Tuesday, November 14, 2006
After 18 months, 4 seconds of sound to define Windows Vista
Post Gazette: "Of course, this is not just any four-second clip. It is the sound -- a soft da-dum, da-dumm, with a lush fade-out -- that millions of computer users will hear every day, and perhaps thousands of times in total, when they turn on computers running Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Vista operating system."
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I think its quite funny that such a sound effect took a team so long to come up, but amazingly, it is all worth it. The current sound that Windows XP uses when it boots up has unbelievable mental power. At one point when my computer decided to crash, i restarted the computer being incredibly nervous about the health of my thousand dollar machine. Then... THE SOUND! I exhaled and felt like everything would be okay. I guess its just another example of the underestimated potential of sound design. Its the hardest to verbalize, but i think, the easiest to feel.
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