I hope this is the right forum - I'm still new!
I'm working on my first game...learning how to put my ideas together and technically do everything. I would like to tinker with the background music aspect. Could someone point me to a free download that is kinda noobie-friendly. One that already has different sounds/instruments that I can work with.
Thanks for any help or tips.
My recommendation would be the LMMS (Linux Multimedia Studio) which is very similar to FL Studio:
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/ (http://lmms.sourceforge.net/)
There are sites with free instruments or effects (echo, chorus, phaser, distortion, ...) which can be used within LMMS like
http://freemusicsoftware.org/category/vsti (http://freemusicsoftware.org/category/vsti) or complete databases:
http://www.kvraudio.com/get.php (http://www.kvraudio.com/get.php)
You could also check out "Sound Club for Windows":
http://www.bluemoon.ee/history/scwin/ (http://www.bluemoon.ee/history/scwin/)
Noobie as I am, I've always had fun messing with Musagi (http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2007/12/musagi_1.html), a very intuitive tool.
Also, a fellow AGSer, jon_swe made a very nice tutorial (http://midiforthepeople.weebly.com/tutorials.html) on how to make MIDI music.
Thanks for the suggestions. I downloaded sound club and I am happy with that at the moment. It has some pre-installed sounds and instruments.
Hey bicilotti, thanks for the info about Musagi. I´ve been looking for a tool like that so long.
If you're at all familiar with music modules you can find a variety of free trackers out there, from MilkyTracker to MadTracker to Fast Tracker 2. Heck, if you want to make NES style music there's FamiTracker and there's a gameboy tracker out there as well. For putting together a library of samples it's as easy as opening up your favorite music mod and borrowing the samples from it you like, and some of the newer trackers support Vsti's as well.
Quote from: bicilotti on Mon 28/12/2009 22:54:45
Noobie as I am, I've always had fun messing with Musagi (http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2007/12/musagi_1.html), a very intuitive tool.
Also, a fellow AGSer, jon_swe made a very nice tutorial (http://midiforthepeople.weebly.com/tutorials.html) on how to make MIDI music.
http://drpetter.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=musagi&action=displayhread=47
Working links for musagi if the server of its author is down (as it is now)!
Maybe this has nothing to do with this thread, but... I can't listen to midis in my computer! Any hints? ;D
Check the mixer setting of your system?
I think it's got something to do with the codecs, but I can't find them anywhere. It's hard to make a graphic adventure without midis, please help :-\
MIDI does not need codecs, as long as your sound card and driver (which should be true for all cards) support them. Try to find if there is a Synthesiser setting in the mixer.
I remember there was some odd behaviour with playing midis in Windows Media Player. Something like closing the program without stopping the midi, or pausing or stopping it normally set the volume on the synth channel to zero.