Let the Libraries Laugh! Curating and organizing libraries is a part of this discipline that I love. Previewing, testing, merging into databases, updating master caches, and of course, designing. Libraries are just...fun. For this month’s theme I wanted to embrace that wilier side of this more clerical end of our work. I always like to stumble across sounds that take me by … [Read more...]
New SFX Libraries: October 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. Last month, the sound effects creators in our community went out to the streets, the stadiums, and their backyards to capture the life around them. … [Read more...]
New SFX Libraries: June and July 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. Everyone needs a vacation, and since I took mine last month, this recap covers all the new libraries for June … [Read more...]
Pushing the Boundary – Your Stories: SFX Creators, Part 6
If you are a sound effects or synth creator who has submitted a library to the Designing Sound monthly recaps and you would like to contribute to this series (and for some you haven't received the questionnaire—check your spam folder), please email [email protected]. In this sixth installment about how SFX creators have pushed artistic and professional … [Read more...]
New SFX Libraries: January Recap
If you are releasing a new SFX library and you would like it to be included in our recap, please send us the details through our SFX Independence Submission Form. As we move onto February, let's take a walk through the days of internet yore and listen to the libraries released last month. We have a range of sound effects to include unique impulse responses, crunchy, grainy … [Read more...]