Happy Friday Party Members!
People seem to be enjoying me branching out from the classic JRPG sounds, so I was messing around with some sounds outside of my norm, and came up with this cool tense action tune.
I think it started off as a nod towards a track from Parasite Eve 2 (there's that game again, I reference it a lot don't I??). There is a scene where Aya finds a bomb and suddenly the music just drops down to a low brooding bassline with little elements sprinkled in sporadica...
2023-07-07 14:34:07 +0000 UTC
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Happy Independence Day Party Members!
And if you don't live in the States, a very Happy Tuesday to you as well!
I knew I had to do something special for the holiday, something patriotic, but still practical for you guys to use. So what I opted for was something in the style of Final Fantasy Tactics. Specifically, the "preparing for battle" screen where you set up your troops. One of my favorite parts of that game was having a ton of JP and money to spend, and just...
2023-07-04 14:37:15 +0000 UTC
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Today's tune continues my "melodic ambience" thing I've been unofficially rolling with.
If you've been around for a while, you know that I really like the music from Parasite Eve. The OSTs from both games (we still don't talk about the 3rd one...) have this kind of, effortless vibe. The tracks carry such weight without having to do a whole lot, which I love.
If you've been around for a while, you ALSO know that I feel like I overwrite things somet...
2023-06-30 14:35:28 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
Ok so, there was no escaping this one. I've been watching some Resident Evil content, recently discovered the Doom mod "My House.wsd," and watched the first two Aliens movies over the weekend (can't believe I never saw em before!)
It was bound to happen. I had to write some creepy music!
Honestly I love writing this kind of stuff. It really gets you out of your comfort zone, in more ways than one lol.
Rather than just reaching for som...
2023-06-27 13:54:14 +0000 UTC
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Got another interesting one for ya today! I had a couple of requests I wanted to fulfill this week, and I believe I succeeded!
The request was for a remix of one of my old tunes, titled "The Royal Family." But it needed to be in the style of the track "Determination" from Octopath...
2023-06-23 14:00:11 +0000 UTC
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I received a request for some "Doomish Heavy Metal" music recently, and I was all about it. I used to write metal exclusively, but I don't do this style too often anymore so it was nice to try my hand at it again.
I really love the opening groove, with the bells/gongs in the background. Then I did the most metal thing possible and added a marimba line. I know, super cliche right??? ;D
In the latter half of the song, I did something that I should ...
2023-06-20 14:00:08 +0000 UTC
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This is one of those songs that just has a really cool vibe to it. I just started playing the piano bit the other day and it just immediately captured me. The song writing process didn't fight me at all on this one (though my DAW did by constantly changing my instrument patches for some reason...that was frustrating.)
In the process of playing around with tunes this week, I've gotten a few ideas started that will start popping up over the next ...
2023-06-16 14:13:58 +0000 UTC
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Last week, while dog sitting, I got the opportunity to play Hollow Knight for the first time. My niece is really into that game and has been recommending it for a while. The game was really fun! I've got a long way to go to beat it, but I what I played so far, I really enjoyed!
Of course, one of the first things that stood out to me was the music. I really took note of how much the music could say, while doing so little. I really want to be able to do that mysel...
2023-06-14 14:35:59 +0000 UTC
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Hey Party Members, happy Friday!
Can't go wrong with DKC style music, amirite?
Not a ton of moving parts in this one, just some of that classic DKC style ambience with simple melodies working over top of it. You guys have probably heard me say I have a tendency to overwrite, (I do in my mind at least), so it's always a good exercise for me to try and scale things back and let the space between the notes do the talking.
I've received a couple of requests recently, and next we...
2023-06-09 13:59:02 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
Today's tune utilizes the Phrygian Dominant scale.
"Bert, what the heck does that even mean?" I hear you say.
It means it sounds like a desert tune!
Some musical scales have so much character to them, that even playing them from start to finish (aka boringly) will invoke certain feelings in listeners minds.
