Coasterkrazy's music stuffs

[coasterkrazy]

I use Audacity. It's a really simple program. All I did was hit record and just start playing. Then I amplified it and trimmed the ends, and that was it. Even with a really crappy mic, it still works perfectly.

[drenrin2120]

Did you buy it or can I find it online?

*goes to look online anyway*

[coasterkrazy]

It's freeware. You're online search won't be in vain.

[drenrin2120]

hey, CK. I have a request. I'm wondering if maybe you could duplicate the intro you have with the strings. Then after that play a part that could be repeated in 4 measures with a techno-ish beat. I will supply the techno beat. So here's what I'm asking for.

An intro similar to your strings in low D
4 measures of repeatable strings (this will be the chorus)
Then a verse. As in something to side track away from the chorus.
Then an ending, like an outro.

I will supply the beat if you can do jsut the string parts for me. Thankyou very much, if you have any question, like maybe a why? or something, just pm me.

[Meiscool-2]

CK: Your new MP3; I've never really liked Slow things, so I won't be of much help here, but I'll also try to be non bias. I think sometimes you held a note for to long (if that's what it's called, I haven't got a clue about music) and the pitched just sorta screamed "DEATH!" at times. However, it's very soothing, and it flows pretty well. Not only that, but it's not repeative at all, though you use some of the same sounds time and time again, it seemed to me that they were always combined differently.

[coasterkrazy]

Dren, check your pm box.

Meiscool, I'm going to reply to you piece by piece. :p

Originally posted by Meiscool
CK: Your new MP3; I've never really liked Slow things, so I won't be of much help here, but I'll also try to be non bias.

Yeah I knew you didn't so I saw this coming, but thanks for telling me your thoughts regardless of that.

I think sometimes you held a note for to long (if that's what it's called, I haven't got a clue about music) and the pitched just sorta screamed "DEATH!" at times.

Hmm... I don't know if it's that I held something too long, but I think I know what you mean about "DEATH!" Feedback issues, right? There were one or two of them in there, and it's because when I amplified it in Audacity I had to do some clipping, which means that the sound wave is so big it doesnt fit in the box, and when the soundwave is that big it often produces an ugly feedback. The best way to fix that now would be to deamplify it a bit.

However, it's very soothing, and it flows pretty well. Not only that, but it's not repeative at all, though you use some of the same sounds time and time again, it seemed to me that they were always combined differently.

Yeah, that's the good thing about improv. :p Nothing's ever quite the same because it's just you randomly playing and it's hard to end up with the exact same patterns. About the soothing part, I don't know if I think that's good or bad... It wasn't exactly meant to be a happy song... I was thinking more of a dark ambience, for like an ancient temple or cursed place or something. Anything dark. Also a title screen for a dark game.

Thanks for your feedback guys! This is my first time recording improv, although I've done it before, so I really wanted to see what people thought.

Oh, one last comment to Meiscool, it's extremely difficult (at least for me) to improv something fast, so I'm sorry to say anything I do improv will never be overly fast.

[coasterkrazy]

Well, it's not really a full midi song, but I was looking through some Greek midi filies and found one that had these drums that made me go, "WTF!?!?!? That CAN'T be midi!" But it was, so I opened it up and took a peek at what they did. Ok, so they added some effects to it that Anvil can't even do because it didn't sound exactly the same in Anvil.

However, it did teach me how to make an awesomely more realistic snare.

Here's where I spill the secret.

Get ready...




Ok, so you have a drawbar organ drum set, use both snares in the set and the lower of the timbales (the F right after middle C), and set the lower snare (the D one that's all electric sounding) to volume of 42 and set the F note timbale thing to volume of 70 and voila! A whole new kind of midi snare!

I also like to change the bass drum to volume 75 for whatever slight effect it has in making the drumset sound unique. :p

So here's a tiny little sample where the snare is used twice in this drum line.

[Emerates]

Originally posted by coasterkrazy
I use Audacity. It's a really simple program. All I did was hit record and just start playing. Then I amplified it and trimmed the ends, and that was it. Even with a really crappy mic, it still works perfectly.

As to the recording thing, you could probably re-route your mic jack to a direct line-in from your amp for better sound quality.  You'd need a two-way headphone cable and a reg.-amp jack adapter, but you could probably find that stuff at a music shop or some place like that.  My Stanton headphones come with a cable like that, that you can disconnect and connect to other stuff.  They're a bit expensive, but it works.

