Post your soundcloud

The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > No More Drake > Musician's Lounge > Post your soundcloud

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Might as well drop a few of my things here

Here's a quintet that I 'finished' last week while putting off making presentations:

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/quintet

And here's a more full ensemble type thing:

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/tension-and-release

Mostly do symphony orchestra type stuff.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2021 17:06

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 10, 2024 09:19

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Pollyanna posted:

drat, nice work. 4:40 worth of music is a lot more than you�d think! I�m a sucker for strings, and this is making me want to muck around with strings VSTs. Maybe after I do more synth stuff.

I�m a big fan of the idea that comes in around 3:17, it sounds almost pentatonic to my ears I think? Pentatonic scales sounds great on strings, IMO, I�d love to hear it more often.

(ngl tho i was expecting those run ups to turn into the zelda theme )

Thanks! Yeah I love strings but there can always be a challenge when you have really high notes being played that they don't sound too 'whiny.' The Guarneri violin is wonderful at those registers.

I honestly couldn't tell you if it's pentatonic or not... I have basically no music theory knowledge and pretty much everything I make is just me putting down stuff I hear in my head and playing with it until it sounds 'right' to me.

There's been a couple of times where I'll start putting something down and be like wait that's way too close to the dark world theme from a link to the past or whatever.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2021 18:23

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Kiwillian posted:

What Strings do you you use? I've just been using the free SINE Factory Ensemble thing for my terrible classical remixes/remasters/horribleness such as my latest thingy:

https://open.spotify.com/album/3T7t6UAs2AfDg46lrmdq9D?si=3cf2919a799b450a

This is my fav:
https://open.spotify.com/track/3A6UR92ddTz5FwiZ0fuV5y?si=344de76d95264fa3

I'm pretty sure that's the music I hear in my nightmares :v:

Everything but the contrabass was from the Cremona Quartet. Contrabass was from Spitfire's symphonic strings professional.

I turned it in to a full ensemble over the weekend and sped it up slightly:

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/triumph

That's a mix of the Cremona Quartet, Spitfire's symphonic pro instruments, and Eastwest's Hollywood instruments.

Even with a Ryzen 9 5950X I had to record it in 3 passes to not get popping due to the complexity.

# ¿ Nov 8, 2021 14:23

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Kiwillian posted:

Nice! Sounds really good. If i'm going to continue murdering classical music I should probably invest in some decent strings.

The Overture from the EP I posted started to kill my PC so I had to freeze a bunch of tracks in Ableton which renders them and secretly replaces them with the rendered wav. Takes a load off the CPU usage.

Yeah, when something is supposed to sound 'real' I'm really picky about the sound of stuff.

I use a music notation program called Dorico so it's not so easy to 'freeze' tracks, and I am messing with them constantly. I only have issues when I have tons of stuff going. My next step is to build out a server cluster to do remote processing of the sounds so that I can run more/load more. It sounds insane but I'm actually constrained by the 128 GB of RAM I have. I could probably pretty easily fill half a TB if not more.

This is what that end part looks like in Dorico:

# ¿ Nov 9, 2021 04:17

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Posting here too but guitar talk has me messing with some too, as well as some synths. Guitars are good and fun.

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/progish-wip4

Still a wip but did that all over the weekend and looking forward to doing more.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2021 16:06

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

And now that one is done!

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/time-waits-for-no-one

drat that was a ton of fun to put together.

# ¿ Nov 19, 2021 18:44

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Kiwillian posted:

What Strings do you you use? I've just been using the free SINE Factory Ensemble thing for my terrible classical remixes/remasters/horribleness such as my latest thingy:

https://open.spotify.com/album/3T7t6UAs2AfDg46lrmdq9D?si=3cf2919a799b450a

This is my fav:
https://open.spotify.com/track/3A6UR92ddTz5FwiZ0fuV5y?si=344de76d95264fa3

I made this one yesterday, the strings are all from Spitfire's Masse with nothing added on top of them (reverb/whatever)

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/it-tolls-for-you

They make a great sound and have a clean 'epic string' patch too instead of the 'cool' ones I used.

