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Only if you made him join the union to pitch your game! Nice.
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Sequencing with DP
October 19
Discussing Engineering, Recording and Mixing and the gear that goes along with it. (photo: roland @ flickr)
October 19
How do you make audio/music pay? Do you want to? What new monetization models are emerging from the internet? Discussing the equation: ART = MONEY? (photo: Alex Osterwalder @ flickr)
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Share your Pro Tools techniques or questions.
October 19
Did you see this? http://lounge.cwtv.com/showthread.php?t=507602 They want it baby! Don't keep the people waiting...
October 17

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Who are you?
Composer, Sound Designer, Musician, Games
Whats your goal?
Composer, Sound Designer, Producer, Film/Television, Games, Advertising, Educator
Your website?
MattKern.com, SonicVille.net
Your company website?
GoldenTee.com
What project are you currently working on?
Lots of Golden Tee Golf updates. We just did a Silver Strike Bowling update, Target Toss Pro for the Wii is just coming out and we have a Mini Putt game that will be released in about a month.
Whats another project you are working on?
Sonicville.net
What's your OS of choice?
Whatever works
What is your setup (hardware, software, mics, libraries, etc..)?
G5 running Leopard: Pro Tools, Digital Performer, Reason, Waves, Broadway Big Band, Stylus (lost Trilogy when moving to the G5 - sniff ) 100 gigs of sound fx samples and about 50 gigs of instrument libraries in NNXT format for Reason.

Standard Dell: Sonic Foudry, Batch Converter, Gigasampler (when I can get it working)

Mics: TLM103. What else do you need?

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New Tune: You're Just In Love

Check out You're Just In Love Mix 2 in the playlist here.

I got to go in the studio last week to be a guinea pig for a recording class. It was the Flashpoint academy in downtown Chicago. It was a beautiful space and we just recorded tunes for about 4 hours. It was the classes first tracking session so they mostly watched and the teacher, James Teitelbaum, was running the controls for mos… Continue

Posted on February 10, 2009 at 11:30am — 8 Comments

Matt Kern

Sonicville Newsletter: Issue #1

** Sonicville Newsletter: Issue 1 **

What a great first month Sonicville had. If ever there was a better composition and sound design social network, I never found it.

Sonicville has only been around about 3 weeks - but I want to share some of the exciting events in case you missed them.

1) We have a job board. Not only that, but it has a real job posting!
http://sonicville.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=2187172%3ATopic%3A1376

2) We have some new and interesting groups, composition/film/televi… Continue

Posted on July 28, 2008 at 8:24pm —

Matt Kern

Swipe It, Yoko Kanno and the Ghost of Bill Chase

I just added a new song called "Swipe It" in my flash music player. This was for a promo where we were trying to encourage our video game players to swipe their cards in our machines to identify themselves. It had a video that went along with it but I can't find that right now.

Two interesting things about this:
1) That is me whispering the "swipe it" in the song and at the end of the song I needed a big crowd yelling. It so happened that our company of 100 was getting a group photo outside our… Continue

Posted on July 24, 2008 at 9:30am —

Matt Kern

Nice pre-release article about our Wii game

Here is an article talking about our first Wii release.

We actually made the game for the arcade but are now porting it over to the Wii. Well, we aren't porting it but someone is. Hopefully it will do well and we get to do more. We have struggled in the home market in the past.

Posted on July 8, 2008 at 8:00am — 2 Comments

Matt Kern

My First Broadway Big Band Demo

I just added 8 little clips to my playlist.

This is my first attempt at using the Broadway Big Band library and I am pretty happy. The horns and the drums are from the library, the bass is a Trilogy and there are some steel drums on top that I got from a different library.

Let me know what you think of the examples.

Posted on July 3, 2008 at 11:48pm —

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At 4:47am on November 7, 2009, Ben Whitfield said…
Hi Matt,
At the minute I'm doing a lot of lecturing in sound recording techniques and computer music systems. In between that I'm working on the music for an independent Xbox game by Retroburn Games, its a helicopter based first person shooter, recording musicians and bands at my own studio and composing music that I hope to get into some libraries at some point. Hoping to meet some people on here for advice and networking as I'm relatively new to the video game music and sound library game! I'll hopefully have some samples up soon.
Ben
At 6:32am on October 19, 2009, Gonzalo Fernández said…
Hello Matt. Thanks for the welcome.
I work as a freelance in Madrid, doing moslty editing works for multimedia courses. I had this job about a year ago where I had the oportunity to work with DP. Though I'm not an expert and I mostly worked with audio I'm afraid I can't help you with your doubt about quantising. But I must say that, though I think DP is a very solid software for audio it was horrible for me to work with MIDI, basically because of the environment, and I did remember sometimes it used to caused me some troubles I wasn't able to repair. But it seems to dissappeare when I restarted. I had never solved them and I didn't want to make a big deal out of it because I didn't use MIDI often. I'm sorry I can't help. I'll tell you if I find out.
At 1:46pm on August 17, 2009, DJ Pete Marriott said…
No I live in Seattle now and I'm actually from Brooklyn but I did my radio show in Manhattan. I have a livestream channel http://www.livestream.com/djpetemarriott it used to be called Mogulus but I made the switch to U-Stream which was great and then they went in a direction I strongly dislike so I came back home to Livestream and luckily for me the reason I left in the first place got corrected. LOL!
At 1:17pm on August 17, 2009, DJ Pete Marriott said…
Hi Matt, It's so strange for me to listen to these old recordings be it my production projects or recording I made for my old radio show back in New York. I remember things I forgot over the years and I'm having too much fun applying this internal creative knowledge to my newer material.
At 7:08pm on July 29, 2009, SmokeyVW said…
Hi - You asked what type of material I produce... mostly eclectica - a mix of elements from many genres. I've also been doing some short film music as well. Thanks for the interest!
At 7:31am on May 22, 2009, Hubert Campbell said…
Hi Matt! I have been living in Oak Park for two years this coming August. I love it! I'm still mixing my first demo for a student film I did here at Flashpoint Academy. Btw, Great Presentation! I didn't know you had so much fun making GoldenTee! Over the next week, I'll be sure to make a more robust profile. I'm just swamped with school work at the moment as we're now entering the last week of the year. Thanks for stopping by!
At 12:35pm on May 19, 2009, Curtis Marolt said…
Well now you know.
At 11:32am on May 19, 2009, Curtis Marolt said…
Logic is future proof. So when I'm 90 I can still see the icons : )
At 9:34am on May 19, 2009, David Bateman said…
I'd love to do some tracks with you . I do start on Lincoln Heights this week so I'll be busy again but there's always some way to do a few other things along the way. talk to you soon !
At 8:32am on May 19, 2009, Curtis Marolt said…
Play is EWQL's own Sampler stand alone and Plug. It replaces the NI ROM-plers.

DP .....eeewwwww ickky!
 
 

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