Gameplay music

[Dratz-_C]

West,
How about "Imperiled Hero" as a title?; or anything that suggests the challenge of battle rather than the psychology of the subject. I think your music sounds good except for the French horns not synchronizing with the trumpets (or the general rhythm?) at 1:43-45. I think your "Inferno Behomoth" conveys the shock of the creature and then the tactics it invokes on the unlucky people it kills. I feel You have done a good job with it, so far. I'll see you in your new thread.
Cheers

[Telaron]

Hey West, just thought I'd say that I thoroughly enjoyed your song 'A Reluctant Hero'. Great job with the forward motion. As I was listening, I found myself looking forward to see how you would connect those melodies. Awesome, can't wait to hear more. (The download says its a WIP so I presume there will be more?)

[West]

Thanks for your comments guys, and sorry for my absence. I'm composing a commissioned track and that has to take precedence for now, but I'm still working on these two tunes when time permits

[West]

Inferno Behemoth is almost done... ended up almost a minute longer than I intended but I was on a roll.

Right now there's some stuff missing, like percussion in some places, a continuation of the horn melody at 1:10, and the staccato flutes/oboes in the final part.  The timing also needs to be tidied up in a lot of places, and there's a few out of tune notes in the solo bassoon's high register -- need to fix that.

I made the end of the tune a bit more subdued for two reasons. Firstly, there's no actual confrontation with the monster so having the track ending in a big climax makes no sense. Secondly, as it's longer than might be necessary for the cutscene & dialog, it sounds better if it's cut short during a soft part than a loud one.

I also seem to remember Trilby wishing for more choral parts so... there you go

In other news, A Relcutant Hero is around 90% finished, I've just been procrastinating because of some tedious detail work that needs to be done. I've also a completely new track close to being finished but more on that in a little while...

[Lastmerlin]

Nice to see you around here again
Very nice work with the new track, too. I especially like the rhytm - of course the syncopes (right word?) add greatly to the drive of the piece.
Concerning length: You can quite easily test the piece in-place by calling a simple command while playing the game. This gives you a rough idea how the piece fits into the cutscene at least.
I noticed that the XML code in this part of the forum got fucked up, need to fix that. But the simple command is still available.

[poVoq]

Nice song for sure! Could be fitting for a nice background music of a new trailer

[West]

Lastmerlin: thanks! And yes that is the right word, the intro in particular has some interesting syncopation going on As for length, I did try it back when I started composing the piece and concluded that the cutscene and following dialog requires around 1:30. But then that depends on how fast you read (and click) so the music being too long is probably better than too short.

poVoq: Not a bad idea, I'm much happier with this track than the one for the current video which was a very rushed composition.

Stand by for updates, I might just be able to finish both this one and A Reluctant Hero before the week is over.