Unhelpful Robot Remixed into a Song!

So, two years ago I recorded a series of cell phone alerts I titled "Unhelpful Robot", and they were pretty popular for a while. I haven't checked in on them for a while, but apparently people have still been downloading them, which is pretty rad.

Well I just received a message from a DJ in Amsterdam who has used Unhelpful Robot in a club track, that he's actually played FOR OTHER PEOPLE. I can't tell you how exciting this is for a lowly sound designer like myself. I cut my teeth recording club tracks, and I wasn't that good at it, so having someone else not only enjoy your work, but SHARE it with you, is pretty rad.
So now I'll share it with you!

"What Dave Does" by Save and Sound:

Save and Sound feat Some Audio Guy - What Dave Does by Save and Sound

Download the original Unhelpful Robot alerts!
SomeAudioGuy on Freesound!

Audio Guy is now on Freesound!

Hey all,
If you haven't checked it out before, the Freesound Project is great place to find enthusiast sound effects, recordings, and music samples. All clips submitted are under a Creative Commons license.

I finally got around to posting some of my work up (including some Unhelpful Robot), so if you're needing elements or sound effects, you should check it out.

I've also added a link to the right hand side (Audio Guy around the web) ------>

Unhelpful Robot for Skype and VOIP

Hey all!
Thanks for the positive feedback on UR.
I went back in to record a few more alerts for myself for Skype, VOIP, and Instant Messengers.
You can download them here:
VOIP TONES FOR UnHelpFul RoBot

Take a listen:


And you can download the original batch of U.R. HERE.

UnHelpful Robot is now MULTI-Format!!!

Yup.

You now have a variety!

Download UR in High Quality WAV

Download UR in Medium Quality MP3

Download UR in Low Quality WAV

Download UR in AMR

And again, here's a good link for people that are having questions on how to put ringtones on their phones.

Lemme know what you think, and please feel free to pass these along.

Enjoy!


***Update 8/25/08***

Recently I've been using Ventones to get ringtones and alerts on my friends cellphones.
It's the first service I've found that plays well with most cell carriers (even Verizon Woot!), and it's pretty easy to use.

Update to Unhelpful Robot: Now in .WAV!

Hey,
Got a couple request from people about putting U.R. in .wav files instead of mp3.
I left them in 16 bit, so the files are a little bigger, but should sound pretty good.

I'm trying to figure out which other formats I can convert into now (AMR, WTF), so if your phone doesn't support mp3 or wav, it might work with something else.

UNHELPFUL ROBOT IN MP3

UNHELPFUL ROBOT IN WAV

And if you are having trouble getting ringtones on your phone, ABOUT.com has a great primer on each of the major cellphone makers (Nokia, Motorola, etc) and how to get files transfered to them.

About.com Cellphone Primer


***Update 8/25/08***

Recently I've been using Ventones to get ringtones and alerts on my friends cellphones.
It's the first service I've found that plays well with most cell carriers (even Verizon Woot!), and it's pretty easy to use.

Free Ringtones and Alerts: UnHelpful RoBot!!!

So I finally finished the editing for my UnHelpful Robot series of ringtones and alerts. I designed the alerts around my Windows Mobile phone, so there might be some alerts in here which only work for the features of a WM phone, and I might be missing alerts for other types of phones.

My general inspiration for U.R. comes from classic "evil" sci-fi computers. They always seemed to deliver vital information just a split second too late for the villain to do anything about it. Almost as if they had their own nefarious goals to fulfill.
A perfect example would be the Nod Computer from C&C. It always seemed to let me know one of my units was under attack just after it was to late to save them.

So anywho, please download these ringtones and alerts, give em a spin, and let me know what you think. The link contains a zip file with over 27 individual files, each a 128Kbps MP3.

DOWNLOAD UNHELPFUL ROBOT HERE

Don't hear what you need?
Would you like to customize U.R.'s alerts?
Would you like to hear U.R. say "I'm a big fat doody head"?
U.R. will say anything you want for $1.99 per ring tone/alert. Contact me at SomeAudioGuy@gmail.com for more info.

ENJOY!


***Update 8/25/08***

Recently I've been using Ventones to get ringtones and alerts on my friends cellphones.
It's the first service I've found that plays well with most cell carriers (even Verizon Woot!), and it's pretty easy to use.