Posts with tag sound-design

News | May 26, 2015 by Rounik Sethi

Heavyocity love to tease. And in anticipation of their new instrument being released in June, 2015, this video gives few clues but certainly has us pulled in.

Tutorial | May 23, 2015 by Rishabh Rajan

This tutorial on making a dark, brooding pad is taken from Rishabh Rajan's FREE interactive eBook: NI Massive Sound Design Recipes available for iPad, iPhone, Mac, Android and PC.

Tutorial | May 13, 2015 by G.W. Childs IV

Your Korg volca keys can easily make short techno stabs and blippy synth sounds, but it can do more too. G. W. Childs demonstrates how to create pads and strings using this powerful hardware synth.

Review | Apr 07, 2015 by Lynda Arnold

If anyone can take high-quality, organically sampled world instruments and give them a cutting-edge breathe of new sonic life, it's Sample Logic. Lynda Arnold explores Bohemian and is impressed.

News | Apr 05, 2015 by Rounik Sethi

Elias Composer's Studio 1.5 is a collaborative tool for game composers, giving them the ability to adapt musical scores dynamically in real-time depending on the player's movements in the game!

News | Apr 03, 2015 by Rounik Sethi

Don't be fooled thinking Sample Logic's new release, Bohemian, is only for new age music. The collection of exotic, traditional & morphed instruments in this Kontakt library are incredibly inspiring!

News | Mar 24, 2015 by Rounik Sethi

Kevin Saunderson, the man behind techno, should need no introduction. Ford Cars also... So what happens if you put Kevin Saunderson in a Ford assembly plant with a portable recorder? Watch this video.

Tutorial | Mar 20, 2015 by Hollin Jones

Creating effective sound design for film or TV doesn't require you to have the most expensive instrument libraries. In fact, Propellerheads Reason has more than enough for your atmospheric needs.

News | Mar 19, 2015 by Rounik Sethi

Coming soon is a new Kontakt instrument from Wide Blue Sound called Orbit and it promises a "fresh new approach to musical sound design". Intrigued? So are we.

Review | Mar 13, 2015 by G.W. Childs IV

Enter a world of beautiful and terrifying sonic soundscapes with Siren Audio's granular synth, Generative 2. Does this atmospheric synth press all of G. W. Childs' buttons? Find out in our review.

Tutorial | Mar 12, 2015 by Sara Simms

With an insight into the gear used to create his signature guitar sounds, Sara Simms delves deeper to demonstrate how you can re-create tones inspired by the one and only Jimi Hendrix.

Tutorial | Mar 11, 2015 by G.W. Childs IV

Looking to make a great sounding lead guitar from a synth? Bring on Reason, and more to the point, bring on Parsec. G. W. Childs shows how to twist this synth's sounds into convincing lead guitar.

News | Mar 10, 2015 by Rounik Sethi

Skynet Prototype from Bluezone Corporation is a 900 MB sound effect library designed for movies and games with a futuristic, mechanical, robotic and military slant.

News | Feb 24, 2015 by Rounik Sethi

Kyma was designed to be a hardware and software sound design environment for studio and live performance artists. And Kyma 7 promises some new inspiring features...

News | Feb 23, 2015 by Rounik Sethi

Now here's something unique and cool. A 500 series modular format sound processor designed for sound designers to achieve 8 and 16-bit video game soundtracks. The video is worth watching too!