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Why a Tiny Pop is so Easy to Hear in Your Sound

So you are putting together your latest sound design project. Everything is coming together and you are just about ready to call your final mix done. And then you hear it: A click somewhere in the middle that destroys everything. You open up the wave file in your sound editor, and sure enough, there is a small sharp discontinuity in the signal. Sometimes you really have to zoom in to see it. Why…

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Audio Unit Support in nuSpin Free Player v2.0.2!

The last of the kinks have been worked out, and nuSpin now works as an Audio Unit! There are also some general improvements for AU and VST3 versions. If you have not used nuSpin before, perhaps a brief description is in order…

The Euro Lead program included in nuSpin v2.0.2, running as an Audio Unit in Reaper What is it?

nuSpinis a software synthesizer that can create evolving sound…

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#Audio Unit #nuSpin

My First VR-Ready Unity Project in Wwise

After spending another session learning about Wwise, I think I have developed an understanding that will help with Unity-Wwise integration. Please refer to the following diagram as I outline the steps for getting your first sound emitting object up and running in VR with Unity. I will start at the bottom of the chain in Wwise and work up to the top in Unity.

The Big Picture

First, you…

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#Steam-VR #Unity #Wwise

Sound Design in Wwise

Last week I walked through a comparison between my recollection of producing audio for Games in the mid-90’s and some high-level points I learned at an A3E class on Sound Design for Games at NAMM. This week, I am going to dig into sound design for a VR project I am helping out on.

The Sound Design Job To Be Done

As with all creative endeavors, starting with a complete understanding of the…

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What's Changed for Game Sound Design with VR?

What’s Changed for Game Sound Design with VR?

Back in my game-startup days at a venture called “SolidState, Inc” in the mid-90’s, I composed the music and designed the sounds for a game called “Dark Fiber” (Oh, and I wrote a lot of the game-play engine code including a movie scene navigator, a 360 degree scene view, a Doom-like BSP engine, and a game level designer). I had a blast being able to wear so many hats and reveled in the constant…

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Sound Design in nuSpin

When I began to design the nuSpin VST Instrument, I was excited about developing great DSP algorithms and a highly usable interface. I partnered with Mark Siegenthaler and Ed Ten Eyck to produce the first batch of sounds for the initial release. But I really didn’t dig into sound design myself until I needed to beef up the sound libraries with the full paid version. Once I did, I was surprised…

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Update on nuSpin VST3 (GUI Demo!)

I am excited to demonstrate my progress on porting nuSpin to VST3/Mac:

Media from the current windows/VST2 version is 100% compatible with the upcoming version. A free version of the new VST3 basic player is coming soon!

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Crossplatform VST3 is Coming Soon!

nuVibrations has had a busy year upgrading our website, conforming to new regulations on personal information retention, and oh yes, developing a major update to nuSpin! The best part is, this update will be free to owners of the current version of nuSpin. What is in the update? Here are the highlights:

Cross Platform (MacOS and Windows)

VST3 and AU (on MacOS)

New dark theme

Perhaps some new…

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Time to print up a batch of nu business cards... (at Erie, Colorado)

Day 0: Build environment running on the Mac! (at Erie, Colorado)

Day 0: nuSpin cross-platform upgrade to VST 3.6.8! (at Erie, Colorado)

Multi-Threaded Rendering Now Included in nuSpin’s Latest VST Instrument Plug-in Release! It's Finally Here! After a solid round of development, testing and bug fixing, I am proud to announce out latest VST instrument plug-in release of nuSpin.

What I am looking forward to at Winter NAMM 2018

I will be heading to Winter NAMM 2018 next week, 21 years after my first NAMM in 1997. I went last year, and while there is not much in terms of industry change year over year, there are other great reasons to attend. What are they? Read on!

A3E Summit

The Advanced Audio Applications Exchange, or A3E, is about exchanging ideas, information, and intelligence between audio developers,…

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#NAMM

Multi-threading is coming to nuSpin

A Premium Live Performance Experience

I have been busy behind the scenes adding multi-threading to nuSpin. Multi-threading gives a synth the ability to take full advantage of every processing core on a computer. That means you can play more notes and make more processor intensive programs that will still run in real time. The goal with nuSpin is to provide a premium live performance…

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Collectives: The new pathway to success in music production?

At a recent electronic producers meetup, the discussion topic was electronic music collectives. These groups seem to be gaining popularity in the EDM community. I decided to do some research share my findings with you here!

When did collectives get started?

Artistic collectives are actually not very new at all. Collectives for electronic music producers have been around pretty much as long…

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Matt Moldover's World of Controllerism

Matt Moldover’s World of Controllerism

According to Wikipedia,

Controllerism is the art and practice of using musical software controllers, e.g. MIDI, Open Sound Control (OSC), joystick, etc., to build upon, mix, scratch, remix, effect, modify, or otherwise create music, usually by a Digital DJ or Live PA performer, often called a “controllerist”.

Matt Moldover literally invented the term controllerism to describe his approach to…

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Denver Electronic Music Producers Meetup I have been looking for a way to meet some music producers in Denver, so last week, I attended a gathering of the Denver Electronic Music Producers Meetup.

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