Since 1993, Q Up Arts has been developing world class sound
collections for computer companies and professional music producers.
Q Up's attention to detail and quality has resulted in many enduring
products that you'll enjoy for years to come. Q Up Arts licenses audio content for computer and musical instrument
companies for playback in hardware/software sample playback instruments.
The Q Up Arts Team has created and published over 300 CD-ROM & CD-Audio sample &
loop libraries for the Film, Computer & Television and music industries.
In 1993, Douglas & Susan Morton formed Q Up Arts, a content provider and publisher of
sample collections.
Douglas's groundbreaking work while at Optical Media International pioneered the use of digital audio samples in music production. He produced & published the first several CD-ROM sample libraries for musicians.
As well as producing and co-producing sample/loop collections, Douglas composes, plays keyboards and contributes to many CDs, television
shows, exhibits and documentaries.
Douglas, now resides in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Douglas is currently scoring music for with Monterey Bay Aquarium and The
Living Planet Aquarium in Salt Lake City.
Sound design and keyboard credits;
Published samples & loops from Q Up Arts have been used in the following
TV/Film/commercial productions: Sonic Images Records, Fox’s X-Files,
Millennium, Toyota, BMW, Michael Jackson, Electronic Arts, FX,, Packard
Bell, Texas Instruments, The Cure, YES, Mark Isham filmscores, INXS and MTVs Cribs.
Studio
Douglas creates music and sounds in a state of the art digital recording
facility at Q Up Arts. The studio has a full complement of keyboards, and
samplers. Douglas also has access to musicians of every genre including
world/ethnic, orchestral and many others. Audio content can be produced & output for
any application including CDs, surround theatres, games, etc.
Latest Projects
*April 2nd 2004, The Monterey Bay Aquarium opened the new exhibit
"Sharks: Myth and Mystery". Douglas scored the music and SFX for this
exhibit. The soundtrack includes music from all regions of the world where
sharks are found. The genres include Brazilian, Amazon, Pacific Northwest
and Africa. A CD has been released and can be purchased direct from Monterey
Bay Aquarium or directly from this website.
*April 20th 2005, Douglas scores the new Monterey Bay Aquarium exhibit
"Oceans Edge".
*March 17 2007 "Wild About Otters" opens to the public. Douglas composed a
variety of music indigenous to parts of the world where river otters are
living.Sound Designer Terry Grame, formerly of New York City, has a
diverse music and sound design clients list which includes; most sound
modules from E-Mu Systems, various Sound Disc Libraries from Roland,
Northstar, Q Up Arts, Voice Crystal, Big Fish Audio; Theatrical sound design
for La Mama, Etc., and Nada in New York City; sound effects post and
consulting for ABC TV, Howard Schwartz Recording, WTT-33, and others; synth
programming/keyboards on recordings including ‘The Theme From Mission
Impossible’ Larry Mullin/Adam Clayton (of U2) .
Sean Charles/Producer/Increased Velocity
Located in the videogame hotbed of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Sean Charles, over the past 14 years, has expanded his sought after skills from a creative award winning sound designer and composer to managing entire sound teams within the videogame industry. Working on every platform from Sony's Playstation 1 to Microsoft's Xbox 360 and the Sony Playstation 3 has provided Sean with global insight into all aspects of audio for the gaming industry.
Sean currently resides at the Walt Disney Company where he manages a diverse audio team at Disney Interactive Studios. As a manager and team leader, Sean oversees all creative content. He manages both on and off site sound designers and composers, works with outside contractors and deals with internal studio operations.
Sean previously worked at Electronic Arts where he shipped 2 of the most heavily audio focused products on the market; Def Jam Vendetta and Def Jam Fight for NY. This same aesthetic and attention for detail has allowed Sean to lend this same 'signature' music and sound effects that have graced titles for Sony, Electronic Arts, FOX Interactive, Midway, THQ and Radical Entertainment.
Sean's expanded sound design palette as a sound designer has enabled him to pick out fine nuances
within the sonic realm when porting audio from one game console to another. This experience has helped the products he has accomplished achieve high audio accolades and awards. Not content to sit on his laurels, Sean also has the distinct honor of being a sound developer for the music industry's leading musical instrument manufacturers. He is responsible for the factory presets and signature sound sets for the Clavia Nord Lead series of Instruments and Roland's Fantom X for Roland Corporation Japan, just to name a few. Pushing the boundaries in the quest for excellence in audio for video game production, he combined his aptitude for sound design and music resulted in a Dolby Laboratories certified Audio Sample Library CD which contained the first ever 'encoded' Dolby Pro Logic audio files. This work entitled Increased Velocity - Surround Tools for Film, Multimedia, and Music rapidly garnered world wide acclaim and praise from many of the world's premier producers in Music and Film. As a result of this, Sean has and continues to maintain an extensive involvement with the music industry both in the U.S. and Canada allowing him to forge long-term working relationships with members of the top music production teams (Michael Jackson, Christina Aguilera, and Prince).
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