Soundboard is a Discord feature that you can use in voice channels with friends to react to conversations and video streams with brief audio clips.

Learn more about how you can use soundboard, add sounds to your soundboard, and how to manage soundboard usage in Discord servers.

What is Soundboard?

Example of using the Soundboard sound “Quack”

What’s that sound? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s your friend smashing the button with the airhorn sound in the server’s Soundboard! Soundboard is your way to react in a Discord voice channel with brief audio clips. Soundboard is a voice channel feature that allows you to play a short audio clip that can be heard by all participants in the same voice channel. Much like Reactions and Super Reactions, Soundboard is a way for you to express yourself and react to the voice channel’s conversation or Go Live stream.

Server Boost Soundboard

Servers have 8 preloaded sound slots for server members to start using Soundboard. Additional slots can be unlocked based on the server’s tier level with Server Boosting.

Tier 1: 24 slots

Tier 2: 35 slots

Tier 3: 48 slots

How do I use Soundboard?

How to Use Discord Soundboard on Desktop

1. Navigate to a server and join your intended voice channel.

2. While in the voice channel, you should see a confetti icon on the bottom-right if Soundboard is enabled for this voice channel. Press on the icon to open Soundboard. If a user is deafened in the channel, they will not hear the sound play.

Open Soundboard button while connected to a voice channel

3. Another way to access Soundboard when in a voice channel is by pressing the Soundboard icon in the bottom left of the Discord app.

Soundboard panel with all available sounds

4. With Soundboard open, you can hover over any available sound and then press the Play icon to play that sound. Pressing Play will play the sound for everyone in the voice channel to hear.

Play icon to play a sound

5. If there’s a sound you really like, you can also press on the Star icon to favorite a sound. To preview a sound and only play it for yourself, press the speaker icon.

How to Use Discord Soundboard on Mobile

1. Navigate to a server and join your intended voice channel.

2. While in the voice channel, tap on the screen to reveal a toolbar at the bottom of the screen.  From there, drag the toolbar upwards and tap the Soundboard option at the top of the menu.

3. After tapping the Soundboard option, you will see a list of available servers and sounds that you can use. Tap on any sound that you’d like to play.

Using Soundboard sounds on mobile

How to Add Sounds to Discord Soundboard

To upload new sounds, press on the Add Sound button in the open Soundboard panel .

Upload a Sound panel

Please keep in mind that it’s your responsibility to ensure that any sounds you upload does not violate our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, including ensuring that or "any sounds you upload do not infringe on the intellectual property rights of others.

As a Server Admin, how can I manage Soundboard?

How to Give or Remove the Use Soundboard Permission

To manage who can use Soundboard in your server, you can enable or disable the Use Soundboard permission for specific roles or server members.

Soundboard permission setting under Server Settings

You can manage this on a server-wide level by going to Server Settings, going to the Roles tab, selecting the desired role you want to customize, and toggle the Use Soundboard permission.

You can also manage this for individual voice channels by selecting Edit Channel for your intended voice channel, going to the Permissions tab, selecting the desired role or server member whose permissions you want to customize, and toggle the Use Soundboard permission.   

How to Manage Sounds for Soundboard in a Server

Soundboard tab under Server Settings

To manage the current Soundboard on your server head to Server Settings > Soundboard and you can edit or remove any current sounds listed.

Where to edit or remove Soundboard sounds

To remove any of the current uploaded sounds you can do so by pressing the “x” button next to a sound.

Users will only be able to edit or remove custom sounds from a server if they have Manage Expressions permission enabled for their role. To give a role this permission, head to Server Settings > Roles and then enable or disable it per role under Permissions.

Manage Expressions setting allows users to edit or remove sounds

For users to be able to add custom sounds to a server, they will need to have Create Expressions permission enabled for their role. To give a role this permission, head to Server Settings > Roles and then enable or disable it per role under Permissions.

Create Expressions setting allows users to add custom sounds

Soundboard Entrance Sounds

Are you finding yourself using a specific sound in Soundboard anytime you join a specific server? You can now set your own sound to automatically play from the Soundboard when you join a voice channel if you are a Nitro subscriber. 

1. To set it up, tap on User Settings, head to Voice & Video, then tap on the Soundboard selection

2. Under Sound Effects you can tap on the pencil icon to set a sound for all servers or customize your sounds per server.

3. To set a sound per server, tap on the drop down menu and select the server. With the server selected, tap on the pencil icon and select the soundboard sound you’d like to use.

4. Once your chosen sound is selected, tap on the X in the upper right corner to close and it’ll automatically save. 

How to set a Soundboard Entrance Sound

Now when you join a server voice channel, that sound will automatically play!

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How can I change the volume or opt out for Soundboard?

Volume control for Soundboard sounds

A: To change the volume of hearing Soundboard Sounds, please head to User Settings > Voice & Video > Soundboard > Soundboard Volume to adjust the slider to their preferred volume. This setting will sync across all devices. If set to 0%, you will not hear any sounds.

Q: Is there a keybind for Soundboard for the game overlay on Windows?

A: For Windows only, CTRL + ` is the Soundboard keybind to easily use Soundboard from within the game overlay.

Q: Can any server’s Soundboard sounds be used in other servers?

A: In order to use Soundboard sounds across servers, you need to have an active Nitro subscription. You do not need Nitro in order to use the Soundboard within the server itself.