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WaveGroup Sound is a music production studio located in Fremont, California that achieved notability through its creation of music for numerous popular video games. Since 2014, WaveGroup has been the official sound design team for Facebook.

History

Originally established as Wave-Group Sound, a company focused on audio post production, the company later changed its name to WaveGroup and shifted to video game music and sound design. By the early 2000s, the company was the leading producer of music for interactive music video games, producing music for popular series like Karaoke Revolution, Rock Band, Guitar Hero, and others.[1][2]

Some of the works with sound produced by WaveGroup have been nominated or won awards in the video game and TV/Film areas.[3]

In 2014, Wavegroup became Facebook's official in-house sound design team and many of WaveGroup's employees joined Facebook. The WaveGroup team are responsible for the creation of many of Facebook's notification sounds.[4]

Partial music game portfolio

Among others, WaveGroup has done many or all of the songs or song covers for some of the listed titles.

References

  1. ^ Jackson, Blair (1 February 2008). ""Guitar Hero" Rocks: WaveGroup Carves Its Niche In Interactive Video Games". Mixonline.com. Archived from the original on 28 March 2012. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  2. ^ Hochberg, Bill (2 August 2008). "Guitar Hero, Rock Band and the Rock 'n' Roll Money Machine". wired.com. Archived from the original on 27 February 2009. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
  3. ^ Awards listing on company's website[dead link]
  4. ^ "Facebook Acquires WaveGroup Sound To Help Power Its App Factory". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
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