Personalize Your Computer's Sounds
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Drew's Special Tutorials
With DAK's 62 Sound Effects & Music
Personalizing Your Computer's Sound
Plus How To Email Sounds
Use DAK's Exciting Professional Digital Sound Effects & Extractions
of Your Favorite Music to personalize all the sounds your computer
makes, enhance the CDs you make, amaze your friends and family and
enliven your home videos, live recordings and more.
You Get
ALL These Sounds And A Whole Lot More. See Below For The List.
It's all new. Digital sound effects and extractions from your favorite
songs give you a new and easy dominance over the sounds that your
computer makes. And they create excitement with all the other audio
you create, copy or burn to CDs. And yes, you'll love it and it
will amaze your friends.
Sound
Effects Demo. Hear It!
And it's not just static, stationary, boring sound effects
you'll get. You can easily extract parts from any effect.
You can paste (join) parts of 2 effects together and you can mix
two, 4 or even 10 effects to get just the exciting effect that you
want. It’s easy. It's fun.
And, don't worry, you can’t do anything wrong. With easy unlimited
undo, you can try and play with all your sound ideas and then make
any changes you want. So, why not try it out today?
From the sounds of fireworks to foghorns, from pouring champagne
to surf at the beach, from birds in a forest to a 747 taking off,
you'll have it all.
Need a human heartbeat, no problem. Need a slot machine paying off,
it's all here too. From a steam engine or a horse on cobblestones
passing by to the restful tranquilizing sounds of a fountain, birds
in a forest or wind chimes to the annoying drip of a faucet, they
are all here too.
There's a complete list of all the sound effects you get below.
Want the voice in a crowd, a cheering crowd or charge at a football
game? There are all here too. Need a shattering glass, a kiss, a
torpedo or space ship? They're here too.
Plus look what you can do yourself. Why settle
for a beep when your email comes in when you can have, "Wait
A Minute Mr. Postman?" Or when you launch a program why not
have, "We've Only Just Begun?"
These are extractions you can make from the songs you already have
or can get. It's all super easy and below I show you every single
step of the way. You're just minutes away from taking complete sound
control of your computer's system sounds.
So in short, I give you a fabulous $196 Sound Effects collection
(over 288 megabytes), 62 exciting separate sound effects.
Plus, I've written all the tutorial help you'll need
to use the sound effects, extract what you want from the effects
and combine and mix them together with musical extractions of your
choice. The power you'll wield is awesome and yet, it's all incredibly
easy to do, as you'll see below.
So, personalize your computer's sounds, and use these sound effects
and extracted and/or mixed music in all that you record, narrate,
sing with or make into CDs.
Sound Effects and extracted portions, choruses from your favorite
songs, or themes from your favorite music are easier then ever to
incorporate in your favorite CDs, home videos and now as the system
sounds for your computer.
You Can Do All This:
1.
Use The Sound Effects As You Get Them.
I've given you a terrific collection of 62 professional
digital sound effects that you can use right now as your computer
starts, as you get emails or with any audio or video project. It's
the best of the best. I've hand picked every single effect in the
collection.
2.
Extract Just The Heart, The Center, The Main Theme(s) To Use. You don't have to use the whole
effect. Just grab the part you want. Only want one church bell,
one cat meow, two dog barks, no problem. Just grab what you want.
3.
Join Or Append Different Sound Effects Together Or Parts Of Sound
Effects Together. Combine a dog barking with a
cat meowing. It's easy. Open a door and then break a glass and have
a dog bark or a man laugh. Have a jet take off, then a train go
by and follow them with a race car or dirt bike. All the effects
are here and you can combine any of them and your music too. It's
all fast and easy.
4.
Mix One Effect Over Or With Another. Load one effect or part of an
effect. Then lay another effect or part of an effect or music over
the first. You can choose where to start each and add 10 separate
layers if you like. It's very powerful Lay some music over the gently
breaking surf. Have a dog barking over a fountain, or someone laughing
at the beach or by a fountain. No limits and you'll love the effects.
5.
Create Your Own Stress Relieving Looped Entertainment. Forget buying one of those Environmental
machines. Looping just means that a part you've selected plays over
and over again with no break and no start and stop. Now you can
loop anything, but here are some examples: Loop the surf, the rain,
the wind, forest sounds or a cricket. For fun, loop a cricket, birds
and more. You can just do it on your computer to relax the tensions
(and mask the fan noise) or make an hour CD to calm and soothe you
and set the mood wherever you are.
