u/cavestoryandnge

once again... the theme of my character... i've been making like no progress but things are finally starting to kick back in tonight. i love jazz a lot and i'm trying to get better at it without learning music theory because i'm far too lazy for that!

also this is obiviously a big fat wip

the drawing in the beginning is the character i made that this is for don't be scared

i don't know how niche this subreddit is, so good chance you haven't seen this actually lol. but this is pretty much my first time doing this genre and ohhh gosh i am having insurmountable amounts of fun. it's the theme for my evil plant alien mastermind character! i had to edit him into the video this since there's really no other way to attatch it, not even in the comments i think? but i just really wanted to show what he looked like. but this is aobut the music... pls tell me how i'm doing so far thank you very much

i think it's industrial? there's definitely another genre/subgenre to that but i'm having sooo much fun dude this an evil song for an evil character of mine. but i want to see what you guys think because something has felt off the entire time. let me know!!!!!!!!

please don't kill me i'm not too familiar with industrial music but i have an okay idea of what that kinda stuff sounds like please tell me if this is industrial and/or cool and also don't steal this or i will cry

skip to 33 seconds if you just wanna hear it i wanted to isolate stuff before showing it

im talking about that weird snare(?), and the only thing i've tried is stretching a drum sample out and adding a flanger over it, but that obviously didn't get the job done. i've really been wondering how sounds like this are done and it would make a song i'm making literally 1 million times cooler.

if you've seen me before i'll say it again everything used here is FREE. but yes i'm having such amazing fun making themes for my character(s). sorry about the weird screen ratio i forgot to minimize my plugin picker and i don't want you peeking...

and someone might ask and i don't want to say it a bunch of times so here's how i did the lead guitar:

https://sfzinstruments.github.io/guitars/metal_gtx/ (sfz)

https://www.plogue.com/products/sforzando.html (sfz player)

https://www.bluecataudio.com/Products/Product_FreeAmp/ (amp) (i used this one but you can use whichever you like)

https://blog.wonthelp.info/2021/12/03/bendy-an-fl-studio-plugin-for-using-piano-roll-bends-panning-etc-in-third-party-vst-plugins/ (midi controller for piano roll stuff like slide notes, velocity, panning, and fine tune with 3rd party plugins)

and i just used a vibrato plugin you can find that yourself idk

excuse the noise from my mic i forgot to mute it... but my laptop is pretty damn good it's just not particularly meant for playing games. as you can see. if it can run at 30 frames sometimes then there must be a way to get it to run like that all the time. also, i tried playing some more after i got done recording and it was able to run really smoothly for a personal record of at least 30 seconds i have hope

a near-perfect recreation of "big water" from ecco 2. i did this one specifically because number one, it was easy lol, and number 2 i love it a lot, and i think it's really underrated and beautiful. it's not perfect because i used genny and vgm files to get these instruments, so unless i wrote text of the music with the exact chip and got it running in a genesis (or however they did music on the thing) it will never be perfect. also one note on the bass is off aghhh... i hope this is cool though!

alt rock song i'm making which is something i have never made. for the most part though, the guitars are clean guitars in sfz stuff with a really good free amp, and a shreddage SOUNDFONT that someone made. suprisingly, the soundfont is the thing that's doing the heavy lifting. the drums are steven slate, and the bass is just from sgm soundfont. took a lot of mixing to get it to sound cool... tell me what you guys think!!!!

no pun intended hahhahha get it. i got into doom about a week ago btw just so you know what skill level i'm at. i beat doom 1 recently but i'm having trouble with ep4... i KNOW where the blue keycard is but i have NOWHERE near enough ammunition to get to it. not now, and seemingly not ever if i have to fight so hard to get there. EVEN if i start over. maybe i just didn't stack my bread right in the previous level. i am stuck so unbelievably hard wahhh wahhh help me what do i do! and i really like these games so far :D help please

inspired by the adventures of batman and robin, vectorman, and streets of rage 3. i was using soundfonts for a while until i discovered that i could just download a vgm/vgz file of any track from any game, import it into my sega genesis plugin (which is really just a fm synth that has genesis presets), and i'll have whatever instruments from that song. i only use soundfonts for pitch bends in the piano roll since plugins not native to fl studio can't do that. if this does well i'll post some more!

i got into doom like a week ago, mostly just the old stuff because i like old games. i just about beat doom 1, and i've been having a lot of fun. but being that i'm a composer i thought i should do something with the instruments. which i have before with general midi... but not in the style of doom so yea! i know there's way too much blues stuff in here but i was just jamming out. so i'll do another one that's metal instead next time. happy father's day!

is it recognizable as sega genesis? i usually try and choose instruments that aren't sonic so it actually sounds unique, but i sometimes i worry i might have gotten too deep with the instruments. for example, i used the saxophone from the genesis version of toy story, which honestly sounds like a 32x instrument. and then the other example is this short song. and for anyone who's interested, this is inspired by columns, comix zone, and "it's been a while" by staind

first image is of the render window (disk space is nothing), and the second image is when i imported the midi file... nothing. i'm not sure what i'm doing wrong here, and it has worked before. what's going on?