Happy Friday Party Members!
People seem to be enjoying me branching out from the classic JRPG sounds, so I was messing around with some sounds outside of my norm, and came up with this cool tense action tune.
I think it started off as a nod towards a track from Parasite Eve 2 (there's that game again, I reference it a lot don't I??). There is a scene where Aya finds a bomb and sudde...
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Happy Independence Day Party Members!
And if you don't live in the States, a very Happy Tuesday to you as well!
I knew I had to do something special for the holiday, something patriotic, but still practical for you guys to use. So what I opted for was something in the style of Final Fantasy Tactics. Specifically, the "preparing for battle" screen where you set up yo...
2023-07-04 14:37:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Friday Party Members!
Today's tune continues my "melodic ambience" thing I've been unofficially rolling with.
If you've been around for a while, you know that I really like the music from Parasite Eve. The OSTs from both games (we still don't talk about the 3rd one...) have this kind of, effortless vibe. The tracks carry such weight without having to do a whole lot, which I lo...
2023-06-30 14:35:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Tuesday Party Members!
Ok so, there was no escaping this one. I've been watching some Resident Evil content, recently discovered the Doom mod "My House.wsd," and watched the first two Aliens movies over the weekend (can't believe I never saw em before!)
It was bound to happen. I had to write some creepy music!
Honestly I love writing this kind of stuff. It really g...
2023-06-27 13:54:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Friday Party Members!
Got another interesting one for ya today! I had a couple of requests I wanted to fulfill this week, and I believe I succeeded!
The request was for a remix of one of my old tunes, titled "2023-06-23 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Tuesday Party Members!
I received a request for some "Doomish Heavy Metal" music recently, and I was all about it. I used to write metal exclusively, but I don't do this style too often anymore so it was nice to try my hand at it again.
I really love the opening groove, with the bells/gongs in the background. Then I did the most metal thing possible and added a marimba line. I...
2023-06-20 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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This is one of those songs that just has a really cool vibe to it. I just started playing the piano bit the other day and it just immediately captured me. The song writing process didn't fight me at all on this one (though my DAW did by constantly changing my instrument patches for some reason...that was frustrating.)
In the process of playing ar...
2023-06-16 14:13:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Party Members!
Last week, while dog sitting, I got the opportunity to play Hollow Knight for the first time. My niece is really into that game and has been recommending it for a while. The game was really fun! I've got a long way to go to beat it, but I what I played so far, I really enjoyed!
Of course, one of the first things that stood out to me was the music. I really took no...
2023-06-14 14:35:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Party Members, happy Friday!
Can't go wrong with DKC style music, amirite?
Not a ton of moving parts in this one, just some of that classic DKC style ambience with simple melodies working over top of it. You guys have probably heard me say I have a tendency to overwrite, (I do in my mind at least), so it's always a good exercise for me to try and scale things back and let the sp...
2023-06-09 13:59:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Tuesday Party Members!
Today's tune utilizes the Phrygian Dominant scale.
"Bert, what the heck does that even mean?" I hear you say.
It means it sounds like a desert tune!
Some musical scales have so much character to them, that even playing them from start to finish (aka boringly) will invoke certain feelings in listeners minds.
So anyway, I want...
2023-06-06 13:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Friday Party Members!
I double labeled today's post because I couldn't decide which one described the tune better. I think the best application is a sad cutscene in a sad village. Yup, that should work.
This one made for an easy writing session for me. This is great because I'm going to be AFS (Away From Studio) next week, so I've gotta get those songs ready ahead of time.
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
It's been a while since I've done a 16-Bit styled tune for a Tuesday release. (Can't remember the last one tbh). Thought doing a new World Map tune would be fun, and sure enough, it was!
I feel like this one may be more suited for a vehicle tune, like flying in an airship or riding on a boat, but if you'd rather use it for your default map theme, or even...
2023-05-30 14:26:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Friday Party Members!
Another week down...this calls for a celebration!
It was brought to my attention that one thing the archives are lacking is a variety of victory fanfare jingles. And lo and behold, it's true! I think across all the songs, I only had 2 available, and one was the very first thing I released lol.
Soooo thats what I got for ya today! This fanfare was wr...
2023-05-26 14:09:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Tuesday Party Members!
You know when you see a writer constantly crumbling up pages and tossing them into the ever growing pile of rejected ideas? That was yesterday for me. I think I went through about 4 or 5 different ideas before I really locked in to something.
On the bright side, that's 4 or 5 ideas that I can pull back up in the future, and it may spark some inspiration ...
2023-05-23 15:18:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Friday Party Members!
I know I've put out a ton of songs at this point, but sometimes I realize I'm still lacking coverage for certain areas. For instance, Title Screen music!
Sure, there are plenty of songs I've released that could work as title screen music (as I always say, use it how you see fit) but I don't remember the last time I wrote one specifically to be a ...
