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Game Naughty Dog have added Uncharted 3 Classic mode which is basically the gameplay of UC2. This is what I wanted the game to be from the beginning and it's finally here. Music Practicing making synth sounds and drums from scratch. Just a load of ideas thrown into this track, I hope to take what I've learnt and start work on a dubstep track.

Research Was The First Step Where I'm at/ was at? It's been over 6 months since I last finish a track. Felt pretty lost for a while because I didn't know how to create the music I was hearing in my head. It was actually when I started hearing dubstep in quite a few game trailers that I became intrigued by the style of music. More importantly I knew creating that music would help me solve two pr...

Hey all. I do these music blogs to kind of keep a diary of how far I have come in learning all things Reason 5 and if nothing else it will probably make me laugh in a few years. If you find the track interesting feel free to leave a comment. I'm most curious what games you associate with it because I like writing for game trailers too and there are plenty of ideas to use from this. SPOILER WARN...

I put this up on the ND Forum and thought I would put it here too. All the pictures were done by me in the UC2 cinema editor. How do you keep things fresh and interesting while playing UC2? I think I have got most of the basics down now on how to play and thought I would set myself some challenges to get me out of my comfort zone and keep things fun. There really are endless possibilities you c...

I wrote something and would very much like your input on what type of game genre you think it would fit with and any game trailers that come to mind. I'm still hopeless at writing music that fits with material so I thought I would do it the other way round and write the music first. Once I have picked a game trailer I will use the ideas from this piece below to make something that syncs up with...

I have always been intrigued by music on old systems and the distinct sound it created. I set out to research how the game music of that time was created and how I could best go about creating my own piece in that style. After a lot of listening to my old favourites I discovered a link to a video which outlined how to create this type of music. What fascinated me was the rules which composers h...

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Sitting in the house on my own earlier today and after getting my shit ready for work tomorrow I didn't really know what to do with the day. After listening to music and podcasts for a bit I thought I would attempt to write some music. Started with five ideas on the piano and after trying to make them fit together I got pissed off and went down stairs. After staring out the window for a few min...

Hello Giant Bomb. After listening to Hamst3r's latest track and Tebbit's latest track I felt the need to get back in to writing some music. What has been keeping me back is having to write music to video so I tried a new approach of only spending one night on a track and leaving it at that. My aim for this track was to focus on getting some Steve Reich influences in there along with messing aro...

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The clip is one of AussieSN1P3R 's video edits. My main aim was to copy every gunshot and movement the player made. Laggers by X19 Feedback would be great thanks.

I saw this youtube video a while ago and thought I would write something to it. If anyone knows a free program for syncing audio files to video files please let me know. Here is the track it hasn't been mixed very well yet and still needs some work doing to it. Laggers by X19 The 2nd draft will be synced to the video above and hopefully you will get a better idea of what is going on. As always...

Music is very important to me when I play games. One of my dreams is to be as good as these composers and write music for games some day. Harry Gregson Williams I don't know how you do it: The production on the Wipeout HD soundtracks are incredible and fit with the game perfectly: I get major Nostalgia and shivers down my spine when I listen to the Final Fantasy soundtracks. Nobuo Uematsu is th...

This is something I have only thought seriously about fairly recently. After watching Hamst3r's Giantbomb Community Song I was inspired to get back into composing which I haven't done since uni. I have mainly rewritten music for section of films such as the matrix and Kung Fu Panda which I might add to this blog at some point. The first step is to build a portfolio of music this time for games...