Boss battle theme (Alasthor)

[Ulti19]

Took down the original and i'm gonna to try and fix alot of things in it^^

Gonna change this topic to a more interesting idea than just one battle music piece. Can be a thread of user made songs. Let's see what cool tunes people can come up with.

[Mattdoesrock]

A nice idea, but first wouldn't it require that the boss is epic in design and combat? :sifflote:

[Pnarpa]

That music makes me want to stick a pencil down my ear as far as possible... or it makes me want to mute my speakers.

[Arafails]

what tools did you use?

[tjanex]

Hmmm it could be more ''not loud during forever and boring''?

[Pizdzius]

The music is very ... not soundtracky. The lack of bass line and rythm variety, improved with only small amount of intrumental voices sounds very very empty :S but I do agree about boss fights needing more music. This game in overall needs more music tracks, but I don't think it's cheap.

[Ulti19]

XD nooooo, wouldn't actually use this song. It would have to be remade completely with quality because the program i used is more like super nintendo music. I'm not musically talented whatsoever, and it's the first battle track i ever made messing around on a program last night, but thought boss music would be awesome! I like the beat though, but it would probably go better with Syrtis dragon since they are more forest when i think about it and since it feels like a jungle fight haha.

[Vaylos]

While not primal sounding, is this epic enough?

http://www.thesixtyone.com/jbot#/s/F3zOGIQiWyi/


^_^

Tools used: Kork PadKontrol for percussion, Sampletank2 free edition for female lead, Choir, a mix of soundfonts and the sampletank lead for choir. Strings are the EWQLSO free edition mixed with a couple other orchestral sets I have. DAW (digital audio workstation) used are Reaper and FL-Studio.

It was written for a tabletop RPG game we were playing. The music was to be "creative inspiration" heh. Still despite some of the flaws I think it turned out well. There are a few issues I'm aware of from a production/quality standpoint, and I do plan to correct them, but I'm involved with some other projects so this piece is on the backburner for now.



I'm also passively looking for a better place to store my tracks. Thinking of going with Reverb Nation. I know several who use it, so I'm leaning in that direction. I learned too late that the sixtyone re-compresses any mp3s you upload into 128kbps using whatever algorithm they use. :/

[Ulti19]

Nice Marek. For sure yours has a nice melody to it. Maybe should change this thread to community created songs and have fun with that. Gonna try to make a better one, and test that.

[_Seinvan]

http://www.thesixtyone.com/jbot#/s/F3zOGIQiWyi/

http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/0809/moar-demotivational-poster-1221695742.jpg

[Pizdzius]

While not primal sounding, is this epic enough?

http://www.thesixtyone.com/jbot#/s/F3zOGIQiWyi/

It might not be battle-ish, but is awesome, put real woman's voice instead of electro choir, and it's a nice pro soundtrack

[Miraculix]

While not primal sounding, is this epic enough?

http://www.thesixtyone.com/jbot#/s/F3zOGIQiWyi/


^_^

Tools used: Kork PadKontrol for percussion, Sampletank2 free edition for female lead, Choir, a mix of soundfonts and the sampletank lead for choir. Strings are the EWQLSO free edition mixed with a couple other orchestral sets I have. DAW (digital audio workstation) used are Reaper and FL-Studio.

It was written for a tabletop RPG game we were playing. The music was to be "creative inspiration" heh. Still despite some of the flaws I think it turned out well. There are a few issues I'm aware of from a production/quality standpoint, and I do plan to correct them, but I'm involved with some other projects so this piece is on the backburner for now.



I'm also passively looking for a better place to store my tracks. Thinking of going with Reverb Nation. I know several who use it, so I'm leaning in that direction. I learned too late that the sixtyone re-compresses any mp3s you upload into 128kbps using whatever algorithm they use. :/

Soundfonts for choir pl0x! I'm using some Papelmedia soundfonts and I thought they were good, but what what you're using sounds better...

[Vaylos]

Thank you for the comments everyone.

Most of what I do is self-taught, though I do have some musical training and background. I also visit the home recording connection forums frequently for critiques on anything I've got to the "work-in-progress" stage, And I try to help other musicians and home-studio folks out with questions or critique mixes There are some great folks there with a wealth of experience both music related, and studio/production related.

For the choir sound I used a couple soundfonts that I thought were pretty decent on their own. The papel-media Aahs, KBH-realchoir female patch (think that's what it was called) Which I think the KBH sounds were offered from the music team behind Battle for Wesnoth. I also mixed in the soprano lead sound from Sampletank to help flesh out the top end a bit. I thought it sounded pretty good once everything was layered and mixed together.

I would describe the process of mixing as making a fine sauce. You don't want to add too much of any one herb or spice, but you want a little more of this or a little less of that. Sometimes experimentation can bring about something great. Sometimes it can be a total flop. But even flops help build experience.

This track is probably one of the closest to sounding "pro" that I've achieved without using the large $$$$ packages like EastWest Symphonic Choirs and the new one that came out last year from Voxos. (though I'd kill to have a word-builder, hah.) Maybe next year I can afford one of them. :) But you can totally get a good sound with freebies.

I've also started writing a "rule-of-thumb" guide for general mixing and techniques that I use to accompany the other two guides I have up on my site. It's somewhat on the back-burner right now as I've got other projects going on.

Thanks for the comments. :)