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Hey guys! It's me again. I think Banana-Joe gave up on me. So, I'm asking for a new guy who could make music for my newest WIP "Heroes of Thereworld" a 2D platformer in the style of good ol' Rayman. We (Me and my buddy) are working on two demo-levels and they need music, of course!
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Froginator wrote:Hey guys! It's me again. I think Banana-Joe gave up on me. So, I'm asking for a new guy who could make music for my newest WIP "Heroes of Thereworld" a 2D platformer in the style of good ol' Rayman. We (Me and my buddy) are working on two demo-levels and they need music, of course!
I may be willing to help and sent you a PM with regards to the information I'd like to know so I can check if I'd be a good fit for the music making.
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Heyyyy music.

I don't know if any of you ever played Runescape, but it's got some chill music. The old stuff is in midi files too, which is good for OHR games, so even if you haven't played the games and you want a new library of tracks to choose from, you can search them up. Because who cares about Copyright?

Anyway, I remixed one of the songs because it just didn't have enough synthesizers. Zero is just not enough. You need all of the sythesizers. All of them. It's good background music if you want something to listen to. Maybe that's why it's called Background.

https://soundcloud.com/lcngaming/runesc ... nd-remix-2[/list]
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Well, sounds nice, though no idea what the original was like.
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I did another thing. This one is original, although not entirely finished.

https://soundcloud.com/lcngaming/new-beginnings
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So to any musicians or non-musicians, I found a pretty great program for making 8-bit music. It's called FamiTracker, and it emulates NES and Famicom instruments. It doesn't come with any premade instruments, so you have to make them yourself, but that gives you a lot of control over the sound. And although it's complicated, getting the basics down is pretty easy.

One of the best things about it is that you don't really have to know anything about music. It might help, but there's no music notation or anything, and it's all grid-based. So for anyone who struggles to find suiting music for your games that's also royalty free, this might help. It also might be too confusing. I don't know. It's worth a shot.

Um, you can find it at http://famitracker.com/

Also here's a thing I threw together with it. It's, uh... it's what it is. https://soundcloud.com/lcngaming/starbound

Another thing I've noticed is that there doesn't seem to be a huge supply of tutorials for it, but there are some. I can also try to answer any questions about how it works.

Another another thing, it only comes with an .exe, but I'm running it perfectly with Wine on OS X 10.10
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Famitracker's good. There are lots of good trackers and most are fairly easy to use.

Personally I like Milky Tracker the best (it's for Mac and Windows). It has an import option so you can import sound samples. The great thing is that the samples get transposed to any note you want. So if you import a single sound effect you can play it at any pitch. It also has a built in waveform generator so you can generate triangle wave, noise, square wave, sine wave, etc... at any pitch. It has a lot of great features too. There's also this guy on youtube "Brandon Walsh" who made a short video series to give people a tutorial of Milky Tracker. He's actually a pretty great chip tune artist so the stuff you can produce after watching his videos is pretty great in quality.

That all being said Milky Tracker can look a bit daunting at first (tutorials are pretty necessary to help get started with it unless your familiar with counting hexadecimals and using other trackers). There are lots of nice minimal trackers too which are limited in features but very straight forward. Also the kind of music produced with minimal trackers tends to seem most NES-esque in my opinion.
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So I totally got a soundcloud. I've uploaded some of my favorite past songs that I've done before, but here's a few new ones:

https://soundcloud.com/seffylocks/proud-swagger

https://soundcloud.com/seffylocks/wild-laughter

These are supposed to be battle themes for a recurring boss. The second one is supposed to play later on in the game, when the boss is kind of getting fed up with why the heroes are still alive, but the first one kind of has more of a sinister vibe to it.
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All of these tracks are fantastic! It's rare to hear midi songs of this caliber. I really love them.

Do you use them for just your own games or do you have them available to others?
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Those tracks ARE fantastic! If I had rented an SNES game years ago and heard this stuff, I would've been impressed. There's nothing you can't do, bro!
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Thanks for the comments, guys :D

I typically have a game in mind when I write a song, but some of them are for games that won't ever get made (like the two I just uploaded). Anyways, I've enabled downloads for songs that I don't plan on using myself.
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I'm getting a strong Romancing SaGa vibe from the first one. Is that intentional or just coincidence?
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Haha, I knew someone would notice the Romancing SaGa vibe. I didn't plan on it being like that, but I definitely noticed the vibe when I started writing and decided to just roll with it.

Full disclosure: This is the song that actually inspired the bassline:
https://youtu.be/gAfBOEQLnMY?t=26m10s
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The two new ones you just put up are the ones you don't plan on using yourself? That's weird
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