My OST to the #PacificDrive Whispers in the Woods DLC is now out on Steam! Check out this preview of the main theme, "The Harmonic Fellowship", featuring vocals by Paolo Andrea di Pietro! (and bowed strings-you're-not-supposed-to-bow by yours truly 😅) Link in first reply! #gamemusic

👋 Re-introduction time. I'm a soundtrack vocalist & performer. If you’ve played #Halo, #Destiny, #GodOfWar, #Civilization, #Soulcalibur, #KillerInstinct, #Katamari, #HonorofKings, #Diablo, #PUBG, or seen a concert from #VideoGamesLive, #InonZur, #HirokiKikuta or others, you may have heard me sing! ❤️

Congrats to my friends & thank you to Recording Academy for including SWORD OF THE SEA at the '26 Grammys! & massive shoutout to @wilbertroget.bsky.social for the 2x nom! I'm sad at the lack of Expedition 33 among them. I would happily trade places. That score is the *definition* of worthy!

A great time yesterday at Game Jams in West Hollywood! One more show today in Burbank. You’ll hear Milio, Smolder, and Aurora’s champ themes (+ music from so many amazing composers such as @wilbertroget.bsky.social and @maclaine.bsky.social). I’ll be there with my whole family so come say hello!

❇FOR YOUR GRAMMY® CONSIDERATION❇ Star Wars Outlaws: Wild Card & A Pirate's Fortune (Original Video Game Soundtrack) - Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games or Other Interactive Media

Yoooo #reaperdaw gang! New videooooo!!!! youtu.be/MO3gI0f9Tzo

Ironwood Studios on how the ‘scarier’ DLC will subvert expectations

Here's Tiago Rodrigues, creator of the Constance game soundtrack, talking about the game and his work. 🖌️🎨 Feeling the Metroidvania fever? Check out the Constance demo and stream the first EP. Listen now: buff.ly/0orE4yc 🎮 @constancegame.bsky.social @tiagomcrodrigues.bsky.social

GAME INDUSTRY TIP: Please don't make business cards with all-black backgrounds on both sides, or all-glossy on both sides, etc. This makes it tough for recipients to take notes on your card, which makes you harder to remember after days of meeting dozens of new people #gameaudio

Ahead of his headline appearance at @officialpax.bsky.social West 2025, @baftagames.bsky.social award-winning composer @wilbertroget.bsky.social speaks with @bleedingcool.com on the art of making video game soundtracks. #Helldivers2 #paxwest2025 #PAXWest

Looking back on it, #PacificDrive was a fun but very unusual project to work on - writing the individual pieces went by pretty quickly, but creating each "instrument" from scratch could take weeks of recording, editing, programming, and looking for happy accidents out in the real world! #gamemusic

Cleaning up old files and found this one of the gloves I made for the nail layer of the wolf footsteps for Ghost of Yotei. I found a place in Nebraska that sold the nails (gulp) and stitched them into a couple gloves. Pretty sure @chrissoundsrad.com recorded some stuff with them too. #GameAudio

I made a pitch flattener VST3/AU, great for turning dopplered sirens, screams, or animal cries into pitch-locked, high-energy sci-fi source. Weird, glitchy, artefacty fun. Free AU/VST3 (Mac/Win). Uses Rubber Band + FFT. 👉 github.com/samueljustic...

PRODUCTION TIP: This video explains how I like to "de-noise" random phone recordings using an envelope follower!

The nice thing about beating Silent Hill 2 is, you've just beaten one of the greatest and most thought-provoking videogames of all time. The 𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓵𝓮 thing about beating Silent Hill 2 is, ....you somehow have to figure out how the heck to convince other people to play Silent Hill 2 🤦‍♂️

On the subject of #IvaliceChronicles announcement, I'll again give credit where credit's due - Sakimoto's brilliant #FinalFantasyTactics score was a HUGE influence on my work on many games, including #Helldivers2 - This clip from "The Right Side of History" being a prime example! #gamemusic

Thursday 12th June 6pm-7pm BST

I desperately wish I was smart/persistent enough to actually beat #FFTactics , I've tried 3x since the original PS1 release and can never get far. But the music was such a huge influence... maybe 4th time's the charm? 😃 Read Matsuno's real life influence for writing FFT's legendary storyline below!

GAMEDEV TIP: We should just remove the word “final” from our vocabulary when naming files 😅 Instead, try just using version numbers or, preferably, dates! YYYYMMDD_HHMM works great and sorts perfectly in your file systems. (year-month-day-hour-minute) #gamemusic

📆 Curious about what you'll be learning at Game Sound Summit 2025? Here's our full schedule! Are you ready to learn all about the craft of game audio? Then make sure you get your tickets now! 🎫 shorturl.at/YmEgF #GameSoundSummit2025 #GameAudio #GameDev

KONTAKT TIP: Some orchestral/acoustic sample libraries have inconvenient slow attack times in the recordings, so adjusting the Volume Envelope won’t help. Try adding SampleStart modulation instead! Set the Source to Sampler, add a Constant mod set to SampleStart. Details in ALT Text! #gamemusic

Helldivers 2 takes home the BAFTA for Music 🎶 #BAFTAGamesAwards

MUSIC PRODUCTION TIP: Another reminder to try transient shaping! Generally, percussive hits/impacts sound bigger and more distant when they have less transient and more sustain. I’ll use this subtly on solos / hand perc, more extreme on big hits, giant metals, or for big "stadium rock kit" snares!

