Re: [kde-artists] Start-up sound - Alpha 1

Hi Ernesto,

On Wednesday, June 05, 2013 12:31:05 Ernesto Manríquez wrote:
> I was tracking the discussion. If I understand well:
> 
> 1. You want to get rid of the current KDE start-up sound. It's too long,
> incoherent with the current elegance marketing theme, and consequently my
> attempt to make another sound compatible with it is long too and it has to
> be scrapped. So, compatibility with the current sound theme is not an
> issue.
> 
> 2. I'm sending now a new sound, beta quality (it lacks post processing and
> the tones are not final) based in a completely new concept: a tritone,
> symbolizing three letters (KDE), and with a soothing, yet compelling,
> sound. I've done a piano intro for that and the total length is 4 secs. If
> we get rid of the piano intro we can cut ~1,3 s, so we can get a pretty
> good start up with a 2,7 sec length.
> 
> 3. I want you to beta test this. Ideally, this should be the start up sound
> for KDE 4.11 beta 1. I know there is a deadline (July 8th, Artwork and
> Binding Freeze) and I want to make full use of it to test my changes.
> 
> 4. Aaron, ideally, for branding purposes, we must load the start up sound
> with the splash screen. The splash screen and the sound must be an unity,
> to introduce our desktop. Is that possible?
> 
> Well, here it is, attached to this mail. It's 74 KB, so it won't be an issue
> for many of you.
> 
> Ernesto Manríquez.

I think it is still way too "in your face". Something really subtle, almost 
unnoticeable would be better. I actually quite liked the idea of a wave 
arriving on the beach. Have you tried that?

Thanks for working on this, even if my feedback for this first draft is not 
really positive.

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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