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Star Trek Beeps, Chirps, and Warbles

Updated aug 14, 2008 by greg morris.

How this work??  Ditto! more than one person has asked this question and now here's a third... me...  .soundpack? windows does not recognize this as a file type, can anyone please explain and expound on this? Thank you so much!

very nice!thank you

Since no one has answered this yet (wow!) I figured it out. You gotta download this: Sound Packager from Stardock

You just made my wife's day thanks. I heard this and was instantly transported to another place. Sorry couldn't help it. Again really well done, thank you.

At last, a package of Trek sounds without the accidental series background noise. Add me to the long list of thoroughly impressed downloaders. Thank you for taking the time to put this together. You made my night!

Thank you, mate ! Star Trek fan here. A happier one starting today !

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The avaiable sound effects files were taken directly from the according Star Trek TV series or feature films, and from diverse interactive CD-ROM applications or games (Star Trek: TNG Interactive Technical Manual, Star Trek Captain's Chair, Star Trek Generations, Star Trek: DS9 Harbinger, Star Trek: Starfleet Command). All copyrights are the property of their respective holders. Concerning the public use of the files: since the sounds have been reworked and enhanced by the author, I expect credits with link to the Star Trek Dimension at all events.  

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Star Trek fans are usually technology fanatics. This stems from the fact that if you grew up when any "generation" of Star Trek episode was on, then you quickly became obsessed with the cool gadgets that the Star Trek crew carried and used throughout the ship (or on planets). Now that the world has progressed with tremendous technological advancements, many of those technologies are now a reality. Just last week, I had my temperature scanned with a probe that the nurse simply ran across my forehead. I had to double check to make sure I hadn't just entered the Enterprise sick bay. And then, I grinned... Star Trek is here.

Unfortunately, when it comes to our cell phones and computers, the cool sounds that came along with those old Trek gadgets simply never became a reality. Our computers beep and alert using all of the standard operating system sounds, our phones ring or buzz in various ringtones - but what ever happened to those cool Star Trek sound effects that our "communicators" are supposed to have? We've achieved some of the Tricorder technology with our GPS gadgets but where are the metallic beeps and chirps?  MakeUseOf has always offered some of the best sound resources for readers, such as a FindSounds , or a review of the Soungle - free sound effects website . While Star Trek sounds are certainly hard to find and exist only in some of the most obscure places on the Internet - today, I offer MakeUseOf readers a few useful sources for Star Trek computer sounds.

Finding Star Trek Computer Sounds

If you've been a Trekkie for years, or you just became a new member of the Trekkie community after the last film, you've probably learned pretty quickly that finding funky sounds for your mobile phone or your computer isn't exactly the easiest task in the world. If you perform a Google search, you'll quickly discover that most of the best files are buried deep in someone's web server archive. For some reason, many of the Star Trek fans don't seem to be the most advanced webmasters, so quite a few of these sites are hard to navigate. The following list offers some of the coolest Star Trek computer sounds, movie effects and even audio quotes that most Star Trek fans will immediately recognize from their favorite Star Trek generation. Without further ado, let's "Make it so."

Pimp Out Your Mobile Phone with Star Trek

While most folks go to the Next Pimp website to pimp out their phone with various hip-hop ringtones from Beyoncé or Justin Timberlake, Trek fans can go to the Star Trek page to download from a list of ten very cool Star Trek computer sound effects.

These are mostly a collection of various short computer sound effects from the various Star Trek series. One of my favorites is the Torpedo; but dooropen, Communicator and Incoming Message are also great for different functions of a Windows Mobile device, like an incoming email message or an appointment due. There aren't many options for ringtones here, but when you're done downloading all of these sound effect, your phone will be transformed into a device that will probably turn a few heads.

Composer Juan Portela Shares His Love of Star Trek

While digging through various forums and obscure web sites for some of the best Star Trek sound effects, I came across a link to a ZIP file, hidden within the website of composer Juan Portela.  Oddly, I couldn't find a single link to this file from his actual site, but the link from a forum post worked great. Clicking on the link will immediately open the ZIP file. After extracting it, you'll have a selection of 9 awesome "alert" sound effect files that you can use to totally trick out your PC's various sounds such as errors, email messages, just about anything else.

I've used a few of these on my own computer - I think in terms of Star Trek computer sounds for various Windows alert events, this collection is perfect.  These are essentially various sound files which Juan edited mostly from the airlock sounds. I've set all of my appointment settings to use these sound files whenever an alarm is due, and I still grin every time it goes off. After a while, you'll feel like you're living in the middle of your favorite Star Trek episode.

Download Star Trek Ringtones from CellSea

Personally, I've found the best mobile phone ringtones and sound effects just by doing a search for "Star Trek" on CellSea . Just a few examples from the list of free ringtones available there include the Enterprise computer voice saying "Command Functions are offline," a ringtone made from communicator beeps, and even one made from the Star Trek TNG main theme song.

After listening to the Star Trek TNG and experiencing a lot of great childhood memories flooding back - it's now my new mobile ringtone. This assumes that you can use MP3 ringtones on your phone, as that is the format of most of these.  Obviously, since they are MP3 files, you can use all of these awesome Star Trek sound files for your computer sound effects as well.

Hundreds of Star Trek Computer Sounds at the SoundBoard

SoundBoard is probably one of the best sources for Star Trek sounds that I've seen. A search for "Star Trek" at SoundBoard results in two pages of results. Each of those results features about a dozen tracks or so of some of the best Star Trek sound bites or sound effects that you'll find anywhere.

