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SoftMotion3D
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I think it was last year or even two years ago that we were making monthly music packs for people to download. Would anybody be interested in doing that again this year? I thought it was alot of fun and would love to see what we all come up with for whatever themes we decide for the month. Then releasing the whole sound pack for download. I think this would be fun to do again....

What do you guys think?

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Yes, it died just about when I tried to join... just my luck

Anyways, I gave it a go here, but unfortunately we didn't get all that far...

Still, I'd probably be interrested; just hoping I've got the time when it starts. It's always interresting to try out different genres.
So, you have my vote.

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Hopefully we can get some more people in on this as well

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I would also join I believe my musical skills have improved greatly since last time we tried this so I will contribute all I possibly can

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I would suppose that somebody should post up a request thread in GC then... as we all know, we won't get any in here.
However, it might just get spammed up with hundreds of less serious requests... otherwise it's a good idea, NGX.

I believe that the old way about it was simply to make up a theme and some song list, where each one selected a song and had a go at that particular theme / setting.

I'm all go - always nice to try out new genres

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I think I can attempt to join as well. Let's make it into the next newsletter, guys.

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Maybe some of the tracks could be a team composition or collaberation like maybe Rudolpho and Grandma or some other people work on one specific track for this pack. Kind of like what the guys at OCRemix have going on with their album arrangments where some of the tracks are collaberations and others are just solo compositions. I think this would be quite cool if we could achieve it

My idea on how a collaberation would be possibly is very simple... basically just a MIDI file with all the musical information on it shared between the two collaberators. I think this would be the easiest way as every MIDI sequencer obviously has an export MIDI feature.

Your thoughts on the idea of team compositions?

@NGXMusical- I think MP3 would be the most plausible audio output file because there is a low file size. And for bitrates, I think that highest would be best, but it is personal preference really haha (I myself render my audio at the highest bitrate, however )

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This doesnt need to be a competition or anything at all....it would be just fun to have a bunch of people writing a song each for a certain theme. And release it all as a downloadable pack.

Team compositions.... id be out Im not very skilled at writting music at all. That and we would all need the same app to co-write it.

if we can all just pick a theme and start working on it with a dead line in mind ....then host it all for people to check out.

eg. I remember a year or 2 ago we did a car racing theme, menu music theme,...and something else i think?

anyways it would be cool to do that again.

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Quote: "we would all need the same app to co-write it."


Well thats why we would export the composition as a MIDI file because all MIDI sequencers import MIDI files, so the entire composition would be right there

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Quote: "eg. I remember a year or 2 ago we did a car racing theme, menu music theme,...and something else i think?

anyways it would be cool to do that again."

That's what I was hoping for, too. But you know, we could that while the others do their thing. I'm sure noone would complain.

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So then... when and how is this to be undertaken?
I'd suppose we would need someone to act as a coordinator, or what do you think?

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Yea a coordinator is a good idea.. hmmm maybe we can all vote for a specific person to be the coordinator hah

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da power pwnerer .... why dont you coordinate it
Maby we can all decide on a theme next and go at it.

I would like to try a fighting game theme.....eg. like streetfighter

or maby an original doom music theme....lol that would be fun!

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Ehh I appreciate the thought, but I dunno if I'm cut out for the job I also would like to compose some type of action/fighting theme as I've never attempted anything of that nature so it would be a pretty cool experience

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I could probly organize this if you guys want?

Why dont we vote on a theme and take it from there

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That's fine with me if you organize it.

I vote for fighting game themes (Maybe one person makes a menu theme, another makes a specific level theme, etc.) or classic RPG themes (sort of like Final Fantasy-type themes or maybe even Chrono Trigger-type themes)

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Yup that all sounds good! Im on board....

Is everyone else good with a fighting theme?

If so lets say the dead line will be july 1st.
And you can submit as many tracks as you want

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do you guys all just want to submit the songs to me and i can assemble it into a downloadable zip? or do we make a new thread and just post them on the forum individualy? Up to you guys...

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We need more time than that hah make it July 30th

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ok june 30th it is.... everyone cool with that?

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June 30th, "fighting" theme (however one likes to interpret it), Mp3 format, 192kbps?

Never done such a song before, but it'll be fun.

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Shouldn't 320Kb/s be better?
It can always be downsampled afterwards, but its good to have a proper quality master track. (PCM Wave would probably be too large though).

I am currently not feeling to well though; hopefully it is nothing worse than urinary infection, so I hope I get well soon enough and can jump in. I too have never tried any fighting game music (blatantly, of the (few) fighting games I've played, I always thought they didn't have much quality in their music - let's see if we can change that ).

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Of course 320 is better technically, I'm just not sure of the practicality of it. I can't hear much of a difference, but it's fine by me whatever format we go for.

