Excellent stuff for video game composers, touches on history of the craft and working with things like FMOD.
Quote:Schmidt was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Game Audio Network Guild (http://www.audiogang.org) in 2008 for his contributions to the game audio industry.
Quote:From 1999-2008, Schmidt was the program manager of the Xbox Audio and Voice Technologies division at Microsoft and was responsible for much of the audio architecture for the Xbox and Xbox 360. He created the start up sound for the original Xbox console, using 'old-school' techniques to create an 8-second sound using only 25 kilobytes of memory.
Quotes from Wikipedia.