[Flipside]

Hi Polyphonics that is For Fun and possible SCP p1mpage video purposes

Ok, I'm aproaching this like yu would a model, I've made the closest thing to the original I can, the speed needs a tiny bit of tweaking but it's pretty much a note-note copy of the original. As you will hear, it's a little different, especially without the video....

I'm going to build on this, and see what can be made, I'll keep you up to date how I'm doing

http://www.aqsx85.dsl.pipex.com/FS-HiPoly.mp3

Enjoy

[FireCrack]

Liked your other one better. The sounds in this one are kinda "hollow" no real depth to them.

[Flipside]

Yes, this is a note for note copy of the Video, which has surprisingly few drums. Most of it is punctuated out by Beam noises and engines, so you don't notice it

It's particuarly this parts that sound 'hollow' that I need to change, particuarly the centre section, it's technically correct, but without the video, it sounds 'wrong'. I think they jump timing for that section, so I'll have to sort something else out.

This is just a starting point, I'll keep you updated

Edit : What I don't plan to end up with is just The Theme with different sounds. I'll be completely altering things in places etc

Oh, and this was actually damn hard to get from one to the other, it's a rather.... odd piece of music as far as timing etc is concerned

[WMCoolmon]

Awesome.

It doesn't sound a whole lot like the movie during the first part (the instruments are noticeably different.) But it is really good just the same - I got goosebumps listening to it. It gets a lot more similar during the last part.

Second time through I can spot and associate the notes with my memory of the intro music.

*Makes a new 'Flipside' music folder*

Edit: The Volition voices are a lot more "aah" than "ooh", that's partly what's throwing me off.

[Goober5000]

Nice.

[Charismatic]

Good job.. keep it up!

[Singh]

Sorry to say, I don't like it. Your other work was slower and had correct timing...strangely, this one has a distinct lack of proper timing, and the suddenness of the change of instruments is allright once or twice, but it occurs WAY too frequently here with the changes being too drastic.

Other than that however, it's not bad. I havent put it i the place of the original music in the vid yet, but perhaps its supposed to match up better?

[Primus]

Maybe hollow, but I like it

[Flipside]

Thanks The problem is the music itself swaps between some 3/4 and 4/4 timing in the video, I've got a tendency to stay away from 3/4 and 7/16 and timings like that... they scare me

What my aim is, is to use that as a basis for something similar but not identical to the Freespace movie, I doubt I'll ever be able to get it to fit accurately over the original Video even if I wanted to

[kasperl]

3/4th is supposed to be a reasonably often used timing though, right? I mean, it is used for waltzes IIRC.

EDIT: You;re doing all of this with a synth only, right? I know it'd be hell over the web, but I can't help but feel that it might be better to find some RL musicians to record their parts. I wish I could help, but I don't think there is any place for an acoustic bass guitar in there. If there is, I'd be happy to record a part, but be warned, I'm bloody horrible and quite a n00b.

[Flipside]

Yes, but I can't figure out whether the time jumps fro 4/4 to 3/4 or 7/8, I think it has a phase of each, which really makes editing and syncing stuff a pain

[kasperl]

I'm not good enough at music to listen to a peace and recognise stuff like timing or tone-setting, but do you have this in either tabs or notes? I'd love to look at the parts themselves.

[Janos]

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tshhhh

[Flaser]

I think what's missing is the chorus.

There were bass singers in the original too, that may account for the "missing depht".

[Flipside]

Yeah, my one weak spot is choirs I only have a cheap, unregistered choir synth that doesn't work very well, whereas those voices have been done on a Fairlight or a Trinity or the like. I'll have a look through my collections and see what I can find

[Mongoose]

Needs a lot of fine-tuning, but that's a great start.

[Woolie Wool]

Ugh. It feels like something someone made in 20 minutes in a MIDI program. There is no richness or depth to the timbre, the instruments sound fake, the tempo isn't right at all, and there needs to be bass and percussion lines to underpin the music now that the engine whooshes and beam shots are gone.

[Flipside]

That's more or less what I'm doing at the moment, as well as trying to think up a way round this speed/time sig changes

Expect an update by the weekend

[Turambar]

i sing bass guys, a good deep bass 2

FS2 Choir Assemble!

[Flipside]

Well, I've found a couple more options to play with now

One question, is it me, or if you watch the FS2 Intro movie enough does the [v] guy look like Elvis?