Friday, March 28, 2014

Things on or about the Internet Today

Jeff Wills wants to do a crowdsourced Twitter novel. I'm totally down with that. Here is the character I want to play:
Oops. That's a rabbit on the moon. Totally different character. Er. Here we go:
Mei Xin: I am a 29-year-old Chinese Special Agent (F) who works for the Chinese government on the Orion system. I wear sneakers, jeans, a short-cut leather jacket, and carry a 2mm flechette pistol. My biggest problem is alien smugglers bringing in photopsychedelics from uninhabited planets. Or, that's my second-biggest problem.
My biggest is that I've been infected with an alien nanovirus which lets me see 15 minutes into the future...

Holy cats. Do you want a really good software Foley instrument? Dig these free ones from Signo Audio Designs. They're for Kontakt (you need the full version, not the free version, ironically.) Signo has some very nice instruments for Foley. Reasonably priced, too. From Text to Speech is a pretty good text-to-wave web app.

4 comments:

Kangas said...

I'm gonna go on record as saying I don't understand about half of your blog posts. You do a lot of drugs or what? :)

Andrew Bellware said...

Ambien. It's a helluva drug.
Kontakt is a software sample player (a computer musical instrument, if you will). It can be loaded with footstep sounds. Which works amazingly well.

Kangas said...

Oh I know what Kontakt is. I dunno what you're talking about with the rabbit and the moon and the Mei Xin, and neutrons not running and whatnot. It's funny that you zoned in on the only thing I actually understood...

Andrew Bellware said...

I wish I had that rabbit on the moon t-shirt. But it doesn't seem to exist.
The Mei Xin was just an idea for a character.
I wish I understood Kontakt better. I should watch some tutorial videos on it.
Get those free footsteps. They're really nice.