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RMRK General => Creativity => Topic started by: Moss. on February 03, 2012, 03:33:20 AM

Title: [Music] Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Moss. on February 03, 2012, 03:33:20 AM: Friday, February 3rd! Intense Battle Mockup!
http://soundcloud.com/ryanleber/battle-mockup-01/s-ZXNCE

Friday, February 10th! Layered Music!
http://soundcloud.com/ryanleber/sets/layers-mockup-set/

Friday, February 17th! Main Menu Mockup (Mass MEffect MStyle!)
http://soundcloud.com/ryanleber/main-menu-mockup-01-mass

Friday, February 24th! The whole Mass Effect Set!
http://soundcloud.com/ryanleber/sets/mass-effect-mockup-set/

Friday, March 2nd! Lost Planet Set! (Actually, these were mostly up already, but LOL)
http://soundcloud.com/ryanleber/sets/lost-planet-mockup-set/

Friday, March 9th! Sneaky Music!
http://soundcloud.com/ryanleber/sneaky-mockup

Saturday (oops), March 17th! Sagramore!
http://soundcloud.com/ryanleber/sagramore-theme

Friday, March 30th! Ratchet & Clank Scoring!
Spoiler for:
Tuesday (!?), April 17th!?!? Multi-layered Adaptive Music Demonstration!!
Spoiler for:

Monday!? April 23!?!? Ratchet & Clank Music! ICY ACTION SEQUENCE 01!
http://soundcloud.com/ryanleber/action-sequence-01-ratchet

Friday, April 27, 2012! Ratchet & Clank Music Again! MORE INTENSE ICY ACTION SEQUENCE (02)!
http://soundcloud.com/ryanleber/action-sequence-02-ratchet

Thursday, May 10th, 2012! Ratchet & Clank Music Again! SLOW. MOVING. DANGER.
http://soundcloud.com/ryanleber/action-sequence-03-ratchet

Monday, May 14th, 2012. The rest of the Ratchet & Clank junk, lol.
http://soundcloud.com/ryanleber/sets/ratchet-clank-mockup-set-1/
Title: Re: I wrote some battle music, and it's not Japanese!
Post by: Dwarra? on February 03, 2012, 05:18:07 AM: I really really dislike you.
Title: Re: I wrote some battle music, and it's not Japanese!
Post by: pacdiggity on February 03, 2012, 06:33:13 AM: You idiot, all battles take place in Japan.

My insult covering the fact that I think this is unfairly awesome.
Title: Re: I wrote some battle music, and it's not Japanese!
Post by: Moss. on February 03, 2012, 03:29:45 PM: :p

I think ill make my next blog post on how I came up with the ideas for this track. I really had to approach it with a different compositional mindset, it might be interesting for some people.
Title: Re: I wrote some battle music, and it's not Japanese!
Post by: Kokowam on February 03, 2012, 10:00:31 PM: +1
Title: Re: I wrote some battle music, and it's not Japanese!
Post by: EvilM00s on February 04, 2012, 03:03:58 AM: Outstanding work, sir.
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Moss. on February 11, 2012, 01:28:34 AM: Today, a set of three!

They're layered, just like in real video games!

http://soundcloud.com/ryanleber/sets/layers-mockup-set/
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Moss. on February 17, 2012, 04:15:44 PM: Bump for another release!

http://soundcloud.com/ryanleber/main-menu-mockup-01-mass

(Also updated 1st post with all tracks released so far.)

Roph needs to add a Soundcloud widget to RMRK.
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Malson on February 17, 2012, 05:36:28 PM: I like all of these, and how consistent they are with one another.
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Maestro on February 20, 2012, 10:40:01 AM: Quote from: arlen on February 03, 2012, 03:33:20 AM
Friday, February 3rd! Intense Battle Mockup!
http://soundcloud.com/ryanleber/battle-mockup-01/s-ZXNCE

Friday, February 10th! Layered Music!
http://soundcloud.com/ryanleber/sets/layers-mockup-set/

Friday, February 17th! Main Menu Mockup (Mass MEffect MStyle!)
http://soundcloud.com/ryanleber/main-menu-mockup-01-mass

I like the layed music and i loved the main menu mockup truly epic
The imtense battle mockup was a pain to my ears at first but i like the pickup half way.
Keep working at it. :blizj:
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Moss. on February 25, 2012, 12:04:09 AM: I put up the whole damn set of Mass Effect mockups I was working on.

http://soundcloud.com/ryanleber/sets/mass-effect-mockup-set/

ENJOY

ROPH, WHERE'S MY SOUNDCLOUD EMBED
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: strike on February 25, 2012, 03:36:01 AM: hgggggnnn
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Moss. on February 25, 2012, 12:27:37 PM: I'll take that as a compliment?
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: strike on February 25, 2012, 06:01:16 PM: it's fantastic
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Moss. on February 25, 2012, 11:12:33 PM: Thanks. :3
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: DarkGamer on February 28, 2012, 01:07:12 AM: bro, u're good.
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: LoganF on March 08, 2012, 08:51:43 PM: Y'know, I've only just started nosing into this section of the forum... those are some amazing tunes you've made. I have no idea what to really say. I was playing those Mass Effect inspired themes to my friend who is a huge fan of the games and he says he could picture playing to those.
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Moss. on March 09, 2012, 03:46:59 AM: Thanks for the kind word, friends, it means a lot to me. :)

Also, BIG fucking thank you if you shared my music with other people, that's absolutely amazing!
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: bubu on March 09, 2012, 08:48:41 PM: sir arlen,
you're my hero.
and I also lold at your comment on my track on soundcloud. you made my evening.
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Moss. on March 10, 2012, 02:27:51 AM: You're very welcome! It was a sweet track!

