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Windows starting-sounds
Mac Startup Sound Download Mp3 Youtube
The visitcard of windows is the music, which will played when windows isstarting.
All single files can be found here:
Windows 3.1x & Windows NT 3.xx
Tada.wav called this start-up sound, which is just a second.
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The Shutdown Sound: Xylophon.wav
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Interestingly, the other way around WfW uses the sounds for starting and ending as the normal 3.1 versions and NT. It is the shortest sound with less than a second. Original name Xylophon.wav
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Shutdown Sound tada.wav.
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Mac Startup Sound Mp3
Windows 95 (all)
The Windows 95 startup sound is something special. The first time it was not just a simple signal, but a jingle. The story behind it is something with Brian Eno, on aseparate page . Duration: about 6 seconds.
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Nothing per default, but when installing all audio files in setup and load the default sound scheme you hear the shutdown sound tada.wav.
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Actually, the login sound. Duration 10 seconds.
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The log off Sound.
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Windows 98 (SE)
The modern interpretation of the Windows 95 Sound. Duration of approximately 7 seconds.
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Nothing per default, but when installing all audio files in setup and load the default sound scheme you hear the logoff sound.
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Probably the strangest sound. Created for a beta version, not used in the final product. Matthew A Felton was an composer. Duration 13 seconds.
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Windows Me & Windows 2000
The Windows 2000 Sound is just 5 seconds.
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No sound per default. With ME you have to load the non-default `Windows-default´ sound scheme. In Win 2000 the file is present, but not used in the default scheme.
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Lasts 4 seconds. Unfortunately there is no information about the artist.
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The Logoff sound.
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Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
Length: 4 second. Watch a Making of Video onChannel 9.
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The Logoff sound.
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Length: 4 second.
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The Logoff sound.
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>>This [mp3] famous Mac startup sound (still installed in every new Mac) was recorded Jim Reekes, and first used on the Quadra 700, which launched in 1991 costing $7,000.
>> Jim's most famous pop-culture moment was the scene in Jurassic Park where the park's computers are all rebooted with his sound. But it's most awesome musical use is as the bassline in Transformer di Roboter's ace cover of 'Stranger in Moscow' - here [mp3]
>> Jim 'came out' about creating various Mac sounds (most famously Sosumi) to Boing Boing last month. But he's never before revealed how he actually made them:
>> 'The startup sound was done in my home studio on a Korg Wavestation. It's a C Major chord, played with both hands stretched out as wide as possible (with 3rd at the top, if I recall). This just sounded right to me. I wanted something really fat, heavy bass, high notes, and a sharp attack. The chiffy sound was from pan pipes and something like a stick hit (I'm testing my memory here). I wanted lots of evolving timbres, stereo phasing, and reverb for further richness.'
>>'Mac people are very familiar with the sound, after restarting their machines too often. In fact, that was one of the issues I was conscious of when designing the sound. Turning the Mac on is one thing, but being forced to reboot from a crash is a totally different experience. I wanted to avoid a sound that would be associated with the crash. I wanted it to sound more like a 'palette cleanser'.
>>'After I changed the startup sound (which required much persuasion and working around the system) the ROM engineers continued changing it with each new machine. Some of them were weak, such as the Stanley Jordon guitar strum used on the first PowerMacs. I objected to it, because that sound had no 'power'. The engineer wasn't a recording engineer, and not familiar enough with audio. The sound was hallow and without depth. When Steve Jobs returned in 1997, I heard he wanted only one sound for all Macs. He wanted the 'good one' which was the one I created. At least that's how I heard the story, and I was still working there at the time.'
>> If you're concerned that you don't know enough about vintage Mac Startup sounds, I can recommend Mactracker, which runs on Mac or PC. Don't show it to your girlfriend.
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