Amberwolf Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 (edited) Behind You Lie Many Unseen https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/behind-you-lie-many-unseen Evolving cinematic track, 3:42 long. The Elven rock hard in the last minute. 04-25-25: 042425 000001 100034n -- First public version 04-27-25: 042425 000001 200063t -- timing and mix changes, and glitch fixes. 04-28-25: 042425 000001 200075v -- replaced awkward section and fixed tuning glitch 04-30-25: 042425 000001 200104z -- tweak intro percussion Edited Thursday at 06:43 AM by Amberwolf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted April 26 Author Share Posted April 26 This was built almost entirely using Ghosthack's Shymer, Ultimate Composer Bundles 1-3, and Ultimate Cinematic Vocals, though almost none of the pieces are used wiht any other pieces of the same 'kits" or "stems" they were intended to be. As part of the experiment and learning process, I deliberately went thru Shymer's "song kits" and picked only one piece at most from each one. Some are "loops" of patterns of sound, some are just individiual sound samples. The Elvish speech comes as spoken phrases, with English versions as well, in dry (no effects) and "wet" (effects applied), but I like the sound of the elvish versions better so I use them, and I use them for how they sound rather than what they mean (unlike in Gareki where I chose them for their meanings). Later when I care what's being said and have something to say, I'll use the English ones in some other song. I did leave most of the phrases intact in their order, but I stretched or squshed them in time to fit the beat of the song, and pitch shifted some of them for variations in ones used more than once. The sung syllables in the rockin' Elven section in the last minute of hte song were individual syllables of the chants in FunctionLoops' Ethnic Voices bundle. I just picked a phrase at random, and split it up, and it turned out to work; almsot none of the syllables are in the order they were sung in. These were also time-altered and pitch shifted in some cases. Similar things were done to choose and modify the staccato strings, the cellos, the long vocalizations and elven phrases, as well as the percussion, fretless bass, etc. The only piece in there that is nearly unmodified is the pulsing bassline in part of the slow beginning and middle part of the song. So, while I'm using existing recordings, it's not really much different in principle from playing a keyboard that uses samples of sounds to make it's instruments (which very very many of them do), except it is a bit more like creating that instrument in the first place (editing the samples for playback). Or like paying an artist to record things for you that you then edit down into a recording....the main difference being that htese are recorded by such artists so that any other artist that wants to (and buys them) can create whatever they want with them, instead of being recorded to my specifications. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted Monday at 08:14 AM Author Share Posted Monday at 08:14 AM (edited) 04-27-25: 042425 000001 200063t -- timing and mix changes, and glitch fixes. The Elven rock harder than before, in the last minute. https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/behind-you-lie-many-unseen Edited Monday at 08:15 AM by Amberwolf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted Tuesday at 06:19 AM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 06:19 AM 04-28-25: 042425 000001 200075v -- replaced awkward section and fixed tuning glitch https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/behind-you-lie-many-unseen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted Wednesday at 07:33 AM Author Share Posted Wednesday at 07:33 AM (edited) 04-28-25: 042425 000001 200096x -- timng and mix changes, bounced some clips to fix repeated broken fade problems (where some of the clips, especially in percussion at the last section, would "get" clip fades that extended *beyond* the actual clip, usualy several clips at a time all the same fade length, when none of htem actually had fades. Everything fine, save the file, close it, go back later, and they'd be broken like that. Fix it, resave, close, reopen, and broken again. But bouncing them fixed it.) https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/behind-you-lie-many-unseen 04-30-25: 042425 000001 200104z -- tweak intro percussion Edited Thursday at 06:43 AM by Amberwolf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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