Game music

by PaRanoYaK on 03/10/2004 11:23, 26 messages, last message: 09/16/2004 00:35, 12302 views, last view: 05/18/2024 23:35

Hellow all, I'm both a hard core gamer, a coder and a digital music maker :-).
I'm very interested in your game dev, 'think the engine is really wonderfull and game play, even if it requires many littles adgustements, is very promising.
Why do I post here ? Not only to say that the game is great (we are oftenly playing it during boring lessons in our school (DUT, french equivalent of a HND)), but also that I propose myself for creating new musics for the game.
Don't know if it can interest you, but well, if it does, i can provide a demo song "especially" for this game in a few weeks.
You still can download some of my song at www.paranoyak.tk, but the quality is crap, not my best tracks are yet released and I can provide tracks of far better quality.

Even if you don't whant of my songs (^_^), good luck for future, and keep up the good work, very promising as I said :-).

See you.

PS: sorry for my bad english, I do the best I can.

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#1: Interest me!

by Lethedethius on 03/11/2004 00:36

Bring it PaRanoYak, Anything is better than nothing,bring your best and brightest songs to the community, personally, I would prefer some rock music... anything that has a rock or HEAVY metal type of beat :)

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#2: Re: Interest me!

by dcp on 03/11/2004 01:18, refers to #1

hm... rock? heavy metal? no, for me it's more industrial noise... ;-)

check cube.dietmarpier.de for 7 new cube-inspired dark/noisy/industrial soundtracks...

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#3: Re: Interest me!

by spentron-postcrash2 on 03/14/2004 00:32, refers to #1

Two new new good sources of tunes from people agreeable to the game scene, will consider if I ever get another map to that point... I made music for some of my levels but I'd rather go back to keeping music and mapping seperate, sometimes you can get a good synergy from making one for the other but it's hard to make music that way. It probably worked best when I was more assembling new pieces from old bits than making music more conventionally, more controlled.

I really like this "Cyborg Jeff vs. P@r@noY@k" (nice keyboard piece, not like it sounds like it would be).

dcp, interesting, also the skyboxes look great but I can't seem to get the whole file to go, it just quits (still connected on this end).

I do note Para's files are huge, smaller files would be desirable for inclusion in levels (we'd need to contact artists anyway, but mentioning), even though quality is nice, when a level is involved people are trying to download a game first and foremost. Plus there's even hosting issues at 5+ MB.

Had to wonder since some of this is electronic, if any was made in a MOD format and can be converted to .xm/.it etc., which still tends to have a better quality/bandwidth relation. Much more music is available now things aren't limited to such specialized formats, but if you got it ... Note Cube also does MP3 now, in case you can't get an Ogg encoder to squeeze enough.

As well as more metal type stuff, for games the orchestral "Epic" type stuff is more often the thing.

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#4: What program do U use?

by e:n:i:g:m:a on 03/14/2004 01:53

Hey, what kind of music are you making? Are you recording it and then ripping it to a MP3, or are you tracking?

Personally, I track with MadTracker, but I don't believe that Cube supports MadTracker modules, and I don't know any of the fasttracker effects (MT can do FastTracker Modules if U want). Aaaand, I don't think that any of my songs are good enough for any game (like cube). And, most of my instruments are taken from freely available music ;) .

Anyway, are you tracking or recording ?

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#5: Re: What program do U use?

by sinsky on 03/15/2004 11:26, refers to #4

I haven't made any music but I have attempted to learn music programs every now and then, and actually did; the first was Fasttracker 2 quite some time ago, and Psycle recently. I don't have much experience but I love the way machines in Psycle work. It also reminds me of Houdini. Anyway; Psycle is free and resides on sourceforge.net.

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#6: Re: What program do U use?

by spentron-postcrash2 on 03/15/2004 17:16, refers to #4

I'm not sure if your question was directed at anybody, I was asking if the first posters were tracking .. I've done conventional recording but got into tracking DUE to Cube and found it damn neat, probably do more with it but no specific plans. Use ModPlug, couldn't get DOS based trackers to run and this is better anyway.

Of course, one temptation with tracking is then solo over the whole track or something (maybe vocals if not game music), and then you're better off going to regular audio anyway.

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#7: Re: What program do U use?

by MitaMan on 03/16/2004 02:54, refers to #6

A nice program to use for making any style of music is ACID by Sonic Foundry. You use pieces of looped .wav, .mp3, midi, and many other file formats to create a song. Very simple to use even for "non-musical" people and the results are fast and fun. You can even render your song in the .ogg format which is very small in size (compared to .wav and .mp3) and CUBE will play it. I used it for a new music track for my first CUBE level. I'm pretty sure a free (8 track) version is still available from the Sonic Foundry web site, and there are many free loops that can be downloaded from the net. I think the biggest "problem" with new music for CUBE is that few people want to bother downloading maps that are bigger than 1/2 a meg or more in size because of music. A map without music is like 1/10 meg in size!
Anyway, thats my two cents worth of opinion-MitaMAN

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#8: ..

by PaRanoYaK on 03/22/2004 11:59

I used to compose using Modplug tracker, but some month ago, I tried Buzz and ... I'm in love with it :-D.

