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On 15.04.2018 at 8:11 PM, Raap said:
I wouldn't know where to begin when it comes to composing music, the best I can do is mix/edit things using Audacity!
1) First, you need a strong wish to compose music and to keep making it always. Literally saying.
2) It is highly recommended to graduate music school, it makes your music a bit more interesting and smooth. However, it is not necessary to be a professional musician, there are such intuitive programs as FL Studio or Cubase (if you already know how to play music by musical notation, the second one includes notes editor). In case, if you don't know a musical notation, then at least you need to get singing lessons, there you can learn about notes, octaves and chords, about specific things, rules and directions in music, how to listen to song, how to sing it, and how to break songs into notes.
3) Start with something simple. Piano, guitar, drums. Or just with program that may undestand and edit MIDI-format. "Mid Layer" was one of the best MIDI-editors for its time, it does work with 3D sound simulation, also has an advanced music notes editor, so you can learn notes just by placing them on a patterns line! In addition, I have almost no experience in making of chiptune melodies, I did only few tracks, and this is a separate direction in music, but you can try 8-bit editors too.
4) Listen to your favourite music or just to radio station, does not matter which one, try to catch that style of playing, that approach, analyze and fantasize in that direction. That's how I started to make music in 2006. I don't know the most of musical rules, only basic and few advanced rules, so I cannot be considered as a professional musician, but at least I have a simple style inspired by Frank Klepacki, Alexander Brandon and by few other foreign and russian composers and performers. The unbelievable fact is I had to listen closely to Red Alert OST in the late 2000s for few days, few hours per each day before I got what I needed while wearing DJ-headphones.
5) Try to make something new, experiment with different genres and instruments (personal advice of Frank Klepacki, by the way), as well as try to do remakes and don't be scary of. If your music has a success, it will improve your style of playing and music in world-wide. But there is one important thing to remember: if you and/or others don't like your music, it may possibly become a trash, so liking (thumbs up like on Facebook is unacceptable, only real sympathy) and publishing of your own creations in the Internet or showing them to your friends and other people is very important. People then will just come to you and ask for songs for their projects some day.
On 15.04.2018 at 8:11 PM, Raap said:Your track does fit quite well in the library of classic C&C music, even if it is a little short!
7) If there are only 2-3 minutes of playing, this is not always a drawback. It's just your good feeling from what did you hear and wish to continue. It really depends on melody, to be honest. But it also points at that I am not a professional musician, and I am recording melodies depending on mood and wish, that's why there are melodies which are short.
Anyway, thanks for commentary and criticism, will try to remember that. Often even experienced musicians can't tell, from which part to continue and how to continue, it is up to author.
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23 hours ago, Raap said:
I don't know if these tools support core Renegade (the code related changes got a fork a while ago between classic Renegade and W3D Hub), so I suppose that is a good question for the team.
Maybe it does not work as supposed by default. But sure, if those features in modified CLE will be ported to basic C&C Renegade, it will be much easier, so I don't need to port resources from one to another game for experimental needs.
23 hours ago, Raap said:How many people still work on Renegade and the older scripts as opposed to the W3D Hub branch? Consider me curious, I haven't really been in touch with those things.
I do. I am still working on C&C Renegade scripts. I made and I am still making good insertions into Westwood 3D engine, was very inspired by Bluehand Studios source codes of scripts. Recently I froze Commando Assault project and made the second, singleplayer/multiplayer mod with smart AI (at the moment, appears as "C&C Renegade AI" in CnCNet and RenList).
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If you wish some new music for Tiberian Sun Reborn 2.0, I can help =) By the way... keep working also on W3D-import and WWSkin, that would be incredibly cool! Nice updates for CLE too, I am always waiting for some new tools for C&C Renegade in general after I joined modding community in 2006.
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http://download.ccassault.com/museum/music/solomusic/Metal_Ground.mp3
After winter holidays, I was trying to make something new. As a result, I composed this simple melody and published in VKontakte as usual, but only today decided to publish it in YouTube. Inspired by one of my favourite universes which is Command & Conquer Red Alert.
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17 minutes ago, Jerad2142 said:
Ah cool you're that server!
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16 minutes ago, Jerad2142 said:
What type of server are you hosting?
At the moment, it is Winter Assault TT 4.6. Running it at winter holidays instead of my previous work, Commando Assault TT 4.3 (p.s.: which also will be ported to TT 4.6 soon, because I love that update).
