Today I want to introduce you to something special for sound designers: CINEMATIC HITS by BOOM Library (www.boomlibrary.com ). You may have never heard of this company before, but I can assure you that it stands for extraordinary quality. Founded in 2010, by the sound design division of Dynamedion, the biggest European Game-Audio

More often that not, composers are faced with temp music – that is, pre-existing music that has been selected and placed in a working picture. This will, of course, be replaced with your eventual, original composition. Temp stands for Temporary, and can illustrate the musical genre, mood, feel, arrangement or emotional gravitas the

Supervising Sound Editor Lon Bender shares his thoughts on the creative process behind the acclaimed sound design for DRIVE.

Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer, and Re-recording Mixer Christopher Boyes talks about his work on The Avengers.

Michael Giacchino discusses his inspiration for scoring a lot of Pixar movies such as Cars 2, Ratatouille and more. At 1 hour, its pretty long, but definitely a worthwhile watch!

This fortnightly featured tutorial comes once again from Daniel James and it quite fun and impressive.  Daniel shows how he created an entire trailer music/cinematic cue by using only Komplete 7. Enjoy!

A while back, I read Complete Guide to Film Scoring: The Art and Business of Writing Music for Movies and TV by Richard Davis. Its a great book and definitely well worth the read. Here is the synopsis of the book: “If you’ve ever wondered how to write music for