In this Behind The Brand podcast, Nuno Fonseca of Sound Particles talks to Paul White about their rapid rise in the film and audio industry and how they are using their sound particle plug-in technology to bring exciting new options to sound design and audio recording.
Show Notes
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
00:13 - Launch In The Film Industry
02:59 - Moving Into Music
04:53 - Controlling 3D Sound
07:26 - EastWest WordBuilder
11:05 - Density
14:07 - The End-User Format
17:04 - Solving Binaural
19:45 - Head Tracking
21:42 - Future Developments
Sound Particles - Biog
Sound Particles creates 3D audio software that brings the power of computer graphics to the sound world, allowing sound professionals to create breathtaking sounds that simply would not be possible to create in any other way. Sound Particles provides the world’s first native 3D audio software combining CGI and Audio techniques to create a new audio standard. The software creates the most realistic sound effects allowing perfect coherence between image and sound due to its true 3D CGI integration, while increasing the productivity of audio professionals.
Based in Leiria (Portugal) and founded by Nuno Fonseca, a former university professor, Sound Particles has been steadily growing since being founded in 2016 and is now composed of a team of over 30 people (with one in the UK and one in LA).
Sound Particles’ unique software is used in all major Hollywood studios and top videogame companies, in productions like 'Dune', 'Game Of Thrones', 'Ready Player One', 'Frozen 2', 'Star Wars' and many others.
Presenter: Paul White - Biog
Paul White initially trained in electronics at the Royal Radar Establishment in Malvern then went on to work with Malvern Instruments, a company specialising in laser analysis equipment, before moving into technical writing.
He joined the Sound On Sound team in 1991 where he became Editor In Chief, a position he held for many years before becoming Executive Editor. Paul has written more than 20 recording and music technology textbooks, the latest being The Producer’s Manual.
Having established his own multitrack home studio in the 1980s, he’s worked with many notable names including Bert Jansch and Gordon Giltrap. He’s played in various bands over the years and currently collaborates with Malvern musician Mark Soden, under the name of Cydonia Collective. Paul still performs live claiming that as he has suffered for his music he doesn’t see why everyone else shouldn’t too!
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