You Can Do All The Above And Much More By Using:
1. The included 62 professional CD
quality digital sound effects. 2. Easily make your own sound effects
by using, combining or pasting extracted chords, measures or choruses
from music you already have. Using just a few chords or the main
theme makes a great effect or intro to a presentation, slide show
or movie. Or, it's great to use for one of the system sounds of
your computer.
3. You can record your own sound effects
using your own PC and a microphone. I tell you how.
Yes now you can actually make broadcast quality sound effects. Record
your car starting, a faucet dripping, a door closing or the birds
in your own back yard. Then quiz your friends as to what the sounds
came from. I collect sounds like other people collect photographs.
Start your own audio scrapbook. It's a great hobby. Wait till you
hear how good your sounds really can be. And how much fun it really
is.
Some
Quick Ideas Of What You Can Do With My Sound Effects?
When you get email, rather than just a beep, choose:
A Cat Meow
A Dog Bark
A Football Game Charge
A church Bell
See how much better it can be?
How about when you open a program or start your computer you hear:
A crowd Applauding
A Foghorn
A Door Creaking Open
Fireworks Going Off
A heart beat.
And when you hear the dumb boring for an error or stop, how about
a:
A Tiger Roar
A 16 wheeler truck horn
A Male or Female laugh
A SiFi Time Warp
Of course there are more than 40 events you can assign sounds to.
And between the 62 sound effects I'm giving you here and themes you'll
extract from your favorite songs and sound effects you'll learn to
make yourself, you're going to have a ton of fun from now on.
There's much more, but. . .
We better start exploring the tutorial before I
get totally carried away.
Here
Are Your
62 Professional Digital Sound Effects
Effect
Name
Length
Effect
Name
Length
Airplane
5
Laugh - Female
6
Airplane - 747
25
Laugh - Male
20
Bell - Church
14
Lightning - Strike
6
Bell - Door
3
Motorcycle
13
Birds - Forest
34
Music - Deck the Halls
60
Birds - Rooster
9
Music - Enchanted Memory
8
Car - Alarm
18
Music - Stir the Sauce
31
Car - Horn
5
Music - Transition
9
Car - Horn - Truck - Doppler
7
Phone
19
Car - Whoosh
24
Pig
33
Cat - Meow
16
Pour - Champagne
16
Cricket
79
Pour - Coffee
8
Crowd - Applause
9
Radio - Police
4
Crowd - Baseball - Charge
18
Radio - Police Female
5
Crowd - Bsktball - Organ - Chge
9
SiFi - Ricochet
3
Crowd - Big - Applause
13
SiFi - Time - Warp
7
Crowd - Large - Countdown
22
Slot - Machine Music Trills
10
Dog - Angry
10
Slot Machine - Payout Bell
13
Dog - Large
4
Tiger
6
Dog - Small
3
Torpedo
8
Door - Open - Close
9
Traffic - Horns
12
Door - Open - Creaky
11
Train - Steam Engine
29
Door - Wood - Open - Creak
5
Typewriter
21
Fireworks
25
Violin
5
Foghorn
11
Voices - Mixed
13
Glass - Bottles - Crash
12
Water - Drip
54
Glass - Shatter
5
Water - Fountain
64
Heartbeat
6
Water - Surf
124
Horse - Coach - Cobblestone
33
Water - Waves Big
56
Horse Race - Derby - Intro
25
Wind - Chimes
51
Kiss
2
Wind - Howl
98
You'll Get
A Link To This Page After You Order
Note: All effects are available for
download in either or both MP3 & Wav formats. I may add additional
Sound Effects from time to time and make changes to the effects listed.
See the download page for the most current effects.
What
Sounds Can You Personalize On Your Computer?
I've marked the 3 top sounds that everyone wants to personalize
from the list of all sounds on one of my computers. This is a pretty
much basic computer. Your computer will probably have a few more sounds
you can personalize.
For sure you will want to personalize the startup and shutdown sounds.
And the email notification. But you can do so much more.
