I've made this theme for "Legend of the Dark Wood". A Medievil fantasy game a friend is making.
www.2dadventure.com/ags/Title1.mid
This is the first track ive ever made for a game and i dont have a midi keyboard hooked up yet. Let me know what youy think.
Ben
Definitely not bad yfor your 1st go, but the drums are just all over the place, far too disjointed and random. In my opiion the track would be far better without them, im presuming this game has some sort of a medieval setting, so i dont think a modern drumkit would have any place in it's soundtrack anyway.
I realy like the drums, The meldoy in the middle is very Medievil-ish but I don't like the into to the middle melody other than that no complaint.
by the way, I'm changing the name to "Legend of DarkWood; The Orb of Farsight"
Hmmm. Do you mean the guitar melody?
And as for the drums, i think it sounds a little empty to cut them completly, but I'm not a big fan or the symbols, I'm jus not sure how to make them better....
An if your changin the name you might wanna change your banner.
As Dan said, those drums are definetely all over the place.
Yeah don't ditch them entirely, they just need re-doing. The drums need some repetition for starters, and here the main drum part just stops for a second at an awkward timing, get rid of that and make it continious. The cymbals crash at all the wrong times. you should have them perhaps crash just the once at the end of every point where the keys loop in the first section. It's hard to explain without just doing it myself, but I hope you understood what I meant.
I like the keyboards though!
Ive done some editing, Any better?
http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/Title1edit.mid
Big improovment.... Like it alot now....
I think there is something wrong with the rythm. I mean all instruments are not in sync.
The orchestration and drums are ok now, but for example after the break there is 1 note missing (or sounding to low to hear).
Since you are working in Cubase (I think that you are, right?) try to enter in each midi track (by double clicking on the track) find the MIDI menu -> Quantitize . This will fix all your rythm problems. But be carefull as it might move a note to the other side and not where you want it. But it will trim and fix every "wrong" place note.
But I like it, and as I have said before it is stuck in my head. I also like the ending and especially the middle part.
Question: Revan wants midi files (because of size), or you could redo them in mp3 format. Cause all the intruments you have here (drums, bass and the melody) cna be found on the Cubase intruments. Try and see. You will definately get a better sound. Just as an alternative...