I got into writing electronic music during early 90s, and been learning sound ever since. To date I've worked on sound design, composing, mixing and mastering for projects like stage performances and retail CDs/DVDs, and co-owning & running both a small recording studio and record label.. Both unsuccessful, yay!
I currently work on sound design for racing videogames at Bugbear Entertainment. Sometimes I also write music for video games as 'Elbowski'.
Opinions are my own.
Solving audio math, batch-renaming files, keeping your library organized, batch-editing Wwise attenuations... Here are my favorite tools beyond the DAW that will help you get the other 40-60% of your work done more efficiently.
#gameaudio #sounddesign #wwise
https://bolttracks.com/a-new-guide-for-game-audio-tools-beyond-the-daw/
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.
Day #1 of #AirCon almost wrapped up. Neat talks today, with plenty more ahead. Tune in!
@yora Hah yea picking up similar vibes from that vague nag 😄
Ah yes, also thank you 365 Excel for constantly blocking the tool row with this, regardless of how many times I dismiss it. Wonder what's the intended optimal experience here anyway?
Spreadsheet seems to work fine without the added access privileges. So to me the optimal would be to go about my work without having to constantly dismiss these nags 😁
No really, thank you, also my browser settings are fine as they are.
Duh Sharepoint, why the extra click hassle? I just want the download, not a lecture on bloat both that is not there, and which I will not miss.
If you aren’t using AI, you run a very real risk of falling behind in the race to produce voluminous mediocrity while slowly forgetting how to do your own job.
I boosted this a few times, but it's getting very, very close now: If you're an EU citizen, and you haven't signed the petition to ban conversion "therapy", please do so NOW.
It does not matter which country you're in, if that reached the threshold or not. More than 7 countries reached, so all that we need now is to reach a million signatures, and the remaining signatures can be reached within a day.
Lets make this last day count!
Much like the brave adventurer that I am, proceeded to upgrade RME Digicheck v0.93 beta today! 🤓
While I'm messing around with its layout setups, here's one funky vector scope clip for you:
Source is a electro-magnetic recording I took of a x-y crt screen on a Tempest arcade game. What you hear is the attract screen part where the logo text zooms in. Panning towards end of clip is just me moving and rotating the stereo mic over the screen. Cool sound too! 😎
EM258 being one of the cheap capsules sold by micbooster dot com. Capsule is good to record roughly up to 50kHz and the prototype mic I have cost like 10 euros to build. Cost-effective as it gets, not a big loss if you accidentally trash one.
And yea should build me a new EM258 - maybe even use some way better quality cable than the ”whatever just prototyping” I pulled first from the pile of cables to reuse. Didn’t expect to be using the prototype as much as I do 😄
Prep & rigging time, about to head outdoors for some recordings!
Whenever I need to have the EM258 capsule inside shotgun windshield (besides the shotty mic), the quick lock lever of the pistol grip makes for one quick & neat cable management setup. Mic cable connection to VXLR+ preamp is a bit flaky so it always pays off to secure the two down real good.
Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)
She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).
So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!
For those new to Gitaroo Man, here’s one clip of the Flying-O battle:
Fixed the composite video inputs of my multisync crt. While at it, got into playing Gitaroo Man on the PS2 after a loooong time. What a well-crafted, colorful and fun rhythm game, with one awesome music score! 😍
Also didn’t recall how ruthlessly challenging a rhythm game this can be. And how much I suck at it 😁
People like to think Asimov predicted the current technology known as "artificial intelligence". They are wrong. It was Douglas Adams when a computer spent untold resources just to return an answer which is both irrelevant and poses further questions.
As much as I hate to get on the "it was better back in the days", what the hell is with PC displays and input selections?
I used to have a display that had input switch button and it would flip between its VGA and DVI ports. Later I had similar, but it also had a DP port and pressing the button would cycle through the options in order. This was the peak design.
For some reason after that I've only seen horrible abominations of this. Examples include the current Samsung 32" screen I have, which has plenty of input options but the quick menu only has "next input" option, which means either entering the quick menu, pressing next, entering it again and selecting next input once more to jump over something that's not connected. The direct selection is buried in the menus.
Another horrible case is a Lenovo display I have, which absolutely won't stick in the selection if it goes offline for a second. If a input source reboots, the display automatically jumps to an active one.
I'm shaking my fist at the clouds.
There it is. Lcd & home button survived the process too 🥰
Long pending ipad glass repair in progress. Glass sure is putting up a good fight, was cracked up real go even prior 😅
