[Lachesis]

Pyro: Ah, yeah, I forget if they're being held or if the volume's getting set to 0. I think it sounds fine, but if I do another piece like it, I'll keep that in mind.
Weasel: Thanks! It's actually not too boring until it passes the ~10 minute mark (I discovered this when I was looping it trying to find glaring mistakes before I posted it).
I'm gonna go ahead and call it wraps on that theme, but any suggestions for a non-sucky name would be great!

And with that said, despite being ill, I've almost completed another track with some guidance by Sai`ke, and I think it's ready for listening.

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some asshole said:

By the way; could somebody change the title to "Kokuchou's Music Plug" and the subtitle to "Warning: Fail Approaching"

[Sai'ke]

cool stuff

[Lachesis]

Attached because I don't have an ftp login for my website or something

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[Sai'ke]

I like the organs and stuff. The guitar thing seems a bit out of tune though. The melody itself is nice, but global tuning seems off a bit.

[Lachesis]

Yeah, there's something about my guitars that WILL NOT F*CKING TUNE Ahgfd

Thanks :>

[CJA]

nice, you seem to have a thing for the low growling strings.

I like the pads, but the lead guitar seems odd somehow.

[Lachesis]

CJA, on May 23 2009, 09:41 PM, said:

nice, you seem to have a thing for the low growling strings.

I, honestly, hadn't noticed, but I guess I do :-D

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I like the pads, but the lead guitar seems odd somehow.

I think it's because the sample is out of tune -- I think I fixed it in the final version. It might also be because I used the same distorted low-E string sample for the high stuff and the low stuff, though. I actually like how it turned out, but I'm probably going to retire my guitar samples until I fix my guitar's low-E bridge and record some decent (and in tune) ones.

Also, this time I used some different drum samples than usual (Sai`ke gave these to me a few months back), because I thought the Neve's Crossing / Alexander Brandon samples were getting a little old. Opinions on these drums?

[Sai'ke]

Nice rhythm and excellent snare . Regarding the hats, you might want to use a few different types of hats to get more of a chikachikachika groove going. It's more of a tititititititititi now if you know what I mean. Nevertheless, for a game, I would definitely not mind this . Try tweaking the global tune of the guitar a little. I recommend using a sonogram for this. You can simply see if the frequencies align on a sonogram .

This is a good one that I use and endorse.

[Lachesis]

New Sound, for Oizys
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but Old Tune, from Dusk Lance
(zipped because some RESPECTABLE GENTLEMAN set it so I can't upload .it files)
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I chose this tune to remix because I thought the somewhat uneasy feeling of the song would complement the game's theme, I guess. I think it turned out O.K.

edit: removed an in-joke that probably nobody would have gotten

[CJA]

The crash cymbal sounds a little out-of-context for some reason... Also, for that one breathy instrument in the background, use GFF or Oxx because it sounds odd when it restarts (there's a bit of unneeded fade in on every note). I liked the tone of this track, but the crash cymbal sort of interrupts that somehow.

[Lachesis]

By the breathy one, do you mean the one that replaces the saw wave from the original? I totally agree, in that case. - OFF seems to have helped quite a bit.

[Lachesis]

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This one uses distorted guitar samples from Neve's Crossing by Alexander Brandon, and one part is a reference to Give Praise Unto Me and Celebrate My Miracles by IOSYS. Not that I expect anybody to care about little details like this! >x3

[Lachesis]

My First Mods. I've come a looong way in five years.

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[Lachesis]

Getting ready for the DoZ

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[Lachesis]

23:48:18 <Lachesis> Oh look it's another one of Lachesis's stupid ideas. I'll track a new original thing every week, each track has to use at least three samples that I've never used before, 1m30s minimum, can't do the same "genre" of track within two weeks of each other
23:49:33 <Lachesis> no remixes unless the remix significantly changes the feel of the song, VSTs as effects only

I'm going to see if it works this time instead of falling apart miserably like it did a year ago

[Lachesis]

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This is kind of an upbeat dialogue/town BGM in F Major and Bb Major. The new instruments are a Roland drum kit, some CP-80 samples I recorded off of my Yamaha PSR-295 -- the third one was a clarinet that I ultimately couldn't fit into the song. No VSTs this time around. Comments?

[ThDPro]

I never really cared for Roland's drum sounds, but that's no fault of yours. Good job!

This post has been edited by ThDPro: 31 January 2010 - 10:15 PM

[Lachesis]

Today, in Failed Project Corner!

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I might end up finishing it, though, and I definately like the title screen bit (edit: the title screen part would loop).

Week 2 coming soon! It uses Rock Organ samples from my PSR-295 :o

next week on Failed Project Corner: Cheetah Men 2 remix!

This post has been edited by Lachesis: 22 March 2015 - 07:59 PM

[CJA]

Nice aesthetically, save for a little Gxx I would have put on the strings. The octaving square is nice.

