Robot Cousin Soundworks

So, I’m a huge fan of Minecraft and I was at work today, not doing much during lunch hour. I was checking out the latest version (1.8 prebuild 2) and had encountered the Enderman/Endermen. Without going into too much detail, I found them really freaky, until…. I heard them. They were using the same sounds as the (Minecraft) zombies do. Those sounds aren’t bad, but they’re very much zombie sounds.

I thought to myself “What’s scary and creepy?” There was only one answer…

Baby laughter!

2 of the following 4 sounds (the non-loop ones) are modified versions of a baby laughing. I remember first hearing something like this during The Blair Witch Project, when the three campers are woken up by noises right outside their tent. It was creepy until you hear the baby, and then it’s brought to a whole other level.

I know that they probably already have Enderman sounds ready to go, but I couldn’t help it. Hopefully, someday when there’s proper mod support, I’ll develop a full sound-pack.

Here you go!

Enderman One

Enderman Two

Enderman Chitter Loop

Enderman Whistle Loop

Highly entertaining and very informative, I give you “MARSH: Slipperman’s Recording Distorted Guitars Thread from Hell”

An exerpt:

You gotta start in the room with ‘the sound’. First, Put in some fucking earplugs, so when you go to get sounds on the desk later you’ll actually have an opinion on ANYTHING. Then, get ‘Einstein’ to fiddle with his miserable square wave rectifier/noise generator until he confirms it is indeed producing “his sound”. The incredibly new and amazing sound you haven’t heard from anybody else…. in the last 15 minutes. This is MAJOR, once attained, we now have a starting point. We can now feel free to embark on our hellish voyage into the most fruitless and subjective undertaking ever conceived in the history of man’s sad efforts on this sad and forgotten pebble in space. “A great guitar sound”. Something NOBODY has agreed upon for more than 15 minutes since Ike left the White House.

Just stumbled across a free e-book on sound design/synth programming, titled “How to Make a Noise: A Comprehensive Guide to Synthesizer Programming“. I haven’t read a lot of it yet, but will be poring over it eventually. Even though there’s a more complete retail version of it that comes with patches to download outside of the ones for Chapter 1, I would think that anyone could gain at least something from checking out the free version. Have at it!