Introducing myself: sound design and odd tunings

[Alistair Bourne]

Hello everyone, Found this place while chasing a rabbit hole about microtonal tuning in game audio, and it turned out to be exactly the kind of corner of the internet I miss. Short version about me: I do sound design for small studios, mostly interface and feedback sounds, which is a strange craft because nobody is supposed to consciously notice your work. Lately I have been collecting examples of games that use non-standard tunings for tension cues rather than the usual pitch-shifted stingers. The other half of my listening time goes to jingles in casual games. They are compressed to death, but the melodic tricks in them are surprisingly disciplined, and the good ones survive being heard three hundred times an hour. Looking forward to reading the notation threads here, that section alone is worth the trip.