My video game loop

[zirtoc]

I wrote a music loop that could be used in a video game. Tell me what you think!

http://www.fileden.com/files/22376/videogame2.mp3

The hard part was figuring out how to bend the pitch on the guitar. The program is pretty simple to use though, if you have the skillz.

If you like it, you might want to download it to your machine so you can loop it. Does anybody know how to get a file to loop on the internet?

[EDIT]

If you are too lazy to download the loop, here it is looped twice:

http://www.fileden.com/files/22376/videogame2a.mp3

[SyKDeMoN]

That's too awesome, I really like it alot!

Think I'm gonna have to try and set it as my ringtone if I can figure out how.

[zirtoc]

Thanks! That's my problem, also - I don't actually know how to use it with anything! But hopefully the mp3 inclined will figure it out.

[zirtoc]

I am publishing this song, and I'm going to attempt to sell it on Amazon.com. It could be two weeks before it appears there. I make 60¢ for every copy sold. But I'll let you guys listen for free!

http://www.fileden.com/files/22376/zblack.MP3

I had to make cover art for my single track, heh. Here it is. I screen captured the screen saver from Windows Media Player and then distorted it a bit, and stuck a Z on top of it. Oh, and that odd eyeball-type thing used to be the play button from Media Center, upside down.

[alexl86]

That's perhaps the video gamiest music ever. Parts of it reminds me of Mega Man, while other parts of it remind me of Donkey Kong Country, for some reason. It's pretty cool, I like it. I wouldn't mind having it loop infinitely to an 8/16-bit platformer.

[SyKDeMoN]

I hate to say this but I really don't like the added bongo sounds at all, they just seem out of place to me. Everything else sounds much better than the original and I couldn't help but laugh at the "hyuh" part. Publishing it sounds pretty kool and I definitely hope it does well!

[zirtoc]

I welcome all comments, so don't be afraid to fire away! I originally had the beginning repeat twice, and it seemed a little stale, so I added the conga part in an attempt to latin it up and make it feel a bit different. The drum part before the "hyuh" is an authentic latin rhythm called guaguanco (prounounced wah-wahn-CO). And that is actually my voice on the "hyuh", but not on the very last note, which is a percussion instrument called a cuica that sounds human, but it's really just a straw in a drum head that you rub a wet rag over. There's your percussion lesson for the day!

I'm doing something a lot more thoughtful for my next project. I'm trying to emulate the voice of a deity, and I don't have it quite right yet. I really haven't gotten to the actual song yet, I've just been working on the intro. But I'll throw up what I have so far. Let me know what text you can't decipher - probably the first two bits because I was playing with the volume on those to get a more alien sound. And the end (the actual song) I just started, so that may not be there at all when I get working on it again.

Cosmos Prime

Oh, a little background... Cosmos Prime is one of the deities who created the universe. They made an empty, cold, dark, and pristine cosmos which to Them was perfection. But there was a microscopic anomoly in the formula, one that was under tremendous tension, and burst into "a billion billion arcs of light, shards of matter and Time" and created our universe. The Divine Ones were horrified at this yucky mutation, and decided to flee. But they left one deity behind against his will to record the results of the mutation...Cosmos Prime.

I'm a little murky after that, that's what the first song is about. The rest of the album will be about the struggle between Cosmos Prime and humanity. Prime knows that the universe humanity sees is meaningless, and was never meant to exist at all. I was thinking of wiping his memory and having him participate as a human in contemporary times, and average guy leading a meaningless existence. Then after awhile, he remembers who he is, and then he REALLY knows it's meaningless, but he struggles to convey (or not convey) that information to the people around him. He also struggles to find meaning in his own life amidst the purposelessness of the universe he helped to create. In the end, he may have to wrestle with the idea that there is some purpose greater than Himself which caused the anomaly in the first place.

Interesting concept, at least to me. We'll see where it leads.