In-Game Music

[marshallh]

Update 3/13/07

Because the game is for the N64 and not the PC any longer, the music will have to be different.

1. The music will be in MOD or S3M format, to played by the modplayer. This is basically a format that you can easily find programs to edit, it's compact (notation data and samples) and it's always editable.
A good tracker I use is ModPlug Tracker.

2. Module music file size has to be pretty small. I'm aiming for 8MB as the final size of the game, so the music can be roughly 1/3 of that, or 2.5MB. Keep the mods under 500KB.

3. If you don't have the know-how to make a mod music file, use your favorite tool to come up with the general design and I'll see what I can do.

Most likely, the music will come late in the development. The most important part is ensuring the rest of the game works.

[Nicholai]

What kind of places do we need to make music for?

[Triton]

2. Music must be seamless to be infinitely looped.

elaborate?

all of my current songs can be heard here http://www.putfile.com/triton199 if you want any of them ask

[Seniltai]

I think he means that the sound is repeatable, without hearing the "seam" (so that it abrubtly stops, and plays again from the beginning but the tones are different). You can fix this with a very brief fade-out (at the end) and fade-in (at the beginning), but it's probably better that you match the end to the beginning so that it is really seamless.

[ValiantVenality]

I can do music but I only know how to do it from QBASIC. I knw thats only 8-bit games and below. I hope I can help somehow.

[Skyone]

Hmm, sounds interesting, I'll get started on some samples soon.

[gannon]

I can work on some retro music. I have midines and a friend of mine has a SID synth. I still want a 2600 synth

[cennar]

why not also record comercials too? that whay more kinds of muic are included like GTas radio? (ben could do a few im sure)

[Electric Rain]

Hey, nice tunes, Triton. I think "tritechno2" is my favorite. And all of them sounds easily loopable.

[Skyone]

Here's my first demo, not a full song, but just a basic test:

http://astronicinc.com/gtp.mp3

It's pretty random in terms of samples, but it's catchy.

[vb_master]

2600 synth

I've got one of those, so I'll go work on that.

[Kurt_]

I must say, Triton's tritechno4 would be perfect for a "paused" menu. But that's just my opinion.

Here's mine (that's a piece of crap and made in less than 30 minutes. I was experimenting with NoteWorthy Composer. )

http://media.putfile.com/Hah-Crap

It loops too!

If you decide to use this (yeah right) I see it being used in some crazy store or something.

(EDIT: Feel free to do anything to this that you want, I don't care about it.)

[Triton]

glad you all like my stuff, for some reaosn tritechno 3 has been taken down, dunno why

[Marionut#1]

Hey Guys, Ive actually been a "guest" on these forums since the begining, and finally decided to register to offer my services. I could probably help out tremendously with the car radio music, since I happen to actually be a DJ for the Local Radio station. I have a lot of music editing software at my disposal and quite a bit of free time. Anyway PM me if interested

[Electric Rain]

Hey Guys, Ive actually been a "guest" on these forums since the begining, and finally decided to register to offer my services. I could probably help out tremendously with the car radio music, since I happen to actually be a DJ for the Local Radio station. I have a lot of music editing software at my disposal and quite a bit of free time. Anyway PM me if interested

SWEET. Welcome to the forums (well, sorta...). Your help should be greatly appreciated.