Launching this week is the Adaptive Music Engine ELIAS 2.0. Contained in this release are multiple new features such as a mixer window and the ability to create action presets. As said by the Co-Founder and Lead Developer of ELIAS Philip Bennefall, ”ELIAS 2.0 is a complete rewrite of the engine, and is far more modular and extendable than version 1 as we intend to support … [Read more...]
Audio Forensics Blog Series
Andrea Chang, a Senior Sound Designer at Microsoft, has recently begun a blog series on the emerging field of audio forensics. The first post in the series focus's on Speaker Recognition and provides some great modern examples of its use. Check it out by following this link to her blog: Audio Forensics - Speaker Recognition For this and other posts by Andrea, check out … [Read more...]
Audiokinetic Launches the Creators Directory
Audiokinetic, the creators of the widely used Wwise Middleware, have just launched their Creators Directory into Open Beta. As described in their announcement: "The Creators Directory is an online global network of interactive and game audio professionals: sound designers, composers, audio programmers, audio content providers, and educators. It unifies the interactive … [Read more...]
GameSoundCon Releases Game Audio Industry Survey 2016
For the past few years GameSoundCon has been conducting a survey on the state of the game audio industry. The survey collects valuable data such as compensation, work and environment, contract terms, use of live musicians & middleware, and education. The results are in and the survey has been released! If you're working in the game audio industry, or are … [Read more...]
GDC Vault Releases Martin Stig Anderson’s INSIDE GDC Talk
Martin Stig Anderson's fantastic audio showcase of Playdead's newest game, INSIDE, has just been released on the GDC Youtube Channel. He thoroughly explains some of the system design that drives the audio of the game, and he helpfully includes examples from his Wwise project to demonstrate them. This video provides great insight into the inner-workings of a complex game sound … [Read more...]
Sound Design Tutorial List
These days, resources to improve your audio craft are widely available on the internet. In an effort to help finding those resources even easier, Designing Sound has compiled a list of many of the free Sound Design Tutorials that are available. There is a wealth of information contained in this article, and whether you are an audio veteran or just starting out, you … [Read more...]
News: Pro Sound Effects Opens Freelancer Program for Year Round Enrollment
Are you a freelance or independent media creator? If so, you will be happy to hear that Pro Sound Effects have just recently announced that their Freelancer Program will now be available for year-round enrollment. The Freelancer Program offers up to 60% off curated libraries and software to qualifying freelancers, and provides monthly sales and offers on high quality … [Read more...]