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Community update July 2019

Hi everyone! Summer is here and here we are with some news about latest Freesound developments. This time we have released changes in Freesound which have a very big impact on the performance of the site and also some important … Continue reading

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Freesound goes Eurorack Hardware with CTAG Str?mpler

[Guest blog post by Robert Manzke alias rma31] Hi, my name is Robert, some 6 years back I have founded the academic working group “Creative Technologies AG” (CTAG) at Kiel University of Applied Sciences in Germany. In the domain of … Continue reading

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Community update May 2019

Hi everyone! It’s been some time since the last community update, but we’ve kept you busy with other kinds of very interesting blog posts so you’ll hopefully have not noticed 🙂 Anyway, here is a summary of the latest updates … Continue reading

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Out of the ordinary Freesound usage

Hi Freesounder! The Music Technology Group is the research institute based in Barcelona, Spain, that has created, maintains and keeps supporting Freesound for now over 10 years. MTG is turning 25 this year and we will be presenting Freesound as … Continue reading

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Sustainability Report 2018

Dear Freesounders, Remember when we discussed about the future sustainability of Freesound almost two years back? We mentioned back then that we would keep you updated about the status of the sustainability of Freesound, including general information about the donations … Continue reading

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2018 in numbers

Dear all, Following the tradition of the last years, here are some statistics about the use of Freesound during 2018 🙂 . The statistics are presented following the same structure as in 2016′s and 2017′s post, with a special focus … Continue reading

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Community update December 2018

Hi again dear Freesounders, Welcome back to our (not really) monthly blog post about things happening in the Freesound dev world! You’ll have noticed that lately we’ve been a bit less active writing in the blog. This is because some … Continue reading

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Preserving the USC Optical Sound Effects Library

[Guest blog post by Craig Smith] Last August, I uploaded 1,233 vintage optical sound effects from various Hollywood productions ranging from the 1930s to 1950s. This is part of a large project I’ve been working on for nearly three years. This collection … Continue reading

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Community update September 2018

Hi again… …and welcome back to our community update post! This month we don’t have any major user-ready features to show, but there are a number of things we’ve been doing in the background which will allow nice new stuff … Continue reading

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Community update August 2018

Hi everyone, Summer’s been hot in Barcelona but we’ve been working hard (well, we did some holidays as well!) and we have some new things deployed to Freesound 🙂 These are the new main things: “Streets” layer in maps: some … Continue reading

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