Blog – Thoughts & Ideas
I share a lot of my thoughts, explorations and ideas through articles, blogs, tweets and more. Here are some key ones that I think could seem interesting to a larger audience.
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Visuals have been at the core of the Audio Industry
In the audio world, people often claim how sound is 50% of the experience, not realising that they have been watching this whole time!
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Stigma of Career Pivots vs Exploring beyond Boundaries
More and more people in 2024 are learning, creating and working for what they love to spend time in. The mindset of “I’m from the IT industry”, “I come from the film world” is breaking and people are exploring beyond the invisible boundaries of their designations.
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Audio Communities to be a part of in 2024
Audio & music tech, game audio, sound design and many more audio subdomains have amazing communities actively helping each other out. This article has a comprehensive list.
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LinkedIn Poll - Audio & Music Tech Ecosystem in India
I asked my LinkedIn connections if they think an ecosystem for music & audio tech is needed in India. The results are great.
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AI 🤖 & Tap Water🚰
AI is in use for years, but mostly in the backend. It’s so much like Tap Water. Form factor of a technology can often determine how comfortable users would be with it.
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Takeaways from ADC23 – Part 3 - Synthesizer V by Dreamtonics
Text to singing has upgraded a lot in the past few years. But there's more happening. Synthesizer V could be that one tool that can bring life to your songs.
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Takeaways from ADC23 – Part 2 - OpenAI's GPT + Pro Tools Scripting SDK
DAWs are going to be a lot more fun with AI assistant tools – and you can now make workflows in Pro Tools!
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"Thank you?" on Airports & In-Flight Announcements ✈️
Have you noticed that every airport and in-flight announcement says "Thank you" with a pitch up voice modulation? Why is that?
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Takeaways from ADC23 – Part 1 - Patchwork & MetaSound in Unreal Engine (Game Audio)
The audio tech industry has seen some amazing upgrades in Game Audio, particularly in Unreal Engine's MetaSound. Find out more in the post.
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Wilhelm Scream
Sounds we all have heard, many many times, including in Star Wars! But did you know the story behind it?
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ADCx India & Music Hack Day India
World's largest audio tech event is coming to India to bring developers, artists and creatives in one place.
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Recruitment is business.
The core of any hiring process has more to do with the requirement than with the candidate skills.
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Threads, ready to be tangled.
Here's a story about people and connections. It's not a 2 minute read. Take your time to imagine.
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Building gameaudio.in
Creative collaboration is something that is dear to my heart and in my opinion, can scale up any industry. Join me in this effort.
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Game Audio — Where to begin?
“How can I get into game audio?” has become a common question I get asked all the time. I wrote a piece to help you get started.
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Essence of Sound Design for IPs and Brands
Details of my talk at AirCon23 hosted on Airwiggles, that includes the philosophy of listening and feeling the world around us.
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Cmd + Shift + / can save you hours!
One of the most underrated, and often missed, shortcut in MacOS is using the Help menu which can be accessed using the shortcut mentioned in the title. This is one feature that I wish Windows would consider.
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Version Control
Gone are the days when “final.wav”, “final_2.wav” and “final_final.wav” were part of an acceptable workflow. The audio industry HAS to consider using version control.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Approach
Listening and speaking from listener’s point of view are skills that can take one places. Soft skills often influence the long term vision. How does this work in Audio?
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BTS from ADC22
A successful event is always backed by a great team, and sometimes, that could be enthusiastic volunteers.
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Scam 1992 – Original Soundtrack 101
Achint Thakkar has created something that every composer needs to learn from. The melody, sound and texture of all the tracks from this album take you to a place you never thought existed before.
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Learning – Needs Time! 😊
Everything is moving quick. So is our need to learn faster. But is there an easier way, that seemingly feels tedious? This and some info about RX in this article.
Audio in Games?
There are different sides to creation. When it comes to games, there are a lot of steps involved. In this, game audio is at the centre, and this twitter thread shows how.
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Goodbye Re-Nova
My pet project that became my first 'stage name' and got supported by countless number of friends and professionals, has finally come to a conclusion. A lot to cherish.
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Support devs!
Piracy and cracks have ruined many industries and businesses. The solution isn't easy but there can be some steps taken to get there. It'd require devs & users, together.
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Winamp is here!
Well, be prepared to get nostalgic as our favourite music player is coming back (kind of) with a new face. NFTs, music releases, fan connects and more. It's almost there.
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RX & Automation
A few friends & I made a voice-text alignment app to automate animation in Unity. Yep, a lot going on here. A year later, a similar feature showed up in RX10.
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Sound - Part 1
A lot can be talked about Sound. I've made a small attempt to try and approach it in a way that could make one think about its depth and influence in our lives.
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Airwiggles 🎮
A new place for the game audio community to share ideas, learn and grow together. Away from the clutter of social media. Have you joined yet?
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Education Hype
The one sector that is most talked about, and least done for, is Education. There are a few good steps in recent times. I covered some ideas about making them better.
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IGDC - Play on!
India Game Developer Conference is more than just a gathering. It brings ideas and people to a platform where a new innovation can prosper. Read and stay informed.
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ADC – A campaign
Stories from ADC, covering an important experience about people, product and the far reaching ideas. There is a lot happening in the world. Are we really that distant?