[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLiA1dbMpls[/youtube] Ted Conley, Audio Director of EA Canada and the technical artist behind the RUMR (Realtime User Music Remix) system, has uploaded a video demonstrating how to utilize the custom soundtracks features of SSX, and the RUMR system. In the five minute video, Ted explains and demonstrates the various methods used to … [Read more...]
iOS Audio and OpenAL – Introduction to iPhone Game Dev
This two-hour presentation from August 2011 by Eric Wing discusses programming audio for iOS and OpenAl. (seen via Game Audio 101 and Twitter ( @EngineAudioTom ) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QQAzhwalPI[/youtube] … [Read more...]
HISS and a ROAR Releases SPRINGS
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/33684021[/vimeo] SPRINGS is a diverse new library of sound design source material released by HISSandaROAR and recorded by Tim Prebble. Traversing from literal & very powerful trampoline springs & impacts through very strange bowed & manipulated extention springs all the way to abused outboard hardware (AKG BX5, Vermona Retroverb, Doepfer … [Read more...]
Harry Cohen Special: Sound Design Moments Re-visited
[Written by Harry Cohen] I wanted to write a different kind of article, one that indulges my more geeky-tech side. While the main source for material remains great recordings, there are lots of times when we find solutions to problems in processing; these days that mainly means plug-ins, but that was not always so. Sometimes, looking back, I see creative sound design moments … [Read more...]
Harry Cohen Special: Exclusive Interview
Let's get started with this month's special. Below is an interview I had with our guest Harry Cohen, talking about the general aspects of his career. How did you get started in sound design and what's been the evolution of your career? I backed into sound design by accident; I showed up at EFX studios in Burbank to do some piano overdubs on a new-age-y album, and met the … [Read more...]
Tim Nielsen Special: MS Recording
[Written by Tim Nielsen] I've been recording with MS since I started in this industry, about 12 years ago now. There are of course many other recording techniques available, and I own microphones suited to most of them. I tried to elaborate a tiny bit on some of the other stereo techniques in my previous article, and that's when I realized that MS really needed it's own … [Read more...]
David Farmer on McDSP Plugins
McDSP has published a new user profile, featuring sound designer David Farmer. “When I'm designing new sounds, I build in premix tracks that get bussed down to auxes, and those auxes then get bussed down to a composite. I almost always have an instance of Analog Channel on those premix auxes, and often an ML4000 too.” “It's hard to put into words why McDSP products sound … [Read more...]