New CD by Silent Orchestra
The debut album by my silent film music group, Silent Orchestra is available on CD and downloads at CD Baby. Downloads available at iTunes, Amazon MP3, Napster and beyond...


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Review by Carlos Garza
Quantum Leap set the bar in 2004 with the original 16-bit Storm Drum product. If you wanted bombastic samples for action films, games or that “Peter Gabriel” drum sound, SD1 was it. Fast forward to 2008 and Stormdrum 2 brings a range of improvements, including 24-bit samples and 100 [...]
Review by Carlos Garza
Originally Published in Pro Audio Review Sound Design Tools Roundup
This review examines three sound libraries designed for postproduction and multimedia effects and three libraries that have roughly equal value for dramatic sound design and contemporary music production.
The “Poke in the Ear…” series has been around for around for more [...]
Review by Carlos Garza
This is a general-purpose library of general purpose, human and musical sound effects. The library is distributed on seven DVD-ROM discs, plus a single disc with 1.5 GB of previews in 128 kbps MP3 format. The library itself is provided at 24-bit/96 kHz resolution and would require 55 GB to stored [...]
Sound Effects Library
Review by Carlos Garza Originally published in Pro Audio Review
Sonic Energy is a collection of beds, distortion, noise, impacts, low frequency effects (LFE) multimedia effects and production elements. The beds occupy all of disc 1 and most of disc 2. The remainder of disc 2 is noise and distortion effects. [...]
Sound Effects Library
Review by Carlos Garza
At one time, nearly all composers used pencil and paper while sound designers worked with a mic, tape recorder and splicing block. While that approach clearly still works, today you are just as likely to see both at a computer — trading the pencil and razor blade for [...]
Review by Carlos Garza
Originally published in Pro Audio Review
Provided on one DVD-ROM with 4.4 GB of samples at 16-bit/44.1 kHz. Glass and Stones includes glass harmonica, musical glasses, verrophone and lithophone. The EXS24 versions were tested with Logic 7 and HR824 monitors.
VSL Horizon Glass and Stones
The glass harmonica includes portamento, [...]
Sound Design Tools for Effects and Music By Carlos Garza
At one time, nearly all composers used pencil and paper while sound designers worked with a mic, tape recorder and splicing block. While that approach clearly still works, today you are just as likely to see both at a computer — trading the pencil and [...]
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