A Musical Silkroad Tribute

treefigners · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 71 **Location:**

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

MapleShilc · **Joined:** Jul 2006 **Posts:** 78 **Location:** Vancouver

pretty good =D very artistic

Bakemaster · **Joined:** Feb 2006 **Posts:** 4732 **Location:**

What sequencer and orchestral libraries did you use?

Stallowned · **Posted:** Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:43 am

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

treefigners · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 71 **Location:**

I used Cakewalk Sonar and EWQL Gold for this.

Bakemaster · **Joined:** Feb 2006 **Posts:** 4732 **Location:**

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.

Nannari · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 323 **Location:**

I love it.

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

treefigners · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 71 **Location:**

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.

BTW what the hell does duple ostinato mean

treefigners · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 71 **Location:**

Stallowned wrote:

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

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

Bakemaster · **Joined:** Feb 2006 **Posts:** 4732 **Location:**

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.

Draquish · **Joined:** Mar 2006 **Posts:** 6423 **Location:** ____

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.

you have officially lost me now......

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