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Recording 1: "Temple Ruins"
I hope this will be the first of many!
This forum houses many years of development, tracing back to some of the earliest posts that exist on the board.
Its current use is for the continued development of the server and game it has always served: The Mana World.
Huh? If you listen closely, the musical chord progressions are the same throughout the composition, and there are instruments that take on a lead role according to the dynamics at that point in time only. I think I have an idea why you're saying it's jumpy, which could be fixed because this is still not a finished version, but I don't understand why you're saying its "randomish" or not loopable. It can easily be loopable.Rotonen wrote:Plain, jumpy and randomish. Not really loopable.
Can you please elaborate on this point? By "soundlayers" do you mean instruments and what do you consider "fluent"? All harmonies are coherent and theoretically correct and I did mention that the volumes need to be adjusted but I can't do it at the moment but eventually will.Rotonen wrote:Experience will start to tell you on the long run about how to interleave different soundlayers in a fluent manner.
It all depends on the situation and environment (or the type of movie). The Mana World has and will have different maps that should elicit different moods depending on the type of environment (high or low level of danger, etc.). Obviously, there are maps where we shouldn't play a theme like this one, the City for example, but where we currently have a theme that is very somber to say the least. You mentioned movie background music, here's a good example, the main Star Wars theme verses the Star Wars Imperial March theme, that's mood inspiring versus mood inflicting. Plus, do we really just want elevator music?Rotonen wrote:Also this is really too oppressive and lead role taking to be background music for an mmorpg, which should be more like in the movies in general: mood inspiring, not mood inflicting and dictating.
Thanks!Rotonen wrote:In the end I must say that this is far better than most of the stuff we have now.