New Mint log on/log off sound

verdegal37 · Post by **verdegal37** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:41 am

Hey Xanikseo , very pretty perfect they sound stupendously

Thanks;
Agust

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:47 am

Well you definately have talent, that's for sure.

Personally I don't like them and its not because they weren't done well. I'm not really into classical music.

There was a thread a while back that someone started to create a new jingle, but they seem to have disappeared. http://linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... gle&t=3794 They were very much on the right track. I personally liked what they created, but it did need a bit more refining. Do you think you can pick up where this person left off?

You have the talent and you will forever be immortalized in the distro when you pull it off.

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:00 pm

Not too bad. Definately on the right track. Right now I think it sounds too cute. Kinda makes me want to skip around

Also unfortunately I don't have a copy of the sound bite

from the other posting...

See if this design guidance can help:

Start off with an ambient natural sound, for example, being out-side on a grassy knoll hearing birds maybe the wind rustling leaves, then start to fade in and build up an electronic sounding jingle, that builds up hits a high point and fades out somewhat quickly. Think THX sound jingle.

BTW I'm very impressed that you were able to turn that around so quickly, your awsome!

frank392 · Post by **frank392** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:12 pm

Not bad, but after listening for a few times it started to destroy my nerve system.

frank392 · Post by **frank392** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:14 pm

the second one to childish

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:12 am

Great! I'm looking forward to your next attempt.

Post by **clem** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:35 pm

Hi,

Thanks for working on this, as Carlos said if you manage to make something great it will be a really cool addition to our distribution.

I don't like the first series of sounds.

The second one is on the right track, it sounds professional but it also makes me think of Microsoft Windows.... I don't know why, maybe because that's the kind of sound they would actually use. Try something more modern, technological, affirmative. the sound we use at the moment, although of lower quality than yours follows these feelings... it's clear, brief, and very affirmative.

And the main thing: you need something you can hear 10,000 times and not get bored with. Think of a company running mint where people hear that sound 100 times every morning

The sound we have at the moment is not particularly great but it's brief and impersonal enough not to bore people when repeated over and over. I don't know if we can speak of "syllables" for a sound... but I would definitely try to shorten the number of them... make the sound simpler, maybe less melodic to ensure people hear it but don't get sick of it with time being.

God, it's hard to describe sounds, isn't it? Especially in a foreign language.. I hope I made sense somehow

Clem

Post by **clem** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:37 pm

something you can hear 10,000 times and not get bored with

We're going to need testers

hugh · Post by **hugh** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 11:47 am

Hi, I've taken the latest startup sound (3rd October) and I actually quite like it - thanks for that !

I'll let you know if it is still as good after 10000 bootups

Cheers

Hugh

frank392 · Post by **frank392** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 5:15 pm

I like them
kind sound the same, but I like them, big improvement

Thank you!!

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:31 am

Hi Xanikseo, finally got a chance to listen to the new sounds. Not too bad. I actually prefer the shutdown sound to the start up. The startup seems to lack presence, while the shutdown seems to have more of it. So maybe taking what you did in the shutdown and emphisize it a bit more for a start up sounds and see where that takes you.

keep it up!

MikesHeadRoom · Post by **MikesHeadRoom** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:10 pm

Hey guys, I thought I'd try creating some login and logout themes as well. I figure the more ideas to work with, the better. Any feedback is appreciated.

Login Theme
Logout Theme

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:28 pm

Strange, MikesHeadRoom your files are not playing for me...

MikesHeadRoom · Post by **MikesHeadRoom** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:51 pm

I used a Yamaha keyboard for the content creation. I hope it doesn't pose a problem that the keyboard is not open source

.

Regretfully, I'm using Cool Edit Pro under Windows for the recording and mixing. I'm having trouble recording more than one track in a session using Audacity. I hope to have that figured out soon though.

frank392 · Post by **frank392** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:12 pm

I like them very much is fresh, modern, and the sound quality is very good!!
the logout is a bit to long and soft it kinda sounds like ENYA with is not bad

but overall fantastic work
Thank you

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:23 pm

Yeah I'm on a mac right now will have to check them out when I get home later this evening.

Post by **clem** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:46 am

Ok, first of all I'm really happy to see more and more people working on this and things going ahead. It's really hard to pick something that subjective (remember how long it took us Carlos to actually pick up that new logo

), but as we're listening to more and more samples we should eventually find what we're looking for (assuming we know, which is probably not true..).

So anyway..

Xanikseo: I find your new sounds too masculine. You took my comments too far (probably my fault) and it sounds like something you would hear when you launch a war game or a first-person-shooter... it makes me think of an army/war game

MikesHeadRoom: I actually like these a lot. Maybe a bit too complex compared to what we have now, but nice all the same..

PS: Don't mind my comments too much by the way.. I really don't have a clue what I'm looking for

If you have your own idea of what you would like it to be, go for it and gather comments from anyone. Maybe other people can help by pointing at existing sounds on the web they like already.

Clem

hairy_Palms · Post by **hairy_Palms** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:34 am

I'll let you know if it is still as good after 10000 bootups

i boot about once every 2 days,
365 days a year....
damn it would take me about 50 years to clock up 10000 boots

Post by **clem** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:17 am

hairy_Palms: Then you'd better hurry and start right now

hugh · Post by **hugh** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:01 am

Well, I must be up to about 100 ('cos I'm always in and out of my laptop), and the original Log On sound in the very first post is still fine to me

Cheers

Hugh