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Sound Design Essentials: Websites

June 18, 2009 by Miguel Isaza

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Everything have a start point. Here is the first part of a series of essential resources, sites, tutorials, and tools related with this funny thing called sound design. I begin with 30 websites for learning sound design for games, film and interactive media.

General purpose

  • KVR Audio – The Internet’s number one news and information resource for open standard audio plug-ins. There you can find new releases, product announcements and product updates for audio software, huge user forums, and useful plugin database.
  • Create Digital Music – Wonderful webzine and community site for musicians using technology.
  • Sound On Sound – Maybe the best music technology magazine.
  • Hispasonic – The number one Spanish music community. There you will find a huge user forum, videos, articles and daily news about the world of sound and music production in Spanish.
  • Mix Online – Professional Audio and Music Production website.
  • Synthopia – Synths and electronic music news.
  • Matrixsynth – The amazing “everything synth” site.



For Games

  • Music 4 Games – All music and sound design world related with games. You can find Soundtrack reviews, interviews with sound designers and game developers.
  • IAsig – Supporting the audio community since 1994.
  • G.A.N.G. – The largest game audio community in the world.
  • Video Game Audio – Video Game Audio Articles by Leonard J. Paul
  • Gamasutra – One of the best websites about videogames. They also have an useful Sound & Music Section.
  • GamesSound – Learning resources and publications about Sound Design for games.
  • IGDA – International Game Developers Association
  • Sonify – Interactive sound for the web and wireless



For Film

  • Filmsound – Music composition and sound design for films. Really interesting articles, interviews and resources.
  • FilmsoundDaily – Very nice blog with videos and articles about film sound.
  • Score Notes – Soundtrack reviews, composer interviews, audio clips, movie reviews and more.
  • The Cinema Audio Society – Over 550 Sound Mixers and Associates from the Film and Television Industries.
  • MPSE – Motion Picture Sound Editors.
  • Sound Film Wiki – A Wiki page with all the info about films with sounds.



Community & Forums

  • Sound Design Yahoo Group
  • Game Audio Pro Yahoo Group
  • Game Audio Forum
  • KVR Forums – Sound Design
  • Create Digital Noise



Learning & Tutorials

  • AudioTuts+ – Music, Sound and Audio tutorials
  • Audio Tutorials – Jay Rose’s tutorials and audio data
  • Berklee Music – Learn music online
  • Sound Design Tutorials – Videos and Tutorials by Nick Maxwell



If I forgot one and you think that is important, just let me know!

Second part coming soon.

Filed Under: featured, videos Tagged With: films, Links, resources, sound design, tips, video games

Comments

  1. Wit says

    June 28, 2009 at 4:14 am

    What a useful resources. Thank you.

  2. DaVerdict says

    July 12, 2009 at 6:40 am

    Thanks for the post, really amazing links you brought here, it’s not like I’m going into music production, but it’s always cool to know who done this and done that and how it was made.

    Most appreciated, it’d be nice to post something familiar with graphics.

    Cheers…

  3. Enrique Amicolo says

    December 12, 2010 at 2:58 pm

    Thanks!

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