A Song From Me

[FreeFreddy]

I just thought I should share it with you. I didn't really make music before with programs, just slight experimenting, so this is my first attempt. Therefore it's so simple one. Anyway, here it is:

Crystals (http://freefreddy.cybton.com/Music/Crystals.mp3)

[taikara]

!!!!

That's awesome! What did you use? :D

[Yamcha]

Its superb :w00t:

[FreeFreddy]

Originally posted by taikara@Feb 17 2005, 10:39 PM
!!!!

That's awesome!* What did you use?* :D
An old 669 Composer by Unis. One of those trackers that were used to produce music through including instruments as small .wav in a single file and playing them in different patterns to produce the music. Before the MP3 format took over the world they were quite far known. ;)

[Mad-E-Fact]

Nice, sounds pretty melancholic. Reminds me of some old RPGs music. :)

[The_EgAt]

I like this... it sounds cool :)

[FreeFreddy]

Wow, didn't expect such positive feedback. :huh:
I guess I'll make some more later, then.

[Strobe]

if this really was your first attempt of doing digital music then i bow before your
talent! no doubt, this is very soothing and dreamy. i like these bell lines very
much. it's so simple and yet deep.

please give us more of this, freddy! :ok: :ok: :ok:

[taikara]

Originally posted by FreeFreddy@Feb 17 2005, 09:58 PM
An old 669 Composer by Unis. One of those trackers that were used to produce music through including instruments as small .wav in a single file and playing them in different patterns to produce the music. Before the MP3 format took over the world they were quite far known. ;)
Never heard of it, but it sounds cool :ok:

...but that's no big surprise.

It produces very pretty sounds, whee. :D

You should make more :angel:

[FlightorFight]

It's fun, in a cutesy Zelda kind of way. I like it :)

[ReamusLQ]

Niiiiice work Freefreddy. I always love hearing other people's musical creations. You have a really nice melodic line running through out the piece. The first few beats actually reminded me of the marimba part I played for the opener of our last field show. You've also created a really cool ostinato effect with that opening running line. This would actually sound really sweet for a mallet arrangement (marimba, vibraphone, and bells would be a sick set up.) I really dig the modulation of the melody that occurs around 1:11. It keeps the piece interesting. How many running lines do you have total in this piece? I think by the end I counted three or four lines having run simultaneously. The only thing I would change, would be the ending of the piece. You have it set up for a nice cadence, but you add the last arpeggio in there, causing it to seem a little unfinished. I would continue the ritard and instead of having the last arpeggio ascend, have it descend so that the E minor chord (it is e minor right?) ends in a lower register. I would suggest playing the first two notes of the final arpeggio, but instead of completing the triad, go from the G to the F#, down to the D, then UP to the E and add the B G E below it. That is just my personal preference though, and I apologize if the above doesn't make much sense. I get carried away sometimes, and I actually had to refrain from using some terms But over all, amazing job man. I'll share some of my stuff with you once I figure out how to get Finale to save the music to sound like something other than piano.

Edit: Or you could do much simplar than my above suggestions, and final E in the arpeggio, but an E either one or two octaves below it to give it a more rich feeling ending, and it also adds some...what's the word...well, it's a stronger resolution. Make it subtle, but it would sound nice in there.

[FreeFreddy]

Hehe, you know, I understood only a half of the technical terms you used in the post above. It's more than 14 years ago since I stopped to play the piano, and since then I forgot almost all terms of music...*sigh*
Anyway, you don't need to know much musical knowledge when creating music in trackers. Rather almost pogramming them :D. Though without a tuned hearing and a sense of the music you won't be able to produce anything interesting, either.
Unis 669 Composer supports up to 8 simultaneous running lines (or channels, like they're called technically there), but I used only 4 of them, 3 for playing the instruments and 1 included just for having a complete "channel-count" (an Amiga MOD uses 4 simultaneous channels). This "song" was only my first try on the composer. The next one will be very different, be sure of that. :max:

[Mad-E-Fact]

Originally posted by FreeFreddy@Feb 18 2005, 01:51 PM
an Amiga MOD uses 4 channels
Not entirely true. You could split these channels into 8, or even 16 separate channels. So while the MOD indeed had still 4 channels, you could put a lot more instruments in it. :) Amiga soundchip > PC soundcards for a long long time...

[FreeFreddy]

No, I meant it can play up to 4 channels with instruments simultaneosly at once (so you can hear only 4 instruments playing at the same time). And 669 or Unis 669 formats support up to 8 channels at the same time. ;)

[rainwife]

Liked it very much! Some of the parts remeinded me of other musical work, can't really determine which ones, but very nice - especially the tempo at the end... Well, don't know exactly how to put it... But it did not sound melancholically to me!

[troop18546]

FreeFreddy, I dont know how to say this to you but...YOURE A GENIUS :Brain: ! I mean for heaven's sake! Wooooooaaaaaahhhhh boy... :ok:

[FreeFreddy]

Well, I guess it's more simply to recreate already existing music piece instead to produce one made completely yourself...
I'm working on a new music from myself, but I jumped over to another idea right now and recreated a music by Jean Michel Jarre by using some own instruments and some taken off the original music. Here's what came out.

Chronologie Part 4, recreated by me in Scream Tracker 3 (http://freefreddy.cybton.com/Music/Chronologie%20Part%204%20conversion.mp3)

I'm sorry that I didn't post something made completely anew by me, it's just these dreams I have last time...
Anyway, next time I'll post a song completely made by me, promised. :bye:

[taikara]

Niiiiice! :ok:

I love how your music flows, even if you did use an existing track for inspiration. And it's hard to manipulate music that way, I personally think it's easier to deal with making it up myself, but that may be because I can't read music, hehe.

Can't wait to hear what you come up with on your own :)

[FreeFreddy]

Here it is. Affected partially by the current nightmares and by the grey days here. I know it's not that impressive. I'm not that good in making music, I guess. Still, I hope you'll like it, but beware, it's 9MB large (MP3)!

Dark forces (http://freefreddy.cybton.com/Music/Dark%20forces.mp3)

[troop18546]

OMG, now those WERE SONGS! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! :Brain: :ok:

[Lizard]

Pretty good FreeFreddy :blink:
All of them would perfectly fit in some good dark RPG :ph34r:
Wish I have talent like that... :cry:

[FreeFreddy]

You mean it really? :huh:
Thank you for the positive feedback. :D
But, listen to the songs of Chris Huelsbeck in the link below and compare them. He's also making his music with computer, and he's many miles better.

Chris Huelsbecks music (http://www.electronicscene.com/artist/index.cfm?a=2635)

The music on this link is free downloadable, you just need to register there in order to get it.

[Mad-E-Fact]

So how did you upload your songs to abandonia? I'd like to feature some of my own to see the reaction. ;)

[Strobe]

coooooool, freddy!!! your remix of jarre's track left me absolutely speechless!
in fact, your version almost sounds better than the original! unbelievably good
work, i say! you did THIS with scream tracker? totally amazing, man! :kosta:
how did you manage to get such a powerful mixdown? you must have used
wavelab or something like that for pushing the freqs, haven't you?

dark forces is very impressive as well! it has a certain classic game touch to it!
very well made! your not that far away from chris huelsbecks level as you might
think...

chris huelsbeck rules!! and you're closely chasing him ;)



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