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Contratanz

Kelly G — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:29:30 +0000

Many years back I was writing a bunch of Final Fantasy style midi tracks in Noteworthy Composer. I had this dream of making a cheap knock-off of Final Fantasy 3 (or 6 if you’re nerdy) in raw windows/DirectX 5. I lost my code in a hard drive crash, but I still have the midi.

Lately I remembered one of these old pieces that I wrote and thought it would work good in the latest game I’m working on (recycling!), which is that medieval-themed Gradius-style shooter I was talking about a post pr two back.

The piece was originally the typical country fair dance song you have in every cliche RPG at some point. Instead of looking for that old midi files I decided to write a fresh arrangement from memory. There’s two guitars playing sort-of a round, a lead on flute, and percussion. I these parts out in Tracktion’s midi editor and assigned them realistic instrument patches from Sample Tank SE. Two different Nylon string guitars, Ocarina, subtle bass and wood-block percussion. I call that the “clean” version.

Then I thought it could use some kick. I want my game to have a little bit of that 80s Psygnosis vibe to it also. I imported the track into FL Studio and put on some rock&drums and bass.

contratanz

I’ll post a link to the corresponding video game level if I ever finish it.

Robot World

Kelly G — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:23:45 +0000

Like a world of robots or something. I thought it would be neat if there was a game like, say, Chrono Trigger, but everybody’s a robot. If I ever make a game like that it would sound like this.

Fl studio has a few project templates. There’s one called “Rock” that has a nice drumkit included, so I went with that. I also used Tweakbench’s Peach for lo-fi sounds. I was lazy and let the built-in compressor/limiter mix the track for me.

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Metaleval

Kelly G — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:16:26 +0000

Here’s a track I did that I might use in a new game idea. It’s a bit rough. I want it to sound a bit hard and crunchy, also scifi and spacey, but also medieval. The Ocarina samples I have are great for the medieval sound. There are also some straight scifi sounding synth parts. This 100% FL Studio.

metaleval

Kelly’s 5-minute beat 1

Kelly G — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:00:25 +0000

Goin’ to try doing my own 5-minute beat.

kdg_5_min_1

Cheezy Techno

Kelly G — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 15:21:38 +0000

Hey y’all!

I don’t know if this type of post is allowed, but I just wanted to mention that I uploaded two of my old solo albums up on my home page. They’re called Cheezy Techno 1 and 2.

Here is the link

Enjoy!

High Tech

Kelly G — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:20:35 +0000

Another rambling, aimless loop with the Tweak Bench peach synth, and some of the FL studio stuff. I didn’t have any concept in mind when I started. I just gotta do these every once in a while to see what happens.

Also I’m working on a special project that I’ll post here when it’s finished.

hightech

Fishy Squares

Kelly G — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:06:52 +0000

This is down with Triforce again and also Peach. Peach is a little different than triforce because it has a tone bank rather than just the square and triangle, but it’s still trying to be NES sounding. This is a more straight-forward tonal thing with cheep arpeggiated chords. Oh well.

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Lumpy Squares

Kelly G — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:25:07 +0000

I’m trying out the tweakbench Triforce plug-in. It does nintendo-y synth sounds with simple wav patterns. Here is a little experiment.

lumpy1.mp3

Space Disco

Kelly G — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:47:02 +0000

I found an old MIDI file in one of my archive folders called spacedisco.mid. I don’t really remember what it was for but it just has drums, bass and a simple instrument part so I think I meant to play guitar over it. I opened it in Tracktion, and applied fake instruments to the MIDI tracks, added cheezy choir pads, and played over it (semi improvised).

I guess it’s supposed to sound spacey.

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The Bright Path

Kelly G — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:14:41 +0000

Been doing a lot of stuff in FL Studio lately and no real instruments. Mostly because it’s just drag and drop. It’s a hassle to drag out my various pieces of real musical equipment and set them up. I haven’t even touched my guitar in months. that’s very sad.

Tonight I pull them out again. I want to start doing more instrumental pieces for that game I’m working on. This one took me about 10 minutes to compose for one minute of recording. I might use this as part of a longer piece or maybe in a part where the music can be short; like a menu or something. As usual, it ends abruptly because it is meant to be looped.

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Check out my latest sketchbook post for a little bit of concept art if you are interested int he game.