Bleeding Edge Sound Design and Music

Here’s a bit of a preview of what I’ve been up to with the Dave Smith Instruments “Tempest”.

The ARKIV Sound Library is almost done in the editing department and I’m deep in it on a music/sound design library that has some of it’s sound sources originating from the recording sessions featured in this video. And in true SynSynth fashion, it ended up meticulously dissected and then ferociously shredded to extremities beyond your most perverted dreams.

Until then…

It’s been a long time since I last updated. My apologies for any of you who would have liked to hear from me. Fortunately this also means I’ve been busy. Designing Sounds for the Dave Smith Instruments “Tempest”, My preset collection for Little Endian Ltd’s “SpectrumWorx”, AudioSpillage’s “DrumSpillage” and more. I’ll update this post later on when I have more hyperlinks, video’s and etc. handy. So check back later on.

For now, check out my new and exciting project I just launched today. A Fundraising venture for a Sound Library made from my recording and sound design archives going back to 1993 featuring some exclusive and rare analog synthesizers, drum machines, field recordings and insanely unique and interesting designed sounds that you can only get by contributing. More updates soon!

In October of 2009 I finished Lead Sound Designer duties for a feature length horror film called “The Sacred”. The film has been touring the festival circuit. It’s racked up numerous nominations for Best Sound, Best Sound Design and Best Sound Effects at various festivals.

Now, in November 2010 I’d like to announce that The Sacred took home the award for Best SFX from the Killer Film Festival.

I’d like to thank the Director, Jose Cassella for allowing us so much creative freedom in doing the audio post, especially considering how crazy and extreme my sound design and surround mixing for this film was. I’d also like to thank my amazing team mates in the sound department; Rob Reider, Aaron Morgan, Erik Jackson and the rest of the crew. We all did the audio post for this film in an obscenely short amount of time, especially for such a small crew.

Here’s a video of only the SFX stem I created for the Title Sequence of The Sacred:

You can find out more info about how I did the sound design by following the link embedded in the video’s title which leads to it’s home page and an extended description of some of the sound design details.

*** I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank the following people and their respective teams, who’s work on their software helped make my sound design on The Sacred possible. I abused their software to an absurd extent while working on this film. Please check out their creations and help support their amazing work.

- Justin Frankel, the creator of the “Reaper” DAW.

- Tom Erbe, the creator of the “Soundhack” family of plug-in’s and DSP utilities.

- Kieran Foster, the creator of the DBlue “Glitch” plug-in.

- Nasca Octavian, the creator of the “Paulstretch” DSP utility.

Syndicate Synthetique, sound designer, musician. A man on the bleeding edge of sound. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s first bionic sound designer. Syndicate Synthetique will be that man. Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster.

Greetings everyone. I just had to switch my site over to a new server and lost all my old info, so I’m having to re-update and rebuild. Better, stronger, faster.