I'm so far removed from having any musical knowledge or ability, but I was faced with a similar challenge of creating a small sound (in my case for Snake Quest, a game I was helping to create, coincidentally also in 1999). And what did I do?
Now a normal person would have just started playing around on the keyboard.
Guess I'm a normal person. Sat down at a midi keyboard I'd connected to my iMac (I had never-realized ambitions of using that keyboard to learn to play) and just hit a few keys at random. Then apparently added an awful clashing reverb effect (IIRC I also used SoundEdit at the time).
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Fascinating!
I'm so far removed from having any musical knowledge or ability, but I was faced with a similar challenge of creating a small sound (in my case for Snake Quest, a game I was helping to create, coincidentally also in 1999). And what did I do?
Guess I'm a normal person. Sat down at a midi keyboard I'd connected to my iMac (I had never-realized ambitions of using that keyboard to learn to play) and just hit a few keys at random. Then apparently added an awful clashing reverb effect (IIRC I also used SoundEdit at the time).My sound: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6692701/Sound%20Test.m4a
Reminds me of operating system errors from the 90s. :)