So anyway, I wanted to do a middle eastern kingdom-y sounding tune, so had to bust out that scale for a change. Hones...
2023-06-06 13:59:01 +0000 UTC
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I double labeled today's post because I couldn't decide which one described the tune better. I think the best application is a sad cutscene in a sad village. Yup, that should work.
This one made for an easy writing session for me. This is great because I'm going to be AFS (Away From Studio) next week, so I've gotta get those songs ready ahead of time.
Not a whole lot to say on this one. Honestly I never know what to say in these posts, so I just e...
2023-06-02 14:18:20 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
It's been a while since I've done a 16-Bit styled tune for a Tuesday release. (Can't remember the last one tbh). Thought doing a new World Map tune would be fun, and sure enough, it was!
I feel like this one may be more suited for a vehicle tune, like flying in an airship or riding on a boat, but if you'd rather use it for your default map theme, or even a character theme, go for it!
Just had a thought and I'm gonna share it here. Why don...
2023-05-30 14:26:01 +0000 UTC
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Another week down...this calls for a celebration!
It was brought to my attention that one thing the archives are lacking is a variety of victory fanfare jingles. And lo and behold, it's true! I think across all the songs, I only had 2 available, and one was the very first thing I released lol.
Soooo thats what I got for ya today! This fanfare was written with an existing battle theme in mind, 2023-05-26 14:09:25 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
You know when you see a writer constantly crumbling up pages and tossing them into the ever growing pile of rejected ideas? That was yesterday for me. I think I went through about 4 or 5 different ideas before I really locked in to something.
On the bright side, that's 4 or 5 ideas that I can pull back up in the future, and it may spark some inspiration in me! It's happened plenty of times before.
I've taken a few jabs at writing sci-fi styled tu...
2023-05-23 15:18:51 +0000 UTC
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I know I've put out a ton of songs at this point, but sometimes I realize I'm still lacking coverage for certain areas. For instance, Title Screen music!
Sure, there are plenty of songs I've released that could work as title screen music (as I always say, use it how you see fit) but I don't remember the last time I wrote one specifically to be a title theme track.
There are tons of ways of approaching this of course, but you guys kn...
2023-05-19 14:31:57 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
Today's tune is actually a re-imagining of one of my older tunes, The Rift. I'm really proud of how that one turned out, and find myself going back and listening to it from time to time.
Well I thought it would be cool to do a call back to that one. The...
2023-05-16 14:24:29 +0000 UTC
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I had to take a break from the Octopath style stuff. Needed to shake things up for my own sanity lol. But I think you are going to like today's release.
This may be the longest tune I've released on Patreon. (Actually not really sure on that but if it's not #1 it's definitely #2!) It's a super spacy, ambient tune. Lot's of droning and spread out lines with a nice simple, kind of dampened back beat.
I'm not gonna lie, I
2023-05-12 13:57:42 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
Does the title confuse you? Are you feeling deja-vu?
Well after much debate and consideration, I decided that this theme fits the Scholar class much closer than what I wrote last week. And last weeks theme felt more Thief-ish the more I listened to it.
You know what else is crazy? I wrote this initially for the Cleric. Well, Temenos to be more specific. If you don't know, character wise, he's more of a detective than a Cleric.
Confuse...
2023-05-09 16:32:02 +0000 UTC
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Ok I'm really leaning in to it now. As you know, for my Tuesday posts, I've been doing themes based on the character classes from Octopath Traveler. Now, this is the 2nd Friday in a row that you get Octopath style dungeon music. I may not do a full 8 weeks of this for Friday's releases, but it's fun while it's here at least!
This was one of those songs that just came out finished. There was little struggle, no rewrites or anything like that. Just an hou...
2023-05-05 13:55:09 +0000 UTC
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EDIT: I renamed this one, so if you picked it up when it was labeled for the Scholar, redownload or change your file names to keep things organized!
Happy Tuesday Party Members!
We've done Apothecary and Warrior so far, so up next is the Thief!
