About
- Blake Robinson
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- YouTube
- Dummyworld
- Space Invaded music production
- My 'And I Kill' EP
- My 'MultIvaders' Soundtrack
I've been tinkering with music since I was a kid, composing tunes for fun. Nowadays, I mainly write orchestral scores for video games. Alongside this, with an extensive career in the games industry as a tools programmer I've now focused my skills on developing next-generation sample libraries and music software.
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My work
I've had lots of commercial experience, developing AAA quality virtual instruments and software for companies such as Sonokinetic, Native Instruments, Cinesamples, Zero-G and Spitfire Audio. As a long time user of Kontakt, I'm adept at both buildig instruments from the original samples, and programming them with Kontakt's built in scripting system.
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My machine
Windows 7 64bit
Intel i7 2600K
24gb G-Skill DDR3 1600mhz
RME HDSP 9652
4 x 128gb OCZ SSD (~400mb/sec read/write)
4 x 1.5tb SATA2
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My sounds
As a sample library developer I've worked on and had access to a lot of libraries. Here are some of the ones I use regularly:
Cinesamples CineBrass, CineCrash, CineHarp, CineOrch, CineSnares, CineToms, Drums of War, Drums of War 2, HollywoodWinds, Iron Guitars, Metallurgy, VOXOs. Orange Tree Samples Evoltion Steel Strings. Audiobro LA Scoring Strings. Sonokinetic Arpeggio, Felt Force One, Massai, Pacific, H.I.P.P. & Sultan Strings. Spitfire Audio Symphonic Strings, Chamber Strings, British Woodwinds, Great British Brass, Harp & Percussion, Project Sam Complete Brass Collection, Orchestral Brass Classic, True Strike, Symphobia & Symphobia 2. Tonehammer Requiem, Liberis, Microhammer, Emotional Piano, Montclarion Hall Piano. VSL Orchestral Cube Pro, Performance Set & Horizon series. Native Instruments Komplete 6 library, Alicia's Keys, Evolve Mutations 1 & 2. Impact Soundworks Shreddage & Shreddage X. Zero-G Animato & Spiritoso. Various other free or private sample libraries are used from time to time.
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All music posted is copyright Blake Robinson 2000-2011, All Rights Reserved. Feel free to download and share my music but please don't use it in commercial situations without my permission.
@BobRutkas: Thanks as always, Bob!
@Michael Regier: Thanks, really appreciate it!
@Skimaskkass: Wubwubwubwub
@bjs1990peregrine: :D
@Skimaskkass: Thanks! Glad you liked it
@Shota Kagei: This piece uses roughly $15,000 of commercial software and about $20,000 of private software
@Matthew Farrington: Thanks! Really appreciate the comment
@Chris_Harris: Thanks - Cinesamples Piano in Blue has a really nice character to it
@Sembiance: Glad you enjoyed!
@Sophie-Louise Mercedes: Thanks!
@Dan Crystalis: Thanks, glad you enjoyed!
@RainbOasis: Perhaps, perhaps. Contact me through http://blakerobinson.co.uk/contact and we'll see :D
@Jack of Bass: Check out Requiem Pro (http://8dio.com) - I used Requiem for this piece. Alternatively there's SoundIron's Mars and Venus (http://soundiron.com) if you want a more in depth choir
@EvanHalen: Thanks! Jeremy Soule composed some great music for the game
@freddiehangoler: Thanks, it's such a great soundtrack so I really appreciate that you enjoyed my cover.
@SonicHyuga: Thanks, glad you enjoyed!
@blackheath-1: Thanks, I appreciate it
@Allin1Media - John J.: Thanks, glad you enjoyed!
Except I wasn't laughing
@Bubble Pipe Media: Thanks! Glad you thought so as I was aiming to keep in style while giving it my own personality
@Rainwave: Hah, I had joked with people who'd heard it that it's basically a trumpet-shaped harmonica
@DjYeti: Thanks
@Amarathine87: Glad you enjoyed!
@luliby: Thanks, glad you enjoyed!
@Hugo Moreno Music: Thanks, I really appreciate the words. It's such a great theme and I'm glad you think I pulled it off
@Pradipta: Thanks, glad you enjoyed!
It's always such a pleasure...
@Zsolt Gulyás: Thanks!
@Another Routine Emergency: Thanks. It came out okay, I think. I was going to give up on it halfway through, too. Glad I stuck with it
@patrickytting: Cheers! Glad you enjoyed
@Reuben Cornell: Thanks Reuben!
@Rémi Weisrock: Thanks, I really appreciate it!
@Matt Bottone: Thanks! I wish I had the resources to commission it - some YouTube users offered but it's a massive undertaking and they've not created anything yet
@BobRutkas: Thanks Bob, glad you liked! More Pixel Hero coming soon, hopefully.
@luliby: :D
@Buoy (Jonathan Gjertsen): Thanks, glad you liked it. This was one of my favourite pieces on the soundtrack to compose, for the harmonies and chord progression in particular
@Closclu: Thanks, I really appreciate it. I tend to have much less spare time recently but hopefully I'll continue to reply here and there where possible
Thanks for everyone's comments. I really appreciate the kind words and glad you enjoyed the piece
@possibly: Thanks, I agree. I mixed this using headphones where the subtle strings were easier to make out, but on speakers it definitely needs more of a build up here. Thanks for the suggestion :D
@Distant Cousins: Thanks!