I generaly track electro things, with no defined style, some "musical UFOs" :-), but before trying electronic music, I played guitar in some metal's band for somthing like ten years, and for Cube's tracks, I was thinking of a mix between recordings and tracking.
Even if I can track using MPT (for it format) I think that buzz tracks sounds quite better, so that leads to and Ogg/MP3 ripping, beacuse I don't think that the .bmx format would be easily added to the soft.

As I already said, don't expect to much of track I put on my sie, these are track I did with a few experience, and I think I can say that the tracks I'm composing right now are really better. (I don't post them, not because of websapce, but because, they're not finished yet ;-)).

Well this week I have my exams, so It will be hard for me to track, but I promise I'll made a demo song for you after :-).

'think I'll made a kind of epic metal, as you wish (in the style of Skaven's Razorback, a track used for Unreal Tournament), maybe a little more "weird", because I do love weird music :-p.


keep in touch ;-).

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#9: Re: ..

by Drakker_ on 03/23/2004 01:23, refers to #8

Go ahead, I look forward to ear what you have to offer. :)

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#10: Re: Interest me!

by Bascule on 04/06/2004 10:49, refers to #2

just listened to dcp's tracks and they are really good; so atmospheric and I love that grungy industrial feel :)

They reminded me a bit of the DOOM for Playstation music which is really creepy in places and just designed to scare the pants off you in those oh-so-dark levels...

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#11: ..

by _Fanatic on 04/13/2004 05:04

I've used Digital Orchestrator Pro from Turtle Beach, now called Record Producer. It's a digital audio and MIDI multi tracking recorder, very easy to use with MIDI or live instruments.

Works well with custom sound fonts too.

My noise can be found here under the Music section:

http://fanaticalproductions.net

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#12: Re: Interest me!

by pp on 06/29/2004 02:49, refers to #1

For some nice rock tunes to listen while fragging check out this album:
http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Too_Old_To_Rock/

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#13: #13: ""

by Zachass on 06/30/2004 03:58

I have used Tabledit to make some music. You can easily add notes and effects and stuff to write the music.
and then you can export it to a wave or midi file.

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#14: Re: Music

by Ax on 07/03/2004 08:50, refers to #1

I can do some hard core guitar, headbanger type stuff......tell me what you need!

Ax

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#15: ..

by e:n:i:g:m:a on 07/03/2004 19:18

Or you can also use my personal favorite: a tracker such as modplug to make a wide range of music from techno to grunge to heavy metal, just as long as it has a rhythm ^_^

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#16: Acid

by innovati on 08/29/2004 02:44

I use acid sometimes, but It isn't really good for much other than elektonik/Tekno.

My song best song is at http://www.innovatived.ca/tekno4.mp3 !!

It was made in Acid Xpress, and might work in cube, I put those little siren noises in there just for Cube actually. It is very tekno.

I would reccommend Modplug, or just a plain old wace-editor, make sure you get plenty of good VST inrtrument plugins ;)

I like some of the industrial stuff, but it is FAR too ambient for me, I like some more stuff. I LOVE FANATIC'S music in the current Cube, and the Epic sounding symphony music from UT.

Fanatic: Could you make some music that is bith Metal and symphony? It wold trade back and forth, like in the matrix, or some of the UT music. I am a BIG fan of that. You are one of the only people who pull it off :):):)

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#17: Re: Acid

by j.c.d.p.c. on 08/29/2004 02:49, refers to #16

hehe, what excatly do you mean when you say you use acid sometimes?

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#18: Re: Acid

by MitaMan on 08/29/2004 03:08, refers to #17

silly boy, i mean sonic foundry acid pro. oh, and acid is good for making heavy metal rock stuff, it all depends upon the loops. i also take loops and chop them up and rearrange them to fit my songs better. i find acis to be the fastest easiest way to make music. cool edit pro also has many free loops on web site that work in acid.

mitaman

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#19: ..

by innovati on 08/29/2004 04:16

yeah Acid is easy...but it's not that powerful. It only loops the stuff. What if you want a track to fade in? What if you want this or that? The only way to have TRUE power, is to use a wave editor like Kristal Audio engine, or Audacity.

Acid DOES make it easy though...it also has temp-readjust for you, so all your clips are at the same BPM. Kinda cool. Makin' Rock, set your tempo to 80 or something, tekno, set it to 140. BOOM! all your samples change tempo too...

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#20: Re: Acid

by D.plomat on 08/29/2004 12:56, refers to #17

;)

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