Here is an interview with our special guest Aaron Marks, talking about general aspects of his career. Hope you like it! Designing Sound: Tell us about your career and how you got started with sound. Aaron Marks: Career? You mean this is like …a job?!? Well, I never thought of it that way but yeah, I guess it’s a living. If you had to put a label on me, I’d say I’m a … [Read more...]
Sound Design Tutorial: Varispeed and Mapping to Tempo on Elastic Audio, by David Farmer
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P33FGQyc0vY[/youtube] David Farmer has published the second part of his video tutorial on Elastic Audio, this time talking about varispeed and mapping to tempo functions. … [Read more...]
The Sound of "Enslaved"
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8pcT4AY-Vg[/youtube] Composer Nitin Sawhney and Audio Lead Tom Colvin talk about the music and sound of Ninja Theory's upcoming game called "Enslaved". Via The Sonic Spread … [Read more...]
"Creatures", New Collection by BOOM Library Available for Pre-Order Now
The guys at BOOM Library have announced a new sound effects collection, called Creatures, featuring three different libraries: Creatures - Construction Kit - More than 9 GB of source material including more than 6000 single sounds in over 1000 files, oriented to create your own unique creatures. Creatures - Designed - 250 “ready to use” sounds of different creature designs, … [Read more...]
October's Featured Sound Designer: Aaron Marks
I'm happy to announce Aaron Marks as our October's guest on Designing Sound. A multi-disciplinary audio professional with background in music composition, sound design, field recording, and more. Author of "The Complete guide to Game Audio" and teacher at The Art Institute of California. A very kind person ready to share lots of cool things with us this month. Bio Best known … [Read more...]
More About the Sound of "Crackdown 2"
The October's issue of Developer Magazine is now available in the official website. This time, our beloved "Heard About" section includes an article about the sound of Crackdown 2, with Kristofor Mellroth, who we interviewed some days ago. When Kristofor Mellroth enrolled at music recording school in 1995, he probably never dreamt that in just a few year’s time he’d be heading … [Read more...]
David Farmer Special: Reader Questions
Here are answers to the questions you sent to David. Many thanks for the amazing support during this month! It was awesome! Designing Reader: I have lots of questions. David is a hero of mine. How do you organize your editing sessions? In what way do you find is the best way to organize your tracks – i.e. do you use track naming conventions, track colors, region colors, etc. … [Read more...]