Sounds of the old PC Speaker

[skyscape]

Hi, I'm wanting to recreate the old sounds of the PC speaker as accurately as possible and in a modern environment. I guess I could install DOSBox and dig through some old tools to do this, but I was wondering if there were any more modern options available - eg a VSTi. I'm guessing any modern synth could recreate such sounds easily, but nailing the exact sound might be time consuming - any tips either on creating from scratch or on any dedicated software that would do this? I'm on Windows 8 if that means anything. Thanks!

[gustavokch]

Use Plogue Chipcrusher. Or a bitcrusher, filter and pc speaker IRs.

[deastman]

Chipcrusher is great. There is also AudioEase Speakerphone. I have both.

[BertKoor]

Why not just take an existing sample / field recording?
http://freesound.org/search/?q=PC+beep

[skyscape]

Thanks for the suggestions, all good. Chipcrusher + square wave seems to be getting me pretty close to what I want. I'm avoiding samples as I need to be able to create new unique sounds so synthesizing it is the best option for me for flexibility.

[davidv@plogue]

Depends if you are looking for PC speaker 'audio', which was really just PWM (1bit) encoded audio, in which case chipcrusher does it.
If you want to play the PC speaker BEEP/Tone, then chipsounds has that. In both case the speaker impulse is really the defining part of the sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZKDdA7 ... u.be&t=112

These are NOT samples, but a square wave going through one of my PC speaker impulses.

[GiuseppeSmhertz]

Small speakers can not reproduce sub bass or bass frequencies, so I would cut everything below 100 to highlight the medium and high frequencies. Then a bit of distortion of can make the trick.