Do you know about “Oblique Strategies”? Originally developed by Brian Eno, consists in a deck of cards containing ideas and phrases to help you on “breaking” the lack of creativity on any project you’re working on.

George Spanos, from GameSoundDesign has created the “Sound Design Strategies” based on the same concept, but here all the phrases are oriented to sound design. Just click on the button and you get something like this:

• “Do not rely on any processing for this sound”
• “Add only one more sharp sound”
• “Distort it”
• “Remove one layer”
• “Use a sound that is the complete opposite”

There are a lot of them. Really useful when you need some creative help.

Sound Design Strategies

Engine Audio has launched a new free application to test custom FMOD soundbanks on the iPhone Simulator.

We here at Engine Audio were looking for a way to test the new integration of the FMOD audio system on the iPhone platform. So we developed an FMOD soundbank testing application for the iPhone simulator. Firelight Technologies, creators of the FMOD engine, provides great example projects to help get people started with their system. This project expands on some of their ideas incorporating a few of the tools into one app.

You can:

• Test FMOD Soundbanks!
• Manipulate FMOD’s effect parameters (distortion, flangers, phasers, filters, verbs)!
• Connect to the FMOD Designer in real-time!

Instructions and Download