{"id":21170,"date":"2018-04-09T15:11:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T19:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21170"},"modified":"2018-05-14T11:14:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T15:14:13","slug":"jim-reekes-discusses-apple-sound-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/09\/jim-reekes-discusses-apple-sound-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Reekes Discusses Apple Sound History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/03\/24\/jim-reekes-the-apple-sound-designer-who-created-sosumi.html\">Jeniece Pettitt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/03\/24\/jim-reekes-the-apple-sound-designer-who-created-sosumi.html\"><p>Apple users may notice that their computers and phones are filled with well-designed sounds that effortlessly blend into the experience &mdash; from the gentle keyboard clicks to the pings that alert you when something is wrong.<\/p><p>But what they may not know, is that three of the most famous Apple sounds &mdash; the boot up chord, the camera click and the &ldquo;Sosumi&rdquo; beep, all were created by one man, mostly from his San Jose living room.<\/p><p>His name is Jim Reekes. He started working at Apple in the late 1980s as a sound designer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2018\/03\/24\/former-apple-sound-designer-history\/\">Mitchel Broussard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2018\/03\/24\/former-apple-sound-designer-history\/\"><p>Reekes also looked back on the Mac&rsquo;s original startup tone, which annoyed him &ldquo;immensely&rdquo; because the Mac crashed so many times that it was easy to equate the tone with a frustrating situation. Although he didn&rsquo;t have permission to change it, he recorded a new c-major chord in his living room and used The Beatles song &ldquo;A Day in the Life&rdquo; as inspiration.<\/p><p>Eventually, Reekes managed to sneak the sound into the original Macintosh Quadra computer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT202768\">Apple<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT202768\"><p>Mac computers introduced before late 2016 make a chime sound when they start up. Mac computers introduced after late 2016 don&rsquo;t have a startup chime, with the exception of MacBook Air (13-inch, 2017).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Update (2018-04-09): There&rsquo;s also a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QkTwNerh1G8\">video interview<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nubero\/status\/983444322778603521\">nubero<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeniece Pettitt: Apple users may notice that their computers and phones are filled with well-designed sounds that effortlessly blend into the experience &mdash; from the gentle keyboard clicks to the pings that alert you when something is wrong.But what they may not know, is that three of the most famous Apple sounds &mdash; the boot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-05-14T15:14:16Z","apple_news_api_id":"0cbb847c-8545-4307-af47-9017514d5cb7","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-05-14T15:14:16Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ADLuEfIVFQwevR5AXUU1ctw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[95,458,295,224,209,30,153],"class_list":["post-21170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-audio","tag-finder","tag-history","tag-itunes","tag-legal","tag-mac","tag-photography"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21184,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170\/revisions\/21184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}