Sounds - Can I Get More Annoying?

Sounds are like Photos that you upload to SL.

If you check out File on top of Menu screen and select Upload Sounds, thats where you upload them.

Valid sounds are any .WAV file in standard PCM format.

They can only be less than 10 seconds in length and no more, if they are more they won't upload. SL is very picky...I guess they don't want you loading a whole song. :D

Ok so here we go, I’ve done a few little tweaks here and there and came up with this and went a little crazy on some of my own wav files.

First thing I did was go to this site http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ and downloaded this converter.
I tried the standard Windows Sound Recorder that comes on every PC but never had the same results as I have with this.

Do the down load on that web site. The set it up easy peasy and its free.

For Wavs.

So next I did a Google of free wav files.

I chose this site but there are a million: http://www.ilovewavs.com/
Searched on that page and found the one I wanted.

A SL wav sound needs to have the following settings: 1. 44100 Hz/16 bit/Stereo

2. PCM WAV format only (ACM/ADPCM will not work)

3. Sound must be equal to or less than 9.99 seconds in length.

For some cool reason the Audacity will do this for you in one whack.

Now I have a friend that has this Vincent Price laugh and it cracks me up and everyone always wants it but it’s a no copy… Well, not anymore :D

I found the Laugh wav and right clicked it and “save target as” this will ask you to save it to your hard drive. I made a "Wav" folder and copied it there.

Now hopefully on your desktop there is Audacity Icon so double click it. This is how it opens.

File and Open and locate your sound you want to convert in the folder that you hopefully made called Wavs. (organized to a fault I know).

Audacity is basically like those old tape players with Stop and Play and Pause buttons. You can even break out a Mic and record you own Wavs.

Now you can see it loaded with a wav.

Make sure at the bottom it’s the correct settings with Project rate at 44100. There is a pull down tab to change that. If you feel the sound isnt going to be loud enough or some thing else you can always up the volume or whatever under Effects Tab. You have to select the Wav to use the Effects.

File again and Export Wav As.

I renamed mine the same and just added a 1 on the end so I wouldnt corrupt the orignal file. (Another box pops up where you are saving it to.)

Thats it! Now upload to SL just as you would a picture and enjoy! Orrrr to have even more fun, go to my Gestures Tut and take those new wavs a step futher!

TIP:
How do you change your voice on SL in the sounds? Say you are a guy but your "Whatever" is a girl voice.

Right click your AV and a pie chart will come up find the Gesture and then find the offending Gesture and right click it.

On the right side of the Edit menu, highlight sound "whatever" Female. Just below that is a drop down menu titled Sound to play. Click the arrow and scroll to select a new sound. In this case you can choose "whatever" Male then save.