Download Mac Os System Sounds

UPDATE (2020/12/08): The contest has concluded. See this blog post for the results.

It wouldn’t be wrong to say that, Haiku is a unique operating system. It takes its roots from BeOS, the OS everyone envied back in the day. Haiku continues to follow its footsteps, trying to deliver that same experience. What could be better than complementing this unique operating system with a set of unique system sounds?

As R1 steadily approaches, we are looking for contestants (amateur, professional, enthusiast) to produce system sound effects for Haiku. Specifically sounds for:

SoundPackager brings customization of your auditory experience to Object Desktop! Users can now choose from 'sound packages' to enhance their Windows desktop experience. Over 30 different system sounds are supported; unique new Stardock Design sound packages are included with the package. The Mac OS Anthology, intended for third-party developers to test their software against different versions of the Macintosh operating system, was first announced by Steve Jobs at the WWDC in May 1999. Due to its archival nature, the various Mac OS. Mac OS 9.1 (bootable/all supported systems and languages). Mac sound scheme is a port of Mac OS X sounds for Windows. For Windows PC users, these sounds may be interesting but OS X fans will feel right at home. This theme was initially designed for Windows XP, but can be applied to any version of Windows. It contains 44 sound files. Asterik.wav Close.wav Complete. Mac OS X Mountain Lion (version 10.8) is the nineth major release of Mac OS X (now named macOS), Apple’s desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. OS X Mountain Lion brings a lot of great things from iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch to the Mac. You can send iMessages. Get your Mac in on Game Center. Receive notifications. Search for Mac audio files? Find sounds on Mac? Apple Mac System Sounds Folder. If you want to know where is located the default system sounds on MacOS, here.

General:

Beep
A nice and soothing startup chime

Notifications:

Information notification
Important notification
Error notification
Progress notification (= the percentage of the progress bar gets updated)

Key/mouse events:

Key down
Key repeat
Key up
Keymap switch
Mouse down
Mouse up

Window events:

Window activated (= gets focus)
Window close
Window minimised (= window tab gets double-clicked to hide the window)
Window open
Window restored (= gets ‘unminimised’)
Window zoomed (= when ‘zoom’ button (right widget in tab) is clicked)

Contest guidelines

All sound effects except the startup chime should be up to 1 second long. If the situation calls for, it can be longer, but it should not exceed 2 seconds. For startup chime, the limit is 5 seconds.
All sound effects should be non-intrusive. Distorted tunes, high-pitched tunes will not be considered.
Expanding on “haiku” and related themes are encouraged.
Entries need to be in uncompressed PCM format.
Entries should include a note that the work is licensed under CC Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International or a similar license. The license file should look something like this:

Naming the sound files according to the theme is encouraged, but intended sound event should be noted appropriately.

Submission deadline

Deadline for the contest is November 25th, 2020; we would like to have the new default sound theme ready in time around Haiku Beta3. We also plan to package and release qualifying submissions as separate packages available for download on the main Haiku software repository.

How to participate

Send an e-mail to humdingerb (gmail) com and bitigchi (me) com with a link to your zipped up work. Entries and news regarding the contest will be added to this post.

The winner will be decided by a poll in Haiku forums starting December 1st, 2020, and will be announced on the website and the Haiku general mailing list on December 7th, 2020.

Thanks for being a part of the Haiku universe!

Contest Entries (In-progress)

bearlyMatt - Komorebi (Download link [3.1 MiB] - added 2020/11/25)
Benjamin Davis (Download link [3.3 MiB] - added 2020/11/07)
Dahuyn Lee - Meditation Time (Download link [4 MiB] - added 2020/11/19)
Daniel Diaz (Download link [4.4 MiB] - added 2020/10/03)
Denis Čumak - Clack (Download link [5.8 MiB] - added 2020/11/10)
Garrett Kabler - burg’s-sparkly-tones (Download link [1.8 MiB] - updated 2020/11/24)
Humdinger - Low Modulorian (Download link [2.9 MiB] - updated 2020/10/13)
Jason Richardson - Bassling (Download link [3.6 MiB] - added 2020/10/04)
Joshua Spann - Zen (Download link [1.6 MiB] - updated 2020/10/13)
Luke Stegmayer - Nature (Download link [2 MiB] - updated 2020/11/26)
Maksim Malerson - Basics (Download link [723 KiB] - updated 2020/11/19)
Nomys Tempar - The Poet Operating System Theme (Download link [2.8 MiB] - added 2020/11/17)
Olivier Coursière - Supposedly Not Too Annoying Theme (Download Link [4.9 MiB] - added 2020/11/25)
Parnikkapore - Yanqim (Download link [2.2 MiB] - updated 2020/11/25)
Gareth White - Straight Outta Cronton (Download link [3.4 MiB] - added 2020/10/10)
Tim Lyakhovetskiy - Leafy (Download link [2.6 MiB] - added 2020/10/17)
Ward Bones - Zen Peace (Download link [3.2 MiB] - added 2020/11/19)

You can download all entries in one tar.gz archive [52 MiB]. Unpack with Expander.

UPDATE (2020/12/08): The contest has concluded. See this blog post for the results.

As R1 steadily approaches, we are looking for contestants (amateur, professional, enthusiast) to produce system sound effects for Haiku. Specifically sounds for:

General: