Sub-Zero Conditions 2 OST: my first soundtrack !

Phanoo

08-16-2008, 11:50 AM

sorry for my bad english, I’m french !!
I’m a 19years old music composer, this is the first time I do a complete soundtrack for a videogame.

SZC2 is an action/RPG/horror game. It’s a freeware and it has 2D graphics.
The soundtrack has 12 tracks, in a RPG-ish style (I LOVE this style of music: FF/Wild Arms/…)

You can download the game, download and listen to all the tracks here: http://thephanoo.free.fr/szc2.php

Direct Links (if you don’t want to go on my french page !! :naughty: )

Hope you like these songs 😉

Note: the first track has a better sound quality than the others, because it’s a "pre-rendered" music. the rest of the songs are originally played in real-time ("dynamically") with music sheet + instrument samples (IT tracker format, for those who know)

arthierr

08-16-2008, 12:32 PM

Hey! Quite good! Thanks for the upload. The music is really nice and I really enjoy it.

It’s refreshing to see someone post a soundtrack he made himself to promote it. I’d like to see more composers posting here.

Et �a fait du bien de voir un compatriote ici de temps en temps. 😉

Phanoo

08-17-2008, 08:58 AM

h�h�, merci �a fait plaisir d’avoir laiss� un ptit commentaire ;);)

for near-unknow composers, the problem is that most of people won’t download their songs, because they probably don’t know the game/the composer ^^
I hope this soundtrack will allow me to make music for other games, maybe professionnal ^^ (dreams, dreams… :D)

Red Arremer

08-17-2008, 09:24 AM

Hey, this is pretty neat. Thanks. ^^

arthierr

08-17-2008, 10:13 AM

Yeah, I know. It’s not easy to become a professional composer (I DO know).

A good way is to send music demos to demo makers or amateur/freeware game makers.

Also, I wanted to ask you what tools do you use ?

Phanoo

08-17-2008, 10:49 AM

Yeah, I know. It’s not easy to become a professional composer (I DO know).

A good way is to send music demos to demo makers or amateur/freeware game makers.

Yes, yesterday I released these tracks on Dogmazic (a huge website for free music). My tracks were streamed 481 times and downloaded 111 times ^^ but it’s because I am on the main page of the recently added musics xD

Also, I wanted to ask you what tools do you use ?
For composing I use ModPlug Tracker (also called OpenMPT), a free sampler/sequencer that use tracker formats (MOD, S3M, XM, IT), a quite old format but still used for "portable consoles" such as GameBoy Advance or Nintendo DS… 🙂
For the instrument samples, I use a Roland SC88-pro (same as Nobuo Uematsu ^^), and other free stuff I find on the net 🙂 + some effect VST plugins

arthierr, do you make music too ?

arthierr

08-17-2008, 10:58 AM

Yes I used to. Now I’ve much less time for that. I used Impulse Tracker 2, now I sometimes experiment with OpenMPT, wich is very similar. It’s a pretty cool program because you can directly use soundfonts (using VSTSynthFont) and other VSTinstruments.

Now I’m more interested in making and fine-tuning soundfonts. you can listen to one of my sampling here : http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1118725&postcount=36

I should try Roland SC88-pro, thanks for the info. 🙂

Phanoo

08-17-2008, 12:41 PM

it sounds awesome ! really good soundfont, I recognized the Kurzweil Strings !(I think!)
they have a very particular sounding ;), I used them in the track #03.
also this song is very good… (maybe too loud, no ‘dead’ times, it’s 10 min of true power xD)

I recently tried to make a soundfont with my own instruments (ocarina, recorder, guitar, pan flute, djembe…). It’s not finished but I will try to make a complete sound bank with it, and maybe sell it if it has a sufficient quality ^^
can I listen to some of your compositions ? 🙂

arthierr

08-17-2008, 01:38 PM

Actually the wave samples in my soundfont come from many different places : free SF, professional SF, gathered here and there on the web. I put them together and heavily edited them (took me more than one year). There’s one sample in my string ensemble (patch 48) wich comes from Kurzweil, the other 17 come from other SFs.

I haven’t composed since 5 years now. And my old (and poorly orchestrated) cues are still in my old computer packed in a box in my junk room. So it’ll be hard to dig it back!

But maybe there’s a few tunes I composed the last years here and there in my new computer. I’ll try to find some and send them to you. I’m not a professional composer, just an amateur fond of music, so be indulgent.

I’ll listen more to the music in your website and I’ll tell you what I think.

arthierr

08-17-2008, 06:47 PM

Just listened to the music in your website.
You have a true talent, my friend. I really liked what I heard. But you can seriously improve the quality of your music if :

-you use better sounding soundfonts or VSTinstruments. I recommend something like Garritan, East-west, or Gigastudio.

-you use significantly more reverb in the final mix, so it sounds more full and rich. I recommend Liquidverb (the best quality reverb I’ve heard), this is the one I used in the cue you listened.

Now that you try to become professional you can’t avoid these steps. It will become necessary. I’m looking forward to hearing improved versions of your music.