January 24, 2012
I’m quite sure that some of you out there are wondering where to find royalty free music whether you’re a videomaker, a game developer, or one of those neo-artist stage performance poets that uses a combination of visual imagery, weird music, and the occasional bit of innocent nudity. So with that being said, I’m here to bring you some quality royalty free music.
November 2, 2011
One of the most talked about features of Apple’s new mobile operating system is the ability to add custom SMS and alert tones to your iPhone. Back in the old days the iPhone limited users to only a few SMS tones, which is why everywhere you went all you heard was that annoying tritone sound. Thankfully, with iOS 5, Apple included many more ringtones right off the bat, and you can add more.
October 31, 2011
iMaschine is a new app for your iPhone from the clever chaps over at Native Instruments who are responsible for all manner of professional-level music software and hardware – Traktor and Maschine, to name but two. So you’d expect this app to be pretty good right? If you like to groove on the go, read on to find out if iMaschine is set to become your next App Store purchase.
September 8, 2011
Ringtones are a very subjective thing, so it’s nice that Android comes with such a large selection of them. But once you’ve settled on a few ringtones you like, having to scroll through a lengthy list of irritating sounds just to swap between those few can get old pretty fast. For some reason, Android’s designers didn’t include a way to easily delete built-in ringtones.
July 12, 2011
Even in a world where Creative Commons exists, it always seems like there is not enough quality royalty-free material for us in the multimedia field. Thankfully, there are several places out on the Internet that hear the cries of every starving artist. Today, MakeUseOf offers four little-known sources of multimedia materials for your next production.
June 22, 2011
MP3 is a digital audio encoding format, in which audio files are compressed to reduce the amount of data, without losing sound quality in the ears of most listeners. mp3DirectCut is a freeware audio editor and recorder that can work with compressed MP3 files. It allows you to cut, copy, and paste audio bits or change the volume without decompressing the audio file.
May 26, 2011
As an amateur musician who uses GarageBand, the most common question I get asked is what’s the GarageBand alternative for Windows? When I answer that there’s none, most of them just can’t believe it. So far, I still haven’t found any that can match all of the requirements. Still there are alternatives worth mentioning. One of them is Anvil Studio.
November 8, 2010
![How To Use Royalty-Free Music & Effects From GarageBand [Mac]](http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/075-150x150.jpg?323f2c "How To Use Royalty-Free Music & Effects From GarageBand [Mac]")
When Apple introduced Garageband as part of its creative suite of software in iLife ’04, it gave Mac users hundreds of royalty-free music loops and effects that could used by both musicians and non-musicians alike. If you’re familiar with the over 1,000 pre-recorded cuts, you can occasionally hear them in television commercials and Hollywood shows. [...]
September 15, 2010
Humor is the best ice-breaker there is. Have you ever seen how heads turn when your mobile phone starts buzzing with a funny sound? Dressing up your mobile phone with cool wallpapers, and cooler applications is fine of course. But to take the banner of the “˜coolest’, think of funny sound clips. You can use [...]
June 25, 2010
The vuvuzela is a cheap plastic horn that’s recently begotten international fame during the football World Cup in South Africa. Most people agree that a vuvuzela noise mildly irritating – as if there were a mosquito stuck in your ear. Multiplied by the thousands, it produces a deep, hypnotic rumble, straight from the gates of [...]