Also as a huge nerd I had the FFIV Four Fiends battle music stuck in my head last night so I remade it this morning:

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/ffiv-four-fiends/s-LLUxtbu7UGq?si=374f84e5fdf14f5bb87fbcce229e0caf

# ¿ Nov 21, 2021 18:40

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Agreed posted:

I like "It Tolls For You" and also your track "Move It" that autoplayed afterward, and they sounded good together too. I am new to samplers like Spitfire's collections but I am really enjoying the BBC Discover plugin and am grateful they make it available like they do. I hope to add more when I can - you have some cool sounds!

Here's one I did kind of recently, which I intend to expand sooner or later - hope somebody enjoys it: https://soundcloud.com/user-612970086/hatching-moon-cracks-and-blinding-light

Thanks! I made them one right after the other at the same tempo so I'm not surprised. Probably rename 'move it' to something even more cliched like first light. Going to make more in that style as it's pretty fun.

That song is awesome, love the guitar sound in it. And the next one that started playing is freakin amazing! Badass sounds.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2021 19:59

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Since I always get this stuck in my head as well I decided to do a remaster of it or whatever. I've never liked other ones I've heard. I remember trying to do this like.. 20 years ago and giving up after a few hours.

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/secret-of-mana-angels-fear-remastered

Now it's time to play with guitar sounds.

# ¿ Nov 22, 2021 05:19

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Woolwich Bagnet posted:

Since I always get this stuck in my head as well I decided to do a remaster of it or whatever. I've never liked other ones I've heard. I remember trying to do this like.. 20 years ago and giving up after a few hours.

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/secret-of-mana-angels-fear-remastered

Now it's time to play with guitar sounds.

Sooo I decided I wasn't happy enough with it and spend another.. 20 or so hours working on it, and this was the result

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/angels-fear-enhanced

Added a lot of parts, and filled it out. It was quite the challenge getting everything balanced at the end, considering it went from 8 tracks to nearly 40....

# ¿ Nov 24, 2021 04:41

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Agreed posted:

I am going to listen to that Secret of Mana track tomorrow when I can sit down for a moment with it. I love Kikuta's work on the original soundtrack so much. Edit: I didn't wait, this is great! Thank you for uploading it, well done man.

I made a new song! This one is called Willowisp. Hope y'all enjoy it.

https://soundcloud.com/user-612970086/willowisp

Thanks! Love the mellow guitar at the beginning with the harmony.

# ¿ Nov 28, 2021 02:41

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Guy on youtube made a video about hiring people off Fiverr to remix a piano part of Beethoven's 5th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNRBhq2oV8k

I had the piano part stuck in my head for a couple of days so I made my own version of it. Pretty sure I spent a lot longer on it than he did :v:

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/beethovens-5th-remix

# ¿ Dec 1, 2021 02:42

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Agreed posted:

I can't find an orchestral version of Angel's Fear that is anywhere near as nice as yours, Woolwich, I was on a SNES music kick today and ended up playing your track a few times. Great job on it.

Thanks again! It means a lot to me to hear that. I made it because I get on those same kicks sometimes and I wasn't happy with anything I found either. My goal is to try and envision what the original composer would have done without the limitations. When you look at the original tracks you see where instruments come and go because they were at the limit so that helps too.

I have a few other SNES rpg tracks I want to do in the future as well.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2021 16:05

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Trig Discipline posted:

I made a long ambient thing that turns into a sort of slowcore vocoder song about how the universe cannot tolerate true nothingness.

https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/work-in-progress-nothing-never-lasts-forever

Very cool. Love the super long build. When I first played it my speakers were making this static sound on the highest hits and I wasn't sure if it was part of the song or not. Turns out when I closed Reaper my ASIO decided to go back to 44 khz from 48 and was causing all sorts of fun static.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2021 04:37

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

I've been working on a piece that uses traditional Chinese instruments. Here's my WIP so far:

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/east-wip2

The drums are pretty placeholder at the moment and need a lot of work, but do an ok job for now. Also it has no 'ending' and I'll probably add a full ensemble part at the end at the original tempo.

edit: also played the intro dizi part on my keyboard instead of just putting in notes. Makes it feel so much more natural. First time doing that. I've found that my piano skills have gotten a lot better from actually working on music.

