Welcome to the Sound & Music department!

dragonfly · Post by **dragonfly** » Sat May 01, 2004 1:47 am

Welcome to the new Sound & Music Department!

This is where we will gather our forces and add a whole new dimension to TR - the dimension of sound!

I have been granted the chance to try and pilot this endeavour, and I am very much looking forward to an interesting and productive time on this project.

I will create a thread on this forum where the general rules and guidelines for creating music and sound effects will be written down plainly and as easy to understand as possible. I want to stress that these rules are always open for debate and I am a very reasonable person; I will do my very best to adhere to everyone's suggestions and ideas.

As I have said, anyone is more than welcome to join up; there are many projects going on that could certainly benefit from our work - from ambience and atmospheric effects to custom NPC voices to the ethnic music of the many Tamrielic races, there are any number of things to do here! Not to mention the great endeavour of writing a completely new Tamriel Rebuilt Original Score! =)

My sincere thanks to everyone involved, and especially to the core members who have so fullheartedly supported my ideas for this project and given me their blessing.

Cheers!

-- Dragonfly / Sound & Music Guru =)

Legolas55 · Post by **Legolas55** » Sat May 01, 2004 2:10 am

Wow, sound effects. Count me in, I love impersonating NPC's and making disturbing noises...I just need a better microphone and better sound software. I can do dunmer, nords, and bosmer pretty well.

prometheus · Post by **prometheus** » Sat May 01, 2004 12:00 pm

heye i guess i could make some good dunmer voices or Daedric ones .....

Eraser · Post by **Eraser** » Sat May 01, 2004 12:19 pm

I have a mic and I'm up for some voice acting. I'm quite good at mimicking voices(can do the half life Gman perfectly(as my friend says im not being stuck up)) I have goldwave but haven't used it yet so i may be able to make sound effects too after practice with it.

sirwootalot123 · Post by **sirwootalot123** » Sat May 01, 2004 3:24 pm

I would be glad to do voice acting for creatures; like those bugs that mimmick humans in valenwood. The only voices I do well are either cartoony or downright disturbing

. Oh, I also do a near-perfect smeagol voice; perhaps we could use it for goblins? this is one thing I can do without my hard drive.

dragonfly · Post by **dragonfly** » Sun May 02, 2004 1:04 am

I'm glad to see so many people are interested in working with sound effects and music! If you want to do any one particular soundset or NPC voice, you're free to get started anytime! Open a new thread and tell people what you want to do, to make sure no one is already working on that particular project.

For musicians, write your musics any way you like, and when you have something of substance, just send me a MIDI file of the work, along with a list of what instruments you want for what channel(s).

Good luck to all of you!

kingfish · Post by **kingfish** » Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am

hmm, i'm really glad we have a music and soud department, even though i can't help in any way...
i wish you sound plp good luck and hope to hear some stunning music and sounds one day.

Post by **Haplo** » Sat May 08, 2004 12:04 am

awesome! Now dragonfly can really get more active!!! I'd help, my dad is the head of the music department in West Georgia University, he worked all the time with Robert Shaw, and performed with people like Sheryl Crow, Celine Deon, Gladys Knight, and Barry Mannilow (dunno if thats how you spell it)...enough with bragging bout my daddy now... anyway...we don't have any sound equipment , so I cant do anything

Telsar · Post by **Telsar** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 2:35 pm

I would like to help with music composition. I posted a sample song in The Tavern recently, so if you want to you can check that out.

Do you want me to use MIDI sequencing software, or is it ok if I use a keyboard? With the keyboard I use, I am able to record up to 16 tracks individually, then combine them. It also saves files as MIDI files.

Upsilon · Post by **Upsilon** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:10 pm

I would like to help in doing ambient sounds and those stuff... I have Sonar 3 so I can do things like this... Just tell me what to do and I'll do my best...

Asylum · Post by **Asylum** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 12:45 am

A scarry ambiant sound like you get when there is a ghost flying near you would be a nice thing.

Blackblade · Post by **Blackblade** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:44 pm

I would love to help, but I don't ahve any composition software, do you know of a place where I can get some?

Garriath · Post by **Garriath** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:46 pm

Search for Finale. Download the notepad; it's fantastic.

Suhn Tarsis · Post by **Suhn Tarsis** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 6:02 am

Just a foolish question. but what if we could possibly have a different musical theme for every land. All following TES theme but like with different instrumental themes, example:

The main TES theme in skyrim, except plyed on the Balalika, or harpsicoard
And in Argonia a mandolin or tribal drums or maybe even like one of those Chinese violin things.

as I said a foolish sugguestion.

Stalker · Post by **Stalker** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:12 pm

What Skyrim has to do with national Russian instrument ? It should be Skandinavian, not Russian.

