Aaron Marks Complete Guide To Game Audio

Author : Aaron Marks
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1136059261
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Guide to Game Audio written by Aaron Marks and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn your musical passion into a profitable career with this essential guide to the business and technical skills you need to succeed in the multi-billion dollar games industry. Step-by-step instructions lead you through the entire music and sound effects process - from developing the essential skills and purchasing the right equipment to keeping your clients happy. Learn everything you need to: Find the jobs. Identify your niche, implement a business and marketing plan that includes a great demo reel, and plug into the established network to find clients. Make the deals. Make the bidding and contract process work for you by knowing the standard industry terminology, understanding how to set fees, and employing non-confrontational negotiating tactics to reach sound agreements that establish acceptable boundaries for change orders, reworks, payment options, and other essentials. Create music and sound effects for games. Master the exacting specifications for composing music and creating sound effects on the various gaming platforms and systems. The companion DVD features audio and cinematic examples, demos of useful sound editing and sequencing programs, and sample business contracts.

Author : Aaron Marks
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 131763618X
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aaron Marks' Complete Guide to Game Audio written by Aaron Marks and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether trying to land that first big gig or working to perfect the necessary skills to fill a game world with sound, Aaron Marks’ Complete Guide to Game Audio 3rd edition will teach the reader everything they need to know about the audio side of the multi-million dollar video game industry. This book builds upon the success of the second edition with even more expert advice from masters in the field and notes current changes within the growing video game industry. The tools of the trade excerpts will showcase what professionals, like Marty O’Donnell, Richard Jacques and Tom Salta, use to create their work and to help newcomers in the field prepare their own sound studios. Sample contracts are reviewed within the text as well as helpful advice about contractual terms and negotiable points. These sample contracts can also be found as a downloadable zip for the reader’s convenience. Aaron Marks also explores how to set your financial terms and network efficiently along with examples of how projects can go completely awry and achieving the best results in often complicated situations. Aaron Marks’ Complete Guide to Game Audio serves as the ultimate survival guide to navigating an audio career in the video game industry. Key Features New, full color edition with a complete update of information. Added and expanded coverage of field recording for games, creating voiceovers, adaptive and interactive audio and other cutting edge sound creation and implementation techniques used within games. Update/Replacement of interviews. Include interviews/features on international game audio professionals New and expanded interview features from game composers and sound designers of every experience level such as Keith Arem, Bradley Meyer, Christopher Tin and Rodney Gates including many international professionals like Pasi Pitkanen, Henning Nugel and Christos Panayides. Expanded and updated game console coverage of the Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3 and PS4. Includes new scripting and middleware concepts and techniques and review of powerful tools such as FMOD and Wwise.

Author : Aaron Marks
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136140212
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Guide to Game Audio written by Aaron Marks and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide gives readers with basic music compositional skills the information they need to become commercially viable artisans. In addition to providing a foundation of prerequisite technical skills, including basic audio considerations and sound file formats, the book teaches the business skills needed to work successfully as an audio technician in the game development business. How-to features take the reader step-by-step, from purchasing the right equipment, understanding the various game platforms, and composing music and creating sound effects specifically for games, to the ins and outs of marketing, producing demo reels, determining fees, bidding projects, and negotiating contracts.

Author : Gina Zdanowicz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351016415
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Game Audio Strategy Guide written by Gina Zdanowicz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Game Audio Strategy Guide is a comprehensive text designed to turn both novices and experienced audio designers into technical game audio pros. Providing both a theoretical foundation and practical insights, The Game Audio Strategy Guide offers a thorough look at the tools and methods needed to create industry-quality music and sound design for games. The text is supported by an extensive companion website, featuring numerous practical tutorials and exercises, which allows the reader to gain hands-on experience creating and implementing audio assets for games. The Game Audio Strategy Guide is the essential manual for anyone interested in creating audio for games, inside or outside the classroom.

Author : Jean-Luc Sinclair
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351731130
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principles of Game Audio and Sound Design written by Jean-Luc Sinclair and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principles of Game Audio and Sound Design is a comprehensive introduction to the art of sound for games and interactive media using Unity. This accessible guide encompasses both the conceptual challenges of the artform as well as the technical and creative aspects, such as sound design, spatial audio, scripting, implementation and mixing. Beginning with basic techniques, including linear and interactive sound design, before moving on to advanced techniques, such as procedural audio, Principles of Game Audio and Sound Design is supplemented by a host of digital resources, including a library of ready-to-use, adaptable scripts. This thorough introduction provides the reader with the skills and tools to combat the potential challenges of game audio independently. Principles of Game Audio and Sound Design is the perfect primer for beginner- to intermediate-level readers with a basic understanding of audio production and Unity who want to learn how to gain a foothold in the exciting world of game and interactive audio.

Author : Alexander Brandon
Publisher : New Riders Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Audio for Games written by Alexander Brandon and published by New Riders Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of video games in which the sound lags far behind the rest of the user's experience? If so, and if you're ready to do better, you need this forward-looking volume! In these pages, sound artist extraordinaire Alexander Brandon provides a broad-ranging exploration of how game audio is created today and how it should be done in the future in order to create groundbreaking audio. After providing a map of the audio development process in Chapter 1, Alexander discusses the basic preproduction, workflow, production, post-production, and technology issues audio designers must address today. Then, after a post-mortem analysis of the audio development process for a game that's currently on the market, Alexander takes a good, hard look at the heights to which video-game audio can be taken in chapters on ideal workflow, technology, and production. Throughout, the focus is on the practical advice you need to create better (and better!) sound!

Author : Andrea Pejrolo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019992189X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating Sounds from Scratch written by Andrea Pejrolo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Sounds from Scratch is a practical, in-depth resource on the most common forms of music synthesis. It includes historical context, an overview of concepts in sound and hearing, and practical training examples to help sound designers and electronic music producers effectively manipulate presets and create new sounds. The book covers the all of the main synthesis techniques including analog subtractive, FM, additive, physical modeling, wavetable, sample-based, and granular. While the book is grounded in theory, it relies on practical examples and contemporary production techniques show the reader how to utilize electronic sound design to maximize and improve his or her work. Creating Sounds from Scratch is ideal for all who work in sound creation, composition, editing, and contemporary commercial production.

Author : Ric Viers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781615932047
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sound Effects Bible written by Ric Viers and published by . This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction - What is a sound effect? - The science of sound - The microphone - Mocrophone models and applications - Microphone accessories - Recorders - Building a field recording package - The ten recording commandments - Sound effects gathering - Building a Foley Stage for a home studio - The art of Foley - Digital audio - Studio equipment - Designing your own studio - The ten sound editing commandments - File naming and metadata - Sound design - The sound effects encyclopedia - The future of sound design - Resources.

Author : G. W. Childs
Publisher : Course Technology
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating Music and Sound for Games written by G. W. Childs and published by Course Technology. This book was released on 2007 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Music and Sound for Games is about mastering the unique creative challenges faced by musicians and sound designers new to the field of composing music for computer and console games. In addition to covering the artistic angle, this book helps the reader choose the right hardware and software for composing music for games. Tutorials teach readers to develop music and audio cues to match the varying action in a game and how to successfully synchronize and format their compositions for the game industry. Finally, the book offers practical advice on breaking into the business.

Author : Karen Collins
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026203378X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Game Sound written by Karen Collins and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguishing feature of video games is their interactivity, and sound plays an important role in this: a player's actions can trigger dialogue, sound effects, ambient sound, and music. This book introduces readers to the various aspects of game audio, from its development in early games to theoretical discussions of immersion and realism.