Sound Design
Creating sound for picture and music through synthesis, sampling and processing
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Sound design is the craft of creating sound for picture, games and music: using synthesis, sampling, recording and processing to make what a scene needs but reality does not offer — spaceships, monsters, magic, interface cues. It covers timbre creation, editing, layering and spatial placement.
Work usually starts from a sound brief: how big or close the sound should feel, what material it suggests, what emotion it carries. Layers are stacked — low-end impact, midrange body, high-frequency detail — and glued with reverb, distortion and modulation. Game audio also needs interaction and variation so sounds do not repeat.
The usual mistake is to treat sound design as browsing a sound-effects library. A library is a start; design lies in choosing, transforming and combining, and one source can become something else through pitch shifting, resonance or granular processing.
Related → Sampler
Sources
- 声音设计的流程，参 David Sonnenschein, Sound Design — The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema 与通行游戏音频教材；本文为原创表述
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