Audio Ease has released the second version of Snapper, its sound file managing/playback tool for Mac OS X. The main improvements are: Much improved integration with Snow Leopard. Spot-to-cursor of Nuendo, Cubase, Logic and Pro Tools Drag selections anywhere, into tracks or even iChat. Even smaller cpu footprint Waveforms that look better and appear and scroll … [Read more...]
Thwip!, BOOM!, SNIKT!, BAMF!
As a recurrent Gizmodo reader, was a very cool surprise to found this article published yesterday. A depth and really well done post about the sounds on comic-based films and the relationship with the original comics. Includes comments from sound designers Stephen Flick and Crag Berkey. Superpower sounds can define a comic book hero as much as any form-fitting costume, and when … [Read more...]
Chaos
"The thing you learn in film sound over the years is that if you have it being loud and chaotic over a long period of time it starts to lose impact, no matter what you do." -Gary Rydstrom … [Read more...]
Aaron Marks Special: Exclusive Interview
Here is an interview with our special guest Aaron Marks, talking about general aspects of his career. Hope you like it! Designing Sound: Tell us about your career and how you got started with sound. Aaron Marks: Career? You mean this is like …a job?!? Well, I never thought of it that way but yeah, I guess it’s a living. If you had to put a label on me, I’d say I’m a … [Read more...]
Sound Design Tutorial: Varispeed and Mapping to Tempo on Elastic Audio, by David Farmer
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P33FGQyc0vY[/youtube] David Farmer has published the second part of his video tutorial on Elastic Audio, this time talking about varispeed and mapping to tempo functions. … [Read more...]
The Sound of "Enslaved"
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8pcT4AY-Vg[/youtube] Composer Nitin Sawhney and Audio Lead Tom Colvin talk about the music and sound of Ninja Theory's upcoming game called "Enslaved". Via The Sonic Spread … [Read more...]
Sonnenschein's Webinar Report: Week IV – Sonic Time-Space Continuum
It's time for another report of the Sound Design for Pros webinar series from David Sonnenschein. The last webinar was very good. David started reviewing several of the assignments of the last webinar. Then he talked about the relations between sound and the physical/social environment in a cinematic context and also talked about several techniques and methods to analyze and … [Read more...]