The SoundBoard features this very cool player that lets you test out all of the tracks within each category before you download it to your computer.

If you're looking for Star Trek WAV files, a fan from the UK created a "Matt's Movie Sounds" page, and there's an entire collection of over fifty audio quotes from the original series as well as The Next Generation. Another obscure source of Star Trek sounds is Frank's Radio , where there's a directory of over 100 Star Trek WAV files that include computer responses, beeps, sound effects and quotes.

Do you know of any other valuable resources for Star Trek sounds? Share them with other Trekkies in the comments section below!

Star Trek in Sound and Vision

When Star Trek in Sound and Vision got started, it was extremely difficult to find audio and high-quality image files on the web. Richard Sliwa and Dave Wythe aimed to become “ the definitive source of Star Trek -related Windows event sounds and graphics on the Internet” — and they succeeded.

They manually recorded all their sound files from VHS. The images were either screencapped or scanned from Star Trek Fact Files . Both must have been incredibly time-consuming.

The site had a different layout for each of the series with original LCARS graphics.

The earliest version in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is from December 1998 , but I think the site got started a year earlier. The last update was on July 11, 2001. The most recent capture is from August 2003 , after which the site went dark.

Loved this site. RIP

Man. I used to go to the public library, download stuff from this site, save it to floppy disks, and add the sounds to Windows 98 at home, because we didn’t have an internet connection. Talk about memories!

^ I did exactly the same thing back then.

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Douglas Grindstaff’s Sound Effects for the Original ‘Star Trek’

by Michael Kunkes

The original  Star Trek  series, which ran on NBC from 1966 to 1969, boldly went where no series had gone before in terms of sound effects editing.  The universe of the USS Enterprise was alive with sound, much of it musical in nature: computer banks, phasers, transporters, photon torpedoes, communicators, and alien and creature vocals.  Much of that was due to the singular vision of writer/producer Gene Roddenberry, along with the inventiveness of Douglas H. Grindstaff, who served as the show’s supervising sound effects editor for the entire 80-episode run.

Grindstaff, who entered the industry in 1954 after service in the Korean War, won five Emmy Awards for his television sound work as well as the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998.  He also headed the sound departments at Paramount Studios, Lorimar Telepictures, Columbia Studios and Pacific Sound before his retirement in 1990.

“When I went to work on the series, Gene described to me what he wanted the Enterprise to sound like,” Grindstaff recalls.  “I asked him if he didn’t think we were getting a little too ‘cartoony’ with the sound effects, and he told me, ‘Doug, I want you to think like an artist and paint everything with sound.’  That’s what he wanted, and that’s why the show sounded the way it did.  He had a very strong vision; you had to give him what he wanted, but you also had to use your own instinct about what should be.  You were either on his wavelength or you weren’t.”

Grindstaff and his crew built their tracks mainly from some material in the Paramount and Desilu sound effects libraries, as well as their own personal libraries.  Additional sounds came from Paramount’s 1953 version of  War of the Worlds .  Sadly, the library he meticulously created, bundled and catalogued is now lost to history.

Working with small TV budgets, Grindstaff maximized what he had.  For example, to create the shimmering, musical sound of the Enterprise transporter, he blended together a few musical effects and electric generator sounds.  Then, on a Moviola, he would create his own fades by shaving the mag sound with a razor blade at the desired point, a technique he learned from the late George Emich, who was Fred Astaire’s music editor at RKO, and who is co-credited with applying the click track to music editing.  “I created my own fades because I didn’t trust the mixers to get it the way I wanted it,” Grindstaff laughed.  “We also did all our own Foley and ADR looping.”

Other sounds were just as inventive.  At Roddenberry’s insistence, each planet visited by the Enterprise had to have its own sound, and for these, Grindstaff would use variations of an orchestra tuning up.  In one legendary episode, “The Trouble with Tribbles,” Grindstaff used screech-owls, doves and rat “vocals” for the voices of the furry pets, who came aboard the Enterprise and began reproducing at an alarming rate.  “I had to go from a single Tribble to the sounds of thousands of them filling the ship,” he says.  “I ran them backwards and forwards, put them on the variable speeder and edited loops, so I could have multiple tracks and mix them at different levels for different spots in the ship.”

The schedule was brutal.  “You were making things every week, and that was the tough part,” he recalls.  “I’d try and get as much ready as I could a couple of weeks before we got an episode, so that when the show was turned over to the editors, I had the sound effects pretty well set, and could tell them the right spots to put everything.  I also always insisted on having a sound effects editor at every mix.”

Nearly ten years after the Enterprise concluded its five-year mission, Grindstaff was offered a job by Roddenberry on Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).  He turned it down.  “Not long before that, I had gone to see Star Wars , and I flipped out,” he says.  “I just said to myself, ‘Man, we blew it; we should have made a Star Trek movie a lot sooner.’  But I sure intend to go see this one.”  Was he aware that he was creating something entirely new in sci-fi sound effects?  “Hardly; I was too busy working for Gene.”

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• Star Trek Generations (soundtrack) , which included 23 tracks of sound effects created for Star Trek Generations .
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• Star Trek: The Original Series Soundtrack Collection CD 5 also contains 10 sound effects which have been used in the show and another 8 unused that haven't.
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