brunoafh wrote:AppleQueso wrote:I had a couple of guitarist friends who used to write songs too, we'd compose stuff in MIDI and send it back and forth to each other to listen to.
That's funny, my band mates and I would do the exact same thing. With me though I would always wind up turning whatever I was writing into a video game song. I would set out to write new material for us to maybe play, but then hours later I've written an RPG battle theme or a Contra song. Here's a good example of that haha, I wrote this like 7 years ago or something. I don't even remember what I had intended it to be but I went full on final boss with it.
Hahahaha, this is great.
You know, I'm betting one of the reasons you ended up writing video game-y stuff is because of how video-gamey the midi instruments end up sounding anyway. The main comment I'd get from other people when I'd show them a midi is almost always "sounds like Doom (as in the game) or something."
I've got tons of just random 30 second diddles and minute long experiments on my hard drive. Sometimes it gets expanded into a full song, sometimes not.
I've dabbled in video game music before, as I've had a friend who's working on a platformer game ask me to help out. I kinda had trouble getting into the right head-space, so I didn't get much done and ultimately referred him to another guy I know who's the main composer now.
aaron wrote:i wish i was in a band right now but i need to save up for some more gear. here's the last thing i played on if y'all are interested: http://casqueindy.bandcamp.com/album/devour-the-lion
This is pretty cool stuff, I really dig it. What'd you play on it?
