killersound was born in the heart of Silicon Valley in April of 1999 as a company dedicated to empowering an important dimension to the internet and new media experience: SOUND. We were inspired by the growing use of Flash™ and the need for high-quality, customizable audio. One of our first projects was to create music for the launch of the original balthaser web site. Since then we have worked on projects for intranets, training presentations, CD-ROM product demos, radio and television.
With the advent of the web and other new media, traditional models have been breaking down. Such models provide static content with licensing fees based on medium and royalties. As part of the New Media revolution we are the first to deliver royalty-free, optimized, quality audio in a format that allows users to tailor the musical content to their projects for any medium.

Our mission is to be recognized by the leaders of the New Economy as an indispensable partner that consistently delivers an integral part of their marketing, branding and identity solutions, online and offline. We create, license and sell high quality, original and customizable audio content composed and optimized for new media.

Summary: killersound recognizes that Flash™ can be used as a sequencer or mixer similar to software used by digital musicians to sequence music. Generally each composition is made up of various elements or components such as bass, drums, melody, etc. Each element is recorded and optimized separately and imported as an individual sound file into Flash™. The lengths of these sound files are either identical or in exact proportion of each other. In other words, in order for the sounds to loop properly in their own layers and mix with each other, each sound must be in exact proportion (in milliseconds or better yet exact number of samples) to the others. For example, if you have a bass part that is 1 measure in length (or 151,000 samples) and you have a melody that is 2 measures in length, make sure that the number of samples in your melody is 302,000 (2 x 151,000).
When all the parts are initiated and looped at the same frame and in their own individual layers, they are mixed together, using the envelope points provided, to create the illusion of an unfolding and varied musical composition over time. There are three benefits to this method:
1. The viewer is spared from mindless loops
2. The Flash™ developer retains the creativity and freedom to mix or arrange the elements as desired while minimizing file size and 3. File size is kept to a minimum by using Flash™’s looping capability.