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Aaron McLeran

@minuskelvin.bsky.social
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Unreal Engine Audio Director. Working on the future of audio and music with #MetaSounds, #UnrealEngine, #UE5.

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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Excited to chat! #gameaudio #ue5
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Excited for this!
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Check out this new plugin showcasing some great technical sound design work in UE. #TechAudioTools #UE5 #MetaSounds www.fab.com/listings/d44...
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TechAudioTools Content
TechAudioTools Content is a collection of editor tools and reusable widgets for working with MetaSounds at scale in Unreal Engine 5. It contains editor utilities to support production workflows such a...
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Hey #UEAudio and #MetaSound fans, consider submitting a talk proposal for UEFest this year! Deadline is Jan 22nd. www.unrealengine.com/en-US/news/a...
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Apply to present at Unreal Fest Chicago 2026
We’re looking for speakers to present at Unreal Fest Chicago 2026. Got a project built with Epic tools to showcase, or technical insights to share? Submit your session proposal today!
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Skeurid @skeurid.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
First attempt at improvised live patching #metasounds in #unrealengine 5.7 using experimental live preview. Bonus constraint: copy-paste stops audio :) Whimsical minimal sine wave thing to start.. youtu.be/X7R3hYWQPuM (right link this time) @dannthr.bsky.social @minuskelvin.bsky.social
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Ok guess who is my 70 year old father in law and which is me. #listeningage #spotify
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Skeurid @skeurid.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Free download: Rat's Nests [1] is part two of a series of albums created entirely in #UnrealEngine #Metasounds ... no MIDI or pre-sequences -> synthesis + oneshot drum samples. Enjoy! skeurid.bandcamp.com/album/rats-n... ( Spent way too long on this one . .. . . . .. . ) #ProceduralMusic #DAWless
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Rat's Nests [1], by Skeurid
9 track album
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Dan Reynolds @dannthr.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Patch made with an experimental Thru-Zero FM Node. Despite the fact that I think I ended up making a PM node instead, it's still useful for making tunes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDMk... #UnrealAudio #MetaSounds #Synthesis #FM #PM
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Experiments with custom thru-zero FM/PM node and demo patch (no talking)
YouTube video by Dan Reynolds Audio
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Brian Schmidt @gamesound.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Hi #gameaudio people! GDC is doing a salary survey! if you have a few minutes, please fill it out! gdconf.typeform.com/salarysurvey25
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Great write up about the audio in @expedition33.bsky.social on @asoundeffect.bsky.social. www.asoundeffect.com/clair-obscur... It uses #MetaSounds! On vacation and was finally able to play it this week. Sounds fantastic. #GameAudio #AudioAwards
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CLAIR OBSCUR EXPEDITION 33 Full Gameplay Walkthrough / No Commentary【FULL GAME】4K 60 FPS Ultra HD
YouTube video by Gamer's Little Playground
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Dan Reynolds @dannthr.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Hey fam, this Thursday we'll be hanging out with @minuskelvin.bsky.social! He's a jazz trumpeter, a noise musician, and has spent the last decade advancing audio technology for Unreal's Audio Engine! Come hang out with us, 6pm this Thursday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MO6... #GameAudio #Jazz
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Tech Audio Chat (feat. Aaron McLeran) Episode 09
YouTube video by Dan Reynolds Audio
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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 20/05/2025
I'll have plenty to say about the (looong) dev process in coming days/months if anyone wants to hear But mostly I'll rave about how good UE is for audio, and particularly thank @minuskelvin.bsky.social & @dannthr.bsky.social at Epic for their help over the years; and @chriszuko.bsky.social for his!
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Very cool #noclip video about sound design in games! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbOg... Features #UEAudio w/ #torbie! <3 <3 #MetaSounds #GameAudio
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How Games Are Made: SOUND DESIGN
YouTube video by Noclip
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Had a great time chatting with Max Hayes, Joel Zimmerman, and Miles Perkins about audio and music and live shows yesterday at #UnrealFest. Check out the convo below! Link to the talk is in the comments (last talk). www.youtube.com/live/R7UvHzh...
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Livestream 3, Day 2 | Unreal Fest 2025
YouTube video by Unreal Engine
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I asked ChatGPT to draw a picture of me based on what it knows about me… besides the color of my hair and my face, it was creepily accurate.
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
How’s everybody doing out there?
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This is incredible.
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Some art work from my 7 year old.
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Close your eyes, stop your ears Close your mouth, they're never there And if it happens here, they'll never come for you Because they'll know you really didn't care #peggyseeger #politicalmusic www.youtube.com/watch?v=okas...
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Song of Choice
YouTube video by Peggy Seeger - Topic
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
A man says "fuck it. I wanna be serialized. I'm tired of living comic to comic. I want to experience more. I don't want my eternally reviving body to be used for momentary vignettes. I want to be somebody." Another man says "Oh Gary, I don't think it works like that. We are doomed to nothingness after the next panel." Gary shakes his fists toward the heavens and shouts "NO! I refuse! My name is Gary! I deserve more life!"
