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General => Anything Goes => Topic started by: Dr. Freeman on September 18, 2011, 03:24:38 AM
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So earlier today I started composing the first songs I ever composed ever, in Famitracker no less. And I decided to make a topic to show them off.
Songs before I actually got maybe decent at Famitracker
Megaman Untitled (A game that most likely will never be made): Boss theme
Megaman Untitled: Robot Man
A Desert sounding song that may or may not be used in Megaman Water
Some song with no name cause I'm lazy
"Pew Pew Color Blast" Stuffs (Aka, slowly getting better sora)
A Monochrome World
Blue Blazer
Through the Teal Tunnel
Soaring over the Silver Skies
Red Revolution
Violet Victory
Covers cause why not: Maybe this is listenable now
Megaman 7 Intro Stage
Megaman 7 Wily 3
Cave Story- Last Cave
Sonic Advance 3- Chaos Angel Act 1
Megaman X- Ending
Mario Kart Super Circuit- Boo Lake
Super Mario World- Boss Theme
Mario and Luigi: Dream Team- Boss Theme
The Return of MM7 Wily 3
King of Dragons: Cave of Hydra
Earthbound: Enjoy Your Stay!
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"Robot Man" really doesn't sounds like it's from Megaman, and around 0:36, it kinda starts hurting my ears.
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Just so you all know, the second we saw that boss battle theme, the Mega Man Water cast kept an eye out for you, Epic Kirby. :cool:
Very nice compositions.
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"Robot Man" really doesn't sounds like it's from Megaman, and around 0:36, it kinda starts hurting my ears.
You're right. It doesn't sound that "Megaman-y" (That should be a word) And personally 0:36 sounded somewhat decent to me, but I can't say how it sounds for other people.
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Umm, this is kinda of a Necro Bump. Cause the last post was kinda in September.
But I have an update. So I hope that means I'm not messing something up by bumping this...
Also it's a double post.
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I actually like this quite a bit, though there's probably stuff to work on. I wouldn't know, I'm not a composer.
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Listened to 20 seconds of each, because I couldn't stand it beyond that.
Nice job for a first-timer, though. You nailed the MM2 hack instrumental style, you just need to learn how to make instruments more MM-ish. Keep 'em coming.
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Let's bump my own topic!
Ok, while this isn't an original. I feel like sharing this cover I've been working on the past 2 days.
I personally think I've improved.
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You've definitely improved. However, I feel like some parts were surprisingly lacking even though you were using expansion chips. Those parts would have sounded fine had I not known you had more instruments at your disposal.
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You've definitely improved. However, I feel like some parts were surprisingly lacking even though you were using expansion chips. Those parts would have sounded fine had I not known you had more instruments at your disposal.
At a few points I had some squares left empty because
A: There wasn't really anything to fill them in that would work with Square, there was another noise channel, but I had to choose between them.
B: I'm really picky for what goes into channels. Thatguy made me add more chords at the start
C: I generally dislike a lot of whole notes...Because the picky thing above.
But thanks!
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I liked the boss theme, except I felt the instruments were kinda bland. I hated the second song. I like the 3rd one except again I felt the instruments were bland. The Dialga one was much better than your older songs. Hopefully this isn't a bump or a necro bump or anything, 'cause I just thought I'd rate it
1st Song: 6.7/10
2nd Song: 1.9/10
3rd Song: 6.6/10
4th Song: 7.7/10
Keep up the good work!
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I liked the boss theme, except I felt the instruments were kinda bland. I hated the second song. I like the 3rd one except again I felt the instruments were bland. The Dialga one was much better than your older songs. Hopefully this isn't a bump or a necro bump or anything, 'cause I just thought I'd rate it
1st Song: 6.7/10
2nd Song: 1.9/10
3rd Song: 6.6/10
4th Song: 7.7/10
Keep up the good work!
So this post is old and crap but responding to stuff is a generally good thing to do.
Bland instruments is a thing when I never used Famitracker before and I cared about the melody itself. As you can see by the time Primal Dialga rolled around I learned how to make actual good instruments.
Also like forever ago Ken was really cool and made the boss theme sound better by adding more instruments, then I took his awesome instruments and added more stuff so it sounded even better. But I was too lazy to upload it on to Youtube.
Lastly, on Primal Dialga you say it's good and give it a 7. Obviously there has to be some room for improvement if it's a 7 rather then a 9. So there's gotta be some criticism for it.
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I decided rerate the song an 8/10, I guess I was just being biased before because it sounds like a song I've heard before in LoZ or something
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I decided rerate the song an 8/10, I guess I was just being biased before because it sounds like a song I've heard before in LoZ or something
Well it's an actual song. It's just a cover (as stated in the post where I first mentioned it)
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OH. I should really use my eyes better
because this is happening so much now
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So this guy at my school is making a space shooter so he can test how to use a program for future things.
And he was all like "Make me some music" and I was like "K"
So I have an edited first post.
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Double posting is a fun thing to do.
Cause I have a level theme out. How riveting
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oddly enough I like this about 8x more than the title song
it's really nice EK, I'm loving your work
maybe when you're done you could make songs for ME??????? :cool:
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I have famitracker, but I dont know much how to use it.
I kinda know, since I've seen a bit of a tutorial.
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Ahh an update.
So I'm not super happy about this, but there's some parts I enjoy.
Oh and it's a tunnel theme as the title suggests.
And I have a week to make the third/boss theme (Which will be one song for cool)
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The new one doesn't have a solid melody. It's not very catchy either.
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And here is where I object.
I don't want to sound like a stuck up asshole by defending my own song and stuff, but there is a melody going on. In fact, there's 2 going on through out the song.
