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I don't even remember when I started working on this piece, but it's definitely been many years. It's actually been near-finished for most of that, but two things kept me from releasing it:
1) I have a perfectionist streak which is, of course, directly at odds with having an amateur level of talent.
2) I wanted to get the whole triptych done before I released anything.
I use the term "triptych" carefully. It normally means three images side-by-side on three separate leaves or tablets. "Perciever," along with "Connector" and the incomplete "Silencer," describes a scene about which I may someday write the tale with the help of th' buni.
Please listen to this one before "Connector", but also please feel free to comment on each individually. Don't think of them as complete, but as needing that last bit of insight and care before they are done. Thanks!
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1) I have a perfectionist streak which is, of course, directly at odds with having an amateur level of talent.
2) I wanted to get the whole triptych done before I released anything.
I use the term "triptych" carefully. It normally means three images side-by-side on three separate leaves or tablets. "Perciever," along with "Connector" and the incomplete "Silencer," describes a scene about which I may someday write the tale with the help of th' buni.
Please listen to this one before "Connector", but also please feel free to comment on each individually. Don't think of them as complete, but as needing that last bit of insight and care before they are done. Thanks!
<<< PREV | FIRST | NEXT >>>
Category Music / Other Music
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 120 x 120px
File Size 5.03 MB
As a lover of both pipe organ and classic vid game music, I very much enjoyed this ^^. Although the classic vidgame sound pallets give it (or any thing for that mater) an amateurish sound, the construction of the piece was coherent and definitely sophisticated enough that I would NOT call it amateurish. And most certainly not on an FA level. My only critique is get a better pipe organ patch XD. There are some sick one’s out there. What did you use for it? ^^ *listens to it again*
This was done wholly in Impulse Tracker 2. (Yes, I'm using a proggy that ceased development in 2000 and still requires a DOS window with some level of soundcard compatibility to run! What can I say, I know it by heart....) The samples are either ancient ones I've kicked around for longer than is healthy, or tiny chippy ones. I love that classic videogame sound, but I'll admit that it'd be nice to feel like I could break free of it when I wanted to, and thus far I'm just too disorganised and ditzy to collect better samples or move to a better music creation program!
Thanks for the feedback on this, though. I am rather proud of the construction, especially the section where the percussion drops out and I get four layers of melody going. Can you tell that I'd just talked with another musician about the notion of pedal (bassline) melody? *grin*
Thanks for the feedback on this, though. I am rather proud of the construction, especially the section where the percussion drops out and I get four layers of melody going. Can you tell that I'd just talked with another musician about the notion of pedal (bassline) melody? *grin*
Lol I know about that. I was using a proggy called ejay for years @.@ . If you can get your self a midi compatible set up, get a phantom X6 keyboard. That sucker has good pipe organ patches AND cool technoish vidgame sounds. XD hehe I very much like this piece of music you’ve made. Going to listen to it in the car ^^ The good construction of it is what makes it stand out here on FA ^^. and I loooooooooooooooove it when people combine pipe organ and vidgame sound.
I also loved that organ sample, gives me chills to hear it again in something new. I'm at a loss for suggestions to improve, so I just list what I like.
-The organ part, excellent intro, following the "2 and a half" repetitions of a pattern that my prof recommended early in the class. Obviously a rule of thumb, but it's great to cash in on the human pattern-matching machine. You hear a pattern, it sounds interesting, you hear it again and remember it and the recognition is pleasing, then you almost hear it again, but the change is now pleasing.
-I love the range that you manage to capture.
-The 4 part melody is fscking impressive, I must say. I don't know how you manage to layer that much without it sounding like mush.
-The embellishments that we hear toward the end, in the return of the main melody add a great deal of variety and keep interest.
-The organ part, excellent intro, following the "2 and a half" repetitions of a pattern that my prof recommended early in the class. Obviously a rule of thumb, but it's great to cash in on the human pattern-matching machine. You hear a pattern, it sounds interesting, you hear it again and remember it and the recognition is pleasing, then you almost hear it again, but the change is now pleasing.
-I love the range that you manage to capture.
-The 4 part melody is fscking impressive, I must say. I don't know how you manage to layer that much without it sounding like mush.
-The embellishments that we hear toward the end, in the return of the main melody add a great deal of variety and keep interest.
Ooh, good insights here.
— I'd never heard the "two and a half" thing before, but it makes an awful lot of sense now. That's something I'll definitely have to play with.
— The four-part melody is a bit of a trick; one os more rhythmic than anything, one is a pedal melody (which I made certain never fell on a note not within the consonant chord during the on-beat) and the top two complement each other in a duet style. I could post another track of mine ("Travelocity", named before the website!) where I went absolutely bug-nuts with that duet thing. Again, I also had my friend Bennie helping me out with pedal melody recommendations; until then, the bassline was basically a series of whole notes!
— Those embellishments? All part of the story. This is, in fact, why I'm having such a hard time with the third part of the set, "Silencer." I may have set the bar a little high.
Again, thanks for the feedback! This actually helps a lot in terms of focus, so I know what stands out as having worked well.
— I'd never heard the "two and a half" thing before, but it makes an awful lot of sense now. That's something I'll definitely have to play with.
— The four-part melody is a bit of a trick; one os more rhythmic than anything, one is a pedal melody (which I made certain never fell on a note not within the consonant chord during the on-beat) and the top two complement each other in a duet style. I could post another track of mine ("Travelocity", named before the website!) where I went absolutely bug-nuts with that duet thing. Again, I also had my friend Bennie helping me out with pedal melody recommendations; until then, the bassline was basically a series of whole notes!
— Those embellishments? All part of the story. This is, in fact, why I'm having such a hard time with the third part of the set, "Silencer." I may have set the bar a little high.
Again, thanks for the feedback! This actually helps a lot in terms of focus, so I know what stands out as having worked well.
Same here. Rollin' with the other geeks on #trax, swapping samples and laughing about clichés borrowed from Second Reality, practically wetting seats over new soundcards that had onboard wavetable mixing...!
From inside, the tracking scene was pretty much like any other, though with an incredibly high ratio of incredibly pale and skinny Scandinavians.
From inside, the tracking scene was pretty much like any other, though with an incredibly high ratio of incredibly pale and skinny Scandinavians.
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