it sounds like its supposed to, but i feel as if its missing character. stays in one key too long, should try to incorporate another key into the melody/incorporate some other instruments.
its easy to write a melody in a single key. but its boring. if you want to get the tone that mixture between different keys will get you, you gotta be a lot more
conscious of the current key and how long youve been in it
anyways, i was trying to make something similar to tragic reconstruction from mother 3. its pretty recognizable, but its hard not to be with samples this obvious
again, they key did fit. it just didnt feel like anything special. and it leaned quite heavily on percussion, which sounds ok, but again, a little boring.
and a little heavy on the ears honestly. maybe try to use a little less drums when doing something like this, and try to make the most of the percussion that you do
use. via slight velocity changes, pitch changes, a slightly more complex rhythm, etc. balancing the volume audio would help, but not really by much, so i didnt bother
also i usually use a plugin of some kind for delay, but somehow it only just dawned on me that you can do a "delay reverb" really quickly/easily for just a note or two by
repeating the note on the piano roll. really obvious, and you wouldnt want to have to do it for the whole piece. but it makes it easier to do a one off thing, and gives you more control over how each note sounds.
i spent a couple hours trying to find the actual best way to do soundfonts as well. its not super complicated, its just that the programs that do exist to play them are a little dated/buggy. or so i read on reddit/other forums...
maybe cause they arent used professionally very often anymore? at least outside of the indie sphere. though sforzando has been working pretty well. but importing instruments by sfz sucks
i was just using the native fl plugin but apparently its deprecated/buggy as hell(according to forums) so theres no new updates. i was wondering why the volume envelopes werent working properly...
whatever. ill deal. ill just manually envelope them with stfu at the worst. which is incredibly annoying, but whaddya gonna do aboudit
fallen dove
listened to fallen down for the somethingeth time. i somehow am still not quite tired of it, despite listening to it
obsessively for like a year straight while learning it on piano
anyways, this track sounds really nice and not too derivative, but its largely due to the really nice vox in sgm.
also cause i couldnt turn down sustain cause apparently thats still not working and im not using stfu rn cause its annoying.
and it still sounds nice its just kinda overly effecty. it just continues to ring too long.
anyways, the overall melody is nice. theres a decent amount of change in the key even, and its not too tacky.
but there are still a lot of parts where the melody is a little tacky that i do want to change.
and it doesnt sound finished. its just sort of half completed. feels like there should be a second half.
i suppose a lot of these tracks are gonna be that way since theyre all done in less than an hour, but still
i would like it to have a sense of completion. maybe therell be a reprise someday lol
anyways, i guess i STILL need to fix soundfonts, or figure out whats happening in juicysf
maybe im just dumb idk lol
not bad work on these today. im still wondering when/if Ill go back to piano though. still feels like my fundamental rhythm/tone center needs calibrating. but im still doing
much much better than before. and i wont have much time once school starts again, so maybe thatll get pushed back
plus, i still have to make an actual game lol. i still think this is what i need to be doing, but it just felt like when i wrote music, i would keep on getting slightly better at it,
and id be like oh why dont i make something better, and id throw away the old piece in favor of something new and better. which why wouldnt i? but also i need to make something and stick to it.
it would just be really weird to have really shitty music in the beginning, then better music in the end. or for the quality to be plain inconsistent.
i guess what im trying to say is that i feel like i continue to make new things and gather more perspective, then realize the thing i made before was wrong.
then i would make a new thing, realize that wasnt great, then remake it, yada yada whatever. so i wanted to just spend a while making experimental things with mostly just music and improvement in mind.
which i think is working. ugh.
i just dont know when to quit that cycle. when do just say "ok. its good enough" and just make everything at that level?
at least this piece was decent though. its really too hot out for this. im functioning way better in the heat than im used to though
im surprised i was able to write anything decent in the heat today. usually i have trouble with music in the heat cause headaches
this page is becoming a weird mix between an outlet for my musical thoughts and an outlet for when im frustrated.
i guess i dont mind either way. its just an open journal i guess.
im gonna take a shower play games then go to bed
good night computer