MechSounds Sound Bank by John Oestmann
Last Updated 12 Oct 2024
All sounds released under Public Domain / CC0
All project files released under MIT License
I have created straight WAV samples, as well as creating a .sf2 SoundFont which contains new instruments built from layering those WAVs.
Both of these have been used in my projects.
All of these sounds have been synthesized by me, using almost all free and open-source software.
You can explore how I synthesized these sounds under the “Materials/Project Files” folder.
I created the SoundFont with the open-source program Polyphone. You can also explore the inner workings of this SoundFont using Polyphone.
The following files extensions correspond to the following software:
*.vcv – VCV Rack
*.scd – SuperCollider
*.sf2 – SoundFont
SoundFont Banks / Sample Categories:
000 – TNL – Tonal
001 – PAD – Tonal Ambient Pad, often a long and complex chord.
002 – AMB – Non-tonal SFX Ambience Pad
003 – PRC – Single Percussion
004 – SFX – Sound Effect
005 – KIT – A kit of sounds, where each key is a different sound
101 – a_new_day_in_the_workshop extracted sounds (from tracks created before this Sound Pack was planned)