OK, here's my effect.

@176 I do have a Paypal and Patreon, I won't link them directly though. This course is being put on by myself and by Ebon Sky Studios because we're looking to really show the community that we're interested in raising the quality of audiogames in multiple facets: this course, the Sable engine, and just bringing people together to make great accessible games.

I worry that message will lose a lot of its power if we add finances and donations to it. If you're really interested please message me, and thank you - I do appreciate what you're saying. It means a lot, to know that this course is valuable enough for people to want to pay for it. Thank you for that, Che.

@169 I'm really glad you said that - that's exactly what we want to accomplish here.
I respect that a lot of you have a working knowledge of this stuff so you can tinker and achieve what you want.

What I want to achieve for you is that you can be sitting on your couch, building a sound effect in your head, thinking "Okay I need a blunt weapon attack. That will start with a short whooshy swing, maybe with a bit of the mids raised 3db or so and the highs nice and swishy, and for an impact I'll find or record punching a ham, maybe even with a very short bass drum sweetener with all the highs EQ'd out, and I might also add a nice snapping celery stalk that I record or find online, with lots of crunchy transients to simulate bone breaking. I might even find a nice squishing fruit sound, like a tomato, to add to give it just a tiny bit more authenticity. I'll compress everything on the impact sound with a sharp knee and parallel compression filter and EQ as needed."

The better you get at this stuff the more of the work is done in your head, as opposed to tweaking and discovering. It will soon switch from discovery to planning and executing.

@166 Wind filter is PERFECT. This could go in a game or film or whatever.

That makes sense. I wasn't 100% thrilled with it either, but wasn't really able to say why either, so it's nice to know that in the feedback.

Went with a classic. It's not a party until someone starts a tavern brawl by irritating a half-orc with a magic missile. Always blame it on the gnome.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gissc6iwwezsk … 2.zip?dl=1

I'm still getting use to freesound and couldn't find a whoosh I was happy with so I made one myself. I had the idea of getting this watery-wavy sound by using my dog's water bowl as a poor man's waterphone, but I couldn't get anything to resonate long enough without water flying everywhere so I abandoned that for now and just did some digital tinkering. It's close enough to what I was going for. One of these days I will spend the money for a real waterphone.

I'm not totally happy with the flavor sound. It's hard to get the sizzle sound I wanted without it sounding like the wrong sound--sounds like acid splash. The frying pan sound I found was great. It's just when I shrink it down it kind of lacks something for me. I dunno.

The trick is getting it in between the bubbly acid sound and electricity dancing over something without sounding too much like either. I'm not quite sure if I made it.

I did find that a potential sticking point in the second video. I think that would have confused me as well had I not already known about how to shift things around. I've found the videos thus far to be quite good, but I am not sure about covering the method of shifting the contents inside an item so soon. It's not... difficult per se, once you know what it is doing, it's just that it isn't something you generally use a lot. That's just my opinion of course, but I think that might confuse some people. I've only ever used that feature once, outside of playing with it to discover what it did. I think though, it might be more of a feature you'd use with music, such as positioning vocals and things of that nature, or helping to line guitar chords on beat. You could shift the item's contents without moving the item itself until the first one was on beat, and then use stretch markers to fix the other ones.

To answer your question, there are several ways to go about it. Keeping in mind that the plus and minus keys do affect the speed at which this goes, you can simply use comma or period, or the numpad 4 and 6 keys with numlock on. They do the exact same thing, and will move the item in the corresponding direction, left for numpad 4 or comma, right for numpad 6 or period. Osara, being very context sensitive though, you will have to select the item first by pressing control right and left until you get to it, because otherwise, it might try to move non-existent envelope points which would have no effect. You can also cut and paste items. Again, making sure you select the item first, or it will take the entire track, press control X, move the edit cursor where you want to paste, then hit control V. A third way is the nudge/set dialog which I think a lot of people do not like, but it is useful at times. Select the item and hit N. You can then choose a unit by which to measure movement, type in an amount, and hit either nudge left or nudge right to move by the amount you specified. Note that the difference between the two modes of this screen are that nudge does just that, it nudges the thing along *by* the amount you give it. In other words, it is a relative thing. Set, on the other hand, gives you the ability to snap the item to a particular point. It is not relative, it will not move incrementally, it is absolute. Set is baller because you can line the edit cursor just so, and then get it to read the value and fill it in automatically with one click, and then hit apply move, or whatever that button is called, and it will jump the item there.

Hello,
I am having trouble: The explosion sound has a very very little unnecessary thing at the beginning of it, it isn't even half a second. so What I do is hit w, press left bracket, I press right arrow until I get to the end of that unnecessary thing and press right bracket then press s, but it doesn't work. Hitting left bracket at the end of the unnecessary thing doesn't work either, it says 0 items added in both instances. IfI press delete it deletes that unnecessary thing fine, but I want to make it the way you do it so I don't have trouble catching up later.

@191 Use A, not S. A will do what you want, it's an Osara custom action so I think that's why Brian doesn't mention it. But it makes a single slice, no time selection is needed when you use this method. A bit of something that hasn't been covered yet, but if you hit Alt P, you'll switch through the ripple modes, make sure it says ripple per track, then select the unwanted item and delete it. When you do that, you'll cause the new item to back up into the previous item's space. This is what ripple does, and you will not have to manually position it. For now though, turn it off when you're done with it, or you'll get frustrated real quick when you forget it's on and weird stuff keeps happening. If you did want to use the time selection method, make your selection and then hit home to get to the start of the selection, then hit shift S to make the cuts. What this does is selects the item under the cursor then slices. It's an Osara custom action. If for some reason, it says 0 items, make sure your edit cursor is inside the selection, then hit shift A then shift S. Shift A is an Osara action that causes the item to be selected which lies under your edit cursor. It stops you from having to do the control right control left jig.

@190 I never do that, maybe try cut and paste, but select the track first. Paste will go after the track you're on. You could also use insert track, which would place an empty track above the one you're on, make sure it's in the right place, then turn numpad on and use 8 once you've selected the items you want, which will move them up to the previous track, do that as needed until they get there. So if you inserted a track above track 4 and the stuff you want to move is on track 6, you'd numpad 8 3 times, 6, 5, 4, new track. Numpad 2 is the opposite of that, going down instead.

Healing items, I've never got working, gluing I have. A caution though, gluing is destructive because it renders out a new item. I'd take the item you want to end up last, grab it with control X, select the one that's meant to come first, then hit control shift period to jump to the end of it, paste it, go back to the previous one, then select both items, just add a shift to control right, then hit control U to glue. It would work I think for as many as you wanted to do, it might even pad the distance between them with silence if they don't butt up against each other but I've never tried that, so I can't say for sure.

The youtube link to the lesson is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkF-sM9IvuQ&t=1771s

I went for an ice spell. Because I wanted to fade out the whole project, I made an extra track and used a volume envolope after I had routed all the other tracks to it, since I didn't know whether there was a command to fade out the whole project as Control +Alt +O only works on items and the action list (f4) didn't turn up anything in that regard either.

Hey everyone - apologies for the radio silence again. I'll be grading these Saturday and Sunday, and getting on to recording a new lesson Sunday as well.

I've said it before but just so folks don't think I'm neglecting, I work at the local Arts Centre as a theatre/audio tech and work just pops up sometimes, in kind of a drop everything and go situation. I've had that happen and was not planning for it.

But new stuff coming soon! Keep it up and mention the course to anyone you know that might be interested. Once the course ends it won't be interactive anymore and that's the most valuable part of this.