There's that thing that starts around 5 seconds in, and while at first it plays backround to the melody that kicks in shortly after (Which I'll get back to) once there's that transition that becomes the main thing, except at different notes. While at the start it stated at a C, went to B Flat, C again, and C Sharp. Once the transition happens it is G, F Sharp, G, and A Flat. But it's still the same thing. That repeats at a faster interval for a while, then at 45 seconds in, the melody that kicks in there is the same exact one from around 15 seconds in except at a higher interval. From then it loops and stuff.
As for the catchy thing, while it's a matter of opinion, more people have been saying otherwise.
But then again, this is all that really matters.
"This is fucking tight:D"- The person who I'm making the song for in the first place.
And if the person who I'm doing this for likes it, that's all that really matters.
Also you consider Lad's music to be pro. So it's hard to take critique from you seriously.
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I disagree with Fyone's "there's no melody" comment but fully agree on the lack of catchiness. By the time the song was over, I had completely forgotten everything I had listened to. It's like Sylvania Castle Zone Act 1 from Sonic 4 Episode II: You can put that song on for five minutes straight and if you turn it off and ask me to hum it, I couldn't do it for the life of me.
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I technically didn't say there was no melody, I said that there was no solid one. I don't really think you should have two melodies in one song, because it's not solid but it's just my opinion.
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Almost every megaman song ever has "two melodies" the way this song does.
Heck, Sheep Man breaks into Milk Bar in the middle of it!
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Yeah, but I think you got me wrong. Anyways, here's my rating: 6.9/10
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I agree with Epic Kirby, if you think lad's music is proffesional, then people kinda can't take criticism from you seriously
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I never said Lad's music was professional :shock:
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Lad's his brother and at no point did he say that he thought those songs were awesome.
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Updated with another song.
Before anyone yells at me over the ending, it's leading in to the only boss in the game.
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Your new song sounded very good, however it reminds me of two songs that are right on the tip of my tongue.
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I'm not really happy with this last boss song. But that due date just came out of nowhere, so I had to make this asap.
At the very least, it doesn't make your ears catch on fire.
...I hope.
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The new song starts hurting my ears 'round 20 secs then stops at 30 secs. The new song also sounds really random.
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Your new song sounded very good, however it reminds me of two songs that are right on the tip of my tongue.
Because one of the songs in FMP is totally not ripped off from Rockman 4MI. And another from Power Fighters.
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Actually, basically every song I made was inspired by another song. Some...more obvious than others. (I'm surprised more people didn't notice VVVVVV in the first level theme, it's obviously there.)
And I don't really think that if songs remind you of other songs that instantly means they're bad. (Unless of course you weren't saying it as a bad thing. Sorta hard to tell with the "however")
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ohmygoddoublepost
But there's a 4 second victory jingle, and I'm done with this jazz.
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Your new song sounded very good, however it reminds me of two songs that are right on the tip of my tongue.
Because one of the songs in FMP is totally not ripped off from Rockman 4MI. And another from Power Fighters.
All songs in FMP are inspired by other songs. It was posted somewhere in the topic >_>.
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one of them is a completely crappy cover of a megaman song if i remember correctly
and i recall your brother saying "my music"
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Bumping topics when I update is cool right?
Anyhow, changed the title cause it's a lie, cause I posted a cover.
Of Megaman 7 Intro Stage cause I don't know
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Just gonna double post cause I got another cover done.
I think I'm getting better at covers, I mean it's a huge step up from the really old stuff I made. I still tend to shy away from effects though.
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im jelous
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you lie.
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I really like that MM7 Wily 3 cover! The part beginning around :27 (until :34) doesn't quite have as much of a "punch" as the rest of the song, and the intro to that melody (around :26 to :29) felt somewhat hollow... but I love the rest of the song, the intro in particular is fantastic. I could see this being used somewhere.
Keep up the good work!
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This is not fair, I've stuck covering this song for like, ever!
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Oh hi bump.
It's been a while since I've made an original song, but I felt pretty motivated today.
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Bleh, who likes Cave Story?
I don't know, I made a cover of a song from Cave Story. Because I was bored.
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What's that? Another cover that may or may not be good? I'm not sure...
But just because you asked, I'll give one.
...No one asked for anything, I think I need to see a therapist.
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I'm bored.
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You must be really bored.
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Oh boy, it's been a while.
Here are some things.
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#EPICNESS!
dude, keep doing this!
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who even reads this
what am I don't with my life even?
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just so you know I'm stealing this
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The return because Llama.
The loop is a tad weird but whatever it's done.
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This lead instrument is too good for anything ever.
But yeah the loop is kinda awkward - your note kinda resets itself through the transition.
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This lead instrument is too good for anything ever.
But yeah the loop is kinda awkward - your note kinda resets itself through the transition.
It's kinda weird, it doesn't sound nearly as awkward in the ftm. Either way the base file was modified but I'm too lazy to reupload it so AWKWARD LOOPS FOR EVERYONE I SUPPOSE I'M THE WORST
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King of Dragons is a game I used to play a lot as a kid because my dad had a bunch of arcade games emulated on his computer, and it just so happens when I was on a MIDI hunt I found a midi for one of the songs so I got bored and covered it in three hours.
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I'd like to know how to compose music on famitracker, at the moment I just listen to ftms when bored
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It's pretty simple; if you want to learn I think Danooct has guides on his channel.
I think it was Danooct, anyway.
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Ok, I'll check that later, thanks. I really like Danooct's work
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How I decided to cover an 11 second song.
I'M DA BEST!
AT TAKING NAPS!