It's good to be back! Tried to make something that would fit into a SimCity game.

I'm back! Made something cute and simple. Might use it as menu music for a game I'm working on.

Been sick for a while, feeling a lot better now.

FL Studio is really good at loops. Also, here's a voice sample.

Threw out half of it and I ran out of time. I like the loop.

Have you actually met a wolf? They don't act like dogs at all. They don't pick up on any of the normal human social cues. This is not a creature that is fluffy and friendly. This is a creature that will hunt you in the dark over miles of tundra, and then it will disembowel you and eat you.

animatrix1490 - melodica

koboldskeep - guitar

Our first collab. Wanted to use live instrument samples since we got some new hardware we wanted to try out.

Oh, this guy again? Why is he always stronger than me?

Focus on making something a little longer and more cohesive this week. I like how the balancing turned out.

Something kinda ambient. Messing around with filters is a lot of fun.

Happy Halloween! The audio samples are from the final boss of Kirby: Canvas Curse for the DS.

In the seventh level of the undercity, miles and miles of of broken glass are supended. A constellation strewn across the darkness. Each reflects a scene, some real, some fanciful. It is said that each is a portal to another world, or another mode of existence.

I found a monster in the reverb filter.

Getting better at using FL Studio. This might make it into a videogame I'm currently working on.

Back to LMMS, didn't get FL Studio installed fast enough. Threw out my first draft after 15 minutes and rolled dice to re-write the melody.

A circle of black clouds surrounds the Dark Lord's castle. Lightning strikes topple mountains, horrors rise from the swamps, the dead rise from their graves, multi-headed dragons take flight and burn the countryside. In dark times such as this, even the stalwart can lose hope.

Figured out how to use filters and set automation tracks in FL Studio. It's a bit short though...

This is a remaster of my entry from 12 March 2020

A princess trapped in a castle? A dark lord conquering the realm? Monstrous beasts encircling our homes? Ho, brave adventurer! Mayhaps you are the answer to our prayers!

First FL Studio piece! Sorry it's so short. I spent half of the time watching tutorial videos. But here it is!

Came up with some cool chord progressions, but utterly failed to pull it together in FL Studio. Still need more practice!

I've been told my music is "cute," so I guess I'm gonna lean into it. Here's a track from an imaginary educational videogame from the 90s. Sip some hot cocoa, try to figure out which of the ski lockers is yours based on needlessly complicated math notes left by your friends, and learn how french fries and pizzas can help you stay safe on the slopes.

Wow I'm out of practice. I do like the melody though. :)

A remix of a boss theme I wrote for this compo: https://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/OHC564 The player has reached the ancient aqueduct dungeon, an ancient cistern full of strange technology where they must manipulate the water level to ascend to the top of a dam and duel the dastardly Black Knight!

 

I've actually gotten the entire dungeon working, minus art and the boss fight. Ask me on Twitter if you want to playtest the game!

While I was messing around trying to get my recording equipment set up, I managed a full minute of fantastic improv. It was not recorded. This is just part of a 10-minute attempt to recreate it.

This is a remix of the only track for an upbeat platformer I made a couple years back. It has a rabbit, which is basically a duck, right? https://koboldskeep.itch.io/no-gimmick-platformer

The 70s was a good time for fantasy! There's a very particular style of movie soundtrack I'm trying to copy here.

Had a couple of false starts, but this finally worked! Probably going into my videogame's hub level.

Tried to fake cello with vocals, not very happy with the result. But let's post it anyways, for posterity!

Composed it a bit slower than usual, then messed around with the tempo in post. Faster is better for these kinds of themes. :D

This is probably going to be the miniboss theme for my game. You'll probably hear it first when you come across a town besieged by skeletons, ogres, and dragons!

Another track for Foible & Fable, my videogame! This is for the Ice Boots shrine, a frozen shrine with a hydra lurking under the ice. Here the player will unlock the ability to walk on water, and do a sick backflip that freezes nearby enemies.

Music for a sequence from my game where the player is sneaking into a castle occupied by the Dark Lord's forces.

First draft of music for a hub world from my videogame. A realm of portals to different locations in the mortal realm where faeries frolic and ask you if you're really sure that you want to run out there and get eaten by monsters again. If you look up you can see the mortal realm, a triangular plate hanging in the sky, surrounded by mirrors focusing sunlight onto it. Curiously, you see no moon in this sky...

Several of the bosses in a game I'm working on have recurring themes of thunderbolts, storms, and pitched rooftop swordfights. Very happy with how this Boss01 track worked out. A Boss02 variation would be fully orchestral to raise the stakes, provoke an emotional response from the player, and contrast with the lowfi synths used here.

Definitely going into a videogame I'm working on. Tried to make something closer to my usual ambient textures. A bit inspired by Breath Of The Wild.

A highly incomplete theme for an overworld map. I've already composed some variations on this theme, but I figured now was a good time to nail it down. Happy with the drums.

I hauled my piano up a flight of stairs 10 minutes before the compo started, and then I couldn't find its power cord. Oh, well, live samples are overrated anyways... I think. I've never really used any. :P
Getting a much better feel for the limitations of LMMS. And once in a while you can use resonance to make it do some really wacky things.

Wanted to record the whole thing on piano and edit it all together in post, but that proved infeasible 20 minutes in so I arranged most of it in LMMS.

I like this one enough that it's probably going into a videogame prototype. :D

Teaching myself Famitracker this month. It's way more versatile than I thought it would be.

Ten minutes in I was ready to give up in frustration. Then I said, "what if I composed something using only default LMMS instruments?" Then this happened.

Second compo. Lots of wintry influence in this. Still angry that I couldn't make the drums sound deep enough.

First submission to the compos. All LMMS Triple Oscillators, and trying out some of the new 1.2.0 beta features. Only 37 seconds long.
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