Electronic Musician has published a useful article called Going Beyond Presets, with five top Sound Designers offering tips for getting the most of your synths. In the late '60s and early '70s, there were probably fewer than 20 synthesizers on the market, all costing in the tens of thousands of dollars. Today, life is good: There are hundreds of electronic musical instruments … [Read more...]
Basic Synthesis Tutorials and Videos
Jason Timothy has published a really useful post on his web The Music Software Training Blog talking about the basics of synthesis, explaining several types and the main elemetns of synthesis. "I wanted to give you some basic concepts to synthesis that you can quickly use to better your sound design abilities. My hope is that I am able to help people who haven’t yet had the … [Read more...]
Sound Design Essentials: Books
Few days ago I showed the first part of a series of essential resources, sites, tutorials, and tools related with Sound design. The first part was about Websites. Here is the second part: Books. There are many books about music production, sound design, mixing and mastering, etc.. I'm gonna post 15 that I consider as good reads, covering all aspects including general sound … [Read more...]
Sound Design Essentials: Websites
Everything have a start point. Here is the first part of a series of essential resources, sites, tutorials, and tools related with this funny thing called sound design. I begin with 30 websites for learning sound design for games, film and interactive media. General purpose KVR Audio - The Internet's number one news and information resource for open standard audio plug-ins. … [Read more...]