Free sound samples
Like The Freesound Project, this is a huge collection of new and original samples that have been donated to Dr. Richard Boulanger @ cSounds.com specifically to support the OLPC developers, students and XO users. These are sounds for the children of the world and they are free and available for downloading and use in music and activities.
Selections from The Berklee College of Music Sample Library
A collection of sounds that have been selected, organized and prepared for OLPC by Dr. Richard Boulanger. Over the past 20 years, these were recorded under the supervision of Associate Professor Michael Brigida by Music Synthesis Majors taking his Advanced Sampling Class at The Berklee College of Music. Editing these original, long and often meandering recordings into usable individual samples was done by Music Synthesis Majors - Diane Douglas and Colman O'Reilly.
Samples by Berklee's Music Synthesis Majors
A collection of original samples and synthetic sounds recorded and created by Music Synthesis Majors from The Berklee College of Music.
The Collection from Open Path Music
A collection of sounds that were recorded specifically for OLPC by some of San Jose's top studio musicians at Open Path Music for use in Tam Tam and other XO Activities.
Dr. B.'s OLPCsound Collection
A collection of synthetic sounds that were created by Dr. B. specifically for the OLPC XO using Csound.
- System Sounds and Machine Noises
- 44.1K, http://csounds.com/olpc/Boulanger32SystemSounds.zip 32K], 24K, 22.5K, 16K
Selected Samples from The Csound Book
Dr. B.'s TamTam Replacements
A huge collection of sampled and synthetic sounds that were collected, edited, sampled, designed, synthesized as a substitution and expansion bank for the TamTam activities by Dr. B.