Bfxr. Make sound effects for your games.

http://www.bfxr.net/

by llambda • 15 years ago

339 29 15 years ago

This is the most awesome thing I've seen here in a while. I'm in serious danger of blowing off the rest of my day to make a video game to stick these into.

nixxle• 15 years ago

I'm right ahead of you on that one

dpcan• 15 years ago

It really opens some doors doesn't it :)

This looks like a great implementation of the sfxr tool that's been around for a long time. I've seen it in Flash and there's an EXE version too. This one has some nice new add-ons I haven't seen yet, and a GREAT interface.

If you REALLY want to go nuts, here is a massive list of indie game development tools that can keep you busy for a while:

http://www.mangatutorials.com/forum/showthread.php?742-The-U...

anigbrowl2• 15 years ago

If this is your idea of a great interface then you need help :-)

Seriously, as someone that works with sound and software synths a lot, it looks awful to me. What is it that you like about this?

lawn• 15 years ago

Wait what just in time for Ludum Dare 22?

Sweet!

jamesgeck0• 15 years ago

You're twelve LDs late to the party. ;-)

jsvaughan• 15 years ago

I've been finding the LD entry posts all quite interesting; they often have stuff (like bfxr) that I didn't know about, or at least, didn't know was that popular:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/

kennywinker• 15 years ago

Related: http://thirdcog.eu/apps/cfxr (aka Cocoa sfxr) better UI than sfxr and bfxr, but simpler than bfxr.

Original project: http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html

benbeltran• 15 years ago

SFXR and CFXR have been two of the most useful tools I've had while developing games. So simple yet so flexible. I really recommend them for any game developer.

dylanrw• 15 years ago

SFXR/CFXR are so much fun to play with. I'm glad this dev listed them as inspiration.

minikomi• 15 years ago

Wow cool! Reminds me of this standalone I used to use to make a ton of simple drum sounds and blips to put in trackers...

http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/drumsynth.shtml

fuzzix• 15 years ago

Have you seen Sunvox? Tracker/synth/sequencer all in one:

http://www.warmplace.ru/

Lots of fun.

gren• 15 years ago

And this is the javascript one http://www.egonelbre.com/js/jsfx/ :)

Roritharr• 15 years ago

Well... was there ever a shortage of 8-bit sounds you can put into your games? These creators have been around years, i remember fiddeling with one 10 years ago when i was playing with RPG Maker 2000...

A High Def Sound Creation Tool would be nice...

gravitronic• 15 years ago

... like, say, any synthesizer?

For free, I suggest: Synth1 - www.kvraudio.com/get/214.html

You'll need a VST host, for which I suggest www.reaper.fm

nitrogen• 15 years ago

ZynAddSubFX is a very nice sounding, open source synthesizer. The UI is a bit awkward, but it can make some very diverse sounds.

missing_cipher• 15 years ago

Whoo! They finally added history so you can keep track of a few sfx that interest you, very cool. :)

learc83• 15 years ago

This has been around for a while, it's pretty cool nonetheless. I used it for sond effects on a pong game I made while learning C++.

On a side note that's the best way to learn to make games (or a new language for that matter), recreate old games from scratch. You'll also learn some trig and calculus while you're at it.

pefavre• 15 years ago

Truly awesome, but could need some interface improvements.

mrcharles• 15 years ago

I am going to use the hell out of this site.

I kept hitting randomize and got this: http://t.co/Av3WNjzB

Now I want to make a game around it.

eru• 15 years ago

Interesting. By the way, no need for URL shorteners: http://www.bfxr.net/?s=4%2C0.5%2C0.7518%2C0.0237%2C0.1582%2C...

(People avoid URL shorteners here. Keeps the Rick Rolling low.)

theon144• 15 years ago

This is pretty awesome. I hit randomize and got this http://goo.gl/EuMtA , I can totally see it as a warp engine, or something like that. I'm going to play with it for a while...

gegenschall• 15 years ago

Did same thing and got this: http://bit.ly/vjDZDG This is so awesome. Woah!

qw• 15 years ago

This is what "transporters" should have sounded like: http://bit.ly/svTHFI

watmough• 15 years ago

Wow, that is just incredible.

Just randomly hitting a few of the buttons, it produced really excellent 2 x Atari 8-bit style explosions, and as near as damn it, a perfect Defender gunfire effect.

I haven't looked to see if it can do musical notes, but if it can, surely this would be excellent for chiptunes.

headbiznatch• 15 years ago

I just set up a cache of sounds to use in place of verbal responses today - mostly Coins, Lasers and Jumps. They just seem to say so many things better than I can. It has already gotten me into trouble. In other words, it's awesome. Thanks.

reissbaker• 15 years ago

Really neat extension of sfxr, but man I wish there wasn't that inner scrollbar.

jcromartie• 15 years ago

The one problem with the *fxr family is that it is a cliche already. It's like the official soundtrack to Ludum Dare...

anigbrowl2• 15 years ago

Those of you who are simply enjoying the bleeps and bloops should drop by a music store and buy yourselves a Monotron (or two!) for Christmas. $60 each and you can download the circuit diagrams from Korg, who has designed them to be hackable.

http://www.korg.com/monotron

Bfxr. Make sound effects for your games.

Related Stories