Vernon · Post by **Vernon** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:34 pm

Or even Scandinavian...

Stalker · Post by **Stalker** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:38 pm

It was about caps\non caps letters ? I'll fix it right away. Sory.

SlugZ · Post by **SlugZ** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:09 pm

What are Scandinavia-music?

We put on Aqua? Safri Duo?

Suhn Tarsis · Post by **Suhn Tarsis** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:29 pm

Either way, Russia was founded by Vikings sailing down the Dineiper, Don and Volga rivers. So there music and cultures are in some ways similar, depending on what parts of Scandinavia and Russia we are talking about, and isn't the Harpsicord a Scandinavian instrument? You know, that instrument they use to play the Rohan Theme in Lord of the rings?

Blackblade · Post by **Blackblade** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 12:51 am

does anyone know where I can get something that will record MIDI files (prefrebly for free) I got Finale Notepad, but it dosen't support MIDIs.

Dragon · Post by **Dragon** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:00 am

Why ya want to record midi, record Mp3 with lame!

Blackblade · Post by **Blackblade** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:10 am

whats lame?

Dragon · Post by **Dragon** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:17 am

An audio codec, like winrar, without the winrar part

Blackblade · Post by **Blackblade** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:18 am

could you give me a link?

Dragon · Post by **Dragon** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:20 am

http://www.soft-ware.net/multimedia/audio/codecs/p03234.asp

Kothloth · Post by **Kothloth** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 2:40 am

and isn't the Harpsicord a Scandinavian instrument?

Dunno, but the keyed fiddle is. I guess.

Vernon · Post by **Vernon** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 9:34 am

Dragon wrote:Why ya want to record midi, record Mp3 with lame!

Have you read the previous page? You can't compose music with LAME, but you can with MIDI.

Vigdis · Post by **Vigdis** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 8:29 pm

BjÃƒÂ¶rk is real good Icelandic music. So I think music for the Nords shouldn't be loud, fast and pompous.
BjÃƒÂ¶rk could be good inspiration!

Teli · Post by **Teli** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 9:02 pm

Suhn Tarsis wrote:and isn't the Harpsicord a Scandinavian instrument? You know, that instrument they use to play the Rohan Theme in Lord of the rings?

You're sure you're not talking about the Harding-fiddle? That's the norwegian national instrument, and it was used for the Rohan Theme.

Vigdis · Post by **Vigdis** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 3:29 pm

Well, you could use BAVARIAN music!
HOHOHOHOHO I laugh me into the death...
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(I'm not speaking of "Octoberfestival-music, you see?)

Vernon · Post by **Vernon** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 4:00 pm

Vigdis wrote:BjÃƒÂ¶rk is real good Icelandic music. So I think music for the Nords shouldn't be loud, fast and pompous.
BjÃƒÂ¶rk could be good inspiration!

Good idea, however Bjork could not be considered 'typical' icelandic music. She certainly has none of the colloquialisms of Icelandic music these days - she is a Top 40 'musician' now.

*Has mental image of bathing in a hot Icelandic spring with Bjork - grrr*

Timito · Post by **Timito** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 7:31 am

Making music sounds fun, but I haven't got any software to do it. Isn't there some kind of "music creator" to download for free???

Kothloth · Post by **Kothloth** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:23 am

If you have not worked with music before, you might want to concider doing something else instead. It's nothing you learn over the night

Timito · Post by **Timito** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 4:19 pm

Maybe I can do voices

Devon8999 · Post by **Devon8999** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 1:18 am

I was looking online and i saw an interview on the person who did the music for the halo and halo 2 games and i got many ideas for game this I think that there should be music triggered when events happen like, when it gets dark out there should be spooky music and when it is daytime there should be lively music. also when you are fighting there should be battle type music.
amnother idea: try rewinding voices singing ooh or aah it makes a cool efect. 8)

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 7:13 am

Sounds like a good idea! Music making is the only thing I'm good at, so I can do that for you. I think I can arange an orkest to play music, I can olso play guitar. Maybe doesn't fit in the tamriel picture, but they used guitar in the Rome: Total War music; You decide...

Upsilon · Post by **Upsilon** » Tue May 31, 2005 12:18 am

Ok guys, I just made a ghost sound, or something. Tell me your impressions please...

Vernon · Post by **Vernon** » Tue May 31, 2005 1:01 am

I like the sound and am certain we can use it. You should try to remove the delay tail, as the Morrowind Engine lays its own reverb over any sound in realtime.

Upsilon · Post by **Upsilon** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:42 am

ok I'll fix it

Upsilon · Post by **Upsilon** » Tue May 31, 2005 9:26 am

Here's the version 2 of the ghost sound 1. I deleted to delay tail...

Welcome to the Sound & Music department!

Welcome to the Sound & Music department!

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