Woolwich Bagnet fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Dec 6, 2021

# ¿ Dec 6, 2021 15:09

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

nurmie posted:

made a lil soundtrack for a lil gamejam game that i also made and it turned out quite neat i think - listen to it here if you're so inclined. the game itself can be found here, if anyone wants to have a look at that too (it's an fps with a TWIST)

Very cool. Reminds me of like.. Jim Guthrie? Which is definitely a compliment.

ProperCoochie posted:

Here's my soundcloud - smash that like button and subscribe and don't forget to ring the bell
Sounds [/url]

fuckin' idiot (nice)

I made a weird thing just playing around with sounds and stuff. There's several parts in it that are unfinished but I got out of it what I wanted so it's cool. Also a note is stuck on at the end but whatever. I need to remember to go back to that file at some point as I have like 3-4 melodies fleshed out in it that I should probably use some day.

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/experimentation

# ¿ Dec 24, 2021 17:05

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Inspiration struck the day before Christmas so I started on this piece. I wanted to work on something a lot more emotive than what I've done in the past, and this was the result. Also lots of chords.

Just piano, violin, and cello. And it's actually human playable. I'm really happy with how it came out. The title comes from the ending, which to me sounds like a dream.

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/on-the-border-of-a-dream

I will probably take the theme from this and turn it in to a faster orchestrated piece as well.

# ¿ Dec 28, 2021 08:27

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

I've been in the process of moving and it sucks and all that, but I at least got my comp which means I can do some music stuff again.

I've been working on this on and off (mostly off thanks to moving) for the last month or so.

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/another-thing-7-wip

More balancing to do and it needs an ending, but it's getting much closer now. The piano part a bit after 3 min is a lot of fun to play as well.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2022 00:42

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Did an 'enhanced' version of one of my chill favs from Chrono Trigger that you maybe hear for a few seconds in the game since you're probably rushing through quickly.

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/secret-of-the-forest-enhanced

# ¿ Apr 4, 2022 15:12

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Finally finished this one, which I've been working at off and on for months now. It's my take on an epic boss battle or something like that. Has several different segments with some different styles in it. At nearly 9 minutes it's definitely the longest thing I've made.

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/epic-boss-fight-theme

Now to get back to another that I've been working on for some time that's nearly done!

# ¿ May 30, 2022 22:09

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Replied to your comments in bold, and never feel bad about commenting, I like it!

Pollyanna posted:

You do mine if I do yours? Despite me being intimidated. Keep in mind that this is going to be entirely subjective because I have zero objective experience and authority when it comes to arrangement, composition, and instrumentation. Also I have no mixing or mastering advice because I�m a deep loving moron when it comes to that.

Spoilered so as not to color other people�s expectations.

I like this a lot! As an avid fan of Koshiro and Uematsu, I love me some orchestral work and symphonic rock. And I�m impressed you managed to get almost 9 minutes of music down, I struggle to get 2.

Interesting to hear that it took several months to get down. My track I put together over the course of a long weekend, and I most certainly did not expand it nearly as far as this or pick over it as meticulously. Making music takes a surprisingly long time

What was most of your time spent on, regardless of it being off-and-on? Coming up with progressions and musical ideas (composition), putting the progressions and musical ideas together in an interesting and appealing fashion (arrangement), choosing the right instruments and harmonic content for each progression and musical idea (instrumentation), or making sure the harmonic and percussive content of each section plays well with and doesn�t overpower the others (mixing and mastering)? Almost all of the time was spent working on the last 2-3 minutes of it, and the transition from the part at 6:33 to 6:55. Originally that section was around 3x as long before getting to the final section. And the sounds for the bass/guitars. The rest of it was put together over the course of a week or so.