And you can't really do anything wrong. If there is a speaker Icon
next to an event, then it already has a sound, just change it. If
there's not a speaker Icon, then NONE is chosen from the pull down
list of sounds. Just choose a sound.
All you need to do is either select a sound from the fairly good size
list that's already in your computer, or add some of your own effects
or music and then just choose it below. I show you how starting right
now.
This is the simplest thing you can do with your computer. OK , let's
personalize it now.
Where
Do I select the Sounds?
It couldn't be easier. Just navigate to the sound control and then
it's up to you which sounds to use. Here' all you do.
Arrow 1. Click the Start Button.
Arrow 2. Click Control Panel.
The Control Panel
We're on our way. Just Click this Icon. It's called Sounds and Audio
Devices.
Sound Schemes - Change Sounds, Change Moods
or Seasons.
OK, wasn't that easy. After you click on the Sounds Tab, you're
ready to start personalizing the sounds.
Arrow 1. Microsoft calls this a 'Sound Scheme.' A
sound scheme is just a master name for the sounds you've chosen. Why?
You'd think that if you assign a sound to an event like when you get
an email, that would always be the sound. But Microsoft was smart.
You can have different sounds for the same event. Just choose a name
for your scheme.
Then whatever sounds you choose to go with the events will only play
when you have that scheme chosen. You can have several schemes so
that the same event (like when you get mail) can have different sounds.
Maybe at Christmas you have holiday music. For Cinco De Mayo, you
have Mariachi etc.
So the point is just click the Save As and Choose a new name. All
the sounds will play just like you want. Then you can name another
scheme and have all or some of the sounds different for the same events.
Then you can always go back to Default or any of your other choices.
It's neat because all you do is change the name in the scheme box
to change all the sounds in your computer to fit your mood.
So the main concept with schemes is that you can make all the changes
you want, but they will only be made for the scheme chosen so you
can instantly go back any time.
Arrow 2. This is where you actually assign specific
sounds to specific events. It's super easy to do and I'll show you
how below.
Arrow 3. Click this to create a new Scheme.
A
Sound Scheme By Drew
Here I'm just showing you the pull down menu. Right now I can choose
Default, No Sounds at all, or DrewFolk, which plays all folk music
sounds for my events. It just takes a second to change and you're
sure to want several schemes to fit your mood or the season. It's
so easy to do.
Change Sounds Now
OK here's where we see how to change the sounds. It's so easy it
almost doesn't take a tutorial.
Arrow 1. Click on the event that you want to change.
Arrow 2. You can open this pull down window and all
the sounds that are available will show here. Just choose the one
you want.
Arrow 3. You can also Browse to choose the sounds.
. .But, if you are looking in the sounds folder (called Media Folder)
that's fine. If you choose a sound from another part of your computer,
that's fine, but if you ever remove it, you won't hear a sound for
that event.
Nothing bad will happen, you just won't have the
sound. So I recommend that you copy any sounds you want to use into
the media folder and I show you how to do that later.
Arrow 4. Play. You can hear any selected sound by
just clicking this play button.
An Event Without Sound
If an event has no speaker (Arrow 1) you can see
(Arrow 2) that [None] is chosen. To choose a sound,
just open this pull down window and choose any sound. Then the speaker
shows up automatically.
The Sounds You Have
Here you can see the sounds in my Media Folder. There's nothing
you have to do.
Arrow 1. Shows the Windows Notify Choice that comes
with your computer.
Arrow 2. Shows Big Spender (from Sweet Charity) that
I've chosen a few bars from to tell me when I have a new email arrive.
The Browse For New Sounds
If you don't want to use the Pull down menu, you can open the Browse
Dialog Box. It works just the same. Just double Click any sound in
the folder and:
Arrow 1. The sound that you double click will show
up in the File Name Box.
Arrow 2. You can play any highlighted song to be
sure it's what you want.
Arrow 3. Click OK to Load the Sound.
NOTE: Use this Browse Dialog box to go to find files
in other folders on your computer. You can use a .Wav file as long
as it's in your computer. But as I said earlier, it's best to put
them into the Media Folder so when you move or remove them from another
folder, you don't lose the sound you've chosen.
OK, that's all there is to choosing sounds for Windows System Events.
Now you really can take control of your computer.
You can use ANY .WAV STEREO OR MONAURAL
sound file. Most will be 5 seconds or less. But startup and shutdown
can be longer.
