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Well, Gray Fox was a trophy, haha.

I'd love to do that, however, I'm actually still learning that myself! I'll write something up as soon as I get the hang of it though!

Just so you all know, Spire and I just had a little fangasm. It was beautiful.Nintendo win E3.

Honestly, if your friend likes a girl, he should just say hi and hang out. Of course, there's always the tried and tested method of a drunk night out... always works for me ;)But seriously, all the cliche stuff is true, be yourself and be chill, if the girl doesn't like you after that, then she's not worth your time. Or your friend's. whatever, haha.

I would have loved to play this with my friends as a kid..

Hi, I thought that instead of throwing music at all of you and expecting you to listen to it, I'd try doing things a bit differently. In this thread, I will be giving teasers of the music that I am composing for Project Antiqua in the form of midi files that you can open yourself to look at. I will also be explaining my choices behind the composition - but more importantly, I'll be teaching you how to write music yourself. I work in notation (written music) rather than with a piano roll and blocks, so even if you've never read music before, this thread will help you, so you can understand everything. ALL SONGS ARE TEASERS AND ARE IN MIDI FORM. THEY DO NOT FULLY REPRESENT HOW THEY ARE GOING TO SOUND IN-GAME. (If this is in the wrong section, could a mod please move it, I was unsure where it belongs since it's both a tutorial and project related. Thanks.) ________________________________________________________________________________________ -Field- Here is the midi. It loops once, so you can hear how it loops. I'll now give a basic outline of the writing process. Hopefully it'll give you a good insight on how to write your own music! _________________________________________________________________________________________ These are the exact steps I took while writing this particular song. It's not the only way to write, but these steps will certainly help you to write better music. It may look and sound daunting at first, but I'll answer any questions you have. STEP 1 - KEY, STRUCTURE AND INSTRUMENTATION The first step to take when writing ANY music is deciding the key. This decides what notes fit with the music. For this piece, I chose the key of C minor (Cm). In terms of structure, this has 3 sections A, B and AB. A - 8 bars B - 8 bars AB - 8 bars (related to both A and B ) (notice that the sections are of equal length, this is called regular form. Even in the weirdest, most messed up music you can find, there will be some element of this) Regular form and key are the most important aspects of music. Without them, I guarantee your music will either sound horrible or will be boring. Decide what instruments you want. I started with a trumpet, strings and a french horn. Now for the fun stuff! STEP 2 - MELODY AND HARMONY (part 1) A nice place to start once you have decided on a Key is a basic melody. For this piece, I started with the intro melody and went from there, but if you have a great idea for something in the middle of the piece, there's nothing wrong with working around it! This is the melody that's played on the trumpet and violin in the first 8 bars. There aren't many jumps between notes in the melody. This keeps the music sounding regular and makes it flow nicely. - stick to notes from the key you chose earlier - try not to "jump" between notes - add shape to the music (eg. bars 1 and 3 rise, bars 2 and 4 fall) - Write what YOU think sounds good Humans like symmetry and this goes for music too. -Think of your melody as a human face. They're the same on both halves, with subtle differences. (eg. 1-4 and 2-8 are basically the same, but bars 7 and 8 are slightly different from 3 and 4) After getting the melody down, I harmonised with a french horn. -use notes from the key, be careful of dissonance where it's not needed (you'll hear a "crunch" - that is BAD in most cases) After 8 bars, I move to a new section of music. Now you have an awesome melody and some harmony to start with, it's time to step it up a notch! STEP 3 - CHORDS The next section has a melody and chords. I decided on basic chords first, then wrote a melody to fit. Again, use notes from the key and if you're struggling, look for a chord chart online, it's honestly the easiest and most simple way to learn them. A -great- starting place is a canon. This is a series of chords that remains the same throughout a piece of music. -write a 4 or 8 bar chord sequence (8 is more interesting) -remember to use notes from the key -remember the structure you decided earlier, does your sequence fit? Hey presto! you have a chord sequence (it's probably sexy) STEP 4 - MELODY (part 2) Once I had chords, I wrote a new melody that for my B section and then I combinated it with the one from section A to make the final 8 bars. -use notes from the key -remember to make it rise and fall, this keeps it interesting. -SYMMETRY! (eg. if you have 8 bars, write two halves of 4 bars) STEP 5 - FINISH IT OFF Now you have the outline of your song, well done! You might like it how it is, but if you're like me, you want more! I added snares and a timpani, to drive the music. Experiment with rhythm, see what fits your song. I also copied melodies over to other parts (eg, the final 8 bars, I copied the trumpet melody to the strings so that the two together sounded bigger) Like I said before, if anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask. This is my first tutorial, so I hope it was helpful! I'll be posting stuff on here as Mellow lets me reveal stuff. Deathbasket and I have quite the back catalogue forming EDIT - for some reason the images have all gone. I'm readding them. Holler if there are any problems. There shouldn't be...

a modern example would be demon's souls and dark souls, if you feel like checking them out. all of the lore is gathered from conversations with npc characters.

Dragon Sanctuary -

Cheers dude! I'll definitely be asking for help later, this took me sooooo long for something so small hahaha

Andreya Triana - Darker Than Blue I want to marry her and her beautiful voice.

Yo! Today I decided to give map making a try. Here's what I ended up with. "An abnormally large throne surrounded by ancient writings. Some say the throne is protected by monsters, under the faint glow of the purple crystals." I hope to post more as I get stuff done!

Basically we're writing music, hahahaha. The picture's not so important, I already look like a bit of a fool

I'm so confused, I can see it when I click spoiler.... whatever, here's a link, http://2imgs.com/2i/i/51b13f02/10597caffd8058c5060ce4358c806a0e/2d296b4192.f.png (Definitely works when I click it)

I posted a picture, must've been taken down 'cause I didn't spoiler it.Re-added.

More of a personal request than anything, but if it works on wii, would you be able to make it region free? I'm seriously looking forward to playing it!

There's a lot of this going on at the moment in our team...

I really like the sound of this. In the future you could even branch out, focusing on adding custom dungeons for even more variety! Can't wait to hear more on this!

I suppose I can join in. Here's my skype picture, nothing special, haha

I'd definitely recommend it. They've gone with a cell shaded art style this time, so it looks even better than before.The only down side is that I've only managed to play online once because there's just nobody playing it.

Does anyone have this on ps3 and want to play online some time? I'm really digging it at the moment (usually I find DW games really boring, but this is great!)It'd be real cool to get some co-op done though, so hit me up!

Guthrie Govan - Wonderful Slippery Thing

Wow, this looks great! Keep it up!

'sup buddy, welcome!

Spire, bro, that sheikah map is awesome. I hope to play it some day!

I love these guys! Props for the final fantasy-esque summon video Also, NEW DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN ALBUM YES