0:00 - This is rich coming from someone who�s infatuated with The End of Raging Waves, but I�m not sure how I feel about going full blare right out the gate. If I was fighting a boss and this is how the first 25 seconds go, I�d be like �oh drat we�re doing this now?�. I personally would start off with the lower strings, and then ramp up to the high strings and the vocals - maybe first go into the section at around 0:44 and delay the ramp into the high strings and vocals for a reprise a little later on as a bridge to 1:31�s section. It�d help add some dynamics to the track by giving it a gradual buildup of energy. But that�s just me, honestly. I usually start with a slow build but wanted to do something different this time

1:15ish - Minor thing. One piece of advice I�ve heard from lesser known composers is to even out the workload across all the sections of your arrangement. In general, the track does this decently well, though I�m not an expert at vetting it. Still, I think it could be valuable to work in a little later on (we�ll get to that). Try to give each section, if not necessarily each instrument, something to do across the entire work, even if it�s a small part. You�ve got a whole orchestra plus a rock band, put them to work!

However, you also don�t want every section�s contribution percentage to be totally flat across the whole song. Imagine if this were a real orchestra, and the string section loses its poo poo for a solid 30 seconds then puts their bows down until like a minute and a half later. Or if the string section spent 5+ minutes doing a simple pad or stab pattern over and over with no chance to really break down or take a break. Both would be pretty boring for the players. An ebb and flow is actually rather desirable - and that�s where this whole thing becomes a creative pursuit instead of just �do this do that to be right�.

This is something both I and composers like Koshiro and Uematsu sometimes have trouble with (okay well usually in my case), and it�s a good piece of advice IMO. That said, this ain�t gospel, and I�m a moron, so don�t feel like you need to do this. It�s great as-is, too. Yeah I never expect this to be actually played by people or I'd definitely be more mindful of that, and for smaller pieces I tend to rotate melodies between instruments. There's definitely some places I could have used more variety though!

3:39, and again at like 3:45 or so - I would emphasize either the onbeat or offbeat of the falling/rising guitar with some sort of percussion. IMO it will have much more impact that way, if your intention is to draw attention to that. It�s a little hard for me to back this critique up, because I can�t justify it any better than �I sort of expected that to happen and I think it�d sound dope�, so consider it my own personal preference. Maybe do something fancy like punctuating it with stabs from the string section instead of with a snare drum? Yeah I can totally see what you mean, and it would be fun to revisit it some day and make changes like that for fun

4:01 - This is beginning to feel a bit more like a medley of themes and motifs than what represents a singular boss. Which is perfectly fine if that�s what you�re going for - the whole Dancing Mad suite, for example, is segmented as such because the final boss is multiphase. It works if the big epic final boss theme also incorporates the main battle theme, the protagonist or love interest�s theme, and the theme of the requisite ancient lost civilization if we�re going full RPG. But if it�s meant to be a singular thing, my answer to �how does the theme of Final Boss go?� would be �uhhhh I�m not sure�. So I assume it�s the theme of Big Epic Final Boss Fight, not the theme of Final Boss. Yeah the Dancing Mad suite thing is what I was going for, more segmented/phase type thing. I definitely could echo previous sections more throughout

7:11 - Pursuant to the above, to me this track is a sequence of independent musical ideas with not a whole lot of interplay and bleedthrough. A stylistic choice of course, but with all the disparate styles and motifs in the song I can�t help but expect some exploration and crossbreeding of these motifs and progressions. I think the best example of this is 2:46~3:53, where you really get some symphonic rock going. That feels like a natural evolution and extension of what�s come before. Everything from then on feels very self-contained and almost forgets about what came before, which I�m very much not used to. Yeah, it really was me just putting down some different ideas and tying them together in different ways. The ending I completely rewrote probably 5+ times.

�-

I made this track over the long weekend (I took Friday off ).

