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Wow I actually like this a lot. I don't think the recording is that bad and the violinists are quite good. The end does feel a little unsatisfactory though. Perhaps if you brought some of the first section into the second one it would feel a little more justified. The material is very good, I just think the two sections are too segregated.

Yeah, extend it a little, I am trying to work on something.

What if you wanted to do an arcade sequence within your adventure game? I don't think we should limit what is produced with the AGS engine to any one specific thing. It's just a program.

 http://bolandgraphics.homestead.com/files/fountain.mid

Ok I decided to enter a quick one. I did the fountain too.

I like it too. This is merely a suggestion, but when I have heard tremolo guitar passages like that it is usually carried out throughout the entire melodic line, although it might get annoying after awhile. Maybe if you just continue it until the next note change, instead of resting on the 3rd beat of the measure.

White people are hot. Asians... not so much.

You can just open it in a sequencer or something and make the note lengths longer. They are so short that it sounds unnatural. Also using an instrument with a built in decay, like a piano, would hide it a bit too.

The way it ends is weird also, it seems to finish on the major I chord, and then goes to vi for no apparent reason (the a minor chord). Not only are the two last chords really long, it doesn't sound finished when you end it like that, so I would just take the last chord off.

Ok thanks, I downloaded Firefox, I guess I should just give up on IE.

Did you install Win XP SP2?

I did that awhile ago and it never seemed to affect google until recently.

To get rid of them you need to download a free programe called Spybot - search and destroy. That will find them out and get rid of them for you;
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I tried spybot, adaware, ran norton, regscrub, nothing seemed to do anything. Oh well, thanks guys.

Hahaha, that purring noise is the funniest thing I have ever heard in a song.  It reminds me of Sonic the Hedgehog music. Hehe.

Hey, I was wondering if anyone was having a similar problem with Google. Whenever I search it takes a really long time and freezes the browser for like 15 seconds. It only seems to happen in internet explorer, cuz it works fine when I do it with another browser. IE doesn't have a problem loading any other sites either. I have run as much anti-spyware stuff as I can, and I don't know what the cause of this is. Does anyone know what is going on? Thanks

I agree with the sleeve thing. They look too thick, and they go too far over her hands. Also the two pixels at the top of the hair on the girl with black hair looks kind of weird.

http://bolandgraphics.homestead.com/files/sampleedit2.mp3

It uses chromatic scales. Awesome.

I think Le Woltaire means write something that is chromatic as opposed to diatonic. Diatonic refers to a scale, such as a major or minor scale, and rarely using tones that do not exist in that scale. Some music of the classical and baroque period was like this, Hadyn and Handel are probably the best examples.

Chromatic music is just using tones that deviate from a diatonic scale. It doesn't necessarily mean it is atonal or anything, in fact most chromatic music is tonal. Chopin is a good example of chromatic music (but to tell you the truth, most composers wrote both chromatically and diatonically since the Baroque period).

There really isn't much theory involved, you have probably already written chromatic music.

I would say the best example of chromatic music that everyone is familiar with is Flight of the BumbleBee by Rimsky-Korsakov.

It will be hard for you to check if the song is really written using chromatics. Only very good musicians will be able to hear those.

Honestly, you should consider changing the topic if possible...

It's not really hard to identify, most music today is chromatic in some way.

Oh, I apologize. I was thinking there might be more to this story, but I guess I just wasn't thinking. Plus I was in kind of a smart-ass mood. So I hope I didn't insult you.

So where exactly is this other thread?

I don't understand the purpose of so much excitement. Am I wrong in assuming that ANY person who is sexually active should get tested for HIV and STDs and such?

Congratulations for not having sex with someone who is diseased...

Hold onto your socks AGA, I'm getting to it!

Le Woltaire: I like this a lot. Perhaps a bit too long to be music for a cutscene. And I might have preferred a little less pedal at times. The music is very appropriate and suits the atmosphere, although the piano cannot always do it justice. I was a little dissapointed with the end, although I blame that on limitations of the piano.

c-off: It's cute to an extent, almost too cute for a witch. I like the string ostinato, although I would suggest some harmonic alterations, particularly in the use of major chords. I think the piano sound for the melody isn't the best choice either. I do like the rhythms; it would be interesting to see what you could do with a more sporadic, pointilistic melody.

Mills: This is very good. I like a lot of the string figurations. And some of the midi sounds are kind of funky, which I like, perhaps too loud, but that is probably just a soundcard thing. The harmonic rhythm could be altered a little to make it more interesting, but your choice of notes is quite good.



Ok, it's tough to decide, but I am going to choose Le Woltaire! That style of music is one rarely heard in computer games and I think it would provide a very unique setting for this character.

Is anyone else planning to enter this competition?

The title music is my favourite from Loom, and though I think it might be by LEC, its more likely the prelude for Swan lake.

The prelude to Swan Lake isn't even in the game. I'm sure nobody really cares, but that music is actually the Intrada to a Pas de Trois in the first act.

Hetchel's theme is The Dance of the Little Swans (act 4)
Crystalgard is the Dance of the four Swans (act 2)
The sheperd music is the pas d'action from act 1
The blacksmith music is the Moderato from the same Pas de Trois as the intro music
The Cathedral music is the Andante Sostenuto from the Pas de Trois again
and the finale music is, guess...the finale.

Indiana Jones (Maybe that doesn't count, considering it is originally from the movie)

Well if that doesn't count then neither does Loom.

I would say my favorite game soundtracks are Gabriel Knight, Leisure Suit Larry 3, and the Dagger of Amon Ra.