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...]
Sound Design Essentials: Websites
Everything have a start point. Here is the first part of a series of essential resources, sites, tutorials, and tools related with this funny thing called sound design. I begin with 30 websites for learning sound design for games, film and interactive media. General purpose KVR Audio - The Internet's number one news and information resource for open standard audio plug-ins. … [Read more...]
It Begins…
If you know me, you know a bat-nerd. I grew up on batman, I have seen the franchise through good times and bad (1997 was excruciating). That said, I was very stoked on Chris Nolan's retooling of the series with 2005's "Batman Begins" and with the release of the second Nolan helmed film this July my excitement is nearing fever pitch. So this is a warning if you will, there … [Read more...]
Randy Thom on the Sound Design of “Standard Operating Procedure” [DS Exclusive]
"Standard Operating Procedure" continues Errol Morris's line of great documentaries May 9th. John Nutt operated as the film's sound supervisor while Randy Thom proceeded as the films sound designer. Nutt worked on Coppola's latest directorial effort, "Youth Without Youth" while Thom continues to contribute to the sound of animated films with, "Bolt" this fall. Re-recording … [Read more...]
None More Unsung…
Ok, if sound folk are some of the unsung hero's of filmmaking, these men and women are the even more mute(does even that make sense?). Stage engineers are baby sitters and miracle workers. Cradling editors and mixers when their crying for help and solving the impossible. How the hell to make 800 tracks of audio light up all these meters? Check out some of their stories, HERE. … [Read more...]