Hello, I’ve come up with two start-up sounds that might be of interest. What do you think?
These are ogg files.
Cheers, Socapex_2K
I get redirected to their main page from the links.
Sorry about that. Here’s the working links:
I like them, especially the shutdown sound. My only critique is that they sound too similar, you should try adding more distinction between them.
I don’t like either of them myself too chaotic… the BeOS Max PE boot sound is awesome have you heard it?
No I haven’t heard those, and I too felt mine were very charged. I’ve never made OS sounds before so I was basically having fun. The second version is an attempt to make it a bit lighter. Who knows if I’ll make more, beeps and dongs are probably easy to make though.
EDIT: By the way there’s know shut-down sound. The other version is just because I didn’t know which one to pick.
A great first effort! I much prefer something featuring an acoustic sound, so the second sample is my favorite of the two. The lighter sound fits Haiku’s overall “light” presentation. My all time favorite startup sound, from any OS, is the 12-string guitar startup sound that was bundled with the ancient BeOS 5 “Developer’s Edition” distro. I think it originally came from BeOS5 PE. Light, bright, clearly acoustic with just enough synthesized sparkle’n’fill ambience to make it interesting.
The start up sounds aren’t available anymore, shame cause I was curious about how they sounded.
I think something harmonic played with a shamisen (Japanese string instrument) would fit nicely as Haiku start up and shut down sound.
I’m also interested in hearing them if you can get them back up.
Only my haiku that’s start up sounds don’t play in start up? Someone has the same problem?
They weren’t harmonic I remember that much 
I checked web.archive.org but there wasn’t a backup of the page
@michaeloliveira Haiku doesn’t have a startup sound by default I think there is a preference menu to set it up though
Thanks for your reply cb88,
but is exactly what I mean to say
I checkout sound pref. and set a startup sound, but haiku don’t play my .wav file at startup 
You can listen and play some shamisen there:
http://www.itchu.com/e/e_shamisen_sound.html
I like the sound of this instrument
Yeah, a slow harmonic theme played with shamisen and taiko drums should suit Haiku well. There are some vids on Youtube for those who are curious about the sound of those instruments.
Staretup sounds are not implemented yet.
to play a sound at startup, edit the file:
/boot/home/config/UserBootsctipt
add:
sleep 5
playfile /path_to__file/filename
I think we can get ideas from the current games and soundtracks from Japan. For example, I think that the Okami OST is a great point to study.
I made a pseudo startup sound in Nudge (inudge.net), tell me what you think. Have in mind that i’m not a musician
Hello,
Activities I have decided to develop a sound scheme for Haiku. I have some already developed, buyout spread here. If you are satisfied, you can include them in the system and use, in which case I will work on refining existing sounds and develop missing.
http://rapidshare.com/files/289559788/sound.zip.html
Regards,
StoroZ Gneva™
http://inudge.net/inudge#/bdem I looked at oscarcp little thing, and the website was interesting so I made one too
links are down 
Here’s a link to the soundtrack from the game ‘Ace Combat 5’, which is a fighter jet-type game. Have a look at ‘Title’ and ‘Arcade Title’. They’re quite technical, and too military-like for Haiku, but I like the feel of them. Have a browse through the whole thing, as there are some great tunes-great for home video projects!
Also, I personally believe that we should keep the sounds simple, and light, whether for start-up or not. The ones on Windows are so overpowering, annoying, and noisy. I think that having few, quiet sounds reinforces the concept of Haiku.