Creating HUD Icon Sounds

Dead Space 2 (Electronic Arts, 2011)

Making the icon sound at 0:54

Creating a HUD sound is a an art form in it self and there is absolutely no right or wrong way for making an electronic notification sound for your HUD. That said it must be able to punch through and make the player hear it over the cacophony of music, SFX, Foley, that will ensure while either in combat play or high intensity action.

(Composing Gloves, 2019)

Our mate from Composing Gloves give a good insight as to how you can go about turning any analog synth plugin into creating HUD sound.

Application

This is a video I created that explains the process in creating the HUD sounds and applies it to one of my current projects.

Creating HUD message notification sound (Chan, 2019)

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Reference:

Electronic Arts. (2011). Dead Space 2 - Opening Scene and Escape [Video]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARuZH1KSjrk

Composing Gloves. (2019). Making Sound Effects for a Hight Tech UI [Video]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WwoKxYMFCs

Chan, C. (2019). Using VCV Rack to create in game HUD and UI sounds [Video]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/Z1ovM-AmZ1E