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 ...

The most iconic pings, beeps, and chimes of the Digital Age For understandable reasons, most technology coverage tends to ...

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 ...

For Broadway’s “Beetlejuice” (opening April 25 at the Winter Garden Theatre), it was up to sonic mastermind Peter Hylenski to design the fantastical world from a sound perspective. That also means, ...

Capcom’s Resident Evil series has often masterfully created tension and scares from the sounds you hear while tiptoeing around ominous environments. While the zombies and monstrosities that walk ...