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Hi, I'm new here. Well, I've used Famitracker before, but I mostly use FL Studio, however I has a NES VST by Matt Montag that pretty much lets you create 8-bit instruments just like in Famitracker.
I've been making music for a year now. I'm pretty good for my level, I guess, but my style is more upbeat and melodic. It doesn't sound very videogamey, and I want my music to sound like it's from an NES game!
I preferably want to learn the Megaman style! I'm real good at coming up with solid melodies, but not too good with the background stuff. It's something I have to work on. I'm really good at percussion.
I've tried making a Megaman styled tune, but It doesn't sound megamanish at all to me. I guess I'm not using the right instruments or something. I've looked on this site here, and found a bunch of megaman instruments, but I just don't really know how to go about using them.
For the longest time I've been using the same NES sound font, and just now about 3 days ago, started using this VST. I rather work in FL Studio with this VST since drawing notes on the piano roll is a lot easier for me than using a tracker.
I've remade part of Plug Man's stage in FL studio with this VST, from copying the instruments and such from the .ftp I found, and it sounds the same as in Famitracker, so I know this VST can get the job done.
If you want the VST, here it is.
http://www.mattmontag.com/projects-page/nintendo-vst
Anywho, could somebody give tips and such, or help teach me, please? I have so many good melodies in my head, and they would sound so great if they were made into Megaman tunes!
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RE: I Wanna Learn To Make Megaman Music!Posted: 2011-05-06 06:15
You'll notice that his instruments uses pitch bending effects. You'll also note the exclusive use of the noise channel as percussion (without the use of percussion samples in the DPCM channel). I know there are plenty of other things that I'm missing here in terms of theory, so I'll leave it to the other guys to explain deeper (& leave you to study the link I posted here).
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RE: I Wanna Learn To Make Megaman Music!Posted: 2011-05-06 06:29
best thing to do is download nsf's. isolate each channel. listen. learn. also watch examples people have made in FT. that helped me out a lot to see how to get certain sounds. i attached some i found a while back that you may find useful. is there a certain game that has more of a sound your going for? 2 and 3 are my favorites but they use a lot of different techniques.
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