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My 2nd full length album is out now! https://soundcloud.com/michaelnixmusic/sets/technicolor-dreamboat And Bandcamp: https://faustbot.bandcamp.com/album/technicolor-dreamboat I'm really proud of how this turned out. All of these songs were written and produced in the last 6 months except for Neuroticism, which was written almost 10 years ago and subsequently denied by every band I've ever joined, despite it being one of my favorite pieces of music I've written, and definitely the weirdest solo I've written: https://faustbot.bandcamp.com/track/neuroticism If you like it, please share it out. Every bit helps!
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I finished rearranging one of my songs for a String Quartet, just a loose mix and bit of pre-mastering to make it easier to listen to: https://soundcloud.com/why-zodiac/this-great-depression-mix/s-NJSUQhQuceD Had to even write all the sheet music for it which is something I have never done before - was fun.
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I made a free 5 track EP for a new yearly project called "Kaiju Summer" with the intent of releasing an EP every summer based on Godzilla movies. The first one, MIXTAPE 2021, is out now on bandcamp and Spotify. Stream here: https://open.spotify.com/album/0QvzpfYYknYtovFgKouOm1?si=b_0cR31ASTiBFeE2MB-jZA&dl_branch=1 Download free here: https://kaijusummer.bandcamp.com/  The Mechanical Hand fucked around with this message at 15:53 on Jul 22, 2021 |
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I will check this out this evening, love the cover / concept. Also Singular Point was great  Checking it out, I like this a lot man. Very cool project. Thank you for allowing free downloads! I dig the sounds you're using here, smooth but crunchy. Neat samples too. Edit: Here is a link to a post I made on my blog, featuring a track I made recently that is inspired by the Sega Genesis' compositional limitations (but just inspired, it isn't VGM). Included in the post are two Amplitube 5 Max guitar patches from the track as well. If you don't care about the blog post where I go into a little detail about the recording and tools, I think this should go to the track directly on soundcloud. Agreed fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Jul 30, 2021 |
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I dunno how this thread feels about video game soundtracks but I just released a new single for an upcoming dating sim game that I'm writing the soundtrack for and I'm super proud of it! https://soundcloud.com/marskye/open-arms Not a typical dating sim I should mention.
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Ramseyk posted:I dunno how this thread feels about video game soundtracks but I just released a new single for an upcoming dating sim game that I'm writing the soundtrack for and I'm super proud of it! https://soundcloud.com/marskye/open-arms hey this is pretty cool! not a typical video game ost, which i suppose is fitting lol also, the game looks positively ridiculous (in a good way)!
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nurmie posted:hey this is pretty cool! not a typical video game ost, which i suppose is fitting lol Thanks! It was written for the more action heavy parts (theres dungeon combat). I agree the weapon waifus are over the top  
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Despite reading every thread on here (thanks for the help), I still feel like I have no idea what I am doing: https://soundcloud.com/why-zodiac/this-great-depression-1/s-lYs6RPxRFpa
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I finally decided to let other people hear my work. Just posted some covers that I work on besides original stuff. The original stuff is a WIP, but these covers are pretty much done. I take older songs I like that have NO synths and re-do them with all synths. This collection of covers is titled "Numan League" https://soundcloud.com/jeff-leonard-415307577
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Just broke up with my boyfriend. Decided to turn It Must Have Been Love - Roxette into a mopey emo folk song. My nails were way too long to play guitar, oops. https://soundcloud.com/user-121131044-240868518/it-must-have-been-love-roxette-cover also redid this cover of Golden Dandelions - Barns Courtney https://soundcloud.com/user-121131044-240868518/golden-dandelions-barns-courtney-cover Teagan fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Sep 2, 2021 |
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finally got something new to post in the soundcloud thread i made an album, which can be listened to here: https://soundcloud.com/shelter-one/sets/rituals it's been way, wayyyy too long in the making for how short-ish it actually is, and i'm super glad to finally be done with it lol
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JeffLeonard posted:I finally decided to let other people hear my work. Just posted some covers that I work on besides original stuff. The original stuff is a WIP, but these covers are pretty much done. I take older songs I like that have NO synths and re-do them with all synths. This collection of covers is titled "Numan League" Your tracks have inspired me to get into synths more and are teaching me a lot about getting them to sound good.
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WhyZodiac posted:Your tracks have inspired me to get into synths more and are teaching me a lot about getting them to sound good. I just started getting into synths from guitar about a year ago and gave already popped out 2 full lengths. Working with midi is really easy. This series was really helpful as a quick primer when I was starting out: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xyVFIPtOsm8 I've always wanted to compose for video games, so I decided to build out a CV by writing music for a made up game. The first two songs, representing the pre-start screen text crawl and a demon haunted beach level, are available here, and I'll be updating that playlist as I write and record more. https://soundcloud.com/michaelnixmusic/sets/the-eye-of-the-maelstrom
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OutOfPrint posted:This series was really helpful as a quick primer when I was starting out: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xyVFIPtOsm8 Thanks for this.
