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 Post subject: A Musical Silkroad Tribute
PostPosted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 5:02 pm 
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I call it "Rocking Heukmakdan"

In honor of the hours each day my wife and I spend on this game and my new character reaching those goofy looking Black Robber Archers, I put some hours into something else I love to do, composing.

http://www.blessedbythebeats.com/RockingHeukmakdan.mp3

P.s. Joymax if you need any new music let me know :D


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PostPosted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:47 pm 
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pretty good =D very artistic

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What sequencer and orchestral libraries did you use?

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Sounds good, I don't see the relation to silkroad or the robber den though :P


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I used Cakewalk Sonar and EWQL Gold for this.


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Ouch, a bit pricey, that. The brass is absolutely FANTASTIC, but I prefer Garritan Personal Orchestra's strings. I quite enjoyed it, although it could have used a little polish in some places - soften/humanize trumpet attacks, unison (solo?) violin entrance is icky, more varied velocities on snare hits at the end. Do you do this professionally?

Stylistically, I wonder what it would sound like in an odd meter. I appreciate the military regularity of a duple ostinato, and I like how it flows into the more eastern feel. It works well for a theme, perhaps as music for a trailer or short video where the soundtrack deserves attention. As background music though, it would demand too much attention.

I hope you don't mind the critical feedback, my first instinct is to analyze what excites me. Very nice composition.

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I love it.

I was actually grinding in the den and I listened to this song. It fit pretty nicely! ;)

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Bakemaster wrote:
Ouch, a bit pricey, that. The brass is absolutely FANTASTIC, but I prefer Garritan Personal Orchestra's strings. I quite enjoyed it, although it could have used a little polish in some places - soften/humanize trumpet attacks, unison (solo?) violin entrance is icky, more varied velocities on snare hits at the end. Do you do this professionally?

Stylistically, I wonder what it would sound like in an odd meter. I appreciate the military regularity of a duple ostinato, and I like how it flows into the more eastern feel. It works well for a theme, perhaps as music for a trailer or short video where the soundtrack deserves attention. As background music though, it would demand too much attention.

I hope you don't mind the critical feedback, my first instinct is to analyze what excites me. Very nice composition.


Thanks for the feedback.

I just got this orchestral library this weekend, this was actually my first attempt at anything "classical". I had a lot of fun with this and it is by no means professional. I haven't figured out how to do crescendos with this library, the volume envelope doesn't affect EWQL for some strange reason, so the only thing I can change is velocity, which does have some amazing differences throughout, but no crescendo es no bueno. I'll figure it out eventually when I have some time away from blasting robbers. :D

BTW what the hell does duple ostinato mean


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Stallowned wrote:
Sounds good, I don't see the relation to silkroad or the robber den though :P


I was simply inspired by the rhythmic tongue flapping of the bandit archers, for some reason I can watch those goofy bastards and feel kind of sad for killing them.

I suppose I wanted it to escalate into a battle with a giant, with the end signaling critical hits.

But really I was just having some fun :D


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Duple refers to any meter that is counted in two groups, such as 2/4, 4/4, 6/8 (ONEtwothree FOURfivesix). An ostinato is a regular repeating figure, usually in the bass.

For crescendos, did you try Expression? I think it's MIDI controller #11. I haven't used Sonar but you should be able to draw in your desired dynamic changes that way.

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Bakemaster wrote:
Duple refers to any meter that is counted in two groups, such as 2/4, 4/4, 6/8 (ONEtwothree FOURfivesix). An ostinato is a regular repeating figure, usually in the bass.

For crescendos, did you try Expression? I think it's MIDI controller #11. I haven't used Sonar but you should be able to draw in your desired dynamic changes that way.




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