How to make sound for SL - How to start???

Sound?

I want to make my own sound (I tape it from IRL - You know that place outside your window)..

Its the lovely birds singing the spring songs..

And then? What must I do? An endless tape? How many seconds?

Upload it put it into a prim?..


Please some.. one ,,.that want to share the basic things in sound and SL..

/Tina - Again EXAKT curios of something new.. (to me)

Hi Tina,

You've got to get your source into something digital... recording on an iPod with one of the microphone attachments if you've got no choice, a nice DAT recorder with a decent mic is a much better bet. Record for a nice long chunk - 5 minutes might be good, so you've got plenty of variety. You won't be able to use all of this probably, but you can get your clear sound that way without cars, planes, phones whatever most likely.

Get it onto your computer... however your computer and the machine of your choice like talking to each other.

Sound clips in SL must be <10 seconds long (9.9 is fine), and sampled at CD quality. Audacity (which is free for any platform) will do this for you just fine. Amadeus (which is a bit of Mac shareware) does it more obviously. CD quality is 44.1 kHz btw. Last I checked SL wasn't fussy about mono or stereo sources, just the sampling rate. You must also save it as a .wav file (audacity and amadeus both do this).

Upload your sound into SL. For things like birdsong you probably want to use llLoopSound which will play your sound in an endless loop. This may suggest a shorter cut time, quite a lot of bird song (to which I'm listening as I type) is about 4-7s long, so get "one repeat" and make your sound that long.

Each prim can only have one sound playing at a time. If you actually stop and listen ambient birdsong is *at least* four different sounds in most places, I think there are 9 or 10 outside at the moment. That means finding and layering your sounds will help make it more realistic - but you'll need several prims for that each time of course.

Hope that helped. Good luck with it!

Of course, for a better quality sound, get a broadcast program like shoutcast and play the recording direct as an audio stream. Then just set it as the incomming stream on your land.

Ah tks! Time for testing!'

Hope the birds dont get silent before I make it...


/Tina - If you are Swedish - why not join my group Swedish People in SL.