Game Music Composers

[IcePak]

Can anyone link me to sites with info about game-music composers. No, not about their personal lives and whatnot, but about what soundtracks they worked on, and in some cases, which music tracks on a soundtrack were by them.

[Darwock]

Argh, I came across a retail site quite a long time ago that was *exactly* what you are looking for, did features on specific composers each month and all sorts. I'll see if I can retrace my steps and find it again, but I don't like my chances.

[a_c_saunders]

If you're after any squaresoft music guys then http://www.squaresound.com/ is pretty decent. I remember visiting a site that had loads of game composers but I can't find the link anywhere...

[Flabio]

this was linked on OCRemix. Might be useful.

[dataDave]

http://www.vgmusic.com/

I'll add more when I find them, there are tons of databases around t3h net.

[Space Monkey]

http://billbrownmusic.com/

[Tig]

Almost on-topic question...

does anyone know of any n00b-friendly, easy music-editing programs? Preferrably free too - like a midi editor or something. I'm sure there must be something user-friendly like this available.

Cheers

[Junko]

http://www.richardjacques.co.uk/

[bangaio]

Tig,

what os? you can get plenty of free stuff on windows, some good, some not so good.

Mac, isnt so great but you have garrage band. If you want to play but want something better than an ejay type loop thing, then look at reason, fruityloops, metro. Have a look at soundonsound.com and if you are a mac user look at osxaudio.com

[MartyG]

Tig,

Take a look at http://www.sonicspot.com/trackers.html and http://www.united-trackers.org/2000/software/

Trackers are still very popular today, used actively in the demo scene. One of the best is Fast Tracker ( DOS based and doesn't run too well under XP ). There is a windows development of this, but I can't find it atm - I'll edit when I do.

Found it, it's Sk@le

Basically, a tracker takes a sample, and plays it back at different frequencies giving you the different notes. It works extremely well and is probably one of the easiest ways of getting into music composition without having to deal with midi sequencing.

There are also loads of MODs around that you can download and reuse the samples from (though if you release a MOD you should state where you got the samples from). Look out for MODs by Elwood and Purple Motion.

Regards
Marty

[bangaio]

http://www.computermusic.co.uk/about/aboutvst.asp

free, runs soft synths, lets you learn about music production in a real worl way which trackers - no offence meant here- do not and are really computer geek things. Midi sequencing is so easy, aps now let you compose everything internally with incredibly powerful sound generation methods used that rival synths that cost thousands of pounds a few years ago for free, you can even use your pc keyboard to play in notes. The above is meant to be very good for th emoney - none,.

[MartyG]

Absolutely, I use Cakewalk Audio a lot as it allows you to mix midi and audio stuff in together, but there's something about trackers that allows you to create great sounding stuff without a midi keyboard, that keeps me using them.

For MIDI stuff, I think it's pretty essential to have a MIDI keyboard if you want to do anything serious with it.

I've not tried CM Studio, but I can't find a download link on that site, or via google.

Regards
Marty

[warci]

some of the best games-music (C64 and AMIGA) ever made:

http://exotica.fix.no/

[razu]

Try buzz: http://www.buzzmachines.com/

[MartyG]

That looks very interesting, I shall be downloading it and having a play later. Looks like a tracker with extra bells and whistles, especially with the additional plugin type arrangement. Mind, the UI looks pretty complex from the screen shots.

Regards
Marty