Hey – we just added a demo video for Beat-Sliced Guitar. This shows you some basic operation to whet your appetite. Check it out here.

The Sound Department – Austin is pleased to announce the release of our first sample based instruments – Beat-Sliced Guitars for Kontakt. This is an innovative, dynamic, beat oriented guitar instrument set unlike any other.

Check out the info and demo here.

To hear what kind of music we can offer, please check out our set on Soundcloud!

The Sound Department – Austin is proud to announce that we have a new member of our team – Eddie Marianukroh! A recent UT grad, Eddie has been working with us unofficially for the past year. His musical contributions have brought many positive comments and we felt it needed to be official. Check out Eddie’s bio on the Crew page, and keep an ear out for his work in the future. Welcome aboard Eddie, let the fun begin!

Austin’s own Spinning Chain is now a proud member of the Rock Ban Network. Check out End of My Rope and Pain I Feel from their debut album “My Insanity”. We did the Rock Band authoring for these tunes and one more is on the way. A three-fer man, awesome. Let us know if you want to see your name on the RBN marquee.

A title we’ve been working on has hit the virtual shelf. Crimson Alliance for XBLA is now available for download! The first taste is free so you have no excuse not to go download it right now and play this cool dungeon crawler. We did the sound and music (with the help of our composer friend George Odlziey) and integrated it all with Wwise into Certain Affinity’s proprietary engine. This was a fun and rewarding project to work on and the team at CA and MS were awesome.

Our first song for RBN has been published! Check out Sweet Rain, by the Weeping Buddhas, one of Marc’s music projects. This took a bit longer than we had hoped or anticipated, but we learned a bunch in the process and have developed a faster pipeline. Give us a shout if you want to be published on RBN.

The title we’ve been churning on for a couple of years has been announced, Crimson Alliance! Details can be found at the links below. We pretty much provided all sound services with a little help from our network. Thanks to George Oldziey for writing most of the music and matching our style.

Official site , Neowin , VG24/7 , Gematsu

Well we had a little set-back with our first RBN tune. Got all the authoring done, ready to submit, then found out the legals weren’t right. We learned a lot, certainly not wasted time, but a set-back nonetheless. So, working on song #2, this time the legals are all good up front. Stay tuned!