Credits and sources
Plain statements about where sounds come from and what each page loads. If something here is wrong, it will be corrected.
Recorded sounds
| Where | What | Source and licence |
|---|---|---|
| MeowSynth, home pads | Human meow impressions, sliced into samples | Two vocal recordings made for MeowSynth by Dre. |
| MonkeyBeat, home pads | Monkey impressions, sliced into hits | Recordings made for MonkeyBeat by Dre. |
| ThroatTapper | Throat flicks, taps and a hum | Recorded for ThroatTapper by Dre. |
| DarkKit | A real jazz drum kit: kick, snare, hats, toms, cymbals | Virtuosity Drums by Versilian Studios and Karoryfer Samples, performed by Austin McMahon at Virtuosity Musical Instruments, Boston. CC0 1.0. Source: github.com/sfzinstruments/virtuosity_drums. 15 hits (middle microphone mix) trimmed and converted to AAC. Licence text. |
| Crackshot | Real firearm recordings, sliced and processed | OpenGameArt: The Free Firearm Sound Library (CC0), Gunshots by kurt (CC0), Gunshot Sounds by Vincent Sevedge (CC BY 3.0, credited where used), a quiet Kenney CC0 layer, plus a computed sine thump. Full list: licences file. |
| Sonic Smithy | Library of sound effects to audition | Kenney asset packs (CC0): impact, interface, sci-fi, digital audio, casino, UI. See kenney.nl. Kenney makes some of these sounds with tools rather than microphones. |
Synthesised sounds
These make their sound live in your browser with code, not from recordings: DarkDeck, ChungusCello, BlueHeronBass, CircuitStomp, GlowGrain, PenrosePulse, DarkLabs FM, IcePenguin Clarinet, Safelight, Obscura and Resonance Core. They are marked Synthesised on the home page. For now they are shown as they are. DarkKit is the recorded drum kit; DarkDeck keeps its synthesised drums.
What loads from outside DarkLabs
The home page, instruments and embed pages load nothing from other sites. A few extra tools do, and say so on their cards:
- Earshot, Dark Cinema Lab, Resonic CLI Toolkit, Pipeline Test and CrateCall load scripts from public code hosts (unpkg, esm.sh, jsDelivr, Tailwind). CrateCall, Obscura and Safelight load fonts from Google Fonts.
- DarkLabs FM sends your feedback message (only if you choose to send it) to a notification service, as its page explains.
- Crate Capture and Sonic Smithy can search public sound libraries when you ask them to.
Privacy
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Tools made by others
Hero Drop, Hyper Dash and other names are the property of their owners. DarkLabs is a personal project and is not affiliated with them.