[zzo38]

Thanks, I will get right on cutting the music and remaking them in .IT format, in the reverse order of the conversion.

This post has been edited by zzo38: 08 February 2010 - 02:00 AM

[Lachesis]

Uhhhh the reasons I post MP3s here are 1) because the MP3s that Modplug outputs are smaller than the original ITs (edit: example, Week 2 is 312kb in .mp3 form, but over 7MB in .it form) and 2) because I may have used VST plugins in them

Not sure why you'd want to make them back into ITs anyway ... I never gave you permission to use my music in anything.

in other news, I posted a preview of Week 2 in irc earlier, and it will be finished by Wednesday night at the latest

This post has been edited by Lachesis: 08 February 2010 - 05:29 AM

[zzo38]

Lachesis, on Feb 7 2010, 09:27 PM, said:

Uhhhh the reasons I post MP3s here are 1) because the MP3s that Modplug outputs are smaller than the original ITs (edit: example, Week 2 is 312kb in .mp3 form, but over 7MB in .it form) and 2) because I may have used VST plugins in them

Not sure why you'd want to make them back into ITs anyway ... I never gave you permission to use my music in anything.

I know that (and I don't have any intention to use them in anything). The reason why is for other reasons. (Also, OGG should compress better than MP3 anyways, and is also better quality)

[Revvy]

zzo38, on Feb 8 2010, 02:19 PM, said:

The reason why is for other reasons.

That is delightfully vague.

[zzo38]

Revvy, on Feb 8 2010, 03:15 PM, said:

That is delightfully vague.

Well, mostly just for practice. But also to do music transformations, such as transpose, speed, etc. (And also because I don't like MP3 as much)

[Lachesis]

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I felt like the CP-80 and Roland Drums needed some more love, so I included them in this. New instruments are 1) the ambient stuff in the background of the slow parts (they are from some AKAi Ambient Chill thing), 2) the distorted-guitar-sounding-thing in slow section (it was called "Fear" apparently, and is one of the samples I pulled from Neve's Crossing but never used until now), 3) the vocal sample in the fast section (got it from a quick google search from some website). I might go back and extend this, some time. It still feels awfully incomplete.

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I got about half-way through this and got bored with it. Also, the drums need to be totally redone, because they suck. Maybe a new bass sample, too.

[Lachesis]

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This will probably get wrapped up later today, but I figured that I'd post it now, with what, missing an entire week's update and all. I pretty much sat here in my free time last week, trying to come up with a cool sounding chord progression or melody, and was totally uninspired -- I ultimately decided, on Saturday, to just take Egmont and twist it in my own disgusting way while trying to come up with ideas for Week 4. The plan kind of worked, and I'll likely start collecting samples and track Week 4 tomorrow! :D

Anyway, as previously mentioned, this is Egmont, Op. 84, by Beethoven, twisted and utterly destroyed by my hands. New instruments are "Korg Chorus" (I had to retune most of the samples, though), "Rock Organ" from my PSR-295, "Massive Strings", which gets used at the start and in various places where I could get away with it (and is actually what made me want to do Egmont, instead of some other song!), and the GM.DLS saw wave that Modplug gave me. When I finish it, it will skip most of the middle section, and the entire key changed section at the end, probably. Putting sheet music into Modplug gets boring, to me, which is why I don't usually do things like this, but I was getting pretty desperate. This serves mostly as a lesson to myself -- lesson learned, hopefully! /me slaps self repeatedly

edit: and, a failed track!
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This is an interesting case that's been plaguing me since the Summer 2008 Day of Zeux (speaking of which, I'm still working on the screenshot project!) -- the music from the first level of Hellquest/Dusk Lance. The original version was tracked as a chiptune for the Day of Zeux, which I later redid much of and expanded, but still felt incomplete and/or too patchwork-y to me. In early 2009, I decided to pick it up again, on a computer I had been using at school at the time, and got it approximately to this state before cursing to myself and giving up -- however, when school ended, I had to part out the computer, and I don't have the original VST configurations anymore. Something I find hilarious is that the new section I added in the middle is from an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT track that I made in 2007 or 2008, and I somehow thought doing so would make it feel less patchwork-y. Oh well. <_<

This post has been edited by Lachesis: 22 March 2015 - 08:00 PM

[ThDPro]

Ha!
I played Egmont at Carnegie Hall.

[Lachesis]

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edit: First lead (:01) is a Piccolo sample from my PSR-295, second lead (:25) is a clarinet instrument I found somewhere, third lead (:47) is a trumpet from GM.DLS because every trumpet instrument I downloaded sucked :<. The synth in the first section was the same instrument I used for the vocals in Week 3, and the Timpani was also from GM.DLS. I need to look for more instrumentsabrhghbbq!

[Lachesis]

I'm a trendwhore, so I uploaded the better half of some of my recent music to youtube (now all I need to do is spam it on Face Bok). [no] If I get, I dunno, 15 views on all of them, I'll release a second wave of videos or something I dunno

[Lachesis]

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