The biggest struggle in this tune was the B section. Everything came together so nicely in the first half that the 2nd half had big shoes to fill. I initially had a completely different riff, but it just felt out of place so...
2023-05-02 14:59:48 +0000 UTC
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I'm bringing the pace down a bit in comparison to last weeks tune. Today we got a harp driven temple sounding tune. I feel like I say this every week but...it's been a while since I've done a track like this! :D
The Healer crew may not know, but I've started doing Octopath Traveler styled themes on Tuesdays, basing the tracks on the games different party members. Well this track wasn't really intended to fit in with that theme but I think a case can be ...
2023-04-28 14:06:09 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
So I think I'm continuing the theme from last week. That being Octopath inspired music. Hope you guys don't mind, that's just where I'm at right now in my creative journey. :D
Today's song is inspired by Hikari, in particular. So very much Japanese based. It features Er Hu, Pipa, Shakuhachi, Pipa and a Koto. Was really fun to incorporate these instruments for a change!
I think I've only done one other Japanese styled song before for Patreon...
2023-04-25 14:11:05 +0000 UTC
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When I sat down to write yesterday, I initially thought "It's been a while since I've done a 16-Bit sci-fi tune, why don't I try that?" You'll hear the elements of that direction in the opening bass line.
What actually ended up happening (as the title gives away) is a boss fight tune emerged. And as I wrote it I realized it really HAD been a long time since I had done any battle music! At least in this style. What was it, like, November?? October?...
2023-04-21 14:02:17 +0000 UTC
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So uhh...I've been playing a lot of Octopath 2 recently. Basically it's the only game I've played since it released. (Day 1 baybeee!)
I don't gotta tell you guys, the music in both of those games is phenomenal. So I wanted to do something in that style, to a degree. And when I say to a degree, I mean "those songs are recorded with live instruments and that's a huge part of the vibe they carry so I did the best I could with my virtual instruments don't ...
2023-04-18 14:26:29 +0000 UTC
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I think I mentioned in one of my recent posts that I got a new toy...The Roland SRX Orchestra. (Did I mention that??? I can't even remember anymore y'all)
Aaaanyway, this track came about when I was first messing around with that instrument and checking out all it's different sounds. I love the bagpipe-esque thing that comes in around :52s...the patch is called something like sheeps clothing or something ridiculous like that lol.
I just thought it...
2023-04-14 13:56:10 +0000 UTC
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This track has been a long time coming. Some of you may have noticed me mentioning some orchestral requests in the works over the past couple of weeks. Well this is that track lol. Actually, this is like the 3rd or 4th iteration of that track.
Since you are all very creative yourself, I'm sure you know that sometimes, certain styles come easy and other times it's an uphill battle. Well you may have figured out by this point that this one has been a bat...
2023-04-11 13:59:47 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members! Hope you've had a great week.
Today's song was a fun request. It was for a variation on one of my old tunes...this one to be exact. But he wanted it to be more like Alyn's theme from Octopath Traveler.
Now, the Octopath music is all done with live instruments, so I couldn't exactly capture that feel, but instead I just leaned into the 16 bit thing as us...
2023-04-07 14:11:32 +0000 UTC
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Hey Party Members! Hope you had a great weekend.
I got a new toy for the studio last week, and it is featured prominently in today's tune. It was the Roland SRX Orchestra plugin, which has a bunch of really nice instrument patches that mix well with some of my other plugins. But I won't talk your head off with my music man jargon!
This track should work great for ancient and mystical dungeons like Fort Dragonia in Chrono Cross or the Temple of the Ancients in FF7. Oooor you ...
2023-04-04 13:09:48 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
Hope you've had a great week, and are looking forward to an even better weekend!
Today's tune may be a touch shorter than others, clocking in at 36 seconds. But once I got it to this point, I really didn't feel it was necessary to add anything more. After all, not every song has to be this sweeping epic masterpiece with several movements!
No this is just a simple little minigame tune that doesn't overstay it's welcome. Even still, I think...
2023-03-31 13:59:03 +0000 UTC
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