The August issue of Develop magazine is available now, including an article with SCEE’s Creative Services Group’s principal audio programmer, Nicolas Fournel talking about his vision of the future of game audio programing: Nicolas Fournel has an impressive 20 years’ experience developing commercial digital audio software. He started out coding Amiga sample editors in assembler … [Read more...]
The Sound Design of "Coraline"
Steinberg has published an interview with Steve Tushar and Ron Eng, sound designers on "Coraline". They talk about their work in the film and also the use of Nuendo for their sound work. Hello Steve, hello Ron! You’ve recently worked together on the film Coraline, which was directed by Henry Selick. What was special about the collaboration with him? Ron: The best thing about … [Read more...]
Steinberg Nuendo 5 Now Shipping, with New ADR Toolset, New Video Engine, Better File Management and More
Steinberg has released the fifth version of his acclaimed post-production DAW solution, Nuendo. The new version has lots of new features, including: ADR Toolset - A new tool for spot and organize recording takes, such as for multiple roles by using a flexible marker track system. All marker tracks can be sorted and filtered in the marker window, which helps the user to keep … [Read more...]
Jim Stout Special: Cool Software for Sound Design
Jim finishes his great special with another video, where he talks about his favorite software tools for sound design, answering several questions asked by the readers during this month. All the answers to the reader questions will be published on Monday. … [Read more...]
"Social Sound Design" Keeps Growing: Workflows, Secret Weapons, Favorite Gear, Recording Stories and More
Almost three months ago, I talked here about the release of a new site called Social Sound Design, created by Andrew Spitz. The concept was to provide a social community where sound guys could collaborate and ask/answer questions between them. Well, the concept have worked and today you find lots of useful and great information given by the users. You can find al kind of … [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...]
FMOD Designer 2010 is Here
Firelight Technologies has announced the release of FMOD Designer 2010, including lots of new tools and features, such as: Improved workflow with event editor now prominently displayed in event hierarchy screen. No more switching between the two! Bulk edit - now multi-selecting events will bring up a fader panel to control many events at once in a familiar mixer … [Read more...]