Music Competition Discussion Thread

All discussion on the music competition should take place here. Ask questions on the current theme, make suggestions for future themes, or ask any other questions you may have.

 

For those of you who are taking the FF route for this theme, here's a good site with some FF music resources. I use this quite a bit in my FF arrangements.

FF9 Midis / Final Fantasy IX Midis / Final Fantasy 9 Midis

It says FFIX, but that just happened to be the particular section I was looking at. It has everything IV-XI

Oh and simply out of curiosity, who all is planning on entering this?

 

There may eventually be themes involving original composition. This month however, your goal is to arrange a piece of music, not compose one. You may pick any piece of music written by Nobuo Uematsu, the composer for the Final Fantasy series, though you do not necessarily have to do an FF song. You simply have to put your own twist on the song, via instrumentation, different style, etc. It will be your version of it.

the method of composition is up to you. You can use scoring software, MIDI, even record yourself or someone else playing it if you're able. There's a thread in this subforum where I was trying to determine interest. I made some software suggestions there if you don't have the programs.

 

My God yes. Nice stuff you have there. I'm working on my own setup personally. I'm hoping to get, sometime soon, an M-box 2 Mini with ProTools LE. My current interface doesn't play well with my comp unfortunately, v_v. But when it comes to MIDI, I prefer using Cubase. Not much good with a sequencer, so for what I'm going need it for, I'd rather use ProTools, since it's what I have the most training and experience on. I also have Sound Forge, which is awesome for single waveform editing.

For this though, I use Sibelius. I have a better understanding of music from a classical standpoint, and thus work better with the notation software rather than sequencing.

And yes, your song choices are fine, though the bombing prelude I don't know off the top of my head. At least not by name. What is that from? Just remember that your entry has to b at least 60 sec. You're welcome to do something longer. Mine likely will be.

 

VII does have the best soundtrack, even though I'm going with a song from IX for this. I've actually got an FFVII medley that I'm about half finished with. I've got some of it posted on the board if you're interested.

Is that the same piece they opened Advent Children with, or is this the piece that starts playing when the gameplay starts?

 

depends on how big the file is. If it's small, I suggest going to Box.net - Free Online File Storage, Internet File Sharing, Online Storage, Access Documents & Files Anywhere, Backup Data, Send Files it's a pretty good place for this sort of thing. If it's really big, what I do is make a freeweb site and upload it there. It's not the most ideal of places to playback from, but it does the job.

 

Very nice entry. Simplistic isn't really bad. It works for this.

 

Interesting turn of events.

Anyway, it's a while away, but I was thinking of possible themes for next months competition, and here some possibilities.

Villains: Basically, any bad guy theme. Doesn't matter what from. Movie, game, TV, theater. Anything.

Disney: Any song from a Disney movie, live action or cartoon. Either is fine. Disney has some good music, and this being a KH site, it seems rather appropriate.

Broadway: Any song form a broadway musical.

Pop song: I say pop for a lack of anyhting better to say. Truly pop music is any style that happens to be popular, but even then I'm not deciding based on how successful the artist is, especially since a lot of people here have probably never heard of the guy I want to do. Create an instrumental arrangement of any song recorded by a professional recording artist of any genre. Could be fun.

Movies: Any movie theme. I hope that was self explanatory.

What do y'all think?