Game Audio Hour
54 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA podcast that features a varied cohort conversing regularly about game audio since 2014! Ideas, techniques, secrets, opinions, and all the miscellany you can fathom related to the world of sound design and music production for video games.
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Episodes
Ep. 209 - From One Synth to One Orchestra
September 04, 2021 06:48 - 1 hour - 45.7 MBThe trio of Vince, Mike, and Alex are back and talking about various musical ideas, starting by briefly touching on the anniversary of the Spitfire/Westworld competition, then moving on to the long-running KVR One Synth Challenge, and finally spinning out onto various subjects after Alex reveals that he's done something rather out of character: Purchasing a modern and robust orchestral sample library. Featuring: Alex May, Michael Gordon Shapiro, Vincent Diamante Recorded August 13, 2021
Ep. 208 - Musician, Know Thyself
August 13, 2021 20:18 - 1 hour - 46 MBThe GAH duo of Mike and Vince talk composition, starting with Vincent's anxieties about effectively working with assistants leading to talk of high-level workflow, composition techniques, and other related topics here and there before ending with: (SURPRISE!) more anxieties about the future of music composition work. Featuring: Michael Gordon Shapiro, Vincent Diamante Recorded: June 25, 2021
Ep. 207 - A Sound Smorgasbord
July 30, 2021 17:04 - 56 minutes - 43.3 MBThe Game Audio Hour hits a bevy of audio topics, including: Apple Spatial Audio, Algonaut Atlas 2, searching sound libraries in Cubase and Reaper, computer silencing, old software far removed from the Apple Silicon era, and developing haptic feedback. Featuring: Alex May & Vincent Diamante Recorded: June 10, 2021
Ep. 206 - From Arcades to Mobile to True Legato...
July 16, 2021 19:00 - 50 minutes - 61.5 MBThe Game Audio Hour crew returns... in audio-only form, appropriately enough! Mike visits an arcade for the first time in a while, which prompts a discussion that connects development for arcade hardware and mobile phones... and they somehow start talking about connecting 80s-90s consumer keyboards (Yamaha PSR-510!) to their sound cards, eventually coming back to modern sample libraries like EastWest and Spitfire. Featuring: Alex May, Michael Gordon Shapiro, Vincent Diamante