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Whole-Tone-Hero submission for OST Minigame Jam #1 Hosted by Resident // Cryptid Itch.IO's itch.io pageRate this soundtrack
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Explain your hypothetical game concept & how you interpreted the theme!
Very straight down the middle of a generic D&D hero out to slay an orange dragon. I spent 90+% of the time more thinking of ways and means about the whole-tone usage than the plot to be frank. Busy week with a lot of jams due in parallel (I sorry!)
What genre is your soundtrack?
Primarily Orchestral classical for the -middle- section but everyone knows me on Itch by now that I can't get that Jazz bug out of my system. A Jazz intro and outro capping either end of the middle.
Anything else you'd like to add?
I went very heavy on the whole-tone scale and used it numerous times, the original middle section's start used the literal depicted C-natural whole-scale almost exactly like the pictured notation in the provided jam description.
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got a lot of great ideas here! I think you need a better instrument patch though. IMO it doesn’t scale well between different note velocities. Kind of makes it sound like you’re just tweaking the volume knob rather than playing and interacting with the instrument. I dunno, I feel like a better synth could bring those notes more alive!
FA-08 is usually regarded as inexhaustibly good so it's probably a -me- mistake than the gear :)
But glad for the feedback, and you could still be right
I would have liked it. I do wish it had had a little more structure. Good submission, though!
Wow! Amazing exploration of harmony, but for me it felt left like a composition and more of a keyboardist having a jam (probably because my ears aren't good enough to follow exaclty whats going on!). The absence of a clear melody (all notes being played simaltaneously, ~10 fingers at a time etc.) fatigued me a bit, and a change in texture, dynamic, instrumentation would have been welcome.
I play a mix of queen, the doors, and mario?)
Your little story came out pretty... '80s style? The whole composition is one big vibe from old experimental music, lol. I like it!
P.S. Give advice on how to make tunes like this, please :>
this one's a little rugged i grant :)
when i get more time i can be...more organized. Life of Rixlor proved that when i debuted in July.
if I get time in edgewise away from my 9-5 things....benefit.
Glad you had a good time.
P.S. postscript for postscript.
Ok so what have is....
a) tunnel forward for at least 30-40 measures. sometimes only 20-25.
b) give yourself a rest every 5 seconds
c) in these 5 second jumps manually perform a wild chord move that you can barely accomplish
if you need to, move the tempo dial -down- from 120 to like 89
then back up again
copy paste your sections and transpose the sections in a circle-of-keys
perfect pitch is better than relative pitch for this task if you know your major 4th-below then count...
just think of what key the last chord of where you stopped..."leads into" for the offset of the pasted section-to-follow
if you're getting too close to the top of the keyboard do the mirror-image of your offset out-of-12 tones
like you were going +7, now it's -5/-17/-29....
punch 16-measure insertions between the sections once you just can't stand it anymore
c2) best if you can make these asymmetrical from each other
d) top it off by copying your Outro as your Intro
e) if youre unhappy with the intro smash it up a little
f) maybe -again- diddle your ending to have things from your modded intro
there you go
if you have a fancy schmancy workstation, do the backbone first, then move it to the laptop on the export
then key little single-note-width overlays with the Akai MIDI keyboard while in your DAW, for the last 8% of the work
try not to over-busy it, crypt of the necrodancer got hosed wheni went one too many. its penultimate v3 is better than the v4 and i plan to eventually post that
Wow... thanks!
This is actually a super interesting submission here. I wouldn't personally listen to this piece on it's own as it goes all over the place, HOWEVER I think it would work perfectly with a visual medium like an animation of the hero going on the journey with all it's highs and lows. (Probably a really silly animation) It is definitely a journey of a song and the sound quality was well done on the mixing side of things!
I liked it, although after a minute it kinda felt same-y with the consistent rhythm. also, the fading in and out of the volume took me out a bit. The ending brought things back a bit but there's certainly room for improvement. Keep it up!
Was a busy week for music jams on itch where we had six(?) in parallel for a moment. Probably this submission suffered accordingly.
Glad you at least gave it a go :)