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See this video... http://www.istartedsomething.com/uploads/vistasounds.mov
The Vista sounds are basically the XP sounds made to sound cooler, and more mac like. The start up sounds are more gentle, cooler and generally more appealing. Im gland that vile information bar sound has gone although I use firefox/opera so I don't really hear it often at all anyway
Of course, this isn't just any four-second clip. It's the sound — a soft da-dum, da-dumm, with a lush fade-out — that millions of computer users will hear every day, and perhaps thousands of times in total, when they turn on computers running Vista
As well as that, nearly every Vista sound is shorter than the XP version, and I think they are better quality.
Some musicians spend 18 months working on a whole album. At Microsoft Corp., that's how long it took to perfect just four seconds of sound.
Windows Vista Blog wrote:
While the Windows XP sounds were appropriate at the time Windows XP was built, they were very 'Western' and literal (e.g., you could tell that the sounds were played by a piano and other western orchestral instruments). The Windows XP sounds were not consistent with the interface design goals of Windows Vista, so we overhauled the sounds to complement and blend with the softer, cleaner Windows Aero Glass theme and user interface elements for Windows Vista.
It was our goal for the sounds to be just noticeable enough that if they weren’t there you would miss them, but they’re subtle enough that they don’t get in your way. Just like the visual cues of the new Start button, the audio cues of the new sounds are "rounded" and "translucent." The default sound scheme in Windows Vista is intentionally much gentler and softer than in previous versions.
The Windows Vista Startup sound: is made of dual ascending 'glassy' melodies played on top of a gentle fading Fripp 'AERO' Soundscape has two parallel melodies played in an intentional "Win-dows Vis-ta" rhythm consists of 4 chords, one for each color in the Windows flag is 4 seconds long, end-to-end is a collaboration between contributors Robert Fripp (primary melody + Soundscape), Tucker Martine (rhythm) and Steve Ball (harmony and final orchestration) would never have been possible without the great work of Microsoft's Steve Ball and his team. There’s an interview with Steve airing tomorrow morning (November 10, 2006) on NPR radio (we’ll post a link when it's available), if you’d like to hear more about these new sounds and the process of generating them.