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Creating 8-Bit Music for Video Games
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About Creating 8-Bit Music for Video Games
Intro
Our Scoring Goals
Percussion
Experimenting with Melody
Expanding the Melody
Taking Risks & Making Chords
Putting It All Together
The Journey Isn't Over
What You Will Learn?
- Are you a lover of 8-bit music?.
- There's nothing quite so satisfying as playing old school games and listening to the incredible 8-bit soundtracks that were forged by composers with very limited software capabilities and storage space. .
- This class is all about the discipline that went into creating some of our favourite soundtracks. This means only using 8-bit sounds for the entire song we compose, with no convenient extras of any kind added. .
- For this class, I'll be using Ableton Live 11 with the plugin 'Magical 8-Bit' by YMCK. I'll be re-scoring the free indie video game demo 'Brave' developed by Smaex. .
- If you'd like to follow along, you can download 'Magical 8-Bit' and install it into your DAW of choice. I hope you'll join me, I'd love to hear what you've created using the wonderful and instantly recognisable 8-Bit sound we all know and love. .