The last time we took down the site for maintenance, about 3 years ago, Varun mentioned what kind of a beast this site is. At some point this weekend, probably on Saturday, we'll be taking the site down for a new round of maintenance. This will be to reorganize the site a bit (hopefully making things a little easier to find), improve the experience on mobile devices, and a … [Read more...]
Monthly Theme: Tutorials
Want to be a sound designer? There's lots to learn. There always has been, really--but today it feels as though it's happening all at once. Here's a primer: You've post-production: signal flow fundamentals, editing, library management and deliveries. There's a host of DAWs to choose from, myriad ways of customizing them, and an ever-expanding selection of plug-ins, … [Read more...]
News: Pro Sound Effects Opens Freelancer Program for Year Round Enrollment
Are you a freelance or independent media creator? If so, you will be happy to hear that Pro Sound Effects have just recently announced that their Freelancer Program will now be available for year-round enrollment. The Freelancer Program offers up to 60% off curated libraries and software to qualifying freelancers, and provides monthly sales and offers on high quality … [Read more...]
Become a Designing Sound Correspondent
Back in April, we put out an open call for new contributing editors. Holy crap, were we overwhelmed by the response! Over 50 people stepped forward and threw their names into the hat. Going through all of that data wasn't easy, and we didn't have the opportunity to sit down and speak directly with all of you. We've selected our new "staff" and are busy getting them up to speed, … [Read more...]
News: Heavy Adds Support For Dynamic Plugins In Wwise 2016
Heavy by Enzien Audio is a framework for easily generating audio plugins for use in interactive sound and music applications such as games, instruments or installations. It makes use of Pure Data as a front end and generates a wide range of Plugin formats from Pure Data patches, including Unity3D, VST, Wwise, C and Javascript. The project recently announced … [Read more...]
Introducing Designing Sound Exchange!
We've got a brand new feature on the site today! We've added a discussion area... Welcome to Designing Sound Exchange! We're calling it a discussion area and not a forum, because it's not really set up like a forum. Many long time readers may remember a site called Social Sound Design, and we've modeled DSE after it. If you remember how that site was, before it merged with … [Read more...]
New SFX Libraries: May Recap
If you are releasing a new SFX library and you would like it to be included in our recap, send us the details with our SFX Independence Submission Form. Please only notify us of libraries that were released within the last month or substantially updated. There was a record number of submissions last month with 21 new libraries, and two of them are free! So if … [Read more...]