Generating sound effects

There is an open-source app called Bfxr that allows us to make our own sound effects. Here is a very fast guide to making your own sound effects using Bfxr. Grab a free copy from www.bfxr.net. If your operating system isn't supported or if you prefer, you can generate sounds on the website in your web browser.

Tip

Note that the sound effects are supplied to you on the GitHub repo in the Chapter 11/assets folder. You don't have to create your own sound effects unless you want to. It is still worth getting this free software and learning how to use it.

Follow the simple instructions on the website to set it up:

Tip

This is a seriously condensed tutorial. You can do so much with BFXR. To learn more, read the tips on the website at the previous URL.

1. Try out a few of these things to make cool sound effects. First, run Bfxr:

   Figure 11.6 – Running Bfxr

2. Try out all the preset types that generate a random sound of that type...