Please rip it apart. I�m still very new and there�s so much I�m not thinking of or realize that I should/need to do. There�s a lot I could talk about not doing or that needs a lot of help, but I�ll save that for further discussion.

https://soundcloud.com/retrocombine/chugga

I'm super bad at critiquing and always have been so I probably won't be a ton of help, but it sounds like an old school side-scroller level song and I like that. I like the consistent bass line through it and the changing melody that doesn't get stale. Just keep messing around with stuff, that's all you really can do, but like I said, it sounds good to me!

Pollyanna posted:

Post-listen - I would love to hear more about how you produced this, since I�ve always wanted to make some more orchestral works but I�ve only gotten as far as writing short string sections with some lovely orchestra VSTs. The quality of the instruments could definitely punch at the weight of bigger name video game soundtracks out there. I�m impressed (and a little overwhelmed) that a single person can do this now!

Dr. Faustus posted:

Sorry for the very stupid question (I'm just a guitarist) but this is amazing and I am wondering about the instrumentation. Would you share how you recorded all these strings and choral parts? Have virtual instruments come so far you can do this at home with sound libraries?

To kind of answer both of these at once, yeah these are all virtual instruments. All of this was done on my home computer, although it has a ton of ram for doing it. The song that I posted used around 60-70 gb or ram to have all the instruments loaded, and that was after cutting down most of the to one or two articulations as needed.

My go-tos for orchestra instruments is usually Spitfire Studio Orchestra Professional (https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/spitfire-studio-orchestra-professional/) or Eastwest's Hollywood Orchestra (https://www.soundsonline.com/hollywood-orchestra-opus-edition), which you can get with all their other stuff with a sub to composer cloud which to me is a great deal as they have a ton of stuff. The Choir is also from Eastwest (guitars too!). They can take some practice to get good sounds out of as they have a LOT of options and configurations. For instance, for Violin 1 in Spitfire's, these are the available articulations:

And Eastwest's:

I use Reaper a lot now to make music, and that song looked like this in it:

All of it put in as midi notes using a mouse, so no keyboard playing.

This post is already pretty long so I'll leave it here for now but I'm happy to answer any other questions that I can.

# ¿ Jun 1, 2022 22:49

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Pollyanna posted:

Yup. Here�s some more examples of virtual orchestration (minus some flute and choir).

https://youtu.be/n9RLgRCGhhQ

Wow that's great, thanks for sharing!

# ¿ Jun 2, 2022 02:50

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

My absolute favorite solo violin/cello are from https://www.virharmonic.com/home. They sound great even before you delve in to all the options for control that are provided, and for a lot of things you can just choose the play style that fits whatever you're working on.

# ¿ Jun 2, 2022 12:08

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

I like it, and the beat is great. No idea what I'd classify it as either.

edit: completed this a few days ago and had fun messing around with guitar sounds and whatnot https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/funky-guitar

# ¿ Jun 5, 2022 20:35

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Dr. Faustus posted:

I always get drawn in by those busy almost-ostinato bass lines. I'm counting that as 16ths in my head, not sure I am right; but where I think people succeed here is keeping it going without it sounding like it is tripping on itself. Similarly to those artists who sometimes bring an arpeggiator-like approach. If you get the harmony right, you're already close and since this sounds almost entirely pentatonic to me it's right in my wheelhouse (as you have adopted funky guitar/bass parts, and you definitely played stuff an actual guitarist would play.)

The sounds are goofy to a person who usually only works with the real thing but that's part of the charm of this arrangement.

Reminded me of "Axel F" a little bit.

Production is really clean and crisp.

Barely related: Here's an ostinato that immediately jumped into my head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyYZmMOIJn4

Yeah 16ths on the bass. It's a lot easier of course for it to not sound like it's tripping over itself by not having a real player doing it :v:

. I don't even remember what sound I was going for on the guitar at first and just kinda stumbled on to that and thought it sounded cool. It's really difficult (for me at least) to emulate sounds I hear since there's just a billion different options and setups.

