Sound FX
Welcome to the sound effects area!
Karoshi_2009_Soundset_mono.zip [2.60MB]
This set of sounds was created for Super Karoshi, a game by Jesse Venbrux.
These sounds were designed using a variety of different methods:
= Dropping bin liners filled with water out of an upstairs window.
= Smashing a melon with a hammer.
= Throwing, crushing and squeezing oranges.
= Recording myself eating a burger and other food types.
= Recording doors and light switches around my house.
= Recording the sound of an elastic band.
= Layering different parts of these sounds together to generate specific timbres and dynamics.
= Building patches on my Waldorf XTk.
= The CrystalBreak sound was a patch I designed in Spectrasonic’s Omnisphere.
= Various DSP effects and mastering tools in Ableton Live.
focus_soundset.zip [2.90MB]
This set of sounds were created for Jesse Venbrux's game ‘Focus’.
A combination of methods were used for these. Some (like the warp, pickup blue stone and start game sound) were created using a combination of Omnisphere and Alchemy.
The more ‘bleepy’ sounds were made using free VSTs such as Peach VST (a retro Nintendo Entertainment System instrument) and then DSPed/mastered in Ableton Live.
The more gentle explosion sounds were adapted from my white noise explosion which is below.
The larger explosion sounds and crumbly rock effects were manipulated from free stock sounds, layered with other things from plugins such as those mentioned above, and mixed and mastered in Ableton Live.
white_noise_explosion.wav [565.17KB]
This is an explosion sound created using only white noise and a touch of reverb. The layers of white noise were combined at different filtered frequencies and speeds.
A list of the main software/hardware used to make these examples:
Ableton Live
Spectrasonic’s Omnisphere
Camel Audio’s Alchemy, CamelPhat and CamelSpace
Native Instrument’s Battery
Larry Seyer Digital POWERbass
Kore Player with Massive Expansion Vol 1 and Sax & Brass
Various other freeware plugins
Intel Quad Core PC, 4GB RAM
Axiom 25 Midi Controller
Waldorf XTk
Novation Nova 2 Keyboard
M-Audio Delta 66
MOTU 828 Mkii
Mackie 1642-VLZ Pro Mixer
AKG C1000 Microphone
Zoom H4N Portable Recorder
For the last 8 months I have had the Mackie mixer. Once a track is complete I perform a ‘mix-down’ by assigning channels with Ableton Live to my MOTU outputs. Each of its 8 outputs is routed to the Mackie. I then mix and EQ on the Mackie desk and record its output back into the PC via the MOTU.
This process gives the recordings extra edge and analogue goodness because I can drive its signal harder.
Please feel free to share these examples and credit me if and when you do so. There are for listening purposes only, and cannot be used in any other context without my explicit permission. Please contact me if you wish to use anything in your own projects etc.