OK so Drew wants you to put the .Wav sound effects and extracted
music files into the Media folder. But, where is it and how do I get
there?
Arrow 1. Click the My Computer Icon on your Desktop
or in your Start Menu.
Arrow 2. Click on your C: Drive.
Onward To The Media Folder
Now that you've clicked C:, just look for the Windows folder Arrow
1. Click this folder.
Note: sometimes you'll
get a blue info screen saying, "Do you really want to go here?"
Say Yes.
Ah, Here's The Media Folder.
Just Click Arrow 1, the Media Folder. It's in alpha
order in the Windows directory, so it should be easy to locate.
We're In The Media Folder
Wasn't this easy? Now you're in the Media Folder. This is where
all your system sounds are found. Just copy any effect or music here
like I have with Arrow 1. And you're done.
Arrow 2. Note: you may find other folders here in
the Media Folder. Many programs like your virus scan, AOL and others
put the sounds that are unique to them here too. You can click this
folder or any folder to see what's inside.
Wow, Effects I didn't Know I had.
Wow, check this out.
Arrow 1. Shows that I'm in the Microsoft Office 2000
Directory. These are effects that came with my CD of Office 2000.
You probably have something like it too.
Arrow 2. The Whoosh is really pretty darn good. Why
don't you see what you have now?
Was that easy or what?
THAT'S ALL YOU DO TO YOU PUT SONGS INTO WINDOWS
MEDAI FOLDER SO YOU CAN PERSONALIZE YOUR COMPUTER'S SYSTEM SOUNDS.
First I'll show you music. Then we'll do the sound effects. Above
is the track from the musical Sweet Charity of, "Hey, Big Spender."
I'm going to show you how to just grab the "Hey Big Spender"
theme.
But
First, Here's How To Select Anything.
Selecting is a basic Windows Function. It's the first step to using
many of the Editors powerful functions. So, spend a few minutes getting comfortable
making and using selections.
You'll use selections to apply any of the filters, operations and editing powers,
You'll use it to select a part of delete or to copy. And, you'll
select a part of a file or track that you want to save as we are here
and then by going to File/Save Select as you will save just that one part without
changing the original file at all.
How do you select?
Put your Mouse cursor in between the upper and lower tracks along the silver center
line. Hold down the left button and drag till you have the part selected that
you want to work on, delete or alter. It will turn red like you see above.
Then, just choose any function and Left Click it from any of the menus and the
editor will perform the operation you want.
And remember, if you don't like what you've done? No problem. Just click the UNDO
arrow and it will be undone so you can try again. This makes it really easy, fast
and lets you experiment all you want because for most operations, you're just
one click from undoing anything you've tried. So, don't be afraid to experiment.
It's the best way to learn.
Everything you do with the editor starts with selecting something.
Arrows 1. Drag your mouse from the left to the right
(holding down the left button) around the silver center between the
top Left and bottom Right channels. This is how you select.
Arrow 2. How do you know where the Big Spender them
is? No problem Just click the play button and listen to the music.
When the part you want comes, stop or pause the music and select a
section that's BIGGER than what you want.
That way you've got some extra music both before and after selected.
Then if you click arrow 2, play again, you'll hear just what you've
selected.
Arrow 3. Now you can zoom in and get the fine detail
to make a perfect selection. Click the Zoom Button.
Where Did The Rest Of The Song Go?
Don't worry it's all here. When you zoom in what you are doing is
choosing only one part of the track to look at. The rest of the track
is there and accessible to you, it's just off screen so it's blown
up so you can see the detail and work on just the part you want to
see.
In fact if you look at the HMS numbers below the red selection you'll
see that the entire window is about 15 seconds long. That's probably
zoomed in far enough to do what we want to do.
You can always zoom back out by clicking on the -Zoom above, or click
the blank magnifying glass to take you all the way back to seeing
the entire file in the screen at once.
Oh, and you can zoom in some more by clicking once to unselect the
red area, then select a small area again and click the zoom button.
You can make the whole screen about 1/4 of a second if you ever wanted
to go that far.
Anyway for now, just click once in the red so it won't be selected
any more.
Arrow 1. shows you a small green bar. This is a handle
that you can grab to drag the entire viewing screen to the left and
the right. Then you can work on any part of the entire track.
