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    Star Ruler Soundtrack

    in Post Your Original Music!

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    So, I've scored my first video game. It's got a very ambient and space-synthy style to it, lots of strings, rhodes piano, and some guitar/bass work. Moments of jazz, moments of rock, and moments of orchestral.

    The game itself is an indie 4x game, coming out the 21st of this month. You might have seen an article about it on kotaku or Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Maybe you even looked at the thread for it on penny-arcade.

    More importantly, it's free if you don't want to donate.

    http://artembank.bandcamp.com/album/star-ruler

    My first album!

    in Post Your Original Music!

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    Heh, I suppose so... It was just rather late last night.

    It's a 10 track rock album that I put together over the course of my senior year in high school, and my first try at a full album (vocals, guitar, bass, drums, the works.)

    All of the vocals, guitar (minus one track) and piano are done by me live. The bass was before I actually owned one, so I had to program it along with the drums, strings and minimal synths that I have in there.

    Not sure what kind of rock you would classify it under... inspiration from Nine Inch Nails, Tool, various alternative rock groups.

    Final Fantasy medley 'Crash'

    in Post Your Game ReMixes!

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    Cut most of the distortion. It works fine for crunchy chords, but for melody and noodling on a neck, it gets in the way and makes it unsexy.

    I see what you're saying. I agree really, and I would, if i find the time to rerecord the guitar. :P

    I want to hear more layering, it sounds too much like a simple skeleton of what should be a decent song.

    Thank you for the hope. I will add more. At the time of posting I had been working on the track for about an hour, and hadn't gotten around to any of the good stuff, just getting the base ideas down.

    I hear clipping all over the place, mostly in the intro. Play with the EQ, panning, and velocities until it has volume without losing parts of the sound you want.

    I was going to wait until the end, but I'll work on it now, rather than later. In any case, I'm already removing a second layered guitar i had under the first that I thought was cool, but in the end it just muddies it up and makes it clip.

    The huge amounts of distortion are making it hard to tell how many layers are there, I only hear the drums, a detuned guitar, and a more standard tuning guitar.

    That's all there is (except for a small synth part in the beginning. Oh, it's all standard tuning too.

    I want some more of the source, since Great Warrior was a great song to begin with.

    This song started out as an original, and about halfway into the thinking process I found it cool to do it as a remix. That's why the first minute and a half are "original." As far as adding more, I was planning to. :)

    From 1:39ish to the end is COMPLETELY bare, and needs more behind it. The fuzzy detuned guitar isn't strong enough to support the main melody in the way you want it to.

    What I'd recommend is adding a bassist into the mix (or if that lower one is bass, then consider making it a guitar, and adding a bassist), and changing the octaves you're playing in. There's too much mud there, and not enough substence.

    I don't have a bass, and wouldn't know how to write a good bass line, or making it sound real enough. I can add a simple one, but no guarantee it'll be any good. If anyone out there would like to do some bass for me, I'm all for it. :)

    The drums don't feel lively enough, I'd consider playing with the velocities and panning to make them more real. The structure is interesting enough to keep the listener there while the drums are there, but there isn't enough life in them to make them happy while listening.

    Another thing I falter in. I'm absolutely ignorant at this point in all this drum-wise. I just use something simple for me to play against. I'll try what you suggested, but honestly It'd be better if I get some more in depth consultation on this, or perhaps if someone actually wrote/recorded/programmed it for me.

    It's a start, and you picked a fun source song to work with. You've already taken the time to start figuring out FL (honestly, I'm not much farther ahead than you as far as skill with that program), start toying with other things. Play with other instruments and tones, try out effects on tracks, like chorus, reverb, compression, and especially the EQ options. So far you have a lot of potential in this piece, I'm looking forward to seeing how much of it you play through.

    Well thank you man. Great feedback, and I'll definitely try to liven it up.

    Final Fantasy medley 'Crash'

    in Post Your Game ReMixes!

    Posted

    I'm working on a medley of final fantasy songs. It's my first time remixing a video game song, and first time remixing something without an official source for audio (like multi-tracks.)

    So far, Great Warrior (FF 7) is represented, somewhere in there. Other wise it's original for the most part, but I plan to add more. If anyone has any suggestions, ideas, or would like to collaborate, by all means, tell me. I'd love to work with other people. I'm working in FL Studio 8, in case anyone's interested.

    Thanks man.

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