marc senasac » Media

Here We Go GDC

marc — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:38:56 +0000

I attended Audio Boot Camp today at GDC. Scott Selfon from Microsoft kicked off with a comprehensive “Introduction to Audio for Games” that included some insightful historical components.

Jay Weinland gave a great presentation showing off Bungie’s internal audio tools. They were fantastically impressive albeit, shown in the context of creating audio for Halo… Jay also referenced some cool benefits they got by licensing some plugins from Waves to use in-engine for mixing the game. In particular, setting up Waves plugin presets in Pro Tools and having them translate perfectly in the game engine.

Charles Deenen from EA covered many areas but seemed most passionate about evangelizing better in game mixing. Beyond volume, beyond DSP, we need to reference information from more data points in the game to create “great” adaptive mixes.

Charles made good sense to this enthused mix engineer. Accessing hundreds of points to create a top notch virtual mixing engineer in the game shouldn’t be far off, I hope…

Keeping Your Eye on the Ball

marc — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:00:54 +0000

We see this every year now at this time…. More evidence that the majors could have been OK if their eye had been on the ball through all the downloading drama. Shhhh…. Don’t let independent artists know about this though. Especially when it comes to something like “electronic release only”.

Twitter Me

marc — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:09:34 +0000

After a few days of use, I’m beginning to think Twitter is pretty cool. It’s a new social network app dsigned for the mobile phone scene by the folks at Odeo. The Baking Fairy turnned me on to it and now we always know what eachother are up to.

The Launch…

marc — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:39:12 +0000

We’re launching People Aggregator and it’s going great. Just over 400 people tried it out in the first 24 hours of private invites. More to come as we open it to the public. Officially open today at noon. We’ll be on the launch tour over the next few days…

Roll outs at Marc’s place tonight and then at Gnomedex on Friday.

It’s already been a huge benefit to have feedback from so many users on the UI. I sense it will help accelerate the tweaking process a lot as we move out of Alpha.

Some more info about People Aggregator here too.

The Simple Way to Record and Publish

marc — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:52:48 +0000

I can’t count the times people have asked me about the easiest way to get into recording audio. So here it is… Odeo has everything you need to record, and better yet, to publish your recordings.

You can even record and send messages to friends. If you have a computer with a microphone, you’re all set! No software to buy, install or configure.
For the tech note side of Odeo: They’ve done a great job of designing little flash player that plays xpsf playlists so they re categorize can republish and every ones stuff.