Sound Design

Sound design for music, film and games — synthesis, sampling, foley, field recording, and crafting sound effects and textures from scratch.

  • How to Design a Bass Sound

    How to Design a Bass Sound

    Learn how to design a bass sound from scratch: pick the oscillator, set the sub, shape the filter, layer for…

  • How to Design Sounds With a Synth

    How to Design Sounds With a Synth

    Learn how to design sounds with a synth from an init patch: oscillators, filters, envelopes, LFOs, FM and wavetable, plus…

  • What Does a Sound Designer Do?

    What Does a Sound Designer Do?

    What does a sound designer do? They create, record and shape sounds for music, film and games. Here’s the day-to-day…

  • How to Make Your Own Sound Effects

    How to Make Your Own Sound Effects

    Learn how to make sound effects from scratch: record real sources, edit and clean them, layer elements and process them…

  • Essential Sound Design Techniques

    Essential Sound Design Techniques

    Master the core sound design techniques every producer needs: layering, resampling, modulation, filtering, FM and creative effects, explained step by…

  • The Best DAWs for Sound Design

    The Best DAWs for Sound Design

    Looking for the best DAW for sound design? Compare Ableton, Bitwig, FL Studio, Logic and Reaper on synths, modulation, sampling…

  • Sound Design for Beginners

    Sound Design for Beginners

    Sound design for beginners explained simply: the four building blocks of a synth, how to shape a sound from scratch,…

  • How to Become a Sound Designer

    How to Become a Sound Designer

    Want to become a sound designer? Here’s the realistic path: the core skills, the tools, building a portfolio and finding…

  • How to Get Into Sound Design

    How to Get Into Sound Design

    Learn how to get into sound design from scratch: the gear, the free tools, the core skills and a step-by-step…

  • What Is Sound Design?

    What Is Sound Design?

    What is sound design? It’s the craft of creating and shaping sounds from scratch for music, film and games. Here’s…