[LAU] Music made with Linux: spooky game soundtrack

Folderol folderol at ukfsn.org
Sun Nov 25 18:34:50 UTC 2012


On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:59:38 +1100
Leigh Dyer <lsd at wootangent.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I know Halloween has passed now, but in the run-up to it I recorded a 
> track to be used as background music for a game being developed by a 
> friend of mine. It's a fun, lighthearted game, so I went with a "kooky" 
> feel rather than anything genuinely scary. You can hear it here:
> 
> http://pneuman.bandcamp.com/track/main-theme
> 
> or here, for the ogg-inclined:
> 
> http://wootangent.net/~lsd/music/switchbreak/candygrappletheme.ogg
> 
> The harpsichord is Pianoteq, as is the piano in the bridge; the 
> theremin-like sound is a patch on my Waldorf Blofeld; and the tuba and 
> organ are both from the Fluid GM soundfont -- I wouldn't normally reach 
> for a GM sound set when looking for instruments, but in this case they 
> both worked really well. The random bits of percussion from SSO.
> 
> All sequenced and recorded in Ardour 3!
> 
> Thanks
> Leigh

Nicely done. Fits the idea of a slightly spooky game rather well.

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.


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