Simple Soundboard is just that. It is written as just an HTML page to play looping ambient sounds, looping music, and instantaneous sound effects. It is just a web page that can be loaded off of the file system (though can be statically hosted if desired).
I wrote it for my Dungeons and Dragons game when I couldn't find a simple and free soundboard. Your browser is fully capable of mixing sounds and display a user interface. It's also pervasive to boot so it made sense to just make it a web page.
The example in this repository is statically hosted to play with: https://vietthe.dev/simple-soundboard/v2.0/soundboard.html
Open up soundboard.html in your favorite browser. I've tested it mostly with Firefox on Linux (Ubuntu), Firefox on Mac OS X, and Chrome on Mac OS X.
The project is not optimized for use on mobile devices.
The first screen you see is a list of all the soundboards defined in definitions.js. Clicking on a soundboard link takes you to it. The URL for a specific soundboard is simply the soundboard name in the query string. For example, you can go to the combat soundboard by appending ?combat to the soundboard.html URL. Multiple soundboards can be opened up in separate tabs and/or windows. This lets you organize your soundboards into orthogonal concerns allowing you to compose them (like "traveling" and "combat").
Each soundboard is a grid of sounds and/or sound groups. Each sound is placed into its own block. The block shows the audio widget(s) for the sound(s) which allows you to play/pause, scrub time, and change volume. Beneath the audio widgets are numerous convenience buttons.
- The first button contains the name of the sound or sound group. It can be used to quick-scrub to the beginning of the sound and play the sound.
- Next to it are the fade-in ("f in") and fade-out ("f out") buttons.
- The fade-in button will quick-scrub to the beginning of the sound, set the volume to zero, play the sound, and increase the volume to 100% over four seconds.
- The fade-out button simply transitions the volume to 0% over four seconds and stops the sound when the volume hits 0%.
- The row of buttons underneath are quick controls for changing volume.
- The "-10%" and "+10%" buttons will decrement and increment volume by 10% points respectively.
- The "0%", "50%", and "100%" buttons will directly set the volume to the specified level.
- Beneath all of the buttons there may be a loop checkbox. This controls whether the sound loops or not. By default sounds that are 50 seconds or longer are marked for looping. Sound groups cannot be looped and thus do not have a loop checkbox.
Edit definitions.js to change your soundboards. The soundboards global variable defined by this file will be used to define your soundboards. The variable should be a hash object where the key is the name of the soundboard and the value is a list of sounds and/or sound group definitions.
If a sound is specified as a string it is assumed to be the URL of the sound file. In order to support loading the soundboard from the filesystem the URLs should be written as relative to where soundboard.html is on the filesystem. Sounds that are longer than 60 seconds are automatically marked as looping, but you can simply change the loop checkbox to change whether that sound clip loops.
If the sound is specified as a hash object then two keys are expected: name and audio. name should just be a string for the text in the play button. audio should be an array of sound URLs associated with this one sound block. The object definition allows specifying multiple sounds to be played randomly from one button. Which sound is played is sampled randomly without replacement. This means each sound will be played once before any sound is repeated. These grouped sounds cannot be looped.
var soundboards = {}
soundboards.combat = [
'./relative/url/to/music.ogg',
{
'name': 'effect',
'audio': [
'./relative/url/to/effect-1.ogg',
'./relative/url/to/effect-2.ogg',
'./relative/url/to/effect-3.ogg',
],
},
];The project started off by editing ryandoherty/ClouserW-Soundboard.
To demonstrate the soundboard there are some example audio clips in the project that need to be attributed. These audio clips came from YouTube; their respective source URLs are listed below. The clips were chopped up and converted to OGG using Audacity. Some were manually edited to loop cleanly.
./ambient/docks.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35H1tJ-VUQ8./ambient/dripping-cave.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hwr_BaekgM./ambient/evening-town.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSbYpFMNxLI./ambient/forest-daytime.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Em9tLXbhfo./ambient/horseback-travelling.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIvykxZ0ppQ./ambient/night-camp.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KFoj-SOfHs./ambient/rapid-river.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRg0vHytUzg./ambient/small-marketplace.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2UulCWGess./ambient/thunderstorm.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqabnkMmqyM./ambient/town-square-daytime.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeOg8iCFfTA./ambient/woodland-village.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IEAfnRneP4./effects/arrow-loose-and-hit-*.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8VxBmZqFkY./effects/dirt-slam-*.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOWav94syLc./effects/dragon-bite-*.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOWav94syLc./effects/ooze-*.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxbTFBkNfgQ./effects/owlbear-roar-*.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqFjsnoDb2g./effects/slam-attack-*.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOWav94syLc./effects/swimming-*.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4JImUZwTwo./effects/sword-clash-*.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3mktVQ-n_c./effects/thunder-clap-1.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHeLUVDYLIg./effects/thunder-clap-2.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZpgHrKXooc./effects/thunder-clap-3.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZpgHrKXooc./effects/thunder-clap-4.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZpgHrKXooc./effects/wave-crash-*.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvNNTc6ZPtQ./music/darkest-dungeon-the-cove-battle.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tluwkXgr93Y./music/skyrim-ost-blood-and-steel.ogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_AUBic3NEo
So far I've been finding clips and audio tracks on YouTube, grabbing them using youtube-dl, and editing them using Audacity. I've been doing this all on a Ubuntu machine. youtube-dl can be grabbed using pip. Audacity can be installed from the Ubuntu package repository (sudo apt install audacity).
The interface is purposefully spartan. Feel free to send me pull requests if you have nice styling or features.
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