I had the wonderful pleasure of throwing Damain Kastbauer some questions about the Wwise Project Adventure which is available with the latest version of Wwise ® – WaveWorks Interactive Sound Engine® Designing Sound: Tell me a bit about Wwise Project Adventure. What is it? What is it's purpose? Damain Kastbauer: "The Wwise Project Adventure - A Handbook for Creating … [Read more...]
Robi Kauker’s Planet of Sound
There is a pretty cool interview up at Transuranic Design Works with Sims series Audio Director Robi Kauker. I am always interested to hear about how audio teams uses software like Max/MSP in their process. One answer that was very interesting to me was on the subject of middleware: JF: What do you think of the middleware approach to solving problems? Kauker: Middleware is … [Read more...]
Saving Space with Linear Audio in Pro Tools
George Hufnagl over at CreatingSound.com recently wrapped up a super-duper 3 post series on Saving Space with Linear Audio in Pro Tools. In a nutshell: When working on projects with limited audio space, such as apps for mobile, browser-based games or packaged electronics/toys, it is often necessary to squeeze as much out of that space as possible in order to meet or exceed the … [Read more...]
FiRe 2 – Field Recorder
For a few weeks now I have been playing with Audiofile Engineering's field recorder FiRe 2. FiRe 2 is an app for iOS that is a recorder/audio editor/metadata editor/uploader in one. Facts from the Audiofiles themselves: FiRe 2 will again revolutionize what you expect from a portable recording application. FiRe was the first iPhone recorder to display an accurate audio waveform … [Read more...]
Bullets HD Professional SFX Library Beta
If you haven't been keeping up with Frank Bry's blog over at The Recordist (which you totally should) let me bring you up to speed on Bullets HD Pro: Presenting the 2nd pre-release Beta version of Bullets HD PRO Sound Effects Library at an introductory price of $150.00 USD. When the library is completed in late August (at the very latest: early September), the final version of … [Read more...]
This Week In SFX Libraries
This week was a triple-dose of released sound libraries for your aural pleasure. First up is from TONSTURM: With TONSTURM 08 I Morocco you get 61 Soundfiles in 5 Channel Surround Format. All the ambiences were recorded in Tangier, Essaouira and Marrakech, three very different Moroccan Cities. For this surround ambience library we captured the beauty of the urban Arabic … [Read more...]
The Voice Over Story behind Battlefield – An Interview With Tomas Danko
Fantastic interview by Watson Wu over at the RØDE Microphones: When a gamer plays EA's platinum selling Battlefield title, they will often remember and enjoy the sounds of numerous weapons and vehicles, but of course great sounding voices from clean recordings also make the game shine. In fact, Battlefield has a huge array of characteristic voices! With the recent … [Read more...]