[SML] Professional sound effects library available for edu situation?

[PATRICK MCCREARY]

Try "Audacity" from Soundforge - free from opensource.

Patrick

On 4/23/2015 2:31 PM, Jon Ares via Stagecraft wrote:
> Hi folks....  is there a quality* sound effects library out there that
> students can use that we can license for a lab?  Back story: we have
> the Janus Professional Library, circa 1995, from a company that no
> longer exists.  Their software library came with a great
> browser/sampler utility, but it's 16-bit code, and doesn't work on
> anything newer than Windows XP.  (I've tried the various compatibility
> modes in Win7 - short of installing a Virtual Machine.)
>
> I've asked around, to see if someone wanted to write a new front end
> that could query the database, to access the raw audio files, but no
> takers (unless it was big $$$, which we don't have.)  I think the
> original system was written around Macromedia Author or Director, or
> some such.
>
> *Quality: not garbage downloaded from YouTube, or some of the many
> "free" sounds on the web that are actually 11k versions of the sound
> effects vinyls I used as a kid...
>
> We need this in a lab environment, for class use, so buying single
> pieces online isn't an option....
>


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G. Patrick McCreary
Technical Director
Department of Theater and Dance
Indiana University of Pennsylvania