Thanks a lot for asking! I actually wanted to write music that could play as ambient track in a video game.
My main inspiration for orchestra music is the World of Warcraft (WoW) music.
When writing this music, i wanted to make something that would play in a beautiful forest environment of a video game.
The name ‘Tranquility’ suggests peace and harmony. Attempt was to make music sound peaceful and to highlight the beauty of a natural forest.
Honestly…I have heard worse… lol Seems like yu are getting the hang of a tracker…which in it’s own right quite a task. Just keep making stuff. I have years of folders of complete crapola…and also “happy little accidents” that later usually turn into something decent if I keep working on the details and moving things forward a bit at a time.
yeah i don’t get the vitriol “oh i can’t believe”, blah!
you should check out what Strobo/Stellar started doing with the original ST-00: to ST-03: samples or so, before he started sampling his own stuff and learned to be way better.
every single one of these legends like Groo/CNCD, Heatbeat/CNCD, etc, etc started out as pretty much utter trash, bad samples, etc, because that’s all they had. the ideas were fun tho, but the samples seriously let them down.
when they started using properly sampled samples from either friends or their own synths, and learned the subtlety of tracker effects etc, things improved immensely. but the first tracks people make tend to always be nothing to write home about.
it’s surprising that over here people will be like “wtf wtf wtf dude is this a joke haha lol”… good grief.
imagine if these legends of the 4 channel protracker/soundtracker / amiga scene had been hit with “is this a joke??” … etc.
p.s. yes they composed the shit out of those samples, really long-ass compositions etc, and maybe they weren’t out of tune that much, but still, there’s a difference between “first trials” and then “oh let me get a good sampleselection going and then learn my craft”.
Alright, I am finally here because I took a flight yesterday which I didn’t have the time on writing, and let me give you some feedback.
After I have listened your track, seems the biggest issue currently is the timing of your track, but don’t worry since this is your second track and it is very normal to have track like that.
The first practice you may take is to identify the timing of the instruments and the concept of time signature; as far as your project from your video, I can see you keep changing the pattern length like putting a 44 line pattern against a 64 line patters, and your melodies seems to having a hard time to be in sync. Considering the flow of the track, I guess you may start to learn your first lesson about music theory with the time signature, to see how music notes usually timed, and how to count a song or track with identifying strong and weak pulses. At the moment, you may at least learn how to count a 4/4 and 3/4 beat and able to tell the different between them.
In addition, at your current stage, try to write notes only on line number with multiple of four minus one (at line 0, 3, 7, 11, 15, etc…). For a beginner, repeating notes for odd number of lines can be very tricky because it needs other concepts in music theory, polyrhythm and syncopation. Thus, try to keep it simple at first, and move on to more complex rhythm once you feel comfortable and consistent in writing the simple stuff.
Originally, I also wanted to also let you to practice about writing a four bar phrase with learning the concepts of scales and chords, along with some basic ostinato patterns because you want to do orchestral music; however, I don’t want you feel too overwhelmed, so at the current stage, let’s focus on the easier but the most important part, to make your tracks flow smoother before sorting out the harmony.
My first attempt at making a tonal song. Uses A Prometheus key and chords.
