FreeSound class for SuperCollider released as a Quark

Some of you might know about the Freesound project ( http://www.freesound.org ). The website is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed “sounds”. By “sounds”, they mean “samples only”, that are snippets of recorded stuff which are not to be identified as “songs”. It has a quite big community and they provide an API for software developers to access and get sounds from the database, which I think is great!

Last year when I was coding deQuencher, I made a freesound agent for it, which grabbed a random sample from the freesound database (based on a provided keyword) that would make it readily available for usage in a live performance / improvisation situation. Today I released a SC Quark which provides similar functionality for the sclang environment. Choose a keyword, set your search options, the quark handles the necessary searching and downloading operations for you, and you can use the downloaded file right away in a live performance. Yummy. You can get it from the official Quarks repository.