Theme of the main menu for half an hour
Among the visitors of Habr there are many game lovers, there are also those who love to do these games. Surely, many people wonder how game music is done and what is needed for that. Today, I will tell you, in a lively example, in a simple and understandable language, how to write a short musical theme for the main menu of iOs of the game “Stretched”, spending a minimum of time and effort, while receiving a qualitative result.
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In brief, the task stated was: to write a quality composition for the main menu that would take up little space (there is nothing to force the player to wait until the main menu loads), would not distract attention (even admire the buttons better) and create a mysteriously otherworldly mood I wanted to play).
For writing the composition, I used the Logic Pro 9 software studio. The software studio is the main program with which sound is recorded, processed and turned into the final product - wav, mp3 or another file that can be played by any player or inserted into the game.
Since I didn’t have to record live sound, I used only software tools that use ready-made libraries of already recorded sounds - and these can be recordings of live instruments (violins, flutes and drums), and sounds that are difficult or impossible to meet in nature. (for example, various waveforms or various noises).
The trouble is that the original sounds themselves can be boring and flat - for this they need to be adjusted and processed in a certain way. For example, you can add “spatial sound”, remove the cutting ear frequency, or even distort the sound beyond recognition - all this can be done using the built-in tools of the software tools themselves.
Divide the composition into two halves. The basis of the first part will take a simple, light-naive guitar bust:
Add mystery (after all, we agreed that the music should be mysterious). Now it became so:
The harp is a very mysterious and air instrument. Add a harp from the NI Komplete library and make the frame for the second half:
Kind and gentle violins will add to our volume and warmth. For violins use Spectrasonics Omnisphere:
In order not to be boring and diverse, add a little oriental notes. (Again from the Omnisphere library):
It’s boring without drums, but we don’t need too much epic gravity there or there. Drumming with the help of the True Strike Tension library for NI Kontakt. Let's listen to the second half of our topic:
Autumn is on the game’s main menu screen — yellow leaves are flying, objects are swaying as if a cold autumn wind is piercing them. Add wind:
All together it sounds like this:
“Stretched” was developed by less than a year by three people and is available in the AppStore.
Stretched on the Appstore
The publisher was the company Chillingo , best known for the hits of Angry Birds and Cut The Rope.
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In brief, the task stated was: to write a quality composition for the main menu that would take up little space (there is nothing to force the player to wait until the main menu loads), would not distract attention (even admire the buttons better) and create a mysteriously otherworldly mood I wanted to play).
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A small technical retreat
For writing the composition, I used the Logic Pro 9 software studio. The software studio is the main program with which sound is recorded, processed and turned into the final product - wav, mp3 or another file that can be played by any player or inserted into the game.
Since I didn’t have to record live sound, I used only software tools that use ready-made libraries of already recorded sounds - and these can be recordings of live instruments (violins, flutes and drums), and sounds that are difficult or impossible to meet in nature. (for example, various waveforms or various noises).
The trouble is that the original sounds themselves can be boring and flat - for this they need to be adjusted and processed in a certain way. For example, you can add “spatial sound”, remove the cutting ear frequency, or even distort the sound beyond recognition - all this can be done using the built-in tools of the software tools themselves.
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Divide the composition into two halves. The basis of the first part will take a simple, light-naive guitar bust:
Add mystery (after all, we agreed that the music should be mysterious). Now it became so:
The harp is a very mysterious and air instrument. Add a harp from the NI Komplete library and make the frame for the second half:
Kind and gentle violins will add to our volume and warmth. For violins use Spectrasonics Omnisphere:
In order not to be boring and diverse, add a little oriental notes. (Again from the Omnisphere library):
It’s boring without drums, but we don’t need too much epic gravity there or there. Drumming with the help of the True Strike Tension library for NI Kontakt. Let's listen to the second half of our topic:
Autumn is on the game’s main menu screen — yellow leaves are flying, objects are swaying as if a cold autumn wind is piercing them. Add wind:
All together it sounds like this:
About the game
“Stretched” was developed by less than a year by three people and is available in the AppStore.
Stretched on the Appstore
The publisher was the company Chillingo , best known for the hits of Angry Birds and Cut The Rope.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/135214/
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