Hey y’all. Question for all the sound designer folks out there… what tips, tricks, workflows, or plug-ins have made your life easier?

I’m getting back into sound design with a song I’m working on and honestly, I forgot how much fun this stuff is. Been experimenting with movement, space, textures, transitions, automation, all of it.

I’ve heard of plug-ins that can make sounds feel super immersive and almost “3D” around your head. I know Logic Pro has built-in spatial audio tools and binaural stuff. Curious what y’all are using these days, especially for:
• Easy automation workflows
• Creative movement/panning
• Ambient textures
• Sound transitions
• Accessible workflows if any blind producers are on here

I’m doing this project in REAPER right now and just wanna learn from everybody’s setups and experiences.

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In 1983, Kevin Karplus and Alex Strong published a plucked-string synthesis algorithm that fits in fifteen lines of C. The reason it sounds like a guitar took four more years to fully explain.

https://tonalux.org/blog/karplus-strong-string-synthesis

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A naive sawtooth oscillator written in five lines of code aliases like a broken modem the moment you tune it above 200 Hz. The trick that fixes it costs almost nothing and almost every modern soft synth uses it.

https://tonalux.org/blog/blep-minblep-polyblep-antialiased-oscillators

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When two tones play simultaneously through any nonlinear system, new frequencies appear that were not in the input.

https://tonalux.org/blog/tartini-combination-tones-cochlear-imd

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Hey guys. Curious what methods on Windows y’all are using for this. Let’s say I have a huge library of sound effects on a drive… what are y’all using to sort through everything easily, search by keywords, preview sounds quickly, and still do all the normal copy/paste and file management stuff?

I know about REAPER’s Media Explorer, but I honestly haven’t used it in a long time. Just wondering what else is out there these days, especially anything accessible and fast to navigate.

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Open any modern audio DAC chip, ESS Sabre, AKM, Cirrus, the one in your iPhone and the converter at the end of the chain isn't 24-bit. It's 1-bit, switching at several megahertz. Here is the math that makes that work.

https://tonalux.org/blog/sigma-delta-modulation-1bit-dac

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🎙️ BBC News is hiring a freelance Sound Designer! Mix a 26-minute news podcast remotely using Reaper. Professional audio mixing & sound design experience required. Apply now 👇 https://podwires.com/jobs/experienced-sound-designer-bbc-news-podcast/

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