Audiokinetic have released Wwise version 2012.1, which focuses on new features, workflow enhancements and a variety of performance and bug fixes. The headline new feature is undoubtedly the introduction of seven iZotope plug-ins for Windows and Xbox 360. Included in the suite are: Hybrid Reverb Hybrid Reverb allows the user to import an impulse file, extract the early … [Read more...]
“Film Sound Effects”, New Library with Sounds from 1966
Sound editor/mixer Andrew Walker has launched Film Sound Effects, a huge vintage sound library distributed in a modern way, independent, digital. The library started in 1966 by re-recording mixer Gerry Humphreys (Ghandi, The Italian Job, Blade Runner) and sound recordist Peter Handford (Out Of Africa, Frenzy, Hope and Glory). It was recorded originally on tape, then transfered … [Read more...]
Demonstration of SSX’s ‘RUMR’ system
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLiA1dbMpls[/youtube] Ted Conley, Audio Director of EA Canada and the technical artist behind the RUMR (Realtime User Music Remix) system, has uploaded a video demonstrating how to utilize the custom soundtracks features of SSX, and the RUMR system. In the five minute video, Ted explains and demonstrates the various methods used to … [Read more...]
Sound & Music Computing Summer School 2012 Call For Participation
The Aalborg University in Copenhagen,Denmark is running the 9th Sound and Music Computing summer school in product sound design, innovation and entrepreneurship between 11 - 14 July 2012. The summer school follows up from the Product Sound Design Summer School 2010, and will feature, among others, Andy Farnell, Cumhur Erkut and Davide Rocchesso as instructors, together with … [Read more...]
SFX News 12.03.12
The Recordist released Ultimate Ice 2.5 HD Pro Ultimate Ice 2.5 HD Pro Sound Effects Library is a small 24-Bit 96kHz addition to Ultimate Ice 2.0 with some BIG ice cracks and impacts from a perfectly round lake in North Idaho. Also included are fast ripping ice cracks from another 800 acre lake a short distance from Round Lake and some special designed ice sounds from here … [Read more...]
Wabi Sabi Sound
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udQOi5cgIqo[/youtube] Cool video profile about the work of the guys at Wabi Sabi Sound featuring sound designers Andrew Lackey and Geoffrey Garnett. … [Read more...]
The Sound and Music of John Carter
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/38196364[/vimeo] From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton comes "John Carter"--a sweeping action-adventure set on the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars). "John Carter" is based on a classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose highly imaginative adventures served as inspiration for many filmmakers, both past and present. The … [Read more...]