fernfreak

Thanks everyone, for the warm response and all those kind offers and pm-s! Stan and I are pming you guys to see if we can work something out-- perhaps helping him learn how to produce the tracks might not be so feasible within this timeframe. I'd love to work with all of you who've offered, but our token budget can probably only fit one person (if any!) (our team is largely made up of volunteers and students, which is why we're a bit raw) We'll most likely work with one person for the producing-- we can only offer credit after spending that token sum. It is hard for us to offer percentages at this point because these have already been worked out for existing team members. Since everyone's been really kind though, I wouldn't want to close the door on other conversations, so we're still open to the following scenarios: (Note: these may not be suitable for everyone, but based on some responses we've received, some people might be keen on these) - if you'd like to try remixing any of the in-game songs, just let us know and we'll send you the source songs: if you send us the remix, we will credit you in the game and include it with the soundtrack. - if you -already- have an oriental/fantasy sounding track which you would like promoted in/with a game, we can try to find some way to include it, and credit you in the game for that. - if you'd like to contribute to the production in a non-musical role (testing, sharing etc), do message me and we could try and work out something! - also, in return for the advice we've received on this forum, if you'd like to ask anything about this project, or our experiences in developing a game for this platform, we're quite happy to share information. Thanks again, and it's been great hearing from you guys-- hope that we might be able to work together someday, even if it might not be this time!

Hi everyone! We're an indie team working on an oriental themed real-time strategy game for the iPad-- the idea is that the battlefield is a chinese painting, and players get to direct their armies using brushstrokes-- it's a bit hard to describe, so I'm attaching three images and a video at the bottom to provide a better idea! Gameplay video (slightly long!): Our composer Stantough (http://www.youtube.com/user/stantough) has put together some great tracks for it, but this is his first videogame project and he is completely new to sound engineering-- so we're having some difficulty in converting his midis to good mp3s and finding suitable patches for the chinese instruments. Unfortunately, as a programmer, I have next to no knowledge on this, but I've always admired the work that everyone puts up at OCR, so I figured I'd post here to see there's anyone around who might be willing to help guide him closely, or directly take on the conversion process. (He would very much like to post here himself, but his forum registration doesn't allow him to start threads yet) Here are some of the current tracks in midi which we are trying to do conversions for: (as well as our mp3 results) http://www.autumndynasty.com/Music/Theme.mid http://www.autumndynasty.com/Music/Theme.mp3 http://www.autumndynasty.com/Music/Trailer.mid http://www.autumndynasty.com/Music/Trailer.mp3 Particularly, Stan feels he needs 1) advice on how to tweak EQ and settings in Cakewalk 2) advice on how to place notes for taiko drums, so they sound less muddy 3) recommendations for patches for reverse cymbals, choirs and oriental battlecry patches (stuff like 'hah!' that one would hear in martial arts films) 4) suggestions on how to reduce audio dropout and distortion while playing the song in Cakewalk If you might be able to help out, or would like to know more about the project, please do drop me a note! The tracks are already composed, and we are hoping to complete the music production for the game by end February. As an indie team, we don't have that much money, but we could try to work out a token sum if anyone is willing to take over the mixing/mastering directly. Best regards, Travis