SFGate has published an article talking about the Dolby Surround 7.1 Mix on Toy Story 3, the future of sound for 3D films, and how the people could take this new sonic adventure. Walt Disney Co.'s Pixar made the latest installment of its "Toy Story" franchise in 3-D to satisfy the growing appetite for immersive visual effects. Its next challenge: getting the sound effects to … [Read more...]
Rocks, New SFX Library by Chuck Russom
Chuck Russom has released a new SFX library called Rocks, recorded in the California desert and featuring 388 sounds of cement, bricks, cinderblocks, marble, and rocks of various sizes and performances such as impacts, smashes, drops, and debris. All sounds were recorded and mastered at 24bit 192K. Also included are 24bit 96K versions. Rocks is a downloadable collection of wav … [Read more...]
Online Sound Design Seminar – "Psychoacoustic Tools for Creativity", by David Sonnenschein
Some time ago I talked with David Sonnenschein (author of "Sound Design" book) about giving clases and seminars online. We do some research and started to try some platforms and a see what would be the best way to do something like this. Last Thursday David hosted the first online seminar. The announce was a little private, because it was the first time, but... the platform … [Read more...]
GrainCube, a Free Reaktor Instrument for Granular Sound Manipulation
JazzMutant, Devine Sound, Rachmiel, Twisted Tools and ABSoundscapes announced the release of GrainCube, a new free instrument for Reaktor, specifically aimed towards sound designers looking for granular gestural sound manipulation. GrainCube is a four part granular processing instrument with numerous randomizing functions and modulation capabilities that allow for … [Read more...]
Crowdsourcing a SFX Library, HISS and a ROAR is Looking for Recordists
Defined by Wikipedia, Crowdsourcing is "the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor to a large group of people or community (a crowd), through an open call." That's the new and fantastic idea of talented Tim Prebble, owner of HISS and a ROAR. The idea consists in group 100 recordists, who would have to record 10 doors sounds (each one), … [Read more...]
Audiokinetic Releases Wwise 2010
Yesterday I talked about the release of of FMOD 2010, and today, the turn is for another popular middleware solution: Audiokinetic Wwise, which has reached the version 2010, loaded with several new features, including: Mixing Desk External Sources New “Seek” Event Action Multiple levels of sub-mixing Conversion settings ShareSets There're also lots of minor improvements … [Read more...]
Tim Prebble Cuts the Air with the Second Release of HISS and a ROAR
Tim Prebble has released the second library of HISS and a ROAR called Swishes, recorded at they foley room of Park Road Post. From whips to skipping ropes, extention cords to curtain rail wires,vacuum cleaner hoses to bungee cords, metal rods to straw brooms. We’ve revolved mesh bowls, badminton racquets, whistles, pipes and many forms of ‘prepared’ bamboo … [Read more...]