Where's that thread about utilities for making music?

Gizmog · Post by **Gizmog** » Fri Sep 30, 2016 4:53 am

I swear there was a thread a long time ago where people talked about the different cool (free) utilities they used to make music for their games. I never thought I'd need it, but now I'm thinking I'll try to learn. Anybody got any cool programs or hints to making music?

BMR · Post by **BMR** » Fri Sep 30, 2016 5:40 am

Lily Pond is one that comes to mind, but that might be a bit too feature-heavy for most. There's also Audacity, but that's more for putting your music together rather than making music.

Gizmog · Post by **Gizmog** » Fri Sep 30, 2016 6:02 am

So it just writes down the notes, it doesn't let you know what it sounds like? IS that how they all work? THe lasts thing I used was Notate.exe about a hundred years ago.

kylekrack · Post by **kylekrack** » Fri Sep 30, 2016 7:54 am

FamiTracker is a good tracker. Anyone can make (strictly) 8-bit songs fairly easily without any background in music. This video has a decent introduction to it. Once you figure out the layout, you can actually make simple but decent stuff really quickly.

And if you like, you can take the tracks made from here, import them into something like Audacity and play with it in there so you can get the 8-bit sound with more flare.

BMR · Post by **BMR** » Fri Sep 30, 2016 9:18 am

No, LilyPond allows you to listen to stuff as well. You notate stuff, add whatever instruments, listen to what you wrote down, etc... It might be a bit on the heavy side though, in terms of features.

Post by **TMC** » Fri Sep 30, 2016 11:28 am

I spent an hour with a tracker once, but I don't think I'm cut out for it.

This page might be useful (or you can add to it!)
http://rpg.hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/Music_Utilities

Gizmog · Post by **Gizmog** » Fri Sep 30, 2016 7:42 pm

Wolfram Tones is surprisingly cool! LMMS seems like about my speed but my internet keeps hating the download for some reason. Gonna check out FamiTracker too. Thanks and sorry for totally neglecting the wiki: I am a moron

Ichiro · Post by **Ichiro** » Fri Sep 30, 2016 10:22 pm

The engine can play tracked music too, so there's also OpenMPT

sheamkennedy · Post by **sheamkennedy** » Sun Oct 02, 2016 12:55 am

I have to say if you're going to use a track try Milky Tracker. It's set up like any other tracker but is advantageous in that it allows you to use your own samples. This means you can take in any sound you want and it will automatically transpose across every note on the keyboard thus you can play that sample at any pitch. Very great for making glitch chiptune type beats. It also have a nice feature where you can draw or edit waveforms. Also there's a great youtube tutorial series for it which makes it easy to learn.