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WhyZodiac posted:Your tracks have inspired me to get into synths more and are teaching me a lot about getting them to sound good. Wow! Thanks! Your track "The Great Depression" is really good too. Good song and a good mix.
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decided to quit loving with this and post it, for better or for worse https://soundcloud.com/vampyweekies/theplan it's a hybrid trap number i made with some kids who used to work for me. we had a good time
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What with Halloween coming up and their front man dying back in July, I decided to do a cover tribute of a song by World/Inferno Friendship Society. I think it came out well. https://soundcloud.com/michaelnixmusic/i-wouldnt-want-to-live-in-a-world-without-grudges And, for comparisons sake and to introduce anyone who doesn't know them to their loving awesome big band cabaret punk style, the original: https://youtube.com/watch?v=memRDOwtY2w
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Not soundcloud, but I'm pretty happy how this turned out: https://open.spotify.com/track/39jImoYQo6bVU4SRiTCCJn?si=ff8b53e734e24d71 Kinda slow/ambient/sad, a bit idm-ish?
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Did this a few years ago for the Christmas album on here, decided to try to do it properly: https://soundcloud.com/why-zodiac/christmas-bloody-christmas
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Here's a medley of my upcoming car crash disasterpiece: https://soundcloud.com/kiwillian/medley (out soon on Apple and Spotty (hopefully)) Kiwillian fucked around with this message at 11:04 on Nov 6, 2021 |
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Nov 6, 2021 11:00
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Might as well drop a few of my things here Here's a quintet that I 'finished' last week while putting off making presentations: https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/quintet And here's a more full ensemble type thing: https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/tension-and-release Mostly do symphony orchestra type stuff.
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drat, nice work. 4:40 worth of music is a lot more than you’d think! I’m a sucker for strings, and this is making me want to muck around with strings VSTs. Maybe after I do more synth stuff. I’m a big fan of the idea that comes in around 3:17, it sounds almost pentatonic to my ears I think? Pentatonic scales sounds great on strings, IMO, I’d love to hear it more often. (ngl tho i was expecting those run ups to turn into the zelda theme  )
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Pollyanna posted:drat, nice work. 4:40 worth of music is a lot more than you’d think! I’m a sucker for strings, and this is making me want to muck around with strings VSTs. Maybe after I do more synth stuff. Thanks! Yeah I love strings but there can always be a challenge when you have really high notes being played that they don't sound too 'whiny.' The Guarneri violin is wonderful at those registers. I honestly couldn't tell you if it's pentatonic or not... I have basically no music theory knowledge and pretty much everything I make is just me putting down stuff I hear in my head and playing with it until it sounds 'right' to me. There's been a couple of times where I'll start putting something down and be like wait that's way too close to the dark world theme from a link to the past or whatever.
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Woolwich Bagnet posted:Thanks! Yeah I love strings but there can always be a challenge when you have really high notes being played that they don't sound too 'whiny.' The Guarneri violin is wonderful at those registers. What Strings do you you use? I've just been using the free SINE Factory Ensemble thing for my terrible classical remixes/remasters/horribleness such as my latest thingy: https://open.spotify.com/album/3T7t6UAs2AfDg46lrmdq9D?si=3cf2919a799b450a This is my fav: https://open.spotify.com/track/3A6UR92ddTz5FwiZ0fuV5y?si=344de76d95264fa3 Kiwillian fucked around with this message at 10:43 on Nov 8, 2021 |
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Kiwillian posted:What Strings do you you use? I've just been using the free SINE Factory Ensemble thing for my terrible classical remixes/remasters/horribleness such as my latest thingy: I'm pretty sure that's the music I hear in my nightmares  Everything but the contrabass was from the Cremona Quartet. Contrabass was from Spitfire's symphonic strings professional. I turned it in to a full ensemble over the weekend and sped it up slightly: https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/triumph That's a mix of the Cremona Quartet, Spitfire's symphonic pro instruments, and Eastwest's Hollywood instruments. Even with a Ryzen 9 5950X I had to record it in 3 passes to not get popping due to the complexity.
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Woolwich Bagnet posted:I'm pretty sure that's the music I hear in my nightmares Nice! Sounds really good. If i'm going to continue murdering classical music I should probably invest in some decent strings. The Overture from the EP I posted started to kill my PC so I had to freeze a bunch of tracks in Ableton which renders them and secretly replaces them with the rendered wav. Takes a load off the CPU usage.