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SANDWICH and I posted translated news about Expansive Civilian Warfare in a large russian C&C-community, including a list of what does it change in original C&C Renegade gameplay. Unfortunately, I have own server, different jobs, and cannot play other games, but still I appreciate what are you doing for a whole community. Nice work on this! By the way, if you need some rap-ish background music, or music in another genres, maybe I can do that too, who knows =)
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And oh yes, it is! Roland JV-2080 included as well as a vibe from Red Alert.
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On 07.10.2017 at 1:35 PM, Doctor699 said:
Truly Tiberian. Just about perfect. This better make it into Reborn. And not on one of those horrible maps with the barns everywhere.
Thanks! I already accepted one request to put new menu music into TSR, so yeah... if people need, I can make few more melodies like that, including rhytmic ones. Time will tell, however =)
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On 01.10.2017 at 6:09 PM, VERTi60 said:
Can I use it in one of my C&C RC vids?
As long as you give a credit and post a link to used track - sure, I have nothing against, súdruh!
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Thanks for the commentaries, comrades. Also,
On 03.10.2017 at 1:58 PM, Doctor699 said:Though personally i would have liked if you had gone a little bit darker.
That is a bit darkier, try to listen to and, if you want to, share your thoughts there. Thanks for an exhaustive commentary, anyway, will remember that =)
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Available for free download. Inspired by, but not too close to TIberian Sun. Did a different melody this time, a little bit emotional, soft, and bright. It has a short length, but anyway, I decided to publish it
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Commando Assault is down, but I still think about it... maybe to merge it with cooperative game against bots, or idk... Anyway, I am still running this, but in very rare case.
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I've played HoTS a little bit, tried characters from Overwatch. I remember also, our russian team did a good job at Overwatch World Cup, that was really great. Few of my best friends are playing Overwatch every month, but I still did not tried Overwatch, and still cannot say nothing about this. And have nothing against. In friend's opinion, "Overwatch with its real and necessary teamwork, with its own characters, with its story is way better than TF2."
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Another track which is inspired by Tiberian Sun and Fallout 3. For all those listeners who love these videogames. As always, available for download. Pad which goes with industrial effects sample is directly from Tiberian Sun, by the way.
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13 hours ago, GraYaSDF said:
I am deciding to move to MySpace
Frank recently said, MySpace is dead... well then, YouTube still helps
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In addition, I've heard that Soundcloud is slowly dying because of bad funding, so I am deciding to move to MySpace, one of favourite places of Frank Klepacki
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Unfortunately, I can't share any stuff faster, because I am mostly online in social network which is limited in sharing music, so from time to time I also upload songs to Soundcloud (only own stuff) or YouTube (anything). And surely to my personal webpage. Such as this simple remake of Scout from Tiberian Sun. I slightly touched the original melody and recorded result before Twilight Flood came out. By the way, I recently updated my music section. For today, I am preparing few new C&C-inspired melodies and remakes.
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20 minutes ago, ChopBam said:
Somebody hire this guy.
Thanks for a compliment))
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I have returned from summer cottage. With this. Absolutely new song for the fans of Tiberian Sun. Something like psychedelic ambient with groovebox drum machine effects. Vacation was totally worth it.
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On 26.05.2017 at 8:29 PM, FRAYDO said:
I remember hearing about Commando Assault. Checking your ModDB page, I'm glad to see there are updates!
Unfortunately, I am lack of designers, and because of that I temporarily stopped doing updates. Right now, I am searching for people who know how to make 3D-models and who are interested in this mod. So, any help with graphics is very appreciated.
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21 hours ago, AZ-Stalker said:
There aren't a lot of creators making C&C inspired work. We need more of that good stuff!
I am doing that like EVERY DAY, man. Every next day. Even in Imaginary Frontiers which is now on Bandcamp.
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3 hours ago, Wallywood said:
Very nice work. Would you mind if we used this as the TSR menu music? We will give you credit of course.
Of course! I even sent this to Frank Klepacki, he said "nice one". Here is a constant direct link in Commando Assault workshop:
http://download.ccassault.com/museum/music/solomusic/TS_Main_Menu.mp3
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1 hour ago, Kaskins said:
I think the bass is not that strong at "1.04".
Right! I've tried to keep bass sound quiet. Thanks for the commentary, comrade ImperialKaskins.
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[MUSIC] RA - Wind In West Depot
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I recorded it half a day ago, but composed even earlier. Harmonica with slap bass guitar, simple rhythm, sweet nostalgic pad and other sounds. And again, inspired by Command & Conquer Red Alert.