Arrow 2. is just to remind me to tell you to click
in the selected area so we can get to work on extracting the theme.
The Final Theme Selection
OK, now we are just going to select the actual few words, "Hey
Big Spender" and save it.
Arrows 1. Now that we are zoomed in, just highlight
the small area that has just the words you want. This time it's easy
to see the individual word spaces so it's not a problem to find just
what you want. If it's not, I told you how to zoom in some more above.
Arrow 2. Click Play, to be sure you have just what
you wanted and that you are happy with your choice.
Arrow 3. Go to the File Menu and choose Save Select
As. This will leave the original file alone and just save a new file
of only the part you've selected. This is a very powerful tool and
you'll use it all the time.
I want you to see how easy this is, but it's really just the same
as what we did above. Get comfortable with saving and finding the
various folders in your computer. They are your friends, but we hear
from so many DAKonians that they can't find what they've saved. So
let's do this one more time.
Arrow 1. Choose C:
Arrow 2. Another way to choose C:
Let's Open The Windows Folder Again
See it's the same. After you selected and clicked on C: above, just
click on Arrow 1, the Windows folder and tell it
yes you want to see what's inside if it asks you.
Here's the Media Folder
Yup, you see, it's always the same. Just click Media
Inside
The Media Folder "
OK that's it. Just click Save and you're all finished. That's how
easy it all is. Now you've got your favorite sound effects or extracted
music ready to be your system sounds from now on. And remember, you
can change it to something new just this quickly too.
Next to the thousands of requests for Sound Effects which is why
I produced this whole tutorial, College Fight Songs are the Number
2 request. I went to UCLA about 100 years ago. And I loved it. You
can get your college fight song and extract just the main theme from
it and use it to start your computer every day. It's great.
But where can you get it? Well I downloaded the UCLA fight song in
a few seconds from www.fightmusic.com and you can too. We aren't affiliated
with them or any other site, just DAK, but if you don't find them
when you read this, just go to Google and search for College Fight
Songs and you will probably find a free download like I did or be
able to buy a CD. OK, here's what to do.
Arrow 1. Here's the name of the UCLA Fight Song
Arrow 2. Here I've left out the drumbeats and cheering
and just gotten the theme
Arrow 3. Here I'm playing what I selected to be sure
it's what I want.
Arrow 4. Here I'm saving the Select As just like
we explored before.
Are you seeing that once you've done one thing, from then on it's
all easy and repetitive? I told you this was easy, and it is.
Save UCLA Fight Song In Media
Yup, it's all easy and all the same. Just navigate to the Media
Folder.
OK,
Now The Sound Effects Fun Begins.
Here's a Church Bell
This is where it gets good. You've gotten 62 really great all digital
all really dramatic sound effects. What you see above is a church
bell ringing 4 times.
But, you're not locked out, so let's just take what we want.
Arrows 1/2. Here I'm selecting just one big ring.
And when you click the play button after making this selection, you'll
see that we start with the bell and the rest of what's selected is
the long residual sound of the bell. It's really great. You can use
this as one of your system sounds, or just paste it into a movie you
are making or add it to a CD or other presentation.
Arrow 3. is just to remind you to go to File/Save
Select As and name your extracted sound effect. I started with a really
easy effect, but they are all like this and you can choose effects
by specific sounds like 1 bell ring like I did, or the number of seconds
you want. Or any other criteria that makes sense to you.
One Cat Meow Or More
Most sound effects are really easy. It's super easy to pick out
just the part you want.
Arrow 1. I've selected just one cat meow.
Arrow 2. I'm playing what I selected just to be sure
it's perfect.
Arrow 3. I'm doing a Save Select as so I'll have
a file with just one cat meow in it.
Mixing
Sound Effects Or Anything - Easy
Let's Get A Cat & A Dog Together To See What Happens.
OK, we've done extractions, now let's mix two sound effects together. It's
easy too. I've already loaded in a Dog barking.
Arrow 1. Shows you were your cursor is right now. That's important
because when you mix sounds or paste in a second sound you control exactly where
you want it to start by putting your cursor in the exact spot you want to paste.
Arrow 2. This time I want to start at the beginning,
but there's no reason I have to do it that way. It's up to me. And
from now on, where you mix or paste anything will be up to you.
