Cherry Pie Zone

I`m working on a few tunes for a new xbox 360 XNA game called Quarx. Here is the game title/menu music.  The game itself is quite far along and will hopefully get a release soon, so I’ll post a link and some more music for it soon too.

t00nz - I am quarx

Another synth demo, this time it`s just reFX Claw presets (plus just a 909 bassdrum and clap). Interesting plasticy sound from this one - and kind of a strange tune to go with it

t00nz - noblin the goblin

This months KVR competition entry, theme is PUNK.

t00nz - fukuall - terror mix

Been a while since I posted new music, partly due to losing my PC to a motherboard failure, and ending up with a new PC. Nothing lost data wise, but lost a week or so of time.  To get back into the swing I’m writing a few short demo tracks using some free VST synth or other. 

This synth is called 38911Bytes and is by odosynths. It’s a great little synth (one of a few on that site), based on the C64 chip. It`s a free demo, donationware for a fully tweakable version.

t00nz - t00nz vs 38911bytes

Another competiton entry, this time on KVR. 1 minute long, on the theme of speed:

 t00nz - whathappensat480bpm

I entered a competition on gamedev to score a cartoon called ‘Luftwaffles’. This is my entry (score only). It’s the first orchestral piece I’ve done for a long time, hoping to do some more work like this soon.

For this one, actual music is at the start, middle and end.. with the remainder being spots for the action. I’ll post the dubbed video later if it’s allowed, but the original can be found here: luftwaffles

p.s. as of posting there’s still a week till closing if anyone wants to join in.

t00nz-luftwaffles.mp3

I noticed some people subscribed to this blog via the RSS feed, so I’ve updated it to push the feed through feedburner, which gives you some new options.

One of these, is that it will work as a podcast you can add to iTunes (or other podcatcher) and it’ll just pull down new music as it’s posted here. No, there is no chat, it’s just the mp3s as posted here.

To see all this, just click on the icon on the side.

This track is unusual for me, because it’s an old tune redone.. It was originally a midi file I did about (gulp) ten years back, for the AWE 64 soundcard..  It’s still pretty fun to write for those old GM soundsets and try get something from them.. Anyway I decided recently to revisit it as an exercise in mixing/arranging.

Even though it came out ok, it’s not a very satisfying thing to do and I prefer the original I think. Anyone who has taken a demo into a studio will understand what gets lost sometimes..

There is something about those old 1M soundfonts!.. I recommend anyone who enjoys writing music to try writing for them once or twice. It makes you work harder, and learn more!

Anyway, you can judge for yourself.. here are both old (unfortunately not on it’s native card, but close enough)  and new.

Old:
 

t00nz - twinbee

New:

 t00nz - twinbee08

hmm?

Some samples from “3 Space Themes” and “Synthstruck” are being used for ambience in a new XNA game that looks quite interesting. The demo is here.

Got some ideas for a new spacey synth thing when I find the time too.

This is worth a look : goodcopybadcopy. It’s a documentary you can watch about the use of samples in music and the effects of copyright on this.