Mortal Kombat 11 has been nominated by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Science for best Audio Design, Original Music Composition, and Fighting Game of the Year! Congratulations to all the other nominees and kudos to the entire team at NetherRealm and our partners who helped make the game what it is. Check out allRead more
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Mortal Kombat 11 recently received two nominations for the MPSE’s 67th Annual Golden Reel Awards. It has been nominated for both gaming categories: Computer Cinematic and Computer Interactive Gameplay. I’m proud of the work put into the game by the whole team and happy to be included among all the other great sounding nominees. CheckRead more
The folks from VICE’s News’s Tonight stopped by NetherRealm to participate in some sound design fun with fruits and vegetables. Check out the video to see how we make some of our gore sounds for Mortal Kombat 11.Read more
The Mortal Kombat 11 Announcement Trailer was nominated for Best Use of Sound Design in the ProMaxGames Awards 2019. The trailer was created by CREATE Advertising Group and the sound design and mix was done by myself and Austin Shannon at NetherRealm. In addition to working on the game, it’s been a fun challenge toRead more
I recently purchased an Elgato Stream Deck in order to set up custom key commands to use with various parts of my workflow. In this post I’m going to show a few examples of what is possible with the Stream Deck and give a quick overview of how I’ve set it up to launch programsRead more
Injustice 2 recently received two nominations at this year’s D.I.C.E. Awards: “Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design” and “Fighting Game of the Year”. I’m very proud of the audio team and the whole studio for putting together such a great game. Check out all the nominees for the 21st Annual D.I.C.E. Awards here.Read more
Until recently, I didn’t know you could have a binary action that did two things within a single Reaper Action. I have always wanted to set up a Reaper mouse modifier for the mouse scroll wheel to adjust item volume, but in Reaper’s mouse settings there is no way to assign actions to the mouse wheel,Read more
I’m going to start posting a series of short, more advanced Reaper tutorials geared towards game audio sound design workflows. The first involves automatically creating a group of new tracks with a surrounding folder track. This is great for quickly making groups of tracks and keeping everything neatly organized.Read more
TouchOSC is a powerful app for the iPad or iPhone that lets you send and receive OSC messages over Wi-Fi to control audio applications. I’ve set it up with Reaper to create a custom control surface on an iPhone or iPad. Here, I’m going to show you the basics of getting TouchOSC up and runningRead more
I recently started a new job and one of my tasks has been to learn Nuendo, primarily for sound design and mixing. I’ve always been a Pro Tools user and I have a deep working knowledge of the program and specific workflows. Switching over to Nuendo was a bit of a jolt, but as IRead more