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Kiwillian posted:Nice! Sounds really good. If i'm going to continue murdering classical music I should probably invest in some decent strings. Yeah, when something is supposed to sound 'real' I'm really picky about the sound of stuff. I use a music notation program called Dorico so it's not so easy to 'freeze' tracks, and I am messing with them constantly. I only have issues when I have tons of stuff going. My next step is to build out a server cluster to do remote processing of the sounds so that I can run more/load more. It sounds insane but I'm actually constrained by the 128 GB of RAM I have. I could probably pretty easily fill half a TB if not more. This is what that end part looks like in Dorico: 
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Yikes! A lot of the stuff I do has a generative element to it, so I don't even write it (lazy, huh?) Here's an example: https://open.spotify.com/track/39jImoYQo6bVU4SRiTCCJn?si=3ac5525c76804678 The bright synth-y sounding thing doesn't exist in any of the tracks that make it up. Also that part that starts around 1:56 where it goes all weird. I didn't do that either. And most of this is just effect chain nonsense: (nothing is actually backwards) https://open.spotify.com/track/16OsseIi2iizBZJgm9hlOw?si=5a5061042506494b Kiwillian fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Nov 9, 2021 |
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OK, I'm gonna ruin Strauss now. The junior. Preview: https://soundcloud.com/kiwillian/overture-preview-8-12-bit-strauss edit: It's a Chiptune. Or a portal to hell. Could go either way. Kiwillian fucked around with this message at 06:56 on Nov 12, 2021 |
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Just getting back into non beep boop music, this is me fuckin around with my 11rack and goofing with garageband. sorta midwest indie vibes idk https://vocaroo.com/1mxF6hbynJh5
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Jonny 290 posted:Just getting back into non beep boop music, this is me fuckin around with my 11rack and goofing with garageband. sorta midwest indie vibes idk 
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Posting here too but guitar talk has me messing with some too, as well as some synths. Guitars are good and fun. https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/progish-wip4 Still a wip but did that all over the weekend and looking forward to doing more.
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And now that one is done! https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/time-waits-for-no-one drat that was a ton of fun to put together.
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Kiwillian posted:What Strings do you you use? I've just been using the free SINE Factory Ensemble thing for my terrible classical remixes/remasters/horribleness such as my latest thingy: I made this one yesterday, the strings are all from Spitfire's Masse with nothing added on top of them (reverb/whatever) https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/it-tolls-for-you They make a great sound and have a clean 'epic string' patch too instead of the 'cool' ones I used. Also as a huge nerd I had the FFIV Four Fiends battle music stuck in my head last night so I remade it this morning: https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/ffiv-four-fiends/s-LLUxtbu7UGq?si=374f84e5fdf14f5bb87fbcce229e0caf
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I like "It Tolls For You" and also your track "Move It" that autoplayed afterward, and they sounded good together too. I am new to samplers like Spitfire's collections but I am really enjoying the BBC Discover plugin and am grateful they make it available like they do. I hope to add more when I can - you have some cool sounds! Here's one I did kind of recently, which I intend to expand sooner or later - hope somebody enjoys it: https://soundcloud.com/user-612970086/hatching-moon-cracks-and-blinding-light Agreed fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Nov 21, 2021 |
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Agreed posted:I like "It Tolls For You" and also your track "Move It" that autoplayed afterward, and they sounded good together too. I am new to samplers like Spitfire's collections but I am really enjoying the BBC Discover plugin and am grateful they make it available like they do. I hope to add more when I can - you have some cool sounds! Thanks! I made them one right after the other at the same tempo so I'm not surprised. Probably rename 'move it' to something even more cliched like first light. Going to make more in that style as it's pretty fun. That song is awesome, love the guitar sound in it. And the next one that started playing is freakin amazing! Badass sounds.
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Agreed posted:I like "It Tolls For You" and also your track "Move It" that autoplayed afterward, and they sounded good together too. I am new to samplers like Spitfire's collections but I am really enjoying the BBC Discover plugin and am grateful they make it available like they do. I hope to add more when I can - you have some cool sounds! The BBC Discover plugin is fantastic, and the fact that they give it away for free is unbelievable. I have a lot of string/symphony libraries that cost many hundreds of dollars and I find myself firing up the Spitfire plugin more often than not because it's easy to use and sounds great. Not as flexible as some of the big libraries, but often you don't need all of the bells and whistles.
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Since I always get this stuck in my head as well I decided to do a remaster of it or whatever. I've never liked other ones I've heard. I remember trying to do this like.. 20 years ago and giving up after a few hours. https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/secret-of-mana-angels-fear-remastered Now it's time to play with guitar sounds.
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Woolwich Bagnet posted:Since I always get this stuck in my head as well I decided to do a remaster of it or whatever. I've never liked other ones I've heard. I remember trying to do this like.. 20 years ago and giving up after a few hours. Sooo I decided I wasn't happy enough with it and spend another.. 20 or so hours working on it, and this was the result https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/angels-fear-enhanced Added a lot of parts, and filled it out. It was quite the challenge getting everything balanced at the end, considering it went from 8 tracks to nearly 40....
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I am going to listen to that Secret of Mana track tomorrow when I can sit down for a moment with it. I love Kikuta's work on the original soundtrack so much. Edit: I didn't wait, this is great! Thank you for uploading it, well done man. I made a new song! This one is called Willowisp. Hope y'all enjoy it. https://soundcloud.com/user-612970086/willowisp Agreed fucked around with this message at 10:42 on Nov 27, 2021 |
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