Speaker/Panel Submissions are open for GameSoundCon 2025! www.gamesoundcon.com/submissions

MUSIC PRODUCTION TIP: Sike, it's actually a thread & I need your help! Please reply with any q's you have re: #NativeInstruments #Kontakt and I'll do my best to answer! KT has been the most important tool in my arsenal for years, but I know some still find it intimidating. So ask away! #gamemusic

Had a blast singing the main theme of Pacific Drive at @officialgdc.bsky.social this year, written by the amazing @wilbertroget.bsky.social ! Will wrote the soundtrack and we collaborated a couple of years ago so it’s such a treat to sing this live for the first time!!

Our largest update yet releases April 3rd, 2025 Pacific Drive - Endless Expeditions. 🌲🚘🗺️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrUC...

Lovely write up about my talk! Thank you! I love how the author took the learnings and applied that on examples of her own (all the ones in the article weren’t ones I made in the talk!) Makes me feel that the message was received! Thank you 🙏

Catch me at #GDC2025 in San Francisco this week! I'm lecturing on #StarwarsOutLaws as well as #Helldivers2, and performing in this year's GDC Developers Concert!! #gamemusic

I created a simple Bluesky Feed for #GameAudioGDC to keep up to date with events and conversations around #GameAudio #GameMusic and #GDC2025 You can get to it through "Feeds"/ Discover and pin it for easy access or through this link: bsky.app/profile/did:...

A joyful pic to share from Friday's Game File: Composer @wilbertroget.bsky.social showing me the Helldivers II theme in his notebook (Read the newsletter's second item for his insights about composing the game's main theme) www.gamefile.news/i/158619192/...

Star Wars is known for its sweeping orchestral scores. But how do you make them adaptive in an open-world game? Join Composer @wilbertroget.bsky.social as he dives into creative & technical solutions for Star Wars Outlaws! 🌟 Watch here: hubs.ly/Q039ZGCp0 #GameAudio #Wwise

MUSIC PRODUCTION TIP: 2-for-1 tips today! 1, careful and/or weird use of volume automation can occasionally be more effective than a special effect or mixing plugin! And 2, give detailed titles to rendered audio clips! This can help you retrace your steps, especially when recording from hardware.

Pacific Drive - One Year Later! A special stream featuring the Ironwood Studios Development team. 🌲🚘🌩️ We're excited to play the game, answer questions, and look back at some of our favorite updates! Catch us at 1PM PST this Friday on Twitch, YouTube, and Steam.

One year on, it's incredible how much passion and appreciation the community has for Pacific Drive! As our way of saying thanks, we've released digital copies of the Travelers Journal and the Owners Manual, available to download now on the game's website!

Congratulations to HELLDIVERS 2 for winning Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition at the #DICEAwards! @wilbertroget.bsky.social

Violin Extended Techniques Sample Library is out TODAY! Many thanks to @benash.bsky.social for the amazing collaboration on this as well as @wilbertroget.bsky.social for the extra shine on all of the patches and the fantastic demo. www.nicktorretta.com/samplelibrar...

Had an absolute blast writing this demo for the upcoming Violin Extended Techniques sample library @nicktorrettamusic.bsky.social and @benash.bsky.social created (available at www.nicktorretta.com). #vgm #gameaudio #filmcomposer #gamecomposer

La musique de Helldivers 2 de @wilbertroget.bsky.social (que j'ai interviewé sur ce sujet dans le livre PS5) sera éditée chez Milan Records en disque vinyle jaune le 14/03/2025 ! Il s'agit du tout 1er disque du talentueux compositeur de Call of Duty WWII, Mortal Kombat 11/1 et Star Wars Outlaws !

IGF 2025 Honorable Mentions: Excellence in Audio Animal Well (Billy Basso / Bigmode), Mouthwashing (Wrong Organ / CRITICAL REFLEX), Pacific Drive (Ironwood Studios / Kepler Interactive), Rise of the Golden Idol (Color Gray Games / Playstack), UFO 50 (Mossmouth) #IGF2025

My new album ARCOLOGY is premiering live RIGHT NOW on YouTube - come join us in the chat! www.youtube.com/watch?v=40_I...

Super excited to announce that I have been hard at work creating a new sample library, an amazing collaboration with superb composer and violinist @composerben! Full release January 22nd! www.nicktorretta.com/samplelibrar...

if noire's incompatibility from old to new versions of kontakt has taught me anything, it's to get in the habit of rendering out your individual midi chunks. i hate opening up old project files where i didn't, and now not only do i have no clue how i customized an inst, idk what it even sounds like

Updated reel. I'd like to rebuild a following here 'cause bsky might be one of the only large platforms where we can enjoy each other's art and exchange info without constant direct exposure to vile genocide-loving ghouls. No algorithm! I can ask you to repost this and not be punished for it 😅🙏 love

MUSIC COMPOSITION TIP: Writing can be extremely iterative; consider rendering WIPs early and often, listen in a different program for fresh perspectives. Making a task list while reviewing also helps with combating procrastination! #gamemusic

you have once again been greeted by holly jolly takenobu mitsuyoshi, repost or you will still never see burning rangers underneath your christmas tree

REAPER TIP: (I've mentioned this a few times on the other app, but) You can set arbitrary tuplets in the pianoroll! Useful for quintuplets, runs, etc. :-) #reaperDAW