And yeah I like kind of driving bass parts.

duck.exe posted:

Uploaded some DnB I finished up today after sitting on it for a while

https://soundcloud.com/user-801512603/bells-drum-n-bass

I like this, especially the chords and layering.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2022 22:21

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Pollyanna posted:

Oooooh I like that guitar a lot. How did you discover that progression/modulation on it? Almost seem like it�s got a square wave LFO on it or something.

To be honest it was just messing with amp/pedal presets from the plugin I've been using for guitars: https://www.overloud.com/products/th-u

It's the wah pedal that gives it that kind of sound with a compressor on it:

The instrument itself is Eastwest's 56 strat.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2022 12:58

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

The number of options in it are truly staggering and I know I'm not even using it to 1% of its capabilities. For me it's more like a synth with a billion presets to browse through and find interesting things on, then tweak more to get what I want (or end up wanting). I have a friend that does a lot of guitar work and I really need to sit with her some time and see if she can help me get some specific sounds I've wanted.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2022 13:46

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

I made another song. Yet again one that I've been working on here and there. Spent a whole lot of time working on the balance of it since there's quite a bit going on for a lot of it. Pretty happy with how it turned out even if it isn't perfect. What is anyway?

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/the-beauty-beneath

# ¿ Jun 12, 2022 03:16

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Good Sphere posted:

This is amazing work. Can't believe how fast symphonic instrument plugins have come. Do you make soundtracks?

Thanks! Nope, just make stuff for fun. It's a nice creative outlet and I've been doing it for something like 10 months now and still love it.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2022 02:12

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Had a lot of fun with this one: https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/long-cold-nights-are-coming

Yesterday I had "And We Got Older" from Jim Guthrie which has a really cool guitar part. I put down the first minute or so of it to see how well my acoustic guitar plugin sounded. Then I put down the cello note at the start of this, erased everything but a couple of measures of what I had put down before, and kept it changing throughout and it morphed in to this. A big goal for this was to keep that rhythm going throughout while not clashing with everything else going on, which I think really helps drive it.

edit:

Pollyanna posted:

I could not begin to tell you what this is.

https://soundcloud.com/retrocombine/scung

Edit: on listening further I hate LARGE sections of this. That first screeching�sample�thing isn�t well used at all, and is basically pandering towards the latter of half the track. No complaints about the closed hi-hat track, the bassline, or that cool cyclical synth thing in the background., though.

those beats slap

# ¿ Jun 22, 2022 00:31

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

2DCAT posted:

New music! Also excited that we're going to be publishing a second vinyl later this year!

https://soundcloud.com/2dcat/the-end-of-the-world

nice

Kiwillian posted:

Been doing some weird, somewhat generative stuff recently:

https://open.spotify.com/track/3At3fp2yWsnQVvHEFH8hEs?si=e6b7c23d01f04b3a
https://soundcloud.com/kiwillian/135-ghz

https://open.spotify.com/track/0YKd4dmDqH5r68vCOpoZjf?si=735d2a05ab844837
https://soundcloud.com/kiwillian/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace

Got one more coming up. Just not sure if it's done yet...

I'm uhh, not sure what I just listed to.

This popped in to my head yesterday so now it's a song I guess. Cool. https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/the-way-home

# ¿ Jun 29, 2022 02:36

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

I made more thing:

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/as-the-days-go-by

Probably one of my favorites I've made so far.

# ¿ Jun 30, 2022 02:32

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Pollyanna posted:

Leeeet the water hold me down

I was half expecting one of those Wild West whistles to come in at some point. Feels kinda cowboy.

I guess I saw it as a completely different thing and don't even know where that would come in, but making music like that sounds like fun now

Not really sure what I'll make next. Guess I'll see if something pops in to my head this evening to work on.

# ¿ Jun 30, 2022 17:17

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Worked on this for a couple of weeks, pretty happy with how it turned out.

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/cinematic-feels

Not perfect, but then what is. Was certainly fun to do at least.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2022 02:53

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Thanks

really means a lot to me.

