KVR Audio

braj · Post by **braj** » Tue May 29, 2012 7:30 pm

I'm hoping to find a vst or sample library/set of wavs of bird calls from around the world. They should be labors accurately so the original bird is identifiable. I have a little app for my phone like this but it would be really cool to make some compositions based on bird calls, create grooves, inherit their melodies etc. Anyone know where to look?

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Tue May 29, 2012 7:31 pm

braj wrote: Anyone know where to look?

up would be a good start

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Tue May 29, 2012 7:33 pm

single birds are hard to record, especially round here, too many diff species going at once

braj · Post by **braj** » Tue May 29, 2012 7:35 pm

Kriminal wrote:
braj wrote: Anyone know where to look?
up would be a good start

braj · Post by **braj** » Tue May 29, 2012 7:37 pm

Kriminal wrote:single birds are hard to record, especially round here, too many diff species going at once

Yeah actually I should look for ornithological websites instead, kvr maybe is not the right place

my dad had records of bird songs when I was a kid, I know if it was possible in 1970 it must be possible now

cytospur · Post by **cytospur** » Tue May 29, 2012 7:38 pm

A few here:

http://www.xeno-canto.org/europe/all_species.php

And here:

http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Tue May 29, 2012 7:50 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/birdsong.shtml
http://new.thelounge.com/uk/feature/rspb-birdsong

jdt · Post by **jdt** » Tue May 29, 2012 7:55 pm

You might find this interesting to try:

http://www.kvraudio.com/product/sounds_ ... e_by_xoxos

VoltAirOhm · Post by **VoltAirOhm** » Tue May 29, 2012 7:57 pm

Cool,thanks for the links!

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Tue May 29, 2012 8:06 pm

braj wrote:I know if it was possible in 1970 it must be possible now :-)

I have several sets of thin vinyl "soundsheet"-style phonograph records of bird songs, each record about one inch in diameter. It's not the whole collection but there are quite a few there. They are the smallest working phono records I've ever seen and possibly the smallest there are.

I would not recommend you find and use those, as the sound is probably pretty bad. I've not played them because they're so small the arm pickup mechanism kicks in soon as I move the stylus over to cue one up. Takes a completely manual turntable to play them. Figured I'd mention them because the 1970s is probably when they were made.

tuz · Post by **tuz** » Tue May 29, 2012 8:09 pm

try freesound.org

ford442 · Post by **ford442** » Tue May 29, 2012 8:16 pm

my most recent track has a lot of birdsong - not used musically though..

http://soundcloud.com/noahcohn/arboreality

bob bobwood · Post by **bob bobwood** » Tue May 29, 2012 8:31 pm

where's Percy Thrower when you need him (sadly passed away)
further to tuzs' suggestion; http://www.freesound.org/search/?q=bird

Tricky-Loops · Post by **Tricky-Loops** » Tue May 29, 2012 8:32 pm

braj wrote:my dad had records of bird songs when I was a kid, I know if it was possible in 1970 it must be possible now

Before you can use samples of the birds legally, you have to ask the birds themselves if they permit it and let them twitter the license agreement...

(according to the "Law for the protection of bird singings")

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Tue May 29, 2012 8:50 pm

tuz wrote:try freesound.org

There's that. I've got just one item on that site, a recording of frogs and toads and birds as darkness fell about a week ago. If there are specific birds whose sounds you'd like, or kinds of terrain, say so and maybe I can record some for you. (I know it's not a library but might be useful anyway.) I'm in the mid-Atlantic (central Virginia) and can get to forest, swamp, river, suburban, and urban settings for recording purposes. My recorder is a Zoom H4n, bulky and slow to boot but the quality's rather nice.

bird songs?