Guest Contribution by Ali Lacey When someone mentions a Toy Piano, the last things you would think are 50Hz Booms, sub drops, eerie textures, bows and big percussive hits. But have you ever actually pondered the cinematic qualities a toy piano might have? After obsessing about owning a toy piano, I found a vintage 1950’s mini grand piano on Ebay for £20. I had plans to … [Read more...]
New SFX Libraries: Toys, Trains, Water, Springs, Mangled Metal, Holograms
New libraries have been released. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6htu053iRlw[/youtube] Daniel Gooding launches Affordable Audio 4 Everyone, with the introduction of The Magic ToyBox, a SFX library released as "pay as you can" model. Any purchase over $5 will go to charity. From the great depths of the basement, came forth the sounds of toys, and games of old. Over … [Read more...]
Sound Doodle, New Sound Manipulator by Andrew Spitz
Andrew Spitz, know as founder of Social Sound Design and blogger at { sound+design }, where he showcases a lot of cool projects, such as his latest creation, called Sound Doodle, a very cool app for experimenting with sounds in many ways. Sound Doodle is a free desktop application for Mac that takes the act of doodling, and brings it to the world of sound. The interface … [Read more...]
Jedsound Twisted SFX, Free Collection of Sound Effects by Jean-Edouard Miclot
Twisted Tools, makers of awesome Reaktor ensembles and crazy sound packs, have released Jedsound - Twisted FX, a free collection of very unique samples recorded and created by sound designer Jean-Edouard Miclot. We are excited to offer an amazing new collection of sounds by sound designer Jean-Edouard Miclot. It isn’t everday you can get your hands on unique and properly … [Read more...]
The Sound of "Toy Story 3"
I went to the theater yesterday to see "Toy Story 3", and all can I say is that you will have a lot of fun. What a fantastic adventure. The sound was great. If you want to know about it, let's check the new profile of SoundWorks Collection: Join Skywalker Sound’s Re-Recording Mixer and Sound Designer Tom Myers, Sound Re-Recording Mixer Michael Semanick, Director Lee Unkrich, … [Read more...]
Richard Devine Special: Making Of Hollywood Edge's Mechanical Morph
Richard Devine, Josh Kay and Jim Stout are creating a new sample library for The Hollywood Edge, called Mechanical Morph. Let's check some exclusive images, videos and info from the making of. … [Read more...]