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Hey there Mr. Borg, totally dig on the story idea.  I'm a sucker for anything involving space.

Where are you on the music side of things?

I would be happy to contribute some original tunes to the project if you don't already have the music all figured out.

Check out my studio banner at the bottom there you can hear samples of my work as well as my references, and also here is my page for 'Warmer' http://www.myspace.com/warmer

it's a solo project on the record label 3am Devices.  Think NIN meets radiohead and the muse.

I've done a few original for film scores and am working with Harvester Games on an upcoming project.

please get back to me via

warmer.jesse@gmail.com

I check that address a few times and day and I don't get on AGS daily so that is the quickest form of communication.

Hello all, the results are as follows,

The Bronze medal goes to;

Le Woltaire

for his other worldly vibe themed freak out



The Silver medal goes to;

Hadas

for his great break beat worbly creepy synth laden track



The Gold medal goes to;

Viking

for his wonderfully arranged and craft orchestral piece.  I am amazed at the depth of instrumentation you use.  Great stuff.  The live violin adds a very human and intimate touch the song.



Please pardon my atrocious medals guys.  I didn't have time to make some proper ones.

Hello all, this competition has now closed.

I will be announcing the winners later today.

By 8pm Pacific Standard Time March 1st 2010.

Thanks to everyone that entered!!

Phemar, I think what you are interpreting as poor sound quality when exporting is either one of two things...

It's either the distortion from overdriving the signal which in turn becomes clipping and is essentially leveling off the top of the wave form.  It sound like it's over driven.  Not at all a negative trait if that was desired.  If you want to keep that in check, throw a compressor on the master bus before you export and make sure you never see that meter hit 0.0db. You want to set them so they at the very least limit the signal to -.2db

If you can put a compressor on there, then make sure to low the other tracks until it never goes above -.2db

I am pretty sure you should have something like a compressor if you can emulate guitar cabinets and distortion.

The garbly scrabbled bit that appears twice, is that intentional?  Is that the mix down issue?  Sounds like a sample rate conflict or was that an intentional effect?




One last note pertaining to everyone else.  Entries must be in by 12am Pacific Standard time, Monday Morning March 1st.


All the entries so far have they strengths and are very different from the rest. 

It's great to see so many different points of view for the same general emotion.

Lets get a couple more in before Sunday is over!

You can use any sound source you capture by any means.  

It's just got to be analog.  Maybe I should have stated that more clearly.


Any pc mic would qualify.  

Has anyone ever plugged a set of headphones into the mic input on a comp and sang into the left side (I believe it is)


That works by the same principles as any mic.  The movement of the diaphragm creates and electrical current and is picked up by the mic input.

Of course it's extremely crude, but it's proof of concept.

Give it a try.  Everyone has a set of phones right?  Ear Buds won't work.  You need something with a closed back. Preferably over the ear style.


How about we just give you extra credit for a live source.  I won't make it a qualifying factor seeing how I limited so many people unintentionally...

The production quality will way in of course, but the overall sense of feeling is the most important part of this entire equation.

Le Woltaire is looks like you just might win by default...

Where are all the submissions!?

Any suggestions?

Good work La Woltaire!

I like your sense of space at the beginning and how you progressively get tighter and more polyphonic in your expression as you go along.  I was definitely feel uneasy when it got really thick and dissonant.

Nice tune!  I like what you are doing.

When you usually just get the warning "PANIC" that typically means, Midi Panic.

Midi Panic is what your sound card does when it's got to many samples to trigger for your memory or polyphony to handle.

It's a hard reset in a sense.  Everything stop because nothing is working properly.

Look up "midi panic" or just panic in your help file.  It's probably associated with that issue.

If you want to edit further and know you have several parts already finished, try to bounce some some of the voices that simply loop and do not need to be triggered every go round.  This will free up your sound card and your cpu overhead and allow you to do much more.

I run into this problem all the time in traditional DAW recording.  A midi panic and an audio dropout are caused by very similar root problems.

What software are you using?

Hello everyone, let try to make some music that makes you anxious

Let try and create some anxiety filled tension.

Can you feel the walls closing in?

Are your inner thoughts stabbing at your psyche?


Here are the rules

You must use at least one Organic/Live/Real instrument or sound in this song.

Not a sample, but something that was captured by you with a mic or instrument cable.

Please say which instrument is the live-real instrument when submitting.

The song must always have at least 2 distinct parts.

Suspense and then the anxiety attack, and be a minimum of 60 seconds long.


By all mean use any instrumentation you can think of!

There will be trophy's.  I just have to make them.

Anything goes aside from that.


Have fun!!!!

Most definitely all those sounds were made by myself in my studio.  I'd live in there 24/7 if my girlfriend would let me.

The Guitars are all played live.
The vocals are multi tracked 3-5 times per part.
The strings and piano are the midi portion of the song.  Good old point and click style.

*shameless plug alert*

If you want to hear more of my stuff check out my myspace.

www.myspace.com/warmer

It's all done solo style.  Just me and loads of time.

*edited for content

Nice arrangement Something13.  Good stuff.  You really go places and find your way back in a really smooth transitional way.

Hello all, here is my entry into the tune contest.  I used the main melody to open the song and then it evolves from there coming back to the opening melody before evolving again through a bridge and back into the chorus (I guess you could call it)


shes somewhere im not.mp3


Here are the lyrics in condensed form (no repeated lines)

"She's somewhere I'm not
so far from my love
and I would do anything to get near you
and I would do anything for you my love

My heart beats
it skips one
and you are so far away my love"

if anyone has trouble downloading the song please PM me so I can fix it.

Thanks to everyone who listened,

Warmer

Nice work Wretched I really like how deftly you placed that melody. 

Very natural.

Good stuff.  Good production as well.  

Hello hello, I'm new here.  I am entering in this contest.  What time does this end?  Time zone wise?  I'm on Pacific Standard in the US.

This site is in England?

I just wanted to make sure I wasn't late.  I am working on a song right now and would like to see how far I can take it before I turn it in.

Cheers,

Warmer

Hello world.

My name is Jesse.  I'm a 32 year old male from Idaho. I write music under the name Warmer on the record label 3am Devices.  I'm also the owner of Statickinetic Studios.  I have done several scores and themes for film and would like to start working with game designers.

I have loved Adventure games since I was around 10-11.  I think the first one I played was either Maniac Manson or the first Sierra Hero's Quest, Trial by Fire.  I've loved the genre since.

If anyone out there is interested in working on something let me know.  I have a professional studio with lots of capability for audio production.  I've been writing music since I started playing piano at 8.  It's what I love to do more than anything else.


I hope to get some Pm's from some designers looking to collab.  I am up for working with all or NO budgets.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. 

Cheers,

Jesse
-warmer-
http://www.3amdevices.com