Congratulations to this weeks winners! This week, the staff of Designing Sound watched the activity and selected their "contributors of note." Once that was done, we randomly drew names out the hat for each prize. And the winners are... Selected by Wilfried - user mattesque for his mention of some great free plugins here. mattesque has won a copy of Sound Particles … [Read more...]
Nab a Bundle of Sci-Fi SFX Libraries from Sonniss
I really don't think Sonniss needs much of an introduction. A lot of our readers have shopped there before, and many have sound effects libraries available for sale there. Sonniss has been a big supporter of the community since its inception, working with many of its vendors to put together truly massive promotional libraries with samples from a wide variety of the libraries … [Read more...]
Win a Copy of Sound Particles This Week
So if you haven't heard about Sound Particles yet, I really don't know where you've been. Think of it this way... Have you ever seen what a particle emitter does for visual effects? OK. Now take that idea and turn every particle into a sound emitter. That's a gross over-simplification, and Nuno Fonseca might argue for a more refined description, but I think it quickly gets … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought 50 – Being Mindful of the Present (…Sound)
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… This week is an extension of last week's thought. It's also partly inspired by a recent re-watch of In Pursuit … [Read more...]
This Week’s Soundsnap Winners…and Next Week’s Prizes
Congrats to this week's winners! Here's how we picked them this week... Most Popular Question (by votes) - Jason (flamewhell) Most Popular Answer (by votes) - noisejockey Biggest Supporter (they who cast the most votes) - KJ22 Thank you to Soundsnap for sponsoring this week! We won't be using these methods to select winners for next week's prizes. We've got an entirely … [Read more...]
Win a 1 Year Membership to Production Expert
I know that a lot of our readers also visit, Pro Tools Expert. If you don't, you really should. While, yes...obviously...they are somewhat Pro Tools focused, they also do a lot of reviews and news gathering about plug-in manufacturers and sound effects libraries. They also have a premium tutorials site called Production Expert, and it's a great place to learn not only about Pro … [Read more...]
Win a Hybrid Library from Pro Sound Effects!
We've already mentioned our grand prize, but we wanted to make sure no one missed the fact that we'll be giving away a MASSIVE sound effects library at the end of this month. If you're not familiar with the Hybrid Library, we've reviewed here before. Technically, we reviewed it twice, because they took feedback from that review and other users who had purchased it and made some … [Read more...]