Free sound effects software for linux

Sound Studio is a Tcl/Tk application written by Paul Sharpe as his third year individual project, for which he received the Microsoft Prize for Software Engineering. It was subsequently improved by Robin Whitehead.

It enables recording, playback and simple cut & paste editing of sound files of diverse formats on a PC equipped with a soundcard and the OSS (formally VoxWare) sound drivers.

It uses Lance Norskogs Sox for format conversion; the version weve used is bundled together with this software in its entirety to prevent incompatibility problems, although you should try it with your own sox if you have a more recent one.

Sound Studio is now "finished", but no doubt there are loads of bugs still to be found and features to be added.

Falcons Eye project is a mouse-driven interface for NetHack.
Falcons Eye is a mouse-driven interface for NetHack that enhances the visuals, audio, and accessibility of the game, yet retains all the original gameplay, and game features.
Main features:
- mouse-driven interface (keyboard play also supported)
- high-res, isometric graphics with real-time lighting
- ease of play: autopilot, tooltip descriptions of game objects, and more
- digitized sound effects
- MIDI soundtrack (listen to some samples)
- sound effects and keyboard commands are customizable
- retains all NetHack features

WorldForge::Acorn project is a pig farming game using the WorldForge engine.
Acorn is the second in a series of games created as part of the WorldForge bootstrapping endeavour, aimed at creating an engine for massively multiplayer online games.
The previous demo featured skeletons moving across crude maps. Acorn builds on this by incorporating a Python-scripted, event-driven rule system, a glient/server architecture using the Atlas Protocol System, goal-motivated artificial intelligence, herding behavior and nutrient-based growth simulation, sound detection and automated reaction, and a richer collection of artwork, sound effects, and music.
Main features:
- Python scripted, event-driven rule system
- Client/server architecture using the Atlas Protocol System
- Goal-motivated extensible artificial intelligence
- Herding behavior and nutrient-based growth simulation
- Sound detection and automated reaction
- Rich collection of artwork, sound effects, and music
Enhancements:
- A new, larger map with added terrain detail and lots of new graphics has been created.
- Server side collision detection has been implemented and buildings are now handled.
- Massive performance improvements have been made.
- A new population of village characters has been added.
- A new user interface has been created.
- Automatic detection of running servers has been added.

Vectoroids project is a vector-based asteroid shooting game in SDL.
Your objective is to maneuver a space ship within a field of asteroids, and shoot them into smaller and smaller pieces, eventually destroying them completely.
Vectoroids is based directly on the code for Agendaroids. It has been ported from X-Window to SDL, so it runs on numerous platforms.
Vectoroids includes music, sound effects, and lots of cool color vector graphics!
Main features:
- Smooth vector graphics
- Rotating asteroids
- Fast, table-based trigonometric functions
- High quality sound effects
- Great music
- Pause and resume (even if you quit)

Axis Runner project is a 3D game with a fast built-in graphics engine.
Axis runner is a 3D game inspired by the Apple II game "Lode Runner". It features a built-in graphics engine and runs fine without hardware acceleration. All direction is relative as characters climb up on the walls and ceiling, reminiscent of the fighting scenes in movies such as "The Matrix".
Main features:
- Custom built (fast!) graphics engine; can run on old pentiums.
- User controlled perspective.
- The cube walls, normally transparent, light up when characters are walking over them.
- All moves implemented: walk, rotate up, turn, dig, fall off, fall, take parcel, drop parcel, go to next level (walk on blue square), and character collision.
- 11 levels.
- Sound effects.

Open Beat Box (OBB) is an open-source beat box ( a virtual drum machine ).
We are still in an early stage of development but we aim full drum machine functionalities.
Main features:
- Highly customizable graphical interface, including bitmap skins and variable shape widgets.
- Floating tools : realy interesting with multi-screen.
- Skin aware help system that update the images acording to the skin you curently use.
- Plug-in architecture for sound effects.
- Portability : Windows, Mac, Unix
- Cross-platform file compatiblitily.
- Real-time preview and offline rendering for realy complex effect that cant be added real-time on your machine
- Distributed rendering over multiple computers.
- Customizable sound sample packages.
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
- Matel Power glove input driver.
Enhancements:
- Code major restructuration
- More performance
- Added XML Skins
- Gui enhancements (drop shadow on labels, centered spinbox label, mousescroll on slidebars)

Nicotine-Plus is a fork of Nicotine, the Python/GTK+ 2 client for the Soulseek P2P Network. Nicotine-Pluss features include remote uploads, separate shares sent to Buddies, GUI improvements, and a tray icon.
Enhancements:
GENERAL CHANGES
- Support for Spell Checking in chat added (libsexy and python-sexy required)
- Other users Interests are now shown in the User Info tab, with expanders
- Send Message added to trayicon
- Popup Menus in Private, Chatrooms, and User Browse reorganized
- The user-entry boxes are now buddy-list combobox entries
- Users with PyGTK >= 2.10 will use the gtk.StatusIcon instead of the old trayicon.so module.
- Added a filemanager popup item to the self-browse menu; configurable under Settings->Advanced->Events
- Gstreamer-Python support for sound effects added
- Added Soulseek testing server (port 2242) to the server combobox.
- Changed the URL Catchers syntax. The ampersand "&" is no longer needed at the end of URL Handlers. The handler entry is now a combobox and includes a bunch of webbrowser commands.
- Userlist Columns are hidable and hidden status is saved.
TRANSFERS
- Added a "Group by users" check box
- Added Expand/Collapse all toggle button to transfers
- Added a popup dialog to the "Clear Queued" transfers buttons
PRIVATE CHAT
- Added gallows patch for including your username in the private chat log. (ticket #161)
- Direct private messages (currently only supported by Nicotine+ >= 1.2.7.1)
SEARCH
- Search now has combo boxes, per-room searching and per-user searching.
- Added Wishlist and changed remembered search tabs to only display when new search results arrive
- Switch to newly started search tab (ticket #157)
USERINFO
- gallows added userinfo image zooming via the scrollwheel (ticket #160)
SETTINGS
- Changed Audio Player Syntax it now uses "$" as the filename
- Exit dialog can be disabled in Settings->UI
- When a config option is detected as unset, print it in the log window.
- Move Icon theme and trayicon settings to a seperate frame
- Move sound effect and audio player settings to a seperate frame
- Reopen Settings dialog, if a setting is not set.
NETWORKING
- On Win32, hyriands multithreaded socket selector is used. This will allow a larger number of sockets to be used, thus increasing stability.
- Added Server Message 57 (User Interests)
- Send rn with userinfo description instead of just n
BUGFIXES
- Uploads to other Nicotine+ users work better
- Userinfo Description does not scroll to the bottom of the window
- Fixed a few bugs with the trayicon
- Fixed server reconnection not actually trying to reconnect (and giving up on the first try)
TRANSLATIONS
- Lithuanian translation updated
- Euskare translation updated