Jakob Schmid
Geometric Interactive
Composer / programmer Jakob Schmid started writing computer music on his Commodore Amiga in the late 1980s. His video game career has been focused on audio systems and music composition, from audio programming on Playdead's 'INSIDE', to the adaptive techno soundtrack for Jeppe Carlsen's psychedelic music platformer '140'. He is currently the audio director and co-founder of Geometric Interactive, where he developed the real-time generated music for the critically acclaimed 'COCOON'.
Jakob Schmid is speaking at the following session/s
Music of the Orbs: Real-time Synthesis in COCOON
Composer / programmer Jakob Schmid will discuss the motivation and benefits of using real-time synthesis for COCOON’s critically acclaimed game music, explaining the structure and operation of the instruments, how they are set up in FMOD Studio, and how they react to input from the game, focusing on a few experimentally developed control methods that might prove useful for any game audio developer.
Session Takeaway
- Learn how a soundtrack for a 5 hour game can be generated by 5 MB of plugins.
- Learn simple and effective methods for controlling synthesizer plugins.
- See an example of how a synthesizer design can be prototyped in Bitwig Studio.
- Gain insight in how a Bitwig Grid prototype is implemented as an FMOD plugin.
- Learn how the internal state of audio plugins can be debugged on Windows.
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