Pianobook community sample libraries
If you did not stumbled across this awesome community project yet, you definetely should have a look at it. In particular if you are into anything sound design or film scoring related.
“Pianobook is a collective sample project inspiring musicians to embrace the magic of sampling and share their creations with the community.”
pianobook.co.uk
If offers a sheer number (520 at the time of writing) of sample libraries free to download and use. The actual content is not limited to piano libraries but meanwhile contains quite a range of different acoustic instruments or even voices and some synthetic stuff.
While centered around Kontakt capabilities when once started, it meanwhile offers also downloads in EXS or Decent Sampler format, at least to some extend. On top, it is an open project and invites everybody to also contribute to the library.
One should definitately check out the upright pianos to discover some real gems. Also the “found sounds” section reveals some great discoveries. To get a glimpse and more easy access to the library as a whole, I strongly recommend the according YT channel.
Musikmesse 2013 coverage
I had a quite long but really great day at Musikmesse this year and this time it was less about new gear but more about meeting some old friends from the scene but also to meet and change insights with some sound designers and developers which I did not met ever before. We had great sessions about analog style distortion generation, compressor designs and oversampling, reverb culture and sound design. And finally I’ve met some cool guys like Fabien from TDR and Nico from Bigtone, just to name the two. Anyway, as always I’ve also sneaked around to catch one or another impression and highlight from the show itself and here is a little report.
Akai presented their rather new MPC stuff and I’ve checked the pads and build quality which both felt very cheap to me.
Ion Audio showed a brand new and neat turntable with direct USB connection and a slick and solid wooden made chassis. Can’t say much about the pick-up and arm, though. Price should be 750 bucks and release around June, as they say. I’ll watch the release. [Read more…]
shortlinks – sound design and scoring
“Elliott Koretz Special: Exclusive – The Michael Mann Collaboration” – read the full interview on designingsound.org, an excellent Blog on this topic.
“Source music or underscore? We check out the difference, with examples from Portal 2, BioShock, Crysis 2 and more.” – check this interesting feature out at ign.com.
“The Sound Design of Mass Effect 3” – available on gameinformer.com. [Read more…]
analog vinyl sampling – WTF?
Analog Vinyl Sampling from Ishac Bertran on Vimeo.
Experimental analog sampling with modified vinyls.
Sectors from a vinyl record are cut and replaced by pieces with exact shape from other records. When played in a vinyl player the needle follows the grooves from both sectors creating sampled tunes or loops.
More information here: http://blog.ishback.com/?p=918
In this video:
Supertramp – Crisis? What Crisis?
Paul Anka – My Way
Chicago – Chicago X
Lil Jon – Kings of Crunk
inFAMOUS (PS3) soundtrack
I’ve recently finished playing inFAMOUS on Sony PS3 and during the game I was really often amazed about the outstanding soundtrack and sounddesign. 
Variety Of Sound 
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