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Sounds and music for games and mobile apps

Sounds and music for games and mobile apps
Use these resources to get sounds and music for your apps. There are both free and paid solutions for you to choose. There is a list of resources for further reading on the subject of music and sound creation if you want to become more proficiant, but some of these tools are easy and fun to use without any experience what so ever. If you are making a simple game, there is no need to pay a professional for your audio assets. 

Free Music and Sounds


EDITOR'S CHOICE: Looperman.com - The royalty free loops, samples and sounds listed in the website have been kindly uploaded by other users and are free to use in your project. Completely free, no attribution required.

Partnersinrhyme.com - You can download and use the free music loops and full length music clips in any commercial multimedia project. In return they only ask that you please give Partners In Rhyme a link on your website or blog, a credit in your Youtube video, or just a nice email saying "Thanks!".

Ccmixter.org - Free music for commercial use with attribution.

Nosoapradio.us - Free music for commercial use with attribution.

Freesound.org - Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse. Some sounds are completely free to use without attribution, while other sounds require attribution.

Freesfx.co.uk - Free sound effects that can be used in any commercial, non-commercial, broadcast multimedia/audio visual production. Certain restrictions are in place on how the sounds can be used which can be viewed in the End User Licence Agreement.

Freemusicarchive.org - All music you'll find here is free, meaning that it is available for you to download at no cost. What else you're allowed to do with the music varies depending on the license that's associated with each track.

Musopen.org (Classical Public Domain Music) -  Musopen is a non-profit focused on increasing access to music by creating free resources and educational materials. They provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions.

Sounds and music for games and mobile apps

Create Sounds for Free


EDITOR'S CHOICE: Bfxr.net (Online) -  Bfxr is an elaboration of the glorious Sfxr, the program of choice for many people looking to make sound effects for computer games. You have full rights to all sounds made with bfxr, and are free to use them for any purposes, commercial or otherwise.

Labchirp (Windows) -  A program for creating sound effects for games, music, videos - whatever you want.


Create Music


Free Music Creators

Ardour (Mac, Linux) - Ardour is a full-featured, free and open-source hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation program suitable for professional use. It features unlimited audio tracks and buses, non-destructive, non-linear editing with unlimited undo, and anything-to-anywhere signal routing. It supports standard file formats, such as BWF, WAV, WAV64, AIFF and CAF, and it can use LADSPA, LV2, VST and AudioUnit plugin formats.

Paid Music Creators


Create Chiptune Music for Free


PXTone (Windows) - PxTone Collageis a freeware music editing program. The format is similar to MIDI files in many ways. A prominent difference includes instrument samples ("voices") that are stored within the song data itself.

SunVox (Windows, Mac, Linux) -  SunVox is a small, fast and powerful modular synthesizer with pattern-based sequencer (tracker). It is a tool for those people who like to compose music wherever they are, whenever they wish. On any device. SunVox is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Maemo, Meego, Raspberry Pi, Windows Mobile (WindowsCE), PalmOS, iOS and Android.

LMMS (Windows, Linux) - Produce music with your computer by creating melodies and beats, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples and much more. Playback instruments, samples and plugins with a typing or MIDI keyboard in a user-friendly and modern interface. Bundled with ready-to-use stuff.

Musagi (Windows) - This is a fairly large and sophisticated music editor and synthesizer.

Milky Tracker (Windows, Mac, Linux) -  MilkyTracker is an open source, multi-platform music application for creating .MOD and .XM module files. It attempts to recreate the module replay and user experience of the popular DOS program Fasttracker II, with special playback modes available for improved Amiga ProTracker 2/3 compatibility.

OpenMPT (Windows) - OpenMPT is a popular tracker software for Windows. OpenMPT (short hand for Open ModPlug Tracker) is completely free and allows you to create and play back some great music on your computer. Based on the original ModPlug Tracker written by Olivier Lapicque, OpenMPT is free software and supports a wide variety of module formats and offers an intuitive, native GUI as well as advanced features such as VST plugins and ASIO output. Read more about it on the features page!

Sounds and music for games and mobile apps

Free Sound & Music Editing


Audacity (Windows, Mac, Linux) - Audacity® is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.

Ocenaudio (Windows, Mac, Linux) - Easy, fast and powerful audio editor

 

Knowledge Resources


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