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Shout out to this amazing youtube video showcasing hours of next-level classical guitar. It's just amazing. Been listening to it for months now. Spent the day with it while workin on code and it was <chef's kiss> #ClassicalGuitar #SiccasGuitars www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCXP...
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Best Collection of Classical Guitar Music 2024 | 11 Hours of Pure Joy 🎶
YouTube video by SiccasGuitars
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
How's GDC this year? #GDC
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Skeurid @skeurid.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Messing about with something a bit more rhythmically oriented today. #MetaSounds #ProceduralMusic #UnrealEngine
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Laura Eek!! Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
There is no world where Canada joins the USA exempting forceful military takeover. And if he tried to use the military there would be at a minimum mass desertions, but likely a coup. And holding on to Canada would be the most expensive military operation in history.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
#AudioLInk -- use #MetaSounds with #Wwise. Magggggiiiiiccccccccc
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The person who came up with "single sign on" I think was using the word "single" quite liberally.
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Skeurid @skeurid.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Granular breakbeat permutations: Commodores edition #MetaSounds #ProceduralMusic #UnrealEngine
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Skeurid @skeurid.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Here’s that graph just doing its own thing for a few minutes youtu.be/VNuKhHTET6A
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Granular Breaks Test
YouTube video by Sciurid
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 02/03/2025
"a new engine"
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Visiting family this weekend and the Curb theme is playing in my mind on loop…
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chriszuko @chriszuko.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
So stoked about how this looks honestly. What's even cooler is that it runs exceptionally well too. On steamdeck hitting 90fps. On my machine the GPU is only at 2.5ms. Compare this to the actual mix on the right which is running around 5.4ms. The ground fog mesh is the biggest hitter. #gamedev
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chriszuko @chriszuko.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Hi to anyone who likes music games! My name is Zuko and I'm working on a musical sandbox game called Mix Universe on steam early access right now. Here's the most recent trailer :) #music #gaming #musicgame Lemme know what you think! youtu.be/Zis5sFlOl1Y?...
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This is Mix Universe - A Musical Sandbox Game (Official Trailer 2024)
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Just discovered all these little pieces… so good!
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School.VideoGameAudio.com @sovga.bsky.social · 11/04/2024
15 generative audio-visual projects rebuilt & fully commented for #UE5.3.2 now available for students to interactively learn blueprints, #metasounds, #shaders & Niagra, includes "Microscopic Forest" 🌳😀
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SweejTech @sweej.tech · 21/02/2025
This week, we're looking closer at our ambience system for scattering spot sounds around the listener! youtu.be/3vffHDpNhN0 #gameaudio
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SweejTech 005: Ambience Scatter Spots
A closer look at Scatter SpotsSweejTech Ambience: A comprehensive ambient audio system for UE5 that makes it effortless to create living, dynamic game worlds...
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Skeurid @skeurid.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Slow shift register jam. #MetaSounds #UnrealEngine #ProceduralMusic
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I’ve just been coasting my Duolingo streak… just doing the minimum. My passion is currently low but I don’t want to give up on the dream. Hanging in there… ¡Puedo hacerlo!
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Any Tim Hecker fans out there? When I'm vibing while coding and his stuff comes on, I'm always like... damn this hits the spot. I just love the dirty, organic, ambient thing. I still get chills listening to Virgins. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rad... #AmbientMusic #ElectronicMusic
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TIM HECKER - Prisms
YouTube video by Paper Bag Records
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
You know... when I was a young pup, I listened to #autechre all the time. And all the others. But, this really makes me feel like something right from those heady late 90s, early 2000s "IDM" days. But it's all procedurally generated!
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Jesus Synthesizer Christ.
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
YOU. CAN. NOT. HAVE. TOO. MANY. SINE. WAVES. #SineWaves
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah
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Skeurid @skeurid.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Some sort of unstable snappy 808 thing.. #MetaSounds #UnrealEngine #ProceduralMusic
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I saw this article today about Meta's ad for horizon and I couldn't independently validate if this was a real ad or not. Article links to this Bsky post: bsky.app/profile/nath... Which has a dead link to instagram... trail goes dead for me there. Is this a real ad? www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...
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Meta’s Awful ‘Horizon Worlds’ Ad Helps Explain $70 Billion Metaverse Loss
The following is a new ad for Horizon Worlds, and it's about as awkward as a virtual world can get.
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Had a fun time explaining sample rate vs frame rate and the horrible mess of audio technology over in discord... And, thought, well shit this is a good ChatGPT prompt. And it was such a good explainer. Then I discovered you can share prompts now. #audioprogramming chatgpt.com/share/67b3f0...
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ChatGPT - New chat
Shared via ChatGPT
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Tomavatars @tomavatars.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
That was fun! Still testing bridges between Ableton and Unreal Engine 5. I might build an app so you’d be able to play with your own Ableton session :) You can support me on Patreon, that would help me make this a reality. #digitalart #UE5 #MaxMsp #Ableton #ElectronicMusic #UnrealEngine
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
What are some good #feeds ya'll are following? Is there one for procedural music?
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Aaron McLeran @minuskelvin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
What the actual fuck is going on... (been saying this a lot lately)
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