Microsoft Entourage X

 

Entourage X is a kind of OutLook Express enhancement, which is part of the Office X suite.

It is an enhanced mail client, which contains also a calendar and a task reminder with alarm.

Entourage's sonification is almost the same as Outlook's. Only one difference : a reminder sound is added (it is an alarm for the task reminder).

 

* Sonification settings can be modified using the preference window.

 

* A sound set file is an archive that contains the 6 samples.

It is called a "Microsoft Entourage sounds" file, and is located in users/documents/Microsoft User Data/Entourage Sound sets.
Sound set files can be created and edited using "Expression" - see tools page.

 

* Entourage X is proposed with two sound sets : "Default" and "Microsoft sound set" (the last one already used in OutLook Express 5)

 
Defaut sound set
Microsoft sound set
Welcome
New message
Sent message
Mailbox error
No new message
Reminder

 

* As for OutLook Express, a lot of custom sound sets can be found over the internet - see the links page.

These sound sets are sometimes purely practical, and often derived from video games, movies, songs....

Here are four examples :

 
NeXTStep (practical)
Mac secret sounds 2001 (practical)
Starcraft Fx (game)
Zelda 64 (game)
Welcome
New message
Sent message
Mailbox error
No new message
Reminder

 

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