Rob Bridgett has released a digital ePub version his book "From the Shadows of Film Sound". It's available now at $9,99. As a practitioner in video game development, Rob Bridgett has explored and written about the connective tissue between film sound production and a newly emerging video game audio production culture. This new volume brings together, for the first time, freshly … [Read more...]
Game Audio Podcast #14: Storytelling with Sound in Games
The episode #14 of the game audio podcast is available for download now. In this episode we discuss story telling techniques and development, get our geek on with control surfaces and try to solve some music challenges. Anton & Damian are joined by our special guests: Mike Morasky – Valve Emily Ridgway – Emily Industries Lucas van Tol – Guerrilla Games Listen … [Read more...]
The Crowd-Choir Project, by Soniccouture
Soniccouture has started an interesting crowd-source project called CrowdChoir. We are going to build a unique sampler instrument - a choir / vocal ensemble made with hundreds of voices from all around the world. We need a a minimum of 500 notes to layer in the instrument, so please help us if you can. Everybody that sends us a recorded note will receive the CrowdChoir … [Read more...]
Elliot Koretz Special: Hotel for Dogs
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aZlmiMJdCk[/youtube] The Sound of Hotel for Dogs. … [Read more...]
Procedural Audio: Interview with Andy Farnell
[Continuing with the procedural audio series...] Andy Farnell - a familiar name in computer audio - is a computer scientist, sound designer, author and a pioneer in the field of procedural audio. He is a visiting professor at several European Universities and a consultant to game and audio technology companies. His book, 'Designing Sound', is a bible for procedural sound and … [Read more...]
Ben Burtt Talks ‘Super 8’
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1CB6B171439D78F[/youtube] Set of 9 videos featuring sound designer Ben Burtt talking about sound and his work on "Super 8". … [Read more...]
The Recordist Releases Ultimate Rockslide 2 HD Pro
The Recordist has released Ultimate Rockslide 2 HD Pro sound library, containing 750 24bit 96kHz rock and dirt sound effects on 115 Broadcast WAV files with detailed Metadata embedded. This sequel to Ultimate Rockslide contains brand new rock based sound effects and multi-microphone files with tons of dirt and sand debris sounds recorded close up and distant to give the sound … [Read more...]