Mix
In The 2nd, 3rd or 10th Sound.
OK, Here Comes The Cat
So, all we are going to do is electronically mix two sound effects.
Since it's digital, there's no hum or noise and we could mix 10 sounds
in if we wanted to.
Arrow 1. Put your cursor where you want the mix to
begin.
Arrow 2. Go to Edit/Mix From File
Get The New Track
Now you can use any track on your computer. You can even mix MP3
and Wav. But right now, let's just add the cat.
Arrow 1. Here's the Cat. Just click it and it will
show up in the File Name Box.
Arrow 2. Click Open.
That's all there is to mixing a file.
The
Final Mix Is Done
Boy It's Noisy Here
That's it. You have the cat meowing and the dog barking and it's
easy. It's fast and you've mixed tracks like a pro.
Here's another powerful extra ability you have. It's called loop
play. After you select something as I have in Arrows 1,
just click the Loop Play Button Arrow 2. It will
continuously play the selected section without pausing forever. This
is very useful for musical backgrounds, effects that you want to keep
playing behind other effects. And below you'll see how to make a stress
removing, tension melting environmental control machine using this
feature too.
Here I've taken the typing sound effect and by looping it, it sounds
like this is one office that never stops working.
The
DAK Sound Relaxing Machine
Now you don't need to buy one of those environmental machines. Just
take one of our sound effects like Surf, choose a part of it and click
the Play Loop Button. It will play on and on forever, or you could
make an hour long CD if you want to take this great sound with you
anywhere.
Here's a tip. When you are recording a loop, choose
to start somewhere in the middle and in this case I both start and
end between the waves. This way you can never tell where the loop
starts or stops. It sounds amazingly realistic because it's
100% real. It's real waves with full CD quality and there's
no pause or blip when you use the Loop play. The editor really is
perfect.
Arrow 1. This is The Surf Sound Effect. It plays
for 50 seconds by itself, but here I've made a continuous loop so
it plays forever.
Arrow 2. Here's where I start to drag to select the
part of the surf that I want.
Arrow 3. Here's where I decide to stop. If you want
to zoom in, you can do that too. Loops are very powerful and very
useful.
Arrow 4. All I do is click the Loop button to actually
start my endless waves of great sound to soothe me.
Arrow 5. The Waterfall sound effect is awesome. It
sounds so close and so real, you'll look around for a paper towel
to dry your feet. Why buy a $5000 fountain. Listen for yourself. You've
got all of the great sound with none of the humidity. Oh, pass me
the paper towel.
Arrow 6. The Forest Bird sounds is one of my favorites.
It's a comfortable jungle sound. Enough birds and animals to be interesting
without being distracting. And it's very restful too.
OK, now you know how to create a loop
of the effects or music to act as background or foreground great sounds.
Create your own environment. Set your own mood. It's easy. It's fast.
And you can do it all easily and quickly.
Copy
And Paste Any Part To Any Other Or The Same Effect
OK, There's a lot here, but there's really nothing to it. I've
just tried to put this all in one picture. Don't worry, this is
super simple.
What we want to do is extract/copy a part from an effect. In this
case ONE HEARTBEAT and put it in another place or in the middle
of other effects. Here's all you have to do.
Arrow 1. You'll always see the name of your file
here. This time it's heartbeat.wav
Arrow 2. Select the part you want. In this case
I chose one heartbeat.
Arrow 3. It's always a good idea to Play your selection
before copying it and using it.
Arrow 4. You can either use the Copy Icon as shown
or open the Menu and choose Copy.
Arrow 5. OK, just click your Cursor where you are
going to want to paste your copy of what you've selected. The dotted
yellow line shows where the cursor is at any time. It doesn't matter
if it's in the same effect as you copied or in another effect or
musical track. When you copy anything it's on your Windows Clipboard
and it will stay there till you put something else on it.
Arrow 6. This is what's in your computer memory,
normally you can't see it unless you use the View Clipboard tool
in Windows. But all you need to do is click EITHER the Paste Icon
as shown or go to Edit and choose Paste. Then your selection will
be pasted exactly where you want it. It's clean it's fast and it's
a perfect digital copy.
You can use the same copied selection to copy and paste 100 times
if you want. Once it's there, each time you click Paste, it will
put a new, clean digital copy exactly where your cursor was positioned.
