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VOiD has done me the gracious honour of uploading my music onto the precursors website.

Check it out at http://www.medievalfuture.com/void/Chrispy/

Wow, its really good stuff.
I must say, very well done.

Hey - Not bad at all....

How long did these take you?

Dreaming and Welcome to the Stars were like the 3rd and 4rth melodies I ever thought of with a tracker and I've been working on them since. The lastest versions (as shown on the site) probably took me from 3 to 5 days.

Astro-Sombrero was a random idea I thought of (techno tango) and it took me about a day.

EDIT- and by the way, thank you  :D

Fortunately, your works are NOT bad. I've stumbled to so many crappy "Look at me, I've made music" -persons, whose music really sucks, but no one has the heart to tell him/her that.

Astro-Sombrero is fun. You should work on it and make it have a constant drum beat at some point. (And if you can keep it approx. 1:30, I can make it Stepmania (http://www.stepmania.com).)

Ya, I was feeling pretty underacheiver-ish when I wrote that. It sounds cool, but I just threw in the drums. I didn't really think about them like I did with the other two, and they loop with absolutally no variation.

Ill get around to improving it sometimes. I really like the square-waves.

Nice stuff man. Keep up the good work  ;)

Not bad, not bad at all! ;D
Would you be interesting in doing some music for TimeWarp: Legacies? I recently signed on with them as a dialogue writer, and I know they're looking for composers...

Are they really? I thought they were getting it proffesionally done, and I was going to let them because it sounds sweet. I posted some ditties on the forum and got no replies.

Hi Chrispy, nice work, congrats on getting your stuff hosted there.  :)

To answer your question, the new battle music and title music are graciously donated by Robeter Productions (http://robeterproductions.com/).  They may participate in the future on the project, but indirectly, by using other contacts to fill out the musical content.  There's actually two battle songs, but the second isn't used in the code just yet.  To finally answer the question, yes, composers would be nice, talk to UAF in our forums about it.  

k, that's all the break I get, back to MP coding. :)

Thank VOiD for the hosting :P
and yes, the new robeteers music was great, but not as good as the 3 precursor battle themes.

Yes, thank me. In fact, while you're at it, praise me! PRAISE ME! :D


I checked out the TW boards and Robeter's home page just to get a general idea of how good this music is, but couldn't find it. Anyone have a quick-n-easy link to some of it?

Thanks and praises to thee, Void, that's some gooood hostin' (http://www.medievalfuture.com/void/interesting.html)! :P

I'll post it tomorrow pending permission to do so. :)

So Chripsy, what tools do you use for your tunes?

Modplug and audacity:P, all freeware.

I am getting reason though, thanks to VOiD, again.

I never thought the path to world dominance would be so easy.


I was wondering when someone would find that gem.

(It's strange, though. You'd think that such a picture would represent the reason why an entire species never managed to evolve, and instead it serves as a reminder why the little fellas are, in fact, thriving.)

I love audacity! Its hard to understand why people blow cash on professional audio editing software when they can easily download a GNU equivalent from sourceforge.
I'll be sure to check out Modplug as well, right now my only software synth app is SawCutter 1.0 (also freeware).

Well, I have reason now ;D I'm still learning how to use it, but its going well.

Never liked Audacity. It does it's job somehow, but lacks a lot in usability. For occasional use it's probably good as any.. but for serious work I rather use professional audio editor such as WaveLab.



Try EnergyXT .. it's not really free, but very good for it's price of you want Buzz alike modular sequencer http://www.xt-hq.com/  .. personally I find such modulary nice, but too cumbersome to use. Too much this and that before you actually can do anything..

Wavelab huh, do you know how that compairs to soundforge, which I might be getting.

I didn't like SoundForge when I tried last time (long time ago).. I don't know if it's any better nowdays. Back then it didn't have VST effect support, nor real-time monitoring of effects, which are vital for me.

Ok, two new tracks, done with reason, are up on my site www.html.explevi.com... I think the links might work this time, but the site isn't always up.

What do you think?

the first one "why wont you die", its very aggressive. maybe if you slowed the tempo down some. i like the bass, but the snare is way over the top. its too aggressive too. maybe back those two things down some. otherwise, very good job.

the next track, "sparkle". i like this track alot and i see nothing that needs to be addressed. its got a very jungleish (coin my own phrases =p) sound. makes me feel like im on a jungle trek. again, very good job.

looking forward to the "dogar and kazon track".

~DEFIANT

I just havnt encoded it to mp3 and pdf.. its a bassoon duet that I wrote and played last year:P

Just for you I'll at leased get the midi up.

[EDIT: It's up... be warned... MIDI files suck]

not bad, not bad at all. i like this tune, also. it remeinds me alot of the old castvania series on the nes. your right, midi sucks ;) cant wait for the mp3 version. again nothing wrong with this aside from the midi quality. great work Chrispy.

~DEFIANT

There wont be an mp3 version, its a bassoon duet. Thats why its under the classical music section of my site.

I play the bassoon you see. If I ever record it, I'll put it on my site just for you :P.

By the way... thank you ::)

Is it me, or do Dreaming, Welcome to the Stars, and Sparkle all use the same motives, especially the rhythmic ones?

If we consider them all as different versions off the same song, each certainly has its merits and touches. They would work well as different levels in the same game, due to their strong thematic relationship (like in Final Fantasy Tactics, where you keep getting the same themes, but modified dramatically to suit the situation).

The drums at 1:15 in Sparkle seem a little too heavy for sparkling, and it obscures some of what goes under it.

0:09 - 0:59 remind me of Super Metroid's Brinstar music.

No real metroid influences here..

Ya, my songs are very similar and its due to the basslines. They are very appegio based. Both sparkle and welcome to the stars have the same harmonic pattern too so they are especially similar.
Dreaming and Divine Origin (don't know if any of you remember that... or if I even posted it) have slightly different basslines. But they all sound the same. I guess its a style I'm developing.

Ya, I drifted from the name sparkle... now its sparkle+gavorkna..

I like the music...I don't suppose you could tone down the maracca(sp?) on sparkle a bit, could you? It starts to get obnoxious after a while.

Digging up this old thread to announce that I've just uploaded one additional song from his Chrispyness:

http://www.medievalfuture.com/void/Chrispy/Welcome%20to%20the%20Stars.mp3

My .02$ after a quick listen: I definitely think this is an improvement over his previous efforts, available in the same folder. If there's one thing lacking, it's a clear bass line to fill out the lower frequencies more.

Chrispy has also made some amazing tracks for a game called Project Aqua. I have them on my server for your listening pleasure.

Shrine, the theme for the main temple:
http://eliot.bambi.net/dump/projectaqua/Shrinemp3.mp3

"Party", which we decided would work as upbeat battle music.
http://eliot.bambi.net/dump/projectaqua/Partymp3.mp3