Live bagpipes and violin really set the vibes on this one. Soon on Roots of Tomorrow DLC #gameaudio #composer #indiedev #gamedev

It's not about the money. It never was. It's about matching creative energies. Once you get that, the rest will follow.

Work until there is nothing else to add, then keep going until there is nothing else to remove

New music for Roots of Tomorrow coming soon. First time recording live bagpipes 👌

Cubase 15 is here, but the star feature for me keeps being Cubase 14 refurbished score editor. It's awesome to have a clean view both on MIDI and Score mode

If you have a good idea with some edge, you can smooth the edge. It still can be interesting. Polished. However you can't add some edge to a boring idea. It doesn't work both ways.

Looking for some broken bones to make a bone flute, preferably human. Let me know! 🎃🎃🎃

Each game is a new adventure full of infinite sonic possibilities. From quiet emotions to epic stories, grateful for every opportunity to make a beautiful mess of sounds

Having ideas is the easy part. Anyone can have them. To shape a good idea into something that breathes and shines, that's the difficult part.

Pen and paper. Fishing for ideas. Nothing better to focus on the building blocks of your music

People once said MIDI would replace musicians and make everyone a composer. It didn’t. Musicians still matter, and composition still takes skill. The same will happen with AI.

If you're spending a lot of time in your arrangement then your idea wasn't that good. The best ideas make things easier

The jump from linear music to interactive music is the same as the jump from silent films to sounding films

No matter how much tech evolves, the emotional power of music is what we keep looking for. That's why we keep listening to things recorded with 1 bad microphone on a magnetic tape 75 years ago.

Having an absolute blast turning an Xbox game controller into a fully playable musical instrument 🎵 In this third video I'm playing a hybrid track using hangs, piano and kalimba among several synths, all triggered and manipulated through the controller Link 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKO1...

We need an AI to replace audio automatically on middlewares, so that you don't need to spend 2 hours editing and replacing the freshly mixed tracks with the older ones

Contemporary music often feels like an ideology trying to convince you that squares are round and triangles have four sides. And then giving you a three-page essay to justify it

Music and music design are not the same. But if you consider them both a part of the gaming experience, then that shifts the way you create music for the better

Replace all your VSTs with real instruments and tell me which version is better

Don't believe guys on social media telling you how to write music. Just write the music you want to write. That's all.

Deadlines are a godsend. They give you everything you need : discipline, time, and focus.

The days I'm inspired I make about 1 minute of music. The days I'm not inspired I make about 1 minute of music. The days I'm sad I make about 3 minutes of music.

If you work on games, judge the success of your music by what gamers say about it. The rest doesn't matter

Creating good music is about being authentic. About giving your unadulterated point of view.

Honest question: until now, our way to create music has been having an idea and then adding things to it until sounds finished. Is gen AI going to change that?

That moment when music isn't playing... and you realize you forgot to rebuild the soundbanks. Again

Saying to yourself that you have a 2 minute track to make is such a bad starting point. It's not about filling time. Start by having a great idea you love and then you'll see your track growing so much you'll have to decide what do you take out.

AI isn’t going anywhere. While we must protect creators and ensure fair pay, we should also be exploring how it can help us create better music. Not instead of us but with us. At the end of the day it’s just another tool.

Music design is so deeply tied to the feeling of a game that it should be considered as a separate discipline. It's truly special how much you can achieve with it

It's telling to see how bad sample libraries are aging. Like in the past someone thought it would replace real musicians. Same thing will happen with AI

Composers, don't fear academia's rejection. It's the best thing that could happen to your music. It's the start of your real career.

My friend Nelson Malléus from Inoui Samples wrote an excellent article about recording and panning orchestral strings (in french) nelsonmalleus.com/orch-dispo

Level 42 today! Thanks to all of you that make it possible for me to make a living working on my passion. Love you all 🙏🙏🙏

A good game soundtrack is not the one you don't notice because everything runs so smooth. It's the one you notice *despite* everything running smooth because it adds that much by itself to the whole experience

Indie devs, don't sleep on the placeholder phase. Having great music in your game is the same as having great game design and great art: it takes many iterations to achieve something unique

Imagine gen AI was our only way to create music. We all work hard on our prompts, weights, seeds, and so on. Then, one day, something like Cubase or Ableton gets released. The migration would be massive. Udios and Sunos? OBLITERATED.

What if DLSS could be used for music? Would it be like generating higher audio quality from a lower quality audio file by "adding" samples?

Indie devs, even in the first stages of development it's a good idea to separate audio busses for sfx, music and voices. Things will get messy enough afterwards

Left or right, close or far in the game isn't the same as in the track. Panning purposefully on game music is underrated.

Perfection is a byproduct of something being over. Don't aim for perfection, aim for finished.

"What I find interesting about art is the point of view of the person making it. And I don't know that AI has a point of view of its own" Such a thoughtful take from Rick Rubin www.youtube.com/shorts/9bdLw...

Presets are just generic versions of real, richer instruments. They'll make you sound like everyone else. Only real sounds make you sound like you.

Mixing film music is science. Mixing game music is gambling. The best you can do is maximize your chances of making it sound right.

If you think music isn’t rocket science, try sight-reading a full orchestral score. You’ll be begging to switch to rocket science just to catch your breath.

Each track has it's own particular aura. Why is that, we don't know. It's something you can't pinpoint with your finger and say "it is that". But it's definitely there, and makes us feel so much things.

I genuinely believe that someday nonlinear audio will be not only in videogames, but everywhere, and people will say things like: "Wait, you used to listen to music that played exactly the same way every single time? Wasn't that boring?"

For some strange reason, Cubase 13 will hide your VST windows whenever you click elsewhere in the interface UNLESS you uncheck the "always on top" option 🤷‍♂️

Discovering new music is sometimes like instant love, but other times it's a process. If you listened to a new track and something caught your attention, even the smallest thing, then come back and listen again. Maybe you found a treasure.

If you’re wondering what audio middleware to use for your indie game: FMOD → 2D Wwise → 3D Overreductive… but surprisingly accurate