From August 26th to September 5th a fund raising game jam specifically focusing on Audio Games will take place on GameJolt. The main aims of the jam are to create interesting, fun games playable by people of any level of sight and raise money for RNIB, a UK-charity for people with sight loss. The games created will be showcased at Techshare Europe 2016, a conference that … [Read more...]
Splice Starts New Rent-To-Own Service For Serum
Online music collaboration service Splice, recently announced to make Xfer’s award-winning soft synth Serum, available through a new Rent-To-Own plan. This new approach lets you use the full version of Serum right away, paying off monthly installments until you own the plugin. [perfectpullquote align="full" cite="" link="" color="" class="" size=""]With our … [Read more...]
Oculus Releases 3D Audio Visualizer
Oculus just released a new version of their Spatializer VST/AAX plugin. In addition to providing the basic controls included with the standard VST or AAX plugins, it adds a VR interface allowing users to optionally visualize and manipulate sound parameters within VR, using either Oculus Touch or Xbox controllers. The sound locations of all Visualizer channels are visible with … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought 33 – So Many Different Ways to be Creative
As the year continues, many of these posts will be philosophical in nature. Some will be in contradiction to previous postings. These are not intended as truths or assertions, they’re merely thoughts…ideas. Think of this as stream of consciousness over a wide span… If you're not on the Facebook Sound Design group (the one with Curious George holding a boom as the header … [Read more...]
Focus on your design. Quickening your workflow in Pro Tools.
So you’ve just been handed in some video with no sound in it, and you’ve been asked to finish your work later tonight. Yet you don’t know whether you’ll be able to accomplish your task on time or not. This is a more common situation than you may think.You might have been in the industry for quite some time, and so you’ve developed your own methodology. If you haven’t, or … [Read more...]
From Audio to Executive Producer – An Interview with Marcelo Goedert
Guest Contribution by Victor Zottmann Marcelo Goedert is an audio producer specialized in radio and advertisement productions, who is now working as an executive producer for motion pictures. Recently, he has produced the Brazilian feature film, Uma Loucura de Mulher. In addition, Marcelo has studied both Communication and Business Management at a Masters level at Universidade … [Read more...]
VR Audio: Trends and Challenges of Pioneering a New Field
Virtual reality is a new frontier for audio and sound design. The industry is buzzing with potential and new technology, though many elements have yet to be figured out or agreed upon. Travis Fodor is an audio engineer, editor and sound designer who has worked with a variety of VR startups and 360 video projects as well as the Music and Audio Research Group at … [Read more...]