More Music

ryn · Post by **ryn** » December 11th, 2004, 1:51 am

I made a possible loyalist victory track. It is purposefully only about 5 seconds, As people probably wouldn't want to listen to a long track anyway. I know I wouldn't. If this is meant to be put at the end of a successful campaign, perhaps I or someone else could come up with a 'credits' track for the rest of the duration. Of course, this is not up to me, and if you think a long track is in order then please excuse my retardedness. Since the ogg extension is not permitted, the file is bzipped and renamed to .zip

scott · Post by **scott** » December 11th, 2004, 2:09 am

Can't unzip it. Can you double check it?

ryn · Post by **ryn** » December 11th, 2004, 4:47 am

it is not a zip file. It is a .ogg.bz2 file I renamed to .ogg.bz2.zip

Post by **quartex** » December 11th, 2004, 5:21 am

delete the .zip ending and then you can unstuff if. I like it, it's sort of a fanfare/trumpet call (reminds me a bit of the Gondor theme from ROTK). Maybe it could be a bit longer, it's a 5 second call and response, but I could see extending it to 7-10 seconds.

Victory Music like this would be especially cool if we had seperate victory and defeat screens, showing stats of the scenario (like in Warcraft/Starcraft games). Then we could have longer win/loss music, I admit that for one dialog box, the fanfare would probably be short.

ryn · Post by **ryn** » December 11th, 2004, 5:34 am

quartex: thanks for the feedback

I am still trying to understand what you mean by "response," (apparently the transition in which it seems as though a different person is replying using the same instrument) however, since I seem to have it in my little piece, I won't worry too much. Do you want me to stretch the piece (slow down the music, which seems quite strange in this situation) or do you think I should add a couple of notes? I'm for the second option, but am somewhat unsure on which notes to add and where (probably one in what I percieve as the call and one in the response, probably a quarter or half-note in length) I'd appreciate feedback on this. I'll attach a new edited file soon (hopefully).

PS: Obviously, this is implying that the loyalists are French, because the instrument used is a French horn. I have to admit, I'd prefer this over English loyalists because I dislike the structure of Germanic languages; Not in the least, of course, because I've never learned any Latin based ones, and even more so because I'm not a native English speaker. I hope I'm not offending any hardcore speakers of any Germanic language, but the grammar just seems too complex to be useful. Learn Lojban if you want to know what I'm talking about. No offense to those French, those speaking/learning a Germanic language, or those in or out of between.

edit: see the OT post script.

ryn · Post by **ryn** » December 11th, 2004, 5:56 am

I made a second version. If anyone thinks this is worth anything (it is very possibly worse than the first) please tell me. Otherwise, I'm open for suggestions. I might get a good idea at some point (I plan to work on this for another 10 minutes or so tonight, getting late) to lengthen what I and quartex called the 'call,' perhaps by lengthening a note. Until then, you'll have to deal with my musical incompetence or come up with something yourself

Edit: third version is now on this post

Post by **Aleksi** » December 11th, 2004, 1:38 pm

Man why do you even zip these files?! I can't unstuff the last ones and the ogg file on the first set wouldn't play... Even if i cahnge the name to .ogg i doesn't play...

Post by **quartex** » December 11th, 2004, 4:12 pm

Aleksi wrote:Man why do you even zip these files?! I can't unstuff the last ones and the ogg file on the first set wouldn't play... Even if i cahnge the name to .ogg i doesn't play...

No, you've got it wrong. The file isn't zipped, it's compressed using .bz2. So to unstuff it you have to removed the .zip suffix, which makes the computer realize it's a bz2 compressed file, then open it with a program like stuffit expander. Then you end up with a .ogg audio file. Sure it would be easier if he just zipped his files, but for some reason the only way he can compress them is to make them into .bz2 files.

ryn · Post by **ryn** » December 11th, 2004, 5:17 pm

sorry everyone, I'll post the files zipped properly in about an hour after I do my homework. I didn't have zip last night and since it was late I couldn't think properly.

scott · Post by **scott** » December 11th, 2004, 5:31 pm

why don't you string 2 and 3 together as the basis for a loyalist theme?

ryn · Post by **ryn** » December 11th, 2004, 6:59 pm

Edit: This having been one of my dumbest posts, I had to remove it. Scott's idea was actually the one used for v4, my final (unless someone has a suggestion) Apparently I have a lot more to learn about music

ryn · Post by **ryn** » December 11th, 2004, 7:21 pm

AHA! congratulations, scott. Some of your genius must have permeated my skull. Here are 2 and 3 stringed together with minor modifications around the middle of the track. It really is gzipped, don't rename.

Edit: I managed to mispell genius earlier somehow.

Post by **quartex** » December 11th, 2004, 8:15 pm

Sounds nice.

ryn · Post by **ryn** » December 11th, 2004, 8:16 pm

thanks

that was my first actual musical work

ryn · Post by **ryn** » December 11th, 2004, 11:32 pm

I now also have a repeatable(!) loyalist loss track. It was originally meant to be played by the cello but by accident I heard it through the piano, so now I present you with both

They are in a gzipped tarball, (you can open it with winzip and others) and also contains the notes used. Suggestions are welcome, and the track does not have to be repeated to sound good. In fact, repeatability was added as an afterthought.