I don't make money from it or anything. I just use it as a creative outlet, and I don't think it'd be as fun for me if it was a job. Maybe I would consider it if I didn't already have an established professional career. Until then, I'll just keep making random stuff that pops in to my head and :justpost:

# ¿ Aug 1, 2022 20:58

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Agreed posted:

I like the new track Woolwich, and I agree with Dr. F, you're very talented. I enjoy your music, and I'm glad you post it up. Love to hear more SNES arrangements in a more complex style like your Secret of Mana one, if you ever want to

If y'all will forgive me reposting something in another thread, at least it's most appropriate for this one I guess. I made a track to learn this Kaossilator Pro+ I picked up, integrate a new synth, and put it all together in my DAW using this external looper plus recording guitar into my DAW from my amp and pedal board. It's not too long and it's fairly simple but I had a lot of fun making it and I hope somebody likes it.

https://soundcloud.com/user-6129700...=social_sharing

Thanks! I might at some point.

Also that track is awesome!

Posted in another thread but made a chill kinda electro thing https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/go-to-sleep-already

And working on another that I was inspired to make while doing some world building stuff for a friend's campaign https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/space-lol-wip1/s-KzyQM9tfPXk?si=02ce21e072784e6bbb432b8510c7defe

# ¿ Aug 29, 2022 17:02

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Nition posted:

Finally making some new music after ten years away.

https://soundcloud.com/roadsofbalatran

I also liked this. Is good.

Judge Schnoopy posted:

This is a level of self production I dream about. It's so clean, so well thought out, and really hits. Awesome work.

My band just released this one. I'm the sole recorder/producer/mixer and handle most of the instruments, then my band mates pitch lyrics, melodies, ideas, and vocals. I feel like I'm still improving a lot with each song, but have so much further to go.

https://soundcloud.com/jamt_band/prisms-and-prisons

I can hear a lot of clipping throughout it. As Nition said make it a bit quieter (I usually do -1 dB on the final mix). Can also use a brickwall limiter to stop it from happening in transient cases. I do like it though.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2022 04:10

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

I was messing around with guitar plugins and ended up with this

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/carefree

I really like the pipa as an instrument.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2022 04:02

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Judge Schnoopy posted:

gently caress yeah, this is awesome. Love the vibe. I was caught off guard by the minor strings about halfway through and it hooked me through the end.

What plugin are you using for the flute/pipa? You're extremely good at utilizing it.

Thanks! The flute is actually 2 dizis from jade ethnic orchestra. A single one didn't cover the range that I wanted so it crosses over in certain ranges. The pipa is East West's EW Silk.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2022 19:24

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 10, 2024 09:19

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Dr. Faustus posted:

What the gently caress? I wrote a song?
Don't ask me how or why, all I know is I was playing around with a preset with Bad Cat and Powerball models in stereo. It just made me want to chug chug chug and pinch harmonics. Next thing I knew this was recorded. This is often how it happens, for some reason. Two hours, tops, and that was mostly loving around with vocals.

The guitar is my Strat-style home-built and it is ALL Pearly Gates.
The bass is my Spector Legend 5 Classic through the Dug PInnick Tech 21 preamp pedal, just basic.

The vocals are sad and I am sorry, but my bassist is going to put a real bass part on this and also sing the chorus for me (I wrote it for him, in fact.)

Sorry the lyrics are marble-mouthed, that will get fixed if we finish the tune. In the meantime I just really really enjoy the chugga chugga. That rig sounds loving mean.

https://soundcloud.com/dr-faustus777/we-face-it-alone-demo-3-with-bass-normalized/s-U8FyUOspFdv

This is sounding really good, love the chord progressions. Can't wait to hear it finished!

This one started with the piano part at the beginning and just... expanded from there. For whatever reason it makes me think of pirates or something. Or at least something to do with the sea.

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/memories-of-the-sea

# ¿ Oct 10, 2022 03:20

The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > No More Drake > Musician's Lounge > Post your soundcloud

«‹›2 »