Firelight Technologies has released new updates of the FMOD Ex API and FMOD Designer bringing new features and updates, including the new DSP effects, more memory optimizations, a new Profiler option and performance improvements to the Geometry API. FMOD 4.26 Programmer API Updates: Added Delay and TREMOLO DSP effects. Improved performance of FMOD Delay DSP, iPhone, Win32 … [Read more...]
Audio Media Magazine: Game Sound Special [Free Download]
My friend Andrew Spitz shared a link in his Twitter with a Special Edition of Audio Media Magazine dedicated to Game Sound. It's Free! You can download it from HERE. Contents Final Cut: Dead Space Simon Prytherch: Asset Management John Broomhall: A New Era Richard Jacques: Hunting For The Best Sound One Plus One: Music For Prototype Music To Fly-By: Tom Salta Stefan … [Read more...]
Sound Propagation in Games
Sound Propagation or "the sounds living in the space", a term frecuently used in Sound Design. Let's see these two articles taken from two blogs (Interactive Sound and Sound&Music for Games), both talking about Sound Propagation in Games. "Sound propagation is a term used to describe how sound reacts to a given space. We know that sound travels through the air as a linear … [Read more...]
Creating a Spooky Half-Life Monster Sound in Logic
Ted Griffioen has a new tutorial at Audio Tuts+ explaining the process of creating a Half-Life Monster Sound. Here is the introduction: "If you ever played a game like Half-Life without sound you will acknowledge this: the scare factor comes, at least in large part, from the sound effects. Monsters don’t really seem dangerous if they don’t make a scary sound. Close the … [Read more...]
Randy Thom Special: Scarface (video game)
Scarface: The World Is Yours, a video game developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Vivendi Universal Games. It's based on the 1983 motion picture Scarface with André Sogliuzzo hand picked by Al Pacino to provide Tony Montana's voice. It was released on the PC, PlayStation 2, and Xbox on October 8, 2006, and on the Wii on June 12, 2007. "The game spent five weeks … [Read more...]
Interview with Amon Tobin, InFAMOUS composer
InFAMOUS is the story of Cole McGrath, a bike messenger given an assignment to deliver a package that is secretly a bomb. Cole survives the massive explosion and develops electricity-based powers. Soon, he discovers that his city has fallen into chaos under the rule of gangs and factions and must fight back against them to restore order while unearthing the conspiracy behind … [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...]