Here are some things I discovered while switching to Reaper from Cubase after I landed a job scoring a TV show. 1. Get A Free MIDI Orchestra and Template for Reaper Download this awesome guide/template for reaper that also show you some free libraries that are already plugged into the template and ready for use. […]
Keram's Book Report
Notes & Reflections on Books n Stuff I Have Experienced
Unreal Engine has incredible tools for spatialized audio and sound design. It is deep, it is robust, it is complex, but also astoundingly easy to implement and deploy once you have a basic hang of things, using Blueprints or even C++. To get started with your interactive sound design adventure, and assuming you don’t already […]
Tips and secrets for using the Game Guru game engine
There are many video editing tools out in the world today – and though many share some basic conventions, most are quite different from one another in their approach and layout. In my series of interesting little tips and hacks I have learned the hard way, I made a quick video for people getting started […]
Not necessarily games that were released in 2019 – but that I played and enjoyed the most (and most of which can be played solo – denoted with a *): *Everdell – this gloriously animated anthropomorphic worker placement, tableau/engine building game is quickly becoming one of BGG’s highest rated games of all time. *Renegade – […]
First of all Portland’s Microcosm Publishing is awesome. Starting in the very Gen X zine culture, they now publish really practical and useful books on everything from better urban planning and locomation to all things psychology. Which is where this candid and legitimately effective book comes in. Dr. Faith G. Harper offers a no-holds barred […]
I read this book when I was a kid – maybe 15 years old. It left an indelible impression on my though I could never pinpoint why. I suppose things happen, but there is a decided lack of bombastic adventure that shifted my energy in engaging it. Like a Brian Eno album, where you stop […]
Date range read: December 2017 – January 2018 Picked up at Will Durant Public Library, Hollywood Introduction: What an absolutely gorgeous volume, whose glossy, heavy paper carries beautifully suggestive color illustrations by the author to embellish but never overpower the fantastic imagery he creates with the writing. Each chapter plays like a new thought experiment but is […]
Format Audible, Unabridged Read by Bronson Pinchot So this is what a Michael Bay movie reads like I feel like Im hanging out with a room of six-year-olds negotiating who shot who with a nerf dart first. I persist because I desperately want to be entertained for entertaiment’s sake. I figured this interesting mashup of […]