I created a "special category" called Featured. My idea is to make a special coverage of a sound designer and talk about it during each month. The objective is to learn more in depth about each major industry professionals.. For example, this month I decide to start with Randy Thom, and in the next days I'm gonna make some posts about him and talk about his work. I decided to … [Read more...]
Danny Elfman, Ominsphere and Terminator
Danny Elfman, a Grammy Award-winning musician and compositor responsible of the well known "The Simpsons" main theme and music of films such as Spider Man 3, Hulk, Bettlejuice, and many others. This time, Danny discusses scoring of the Terminator Salvation, with Spectrasonics Omnisphere. Elfman often used two Omnispheres for up to sixteen possible sounds at once. He says “I … [Read more...]
Rob Bridgett and "The Game Audio Mixing Revolution"
Rob Bridgett, one of the first to complete the Master's degree in Sound Design for the Moving Image at Bournemouth University in 1999, has a series of articles at Gamasutra called "The future of Game Audio". On May 14 Bob presented the first part of the series: Is Interactive Mixing The Key? And heres is the second part: The Game Audio Mixing Revolution. Bridgett gathers … [Read more...]
Four Hours of Sound Design with the New Operator Series by Nick Maxwell
Sound Designer Nick Maxwell has just released a new series of videos of his wonderful collection of sound design tutorials for Ableton Live. Sound Design with the Operator synthetizer in Ableton Live is available now for only $40 directly from nickstutorials.com. About the new series FM synthesis represents an extremely powerful set of tools for creating your own sounds, and … [Read more...]
Music and Sound Design for The Conduit (Wii) by Diego Stocco
Music 4 Games has done an interview with Diego Stocco to talk about his profession and the Sound Design/Music Composition of The Conduit, a new first-person shooter exclusively yo the Nintendo Wii. Diegoo is an composer and sound designer. He produces music for Spectrasonics, and is one of the principal sound designers of Atmosphere and the amazing core library of Stylus RMX … [Read more...]
The Sound of Pixar's UP
With a $68.2 million opening weekend and a beautiful story, UP has become one of the most representative Pixar's movies. Here we have grouped some information about the music and sound of the film. Staff Directors. Pete Docter and Bob Peterson Music Mixing - Michael Semanick Effects Mixing & Sound Design - Tom Myers Sound Supervising - Michael Silvers Sound Mix: SDDS … [Read more...]
GameSoundcon, the First Conference Dedicated to the Learning of Games Sound and Music
GameSoundCon is the first conference to game audio developers and audio professionals who want to learn the necessary skills to be successful in the game industry. An intensive two-day seminar for composers, sound designers and audio professionals, teaching the unique creative, technical and business challenges essential to work in the game music and game sound industry. … [Read more...]