We recently worked with Mezmedia – a full-service interactive and multimedia studio, to create a unique “Audio Logo” for the animated logo for their line of kids games, “Bamba”. The brief was to create an audio stinger that was unique and that matched the animation: Fun, bright, a bit childish, and it had to incorporate […]
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Ideas for Creating Unique Musical Colours
By: Kole Hicks If you’re like me, than you probably love to write music. However, you may eventually (if you haven’t already) run into the following issue: “Normal” sounds are not accurately expressing your muse’s intention. Now don’t get me wrong, I love the sound of a masterfully played grand piano or open chords strummed […]
Producing MIDI music for mobile phones / cellphones Part 2
by Piotr PacynaGo back to part 1 of this article 6. Controllers According to the most common opinion one should use only those controllers that are absolutely necessary. Well, it is true, but not quite the whole story. Yes, some old devices are unable to read anything other besides Patch Change and the Volume controller, […]
Music Production hardware and software tips, Part 2
By Piotr Koczewski < Back to Part 1 Hardware continued Selection of monitors (video) – First of all, you have to pay attention to the same contrast of a monitor, when purchasing a few HD monitors. Once I worked at two different monitors of the same company and I had to set contrast manually, which […]
Music License confusion – Non-PRO vs PRO tracks
We recently got this question from a confused customer who didn’t quite understand the role of performing rights organizations / royalty collection societies, and how it applies to stock music / royalty-free music. I ended up writing a lengthy answer to her, which I felt could be of use or interest to other customers too, […]
Producing MIDI music for mobile phones / cellphones, Part 1
By Piotr Pacyna I’ve produced game soundtracks for mobile phones for over 9 years now. When I was starting out I thought that all I had to do was simply to make a MIDI file. A piece of cake! But I was so wrong… The feedback that I was receiving from the clients showed me […]
Music Production hardware and software tips, Part 1
By Piotr Koczewski Many composers talk about creating music, but few discuss the tools required to do it. What I mean is the IT side of music creation. I will do my best to explore this broad topic providing the most concrete information. The choice of displays (audio) – the more displays with a different […]
Pruning the music catalogue
We’ve always been of the opinion here at Shockwave-Sound, that there is no point at all in just amassing “as much as possible” music in our catalogue. If you’re a customer looking for one great, hard pumping, action packed track to use for your project, it doesn’t really matter whether we have 1,500 or 15,000 […]
Video from Morro Bay and Morro Rock set to our music
Photographer and videographer Harry Sloan from California has made a really nice DVD featuring our music. He has made 12 individual “video paintings” from the beautiful Morro Rock and Morro Bay California area, and set them to our music. We can recommend this video for anybody who have been lucky enough to visit these beautiful […]
Guide to Virtual Pianos
Stage vs Digital Audio Workstation By Dov Waterman There isn’t anything out there in the world of digital music reproduction that beats the sound of a real instrument. Nevertheless, the piano is one of those instruments that composers, performers and audio engineers have sought to emulate over the years. With ultra-powerful computers with […]
