences resulting from the downloading or use of the sound clip linked to this blog post.

Details: This project uses seventeen distinct audio samples layered in nine tracks. The engineering and mix-down to stereo were done in Apple Soundtrack Pro v1.1 on a Mac Pro workstation with two 3 GHz Core 2 Duo Xeon CPUs running OS X 10.4.8 (Tiger). The samples are all taken from the Apple Loops for Soundtrack Pro DVD included with the product. Soundtrack Pro is a component of Final Cut Studio ($1,299). A prosumer version, Soundtrack v1.5, is part of Final Cut Express HD ($299).

Posted by Tom Yager on October 31, 2006 12:37 PM

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