Hi, everybody! So, we’re back! This time, to make a review of the new Sonoma Wire Woks plugin: DrumCore 4 Prime. Sonoma contacted me to offer the opportunity of doing this review, and I thought that would be cool to tell you what’s my 5 cents on it. Well, to start, what’s it about? Well,…
Hey, how have you all been lately? So, during this lazy afternoon, I’ve been navigating thru YouTube, watching some videos about sound design, and I stumbled across a great one, where Henry Daw talks about the importance of the UI/UX sound design, and how it should be more valued under the design industry. For you…
Hi, everybody! How have you all been? Well, a couple of weeks ago I borrowed from a colleague something I have been wanting to test for a long time now, that’s supposed to speed up your editing/mixing process: the Logitech G13. For those who doesn’t know it, it’s a gadget made to speed up your gaming…
Hi, everyone! Today I’m here to share a small (but interesting) interview I did with Darren Korb, via e-mail, about his music in Bastion and his composition process. For those who doesn’t know, Darren is the audio director for Supergiant Games, the studio behind games like Bastion and Transistor. I haven’t played Transistor yet, but Bastion has one of…
Hey, everyone: happy new year! It’s 2017 already, and here I am posting this year’s first article. So, in 22nd of October 2016, I went to my first Full Indie Summit. And, yes, it was as good as I was expecting it! A full day of interesting presentations by great people of the indie game scenario.…
Last Wednesday (Nov. 30rd) I went to a seminar with Craig Henighan about the sound of Stranger Things. For who doesn’t know, Craig is the sound designer of the Netflix series many got super excited about. It was a free seminar, made by Avid and Annex Pro (Avid’s official reseller in Vancouver), where Craig talked a…
Many of us are super excited about VR and how it will change not just gaming, but many different areas of society. But what about augmented reality (AR)? We gotta think about it because, for me, it’s gonna be bigger and more mainst ream than VR in the foreseeable future. Besides, as audio professionals, we must ask: how sound…
Hey, everybody! How have you all been? Some days ago I was at the Full Indie Meetup, here in Vancouver, and I met a nice guy (that I can’t recall his name, sorry), young game developer, and we started talking about sound in games – after he asked me what was my role in the game…
Two quick, but great, videos today: a small tour on the Skywalker’s custom built soundstage, by Wired, with John Roesch and Shelly Roden. Have fun!!! 🙂 Mauricio Ruiz – http://www.mauricioruiz.me
So, today, I watched this video at the Business Insider Facebook page, and it made me think a lot. But, before I start talking about this, let’s watch it. It’s super short (1:35), and I assure you it’s worth it. Ok, I know some of you may be thinking “that’s a bunch of corporate bullshit, a…
Hey, you all! it’s been a while (a month…?!), I know. But I have been up to lots of things, redoing my website and doing a new game audio demo reel (which I’ll be talking about in a future post). But, hey, the blog is back. And, you may find strange, but this is a…
A couple of weeks ago, I was talking to some audio friends about where to find VR Audio articles and resources. I’m really interested on the matter, but it’s so new for me (and almost everybody else) that I wanted to read about it before starting to do any experimentation on the field. I was having…
A little while ago, Impact Soundworks released a “retro-game sound” instrument named Super Audio Cart. It seemed very interesting for game audio composers and sound designers, with a super fast and intuitive interface and a really good audio quality. So I decided to give it a try and review it for the blog. More than that,…
Hey! How is everybody doing? Well, Today I was reading an article (by the A Sound Effect Blog) I had in my reading list for a while now, and decided that was nice to share it with you: Designing the sound for critically-acclaimed UNCHARTED 4 – with Senior Sound Designer Jeremy Rogers Why sharing? Well,…
For the every day game players, sound design is not something that is really noticeable, unless something goes wrong. I don’t mean to say that our area is not important, not at all. What I’m saying is: people tend to notice much more the sound design when there’s a problem with it, than for it’s…
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