California
Bay Area
1323 61st Street
Emeryville, CA 94608
(510) 420-0190
(510) 420-0191
[email protected]
The Most Trusted Game Audio Studio Since 2003
With more than 50 years of collective music experience, our full-time music team brings a combination of advanced music degrees, classical music training, and industry expertise to the creative process. We work with many accomplished composers, performers and instrumentalists. Our music services include recording and producing live musicians, ranging from full orchestras to ensembles and live bands.
While great SFX, immersive music and stellar VO performances make up an important part of a great-sounding project, expert implementation and mixing of these assets are vital steps to make everything sound great. Our team has provided complete implementation support on games of all kinds and sizes. With high-level expertise in Unity, fmod, Wwise, and Unreal, Somatone sound designers oversee the entire audio pipeline, from content design to implementation, mixing, and testing.
We create customized original sound to set it apart from others in its class. Our talented sound designers have the experience and creativity to develop unique sound assets for each project, based upon upfront collaborative work with clients and ongoing project management.
We draw from a diverse portfolio of union and non-union talent with script-specific auditions, not pre-fab demos, to select voice actors who perfectly fit character roles. We regularly direct live VO sessions in our own recording studios and provide all-inclusive rates on talent and production—including casting, directing, recording, editing, and mastering— making voice production as affordable as possible while adhering to high quality standards.
In addition to in-game content, Somatone has a world class linear audio production team experienced in narrative music, Sound Design to picture, Foley, and 5.1 mixing. From short 30-second trailers to hours of in-game cutscene work, we provide top notch audio post production services.
Estimating the amount of assets you need for a developing game is difficult. That’s why we’ve created our own proprietary pricing system. Instead of quoting your project on a standard per asset pricing, we offer a flexible alternative that we call Audio Units (AU). AU’s are work credits that can be used for any Somatone service. Similar to how gift cards work, after purchasing an AU package, you can choose how much AU you would like to allocate for each service. This way we can to finalize the audio budget upfront and avoid any confusion or change of scope. We offer custom AU packages for any size project, can invoice in installments, and offer discounts for ordering AU in bulk.
Somatone’s technical expertise include industry standard middleware technologies, and beyond. From haptic design services and dolby audio processing, to Wwise, fMod, Unity, Unreal, we understand that content is only as good as the technology which enables it.
“Just want to inform you that the team really enjoyed your audio production on this game, Great Job! Everything is approved and there shouldn’t be any modifications needed. Thank you for all your help, you guys nailed it!”
“Somatone’s work for Discord is great for our brand and the community loves it too. A few people even made remixes with our disconnect SFX. The team there knows how to listen, iterate, and deliver quality stuff on time with competitive rates.”
“The audio on Sugar Smash is exactly what we’re looking for and hits all of the right notes. This is the level of quality we have learned to expect from the Somatone team –pure excellence! As always, thanks for all of your awesome work on this project.”
“I wanted to tell you that our entire team is always very pleased to see the quality that you deliver. The deliveries are always very very clean! Please pass the good word to your Sound Editor. The acting is superior to what we are used to getting. Good job guys! Keep up the good work!”
“When the schedule’s tight and the quality has to be extremely high, not to mention at a reasonable cost, Nick Thomas and Somatone will get it done. Nick and Somatone will do whatever it takes to make sure the final product sounds awesome. They are fun, easy-going guys and very personable as well. I highly recommend them.”
Doug Rappaport – Sr. Producer Konami USA
Rex Ishibashi – CEO, Originator
“Somatone Interactive provided us with quality audio assets for Ratchet and Clank on the PS4. With over an hour of cutscene work that needed to include assets from the feature film and be delivered in eighteen different languages, they managed to meet our tight deadlines while assuring that the work met our standards for the highest quality. They also created and integrated assets directly into our audio tools which streamlined our pipeline and helped us to deliver an outstanding product on time. Thank you Somatone!”
“As a Social Casino developer focused on creating highly engaging slots, we believe audio to be a critically important to the casino experience. When it comes to Music and Sound Design, we hit the Jackpot with Somatone. Not only is the audio we receive consistently at a very high quality level, their Project Managers are super helpful helping us organize our needs and leading the creative process.”
We look forward to the opportunity
to fulfill your audio needs.
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