Learning mp3 composition

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• Wed Jun 08, 2005 5:41 pm

Nice.

A little too focused on the drums through the middle of the song for my tastes though. Good stuff though.

Somehow, it kind of reminds me of the mario tune...

Do you reckon you could try making a slow, epic like song? <.< >.>

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• Wed Jun 08, 2005 11:14 pm

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• Thu Jun 09, 2005 12:19 am

Flipside too, iirc he's a music man himself.

I could attempt it; that type of thing could be used for another project I'm working on at the moment too.

Damn, was kind of hoping that if you got really good at it I could sucker you in to helping with music for TAP.

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• Thu Jun 09, 2005 12:42 am

Wouldn't that kinda require me getting FS2 (in working order that is)?

At any rate, thanks for the comments. I used a program called Fruity Loops for it--it's pretty derned powerful once you know what you're doing, and the only restriction on the free version is that you can't save projects. You can export a mp3 file, but once it's been exported you can't open it again and get all the different instruments and/or mixes split out individually again. You can always just leave the program open all the time and hibernate instead of shut down.

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• Thu Jun 09, 2005 4:16 am

Ah yeah fruity loops. I had a play with that myself a while back. Need to get a full version though.

You wouldn't necessarily need FS2, if your just making the music. Plus we could take little movie clips and then you try and fit the music to the video.

If you get the hang of it and feel confident enough, then I could certainly use the help. TAP is going to need a dedicated musician at some point.

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• Thu Jun 09, 2005 6:38 am

Yeah, that sounds good if I get enough spare time. Contact me through MSN sometime and I'll see what I can come up with, but don't expect anything earthshatteringly awesome for a while I don't have a particularly good library of sounds to go from; I'll have to start working up a few more instruments. At any rate, here's another track: http://www.stryker2.com/zip_files/track3.zip

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• Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:51 pm

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• Fri Jun 10, 2005 7:12 pm

Hmm you like the techno stuff don't yah Stryker?

Keep at it maestro.

If you take requests, try making a slow, sad song that picks up.
See if you can work some voices into it. I love choir mixes.

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• Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:38 am

I'm working on a piece with a more choral arrangement... It's a lot different and harder than techno, because the instruments actually have to be in tune and have semi-functional chords in order to sound good. Techno you usually don't have many pitched instruments playing at once, so it's relatively easy to compose.

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• Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:08 am

[Grimloq] wrote:No... No... Must... Resist... Urge... To... Show... Off... Lousy... Piece... GRAAAH!

Yes ¬_¬ This was my very first attempt at making something resembling music. Crappy? Yes, but I don't really care...

Oh, and I know the zip's size is only slightly smaller than the actual file's... I don't know why. No matter what compression I use, it never goes down by much.

And yes, apologies in advance: It is .wma. I couldn't get it into any other format ;_;

(BTW, this piece... I like the first minute or so, so I'm going to finish it and make it actually GOOD.)

Hmmm.... You know, Grug, you seem to want the kind of thing I enjoy making. Slow, picks up. My music tends to resemble music from movies...

Augh, enjoy this, if that's possible.

Wow Grimloq, that's pretty darn good. I liked it. There are a few bits that are a little to X-File'ish for me, but overall nice job mate.
Post more if you have it.

I do like the epic movie type music yeah, mainly because I'm hunting around for epic type music for TAP.

@Stryker, if its harder to do, it usually means its going to pay off more.
Keep at it!

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• Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:30 am