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Certain high, clear tones can loose their clarity in 192Kb I believe. Maybe that's just due to inproper downsampling however.

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Erm... I said July 31st (or was it July 30th? How many days are in July? lol) but you posted June 30th.. 15 days just seems too little and we should probably have at least a month, anyone else agree?

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Quote: "Certain high, clear tones can loose their clarity in 192Kb I believe. Maybe that's just due to inproper downsampling however."

I see, well... maybe the listeners will be too busy beating the crap out of someone to notice.

As for the date, I meant july, but anything is fine by me. Under stress, I tend to make a song in about 2 days.

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Quote: "Is there any example of fighting tracks in particular or people are more fans about."


my guess would be like final fantasy battle scene music. And yes the dead line will be july 31st to give everyone plenty of time

Im going to try writting some music 'Streets of rage 1' enspired

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Quote: "Im going to try writting some music 'Streets of rage 1' enspired"

Phew, I got scared reading that sentence as mine is actually streets of rage -2- inspired.

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lol thats funny. i never played streets of rage 2 but i realy remember all the tunes from streets of rage 1

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I'm gonna take a slightly different approach and make something that sort of resembles a clash of themes from two games:

-X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse for the SNES
SAMPLE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWDosWsGXXs
-Mega-Man 3 for the NES
SAMPLE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVsVw7Y7SSA (I really like this theme because of the jazzyness)

Should be interesting to see what I can come up with

EDIT: I might wanna even include MM4 in this.. I really like that soundtrack.

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And now I present, a very early W.I.P I tried to keep the spirit of old-school fighting games by using mostly synthesizers.

EDIT: No EQ, Reverb, or anything has been added yet.

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Sounds realy good

And ya the theme is fighting so that fits perfect You can also do like a level type music of fighting like i plan to do.

I like the 3rd level music in streets of rage for sega genesis and thats the one im gunna try to overhaul.

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Yes that sounds good! A cool remix of that or adding to it would sound excelent.

Quote: "Grandma... since your writting something with streets of rage in mind as well.... i decided to try writting something else completely. Im still deciding on what editor im going to use as well. I got my midi program stuff or should i use magix?? hummm.... I have time at least "


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SMD_3D, I'm assuming that wasn't mean to be a quote. There's no harm in drawing inspiration from an "identical" source. I'm sure our different styles will make our works sound very different.

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I don't know if I'll make a track but, if anybody wants some mixing or some good sampled instruments put in their tracks, I'm here to help. The sample libraries I have are Vienna's Special Edition, EWQLSO Gold Complete, EWQL Ra Ethnic Instruments, EWQL Storm Drum 2, EWQL Ministry of Rock, EWQL Symphonic Choirs, Kontakt 3, Gigastudio 3, Dimension Pro. My DAW is Sonar Producer 8, and for mixing and mastering I have Izotope's Ozone 3.

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@da power pwnerer: nice oldish sound on that one

@NGXmusical: sounds good, but a tad to much like the original mayhap?
Nice percusions though.

Well, here's my demo. I went for some sort of "amiga metal" but with more well sampled sounds, so to say. I don't know if it really is all that actiony though...

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thats very nice work rudolpho..... im afraid to enter anything now since i cant produce the kind of quality you guys do... but i suppose i will try anyways.

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ya final fantasy 1 for snes had amazing tunes! Some of my favorite....

Anyways I decided to use Qmusic V4 instead of magix cause i thought it would be cool to make a good tune with that.

here is what i came up with this week (its repetitive but sounds ok i think?)

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I like the "first" part (in quation marks because it is repeated later as well), but I can't help but get the feeling that the beat is somewhat off?

And a suggestion for the bass line (strings) in that first part; maybe you should make it a bit more staccato or just add in a 1/16:th note going down to the quint after hitting the prime note. Should give it a nice feeling, I think.

Sounds really fitting for some action scene though

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cool i will take your suggestions and add to the song. I'll see if i can make a few more parts to it since the dead line is july 31st

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hey, i remember these! I don't really have enough time for this pack but could i get involved with the second one? I only submitted 1 track in the old packs so i kind of feel i didn't get involved enough xD

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well we are down to the few last days for this pack....is everyone pritty much finished? I know that i am not but have a good chunk of tomorow to work on it. What we can do....how about submit the songs to my email address so i can toss them all in a downloadable zip and host them for download (on jeku's server).

I may have 2 songs to submit.... i started 1 rewrite of a streets of rage 1 song as well as 1 completely of my own.

my email address: smd_3d@hotmail.com

Oh and mp3 Format suggested!

Or if you guys want it differently then let me know so we can organize around it.

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your more then welcome to join in if you want...everything we are doing is just for fun

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