Also, you could record with a RCA Lyra MP3 player, which comes with all that stuff.  Just gotta watch the volume a bit with it, 'cause you have to line-in directly to the Lyra instead, unless you got another adapter for the small-reg. jack.

Hope it helps ya some.

[coasterkrazy]

Originally posted by Emerates

quote:

Originally posted by coasterkrazy I use Audacity. It's a really simple program. All I did was hit record and just start playing. Then I amplified it and trimmed the ends, and that was it. Even with a really crappy mic, it still works perfectly.

As to the recording thing, you could probably re-route your mic jack to a direct line-in from your amp for better sound quality.  You'd need a two-way headphone cable and a reg.-amp jack adapter, but you could probably find that stuff at a music shop or some place like that.  My Stanton headphones come with a cable like that, that you can disconnect and connect to other stuff.  They're a bit expensive, but it works.

Also, you could record with a RCA Lyra MP3 player, which comes with all that stuff.  Just gotta watch the volume a bit with it, 'cause you have to line-in directly to the Lyra instead, unless you got another adapter for the small-reg. jack.

Hope it helps ya some.

Lol I've heard about stuff like that before but I don't have any of that, not even the amp. :p But thanks anyway for the advice. It may come in handy someday.

The new drum thing is mainly directed toward dren, but I decided to put it up here... so dren if you're reading, scroll up!

[coasterkrazy]

Back again, and with a vengeance!-er, I mean, major update!

So anyway, I recently discovered the wondeful world of soundfonts and the program SynthFont. Basically, you take MIDIs and make them MP3s with this program applying selected soundfonts to instruments. It's kinda hard to explain, but if you find good soundfonts, then you can make some awesome MP3s out of MIDIs, which I have done.

Also, I found an NES soundfont, so I can convert MIDIs to NES songs. Pretty sweet methinks. So here's a whole bunch of samples I recently uploaded to putfile. Enjoy!

 Big Battle MP3-itized

 Big Battle NES-itized

 Dren's Sing With the Harlequin MP3-itized (I made it private it on putfile.)

 In the Mouth of Madness by Spock's Beard NES-itized (Done for a friend.)

 The boss theme from DragonBlaze's old old old demo MP3-itized (This one turned out really good.)

I hope you like them! And dren, I've been trying to tell you about this for a while but I haven't reached you online so I hope you see it here (or you saw my message). :p

[drenrin2120]

Haha, yes dude! This **** is awesome! I can't wait to start playing around with it. All these MIDIs sound so ****ing sweet!

[coasterkrazy]

So I started working on a soundtrack rewrite of Sonic 2, and I'm using the Sonic 2 mp3 tool to apply the new music. It's very cool to hear it when playing. But anyway, here's my rewrite of Chemical Plant Zone.

http://media.putfile.com/Neo-Chemical-Plant

Right now I have it as just Neo Chemical Plant, but I'm hacking the game and renaming the zones and probably changing color pallettes as well. I'm trying to think of a good rename for Chemical Plant. Right now I have Polluted Road, but I don't like it that much. I was also thinking of calling it Acid Highway. Any ideas?

EDIT: Oh yeah I used the YM/FM soundfont in case anyone is wondering, except for the drums, which I used some other soundfont I found somewhere.

[drenrin2120]

Me likes. Maybe leave the name the same? I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do.

But the music is good.

[coasterkrazy]

Heh, so the last thing I ever posted here was supposed to be for that pallette/music edit I was doing, but now I was just fooling around and making an Act 2 version of the real Chemical Plant (like Sonic 3 does with its Act 2 remixes).

I learned more about using the soundfont from listening to the real songs and comparing. The only thing I couldn't do was the snare because that exact sound didn't exist in the font. So I mixed the font's drum set with the one I was using, and used the one I was using only for its near-perfect snare. The result is a seemingly flawless Sonic 2 sound I think.

http://www.box.net/public/lqbien4n19

I hope people who like the game/song get to hear this. There are only slight differences from the real thing, like Act 2 remixes often do.

[coasterkrazy]

Sorry to double post (and on the same day), but I figured I'd upload this old thing I made that was meant to be an overworld or something along those lines, but it didn't end up being very long. I think it sounds good though, but the quality might be too high for 2D games. :p

I know, it's a stupidly short amount of time to bump with a double post, but I just feel like it so it can be seen as updated or something.

Anyway, here.

http://www.box.net/public/rln709mm4e