music???

Cody on 2010/08/24 08:03

I'm 13 and I would like to write my own music for my game. What should I use to digitally write my music?

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mmkay on 2010/08/24 17:10:

I tried using TuxGuitar. It's a nice tool even if you don't know much about music :)

skaro on 2010/08/25 04:55:

My favored way for writing music is to use a Tracker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracker_(music_software)
It's better than midi, since you can choose your own samples, and usually render down to wav/mp3, and it's a little bit clearer what is going on than the piano roll or sheet music (in my mind at least) which most sequencers use.
In any case, Fruity loops isn't a tracker but it's popular, and there is a demo version. I use registered Renoise, which also has a demo version too.

Modplug tracker is free, and very capable. http://www.modplug.com/

The best thing about tracked music is, to me, that it sounds quintessentially video-gamey, in a good way. The original unreal tournament used it for instance. Here's a good example of tracker music: http://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=70716
Or just google virt/jake kaufman.
winamp, or modplug can play many of these tracked formats and conver to mp3 for your game.

Happy composing!