Now you know how to copy and paste any selection from any effect
or any musical track into the same or any other effect or musical
track. It's very powerful but very, very simple to do.
OK, so you've got one effect loaded and you want to put another
effect at the end. Here's all you do.
Arrow 1. I have the tiger roar loaded.
Arrow 2. I put my cursor at the end. Remember that's
the dotted yellow line.
Arrow 3. I open the Edit Menu and choose Paste from
File.
What
File Do You Want To Append Or Put At The End?
Just choose any effect or music. Nothing could be easier.
Arrow 1. Click on the name of the effect and it will
show up in the File Name box.
Arrow 2. Choose Open.
That's It, The Tiger Roars And The Glass
Breaks.
Was this easy or what? Just look at what we've done. Because you
are finished and there's nothing to do in this screen but admire your
creation.
Arrow 1. This is where the cursor was, so that's
where the new effect starts.
Arrow 2. Here is the Tiger Roar.
Arrow 3. Here is the Glass Shattering.
That's all there is to appending
one effect onto another. IMPORTANT NOTE: I used appending at the end for this
example, but you could just as easily have put one effect into another
by putting your cursor somewhere in the middle of the first effect.
This will not mix the two. That's Mix from file. But it will insert
the new effect into any place in the original that you want.
Email
Sound Effects To Your Friends And Family. It's Easy.
OK if you use Outlook Express or Outlook, here's how easy it is
to send any of your creations to your friends and family. Plus
this is exactly the same way to send them pictures or other attachments.
It's so easy, I just wanted to make sure you knew how and were comfortable
doing it too.
Arrow. Do you see the paperclip? That's the symbol
to show that you want to attach something to your email. Just click
it.
Oh and for AOL and other email programs, this is
pretty close to what you can do too, so why don't you join us and
read along too.
Here's how to Actually Attach A Sound File
OK when you click the Paperclip above, this is the dialog box you
get. It's very simple and straightforward to use.
Arrow 1. Navigate to the folder where the file you
want to attach is located. What you see here is the C: drive. Often
yours will be on your Desktop or in your Media Folder or in you My
Music folder.
NOTE: Don't worry, you're not moving, hurting or
deleting the file you send. You're just sending a copy of it so relax
and send it.
Arrow 2. Just click on the file you want to send.
Arrow 3. The file will show up here in the File Name
Box after you click it.
Arrow 4. Click the Attach Button.
Just Click Send & It's Gone
OK, so this is what the sound file looks like (Arrow) when it's
loaded and ready to go. All you need to do now is click Send and it's
on its way. That's all there is to sending a sound file any attachment
in your emails. It's super easy.
IMPORTANT CAUTION: Depending
on who you buy your Internet Service from and who your recipient gets
their service from there will be limits to how big your attached files
can be. For the most part 2-5 megabytes is the max you can send so
of course sending .Wav files isn't really possible because 5 megabytes
is less than 30 seconds. So, send MP3 files and you'll be all set.
Don't
See The Paperclip?
No problem. If there's no clip, just Click on the insert menu Arrow
1 and choose File Attachment, Arrow 2. You'll
get the same dialog box and your attachment will be on its way.
But
I Want The Clip.
Here's How To Personalize Outlook Express.
Again, no problem.
Arrow 1. Go to the View Menu,
Arrow 2. Choose Toolbars
Arrow 3. Choose Customize.
The Customize Dialog Box
OK, if there's no paperclip you'd find it in the left side. You
can do this for any tool that you want to be on your active tool bar
that you'll see at the top of the program.
Arrow 1. Click on any item in the Left Side 'Available
Tool Bar Buttons.'
Arrow 2. Click The Add Button to send it to the Right
where it will actually display on your tool bar, or if it's already
there and you never use it, click on the item in the Right side and
then click the Remove button. You're not deleting or adding anything
to your computer. All you are doing is making it show or not.
Arrow 3. After it's on the bar, you can change its
position. It says up and down, but it's really left and right. Just
highlight any tool that's on the bar (means it's already in the Right
Box). Then, use the up down buttons to put each tool just in the order
you want it to be.
Now you know how to customize your menus and tools in Outlook and
Outlook Express.
Happy emailing your sound effects and music.
Enjoy. . . Drew
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