2023-05-19 14:31:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Tuesday Party Members!
Today's tune is actually a re-imagining of one of my older tunes, The Rift. I'm really proud of how that one turned out, and find myself going back and listeni...
2023-05-16 14:24:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Friday Party Members!
I had to take a break from the Octopath style stuff. Needed to shake things up for my own sanity lol. But I think you are going to like today's release.
This may be the longest tune I've released on Patreon. (Actually not really sure on that but if it's not #1 it's definitely #2!) It's a super spacy, ambient tune. Lot's of droning and spread out ...
2023-05-12 13:57:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Tuesday Party Members!
Does the title confuse you? Are you feeling deja-vu?
Well after much debate and consideration, I decided that this theme fits the Scholar class much closer than what I wrote last week. And last weeks theme felt more Thief-ish the more I listened to it.
You know what else is crazy? I wrote this initially for the Cleric. Well, Temenos to be mor...
2023-05-09 16:32:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Friday Party Members!
Ok I'm really leaning in to it now. As you know, for my Tuesday posts, I've been doing themes based on the character classes from Octopath Traveler. Now, this is the 2nd Friday in a row that you get Octopath style dungeon music. I may not do a full 8 weeks of this for Friday's releases, but it's fun while it's here at least!
This was one of those songs th...
2023-05-05 13:55:09 +0000 UTC View Post
EDIT: I renamed this one, so if you picked it up when it was labeled for the Scholar, redownload or change your file names to keep things organized!
Happy Tuesday Party Members!
We've done Apothecary and Warrior so far, so up next is the Thief!
The biggest struggle in this tune was the B section. Everything came together so nicely in the first half that the 2nd half ...
2023-05-02 14:59:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Friday Party Members!
I'm bringing the pace down a bit in comparison to last weeks tune. Today we got a harp driven temple sounding tune. I feel like I say this every week but...it's been a while since I've done a track like this! :D
The Healer crew may not know, but I've started doing Octopath Traveler styled themes on Tuesdays, basing the tracks on the games different party ...
2023-04-28 14:06:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Tuesday Party Members!
So I think I'm continuing the theme from last week. That being Octopath inspired music. Hope you guys don't mind, that's just where I'm at right now in my creative journey. :D
Today's song is inspired by Hikari, in particular. So very much Japanese based. It features Er Hu, Pipa, Shakuhachi, Pipa and a Koto. Was really fun to incorporate these instrument...
2023-04-25 14:11:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Friday Party Members!
When I sat down to write yesterday, I initially thought "It's been a while since I've done a 16-Bit sci-fi tune, why don't I try that?" You'll hear the elements of that direction in the opening bass line.
What actually ended up happening (as the title gives away) is a boss fight tune emerged. And as I wrote it I realized it really HAD been a long ti...
2023-04-21 14:02:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Tuesday Party Members!
So uhh...I've been playing a lot of Octopath 2 recently. Basically it's the only game I've played since it released. (Day 1 baybeee!)
I don't gotta tell you guys, the music in both of those games is phenomenal. So I wanted to do something in that style, to a degree. And when I say to a degree, I mean "those songs are recorded with live instruments and th...
2023-04-18 14:26:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Friday Party Members!
I think I mentioned in one of my recent posts that I got a new toy...The Roland SRX Orchestra. (Did I mention that??? I can't even remember anymore y'all)
Aaaanyway, this track came about when I was first messing around with that instrument and checking out all it's different sounds. I love the bagpipe-esque thing that comes in around :52s...the patch is ...
2023-04-14 13:56:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Tuesday Party Members!
This track has been a long time coming. Some of you may have noticed me mentioning some orchestral requests in the works over the past couple of weeks. Well this is that track lol. Actually, this is like the 3rd or 4th iteration of that track.
Since you are all very creative yourself, I'm sure you know that sometimes, certain styles come easy and other t...
2023-04-11 13:59:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Friday Party Members! Hope you've had a great week.
Today's song was a fun request. It was for a variation on one of my old tunes...this one to be exact. But he wanted it to be more like Alyn's theme from Octopath Traveler.
Now, the Octopath music is all done with live instruments, so ...
2023-04-07 14:11:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Party Members! Hope you had a great weekend.
I got a new toy for the studio last week, and it is featured prominently in today's tune. It was the Roland SRX Orchestra plugin, which has a bunch of really nice instrument patches that mix well with some of my other plugins. But I won't talk your head off with my music man jargon!
This track should work great for ancient and m...
2023-04-04 13:09:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Friday Party Members!
Hope you've had a great week, and are looking forward to an even better weekend!
Today's tune may be a touch shorter than others, clocking in at 36 seconds. But once I got it to this point, I really didn't feel it was necessary to add anything more. After all, not every song has to be this sweeping epic masterpiece with several movements!
N...
2023-03-31 13:59:03 +0000 UTC View Post