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XMark
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Here is the theme for Bokk, the main character of The ARC Legacy
http://abstract-productions.net/music/bokk.mp3
I started it a week ago, but I did pretty much the entire second half just tonight because I got so freakin' hyped about how realistic the orchestra is sounding, especially the brass section. I've been trying to do this kind of brass sound for years and finally it's working! HELL YEAH!
Heh, I'm a little excited.
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js71
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Where the hell did you get those samples?!
Lemme guess, they're all midi samples and you just used them really well. =p
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Bjorn
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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XMark darling, this song almost makes me cry. Very well done!
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Dear Saturn, Xmark. That is just- so- fucking amazing. I thought those horns were real. Damn.
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This was tracked? Holy fuck.
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XMark
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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thanks everyone, now I feel like staying up late and spending all my time on that song instead of my homework was worth it :)
| Quote: | Where the hell did you get those samples?!
Lemme guess, they're all midi samples and you just used them really well. =p |
Bingo! It's all MIDI. Most of the instruments are from the awesome (free) sinfonia soundfont:
http://home.clara.net/fworld/sinfonia.htm
Although I tweaked the slow strings a bit so they have a longer attack and decay. A little harder to use that way but they sound more emotive.
I used two different brass instruments. One is the French Horn from Sinfonia, which actually sounds really fake when played normally, but just add a little reverb and BAM, realism.
The other is an old horn sample that I used back when I was tracking XM's, converted to a Soundfont. You'll find it in a lot of my old Changeling XM's. It's a pretty low-quality sample (you can hear tons of noise, and I could never find a good loop point) so I never use it solo but it has a really powerful effect when added to an ensemble.
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ThousandKnives
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| Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:56 am Post subject: |
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It sounds real good. I can't say I'm surprised that it uses MIDI samples though, in fact I'd be surprised if it didn't. It has a flavor much the same as good old Y's IV for Duo.
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| Chaotic Harmony wrote: | | Excellent :) Well done! |
i concur.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:48 am Post subject: |
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I know this is an old topic..........but I just found it.
XMark, this is by far the best tracked piece I have heard in a very long time. Excellent work. write more please! I enjoy listening to it! :)
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 1:52 am Post subject: |
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Oh yeah. Sounded like Nobuo himself, no joke.
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XMark
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Really? heh, I was trying to go away from my usual Nobuo imitation and tried for more of a movie soundtrack sound... guess old habits die hard :)
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Well, it seems to me that musical composition is related at least in part to a person's personality. So maybe having a style like Nobuo's own is just natural, perhaps. It could be a better idea, maybe, not to distance oneself from Uematsu at all, but instead to elaborate on the innate style that he draws from, with ones own style. So to say, it may not be the man that makes the music, but the music that makes the man.
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| XMark wrote: | | Really? heh, I was trying to go away from my usual Nobuo imitation and tried for more of a movie soundtrack sound... guess old habits die hard :) |
While it was similar to his style, it DID infact have a movie soundtrack feel to it. (I just listened to it again)
I have a question.
What do you use to do that? Are you using ModPlug and a midi keyboard? Do tell if you don't mind.
I mainly use Cakewalk Professional and the mouse, but sometimes I use Modplug. I really need to get my midi keybaord connected.....I think I'll do that after I type this post..I'm feeling like writing a short piece. ;)
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