Here's today's sneaky little update:
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Jules on March 10, 2012, 02:38:30 AM: Very retro. I like :D
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Malson on March 10, 2012, 04:47:28 AM: I was hearing the Turks Theme from FF7 the whole time!
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Moss. on March 17, 2012, 04:12:03 AM: New track! Main theme music for a project I'm working on!
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Irock on March 17, 2012, 05:37:00 AM: I like it! It reminds me of the Dragon Roost Island theme from Wind Waker with the clackity clack things and the quickly strummed guitar thing and the flute.
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Moss. on March 30, 2012, 07:06:06 PM: Update!

I took a gameplay video from Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One, and rescored it! And added SFX!

Okay, so, the first three seconds are just filler, the good stuff happens when the camera pans away and the big guy is introduced, and after that it's just more filler music for another 2 seconds.

This is actually how someone would score music for a game like this. The main level music would fade out as soon as that cutscene (0:03) starts, and the cutscene's music would fade in, and then seemlessly transtiion to the "boss music" (the last few seconds of music at the end).

So, in actuality, it's three pieces of music that crossfade with one another.
1. Main level music.
2. Cutscene music.
3. Boss battle music.

I only had a short video to work with, though, so I really only concentrated on part 2, since parts 1 and 3 were so short in the video.

Anyway, enjoy! :D
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Jules on March 30, 2012, 08:26:54 PM: ohh I like that, it was very good.

hit all the notes for me xD
Main Level Music:"la la la la la just skipping along minding my own business"
Cutscene: "Oh crap, what is that!"
Boss Battle: "Oh god, oh god, oh god"
lol
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: modern algebra on March 31, 2012, 08:47:00 PM: 19 seconds? I want more! :P

By the way, I totally love the ambient/light combat/heavy combat layers set. They sound awesome and blend into each other perfectly.

But the link for them in the original post is broken.
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: LoganF on April 02, 2012, 08:44:52 AM: That was a pretty good re-scoring there, Arlen. I especially liked the battle music you had. More of that would be nice.
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Moss. on April 17, 2012, 06:43:54 PM: Alright, it's been a while, but that's because my graduate thesis is being a bitch to complete.

But here's some neat video demos I made with my music. You've already heard the tracks in these videos, but you haven't seen how to fade in an interact with each other like this.
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Jules on April 17, 2012, 09:49:33 PM: interesting o.o
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: pacdiggity on April 18, 2012, 08:06:17 AM: Dear lord that's cool.
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Moss. on April 23, 2012, 10:53:05 PM: Ratchet & Clank music, this time!

ICY ACTION SEQUENCE

(In case it doesn't work... http://soundcloud.com/ryanleber/action-sequence-01-ratchet)
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Malson on April 24, 2012, 01:03:35 AM: Quit making me lose faith in my abilities :mad:

In all seriousness I loved the sound of it, and when the strings kicked in it made the piece all the better. My only complaint would be that the rhythm sounds kinda choppy and erratic, although that may have been your intention. Is this all East-West orchestration? Because you seem to make it sound far more real than when I use it.
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Moss. on April 24, 2012, 01:42:46 AM: It's east west, and some Alchemy (http://www.camelaudio.com/AlchemyPlayer.php) patches (free!), and a bunch of loops for the rhythm. Lol, the erraticness is probably because of those loops. To get away from blatantly and obviously stealing other peoples loops, I layer a few of them together and chop them up to make them fit. Sometimes it's not 100%, but I don't really care as long as the energy is there.

As far as getting East West sounding better, it's all about layering, and knowing when to use a compressor. Those hits are, like, a combination of the 70 piece string marcato patch, the timpani patch, and the trombone marcato patch. I always compress my timpanis, and sometimes my low strings, just to make them pop out more without necessarily making them "louder."

But it's mostly the layering. You gotta figure, these patches weren't meant to be used alone. They were meant to be used all together, right?
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: modern algebra on April 27, 2012, 04:42:55 PM: That Ratchet & Clank song is great.
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Moss. on April 27, 2012, 10:26:34 PM: Thank you! You'll probably like this one, too. :)
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Malson on April 29, 2012, 02:24:16 AM: I liked that one much better than the original. I can't even find anything wrong with it. At this rate you'd probably be able to get into a major studio purely based off of your portfolio.
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Moss. on May 10, 2012, 12:28:15 PM: To hell with staying on schedule!

New RaC track. SLOW. MOVING. DANGER.
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Moss. on May 14, 2012, 10:59:25 PM: Eh, here's the rest.
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Jules on May 14, 2012, 11:10:58 PM: I listened to these on facebook. I really liked them all. :)
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Moss. on May 14, 2012, 11:11:41 PM: Thank you! :)
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: haloOfTheSun on May 18, 2012, 12:12:58 AM: I love the flowing section that starts at about :30 in Action Sequence 1. It's very cinematic.

boss Fight is my favorite of the bunch overall, though. Nice percussion. 8]
Title: Re: Arlen's Weekly Music Release!
Post by: Moss. on May 27, 2012, 03:54:07 PM: Just bumping to say THANKS to everyone for listening, and also to say that this is over, lol. Everything's listed in the OP, if you wanna go back.

Maybe I'll start another weekly release thread when I start picking up steam again, but for now, we're done.

Thanks again!