Hooray! The final acoustical installation is finally complete! The acoustical “cloud” as shown here takes care of primary reflections coming from the ceiling in order to give a more “true image” of the sound before it hits my ears in the listening position – drastically tightening up the sound!
Monsterball was recently featured at Touch Arcade in an article available here.
They even made a great video of the game being played between an iPhone and a computer. Cool, right? This game will be shipping soon with music and sound design by John Seguin/SeguinSound. Enjoy!
It looks like Universal Audio may start to run a series on “studio basics”. There is a nice article here about Microphones at Universal Audio. Give it a read by clicking here.
So, on the recommendation of some respectable texts about MIDI orchestration, I picked up a Breath Controller – the Yamaha BC3. So far, after fooling around with it for about an hour, I can see that it will take a bit of practice to become “good” at it. Since the BC3 cannot determine pitch, you need to do an interesting little dance between the keyboard and your breathing through the device which is not always the easiest thing to do! However, I’ve found that it can be extremely expressive when it comes to subtle changes for patches that use a cross-fade between different velocities (such as the excellent Symphobia sustained strings, for example). For this, I assign the BC3 to CC#1 as opposed to the standard Breath Controller CC#2 and the results are impressive!
I’ll check back in again when I have experimented some more with hopefully some “best practice” tips!
I’m a definite believer in cleaning house in order to be more creative. For a composer, this means lots and lots of computer work. Perhaps its setting up backups, cleaning out files, installing a new PCIe card or hard drive, updating (all!) your software programs and sample libraries. Maybe calibrating your monitors. Whatever it is, eliminating the clutter is a great move towards improving focus during some downtime. Read more…