Many of our tutorials focus on the more tuneful side of synth sound design – albeit hopefully pushing our soft synths to the extreme with everything from imaginative tweaks to full-on modulation ...

Effects are a sound designer's bread and butter, capable of taking a bang-average synth patch or sample and transforming it into something that makes a track stand out from the crowd. There's never ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Bringing that to a video game was a massive undertaking on the part of developers EA DICE, one that went well ...

In which the PCWorld Game On blog chats with Andrea Toyias and Joseph Lawrence from Blizzard Entertainment about what it was like to work on making every shout, swing and smashing barrel in Diablo III ...

Without sound design, film would be a bland medium. A character would walk into a room, and you wouldn’t hear footsteps. Crickets wouldn’t chirp on a summer night. The patter of rain in a forest would ...

A superhero landing without the earth-shaking boom. A horror scene missing that eerie creak of a slowly opening door. A car chase with nothing but silence. Feels off, right? Sound effects don’t just ...

As the only university in the country that offers B.F.A, M.A., and M.F.A degrees in sound design, it would be easy for the Savannah College of Art and Design to simply tout that fact as a selling ...