25 Forum Posts by "x0M0x"
At 8/13/13 05:28 PM, WoogieNoogie wrote: While those kind of SDK's are good for rapid development across multiple platforms, it really doesn't match up to native applications for each device. When native development doesn't happen, issues can ramp up pretty quickly, and not be solved easily. I've heard good things about a Python-based and a Ruby-based platform that pushes to both Android and iOS, but they still get the same problem of not being native.
Plus LUA is annoying :)
Lol, unfortunately your telling me everything I know :P I was asking if anybody used it so that I could get some help :P Thank you though!
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At 8/13/13 06:50 PM, Elitistinen wrote: OpenMPT, if you're a programmer, you'll like it.
Just taken a look, and I do! :D
Other suggestions in this forum all great, though unfortunately none of them are actually "free". Thank God for this one!
In case you wonder, yes, I am a Lmms user.
Cool :), can you show me anything you've made in Lmms?
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Hi guys,
So you might have seen my other forum posts about starting out in the audio world. But I wanted to ask this question specifically and I think other starters would benefit from seeing the answers from the pro's too. Basically as myself and probably a lot of other starters won't have started really earning yet, what are the best FREELY available DAW's out there, why, and for my own personal interest, do they work with MIDI equipment?
I MASSIVELY appreciate any input and help guys, I know it's quite a detailed question. Thanking you in advance,
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Hey guys,
I'm just trying to find out what's the best way to make money from the game music and sound effects I'm creating? Best places to sign up too etc...
Any help, greatly appreciated!
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At 8/12/13 12:39 PM, Elitistinen wrote: So, what music are you planning to compose? EDM? Dubstep? HipHop? Metal? Or just the hive-mind Orchestra?
Well as I'm a programmer/writer I'm aiming to create music for games. So the style will vary based on the environment or theme :)
At 8/11/13 03:13 PM, Troisnyx wrote: Just discovered that xOMOx 1) not only is in the same county as me, but 2) also attends the same uni as me. Well, wasn't expecting this. :D
Haha crazy times!
Well glad you enjoyed them but it's impossible for you to have listened to them all. My other post is 32 minutes older than this one, and it would take approximately 70 minutes to listen to them all; the Dream Theater song alone is 20 minutes long.
Did you mean you just skimmed through them?
Yup had to skim man otherwise I wouldn't be able to reply to your post for as you said 70mins lol aso had to youtube one or two as the last one didn't work "in my country" and ng was taking forever :( But they are all awesome. :)
At 8/11/13 05:12 PM, Diki wrote: Most commonly it's progressive rock/metal since it helps me think. Pink Floyd, Dream Theater, Yes, Opeth, King Crimson, Nevermore, Cynic, and Emerson Lake & Palmer are just a few examples.
I linked to some really good songs by each band in case anyone is a progressive rock/metal fan and hasn't heard these guys before. They're really, really good. :)
Basically anything that is highly melodic, and intricately composed and produced.
Diki I've just listened to every single one of those, all, awesome! Thanks for sharing!
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It's 'to' not 'too.'
I listen to a lot of film and video game sound tracks. Also chiptunes/trance/melodic dubstep/etc.
But I do tend to get distracted occasionally. I can't read and listen to music at the same time unless it's really subdued ambient stuff.
Genuine typo, thanks for the reminder. Minecraft tunes are pretty cool if your going for ambient :D
At 8/11/13 12:02 PM, Elitistinen wrote: I hate to break your line of thoughts. but discussing programming in Audio is kinda awkward, he he he.
Lol nah shame on us! ;) No more programming talk here
What does everyone listen to when programming??? Personally I can go from Morrowind to Glitchmob to Movie music like Tron and Inception. What get's your programming-gasm going?
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I very much doubt we're in the same one haha - I live in Malta, an island in the middle of the Mediterranean, and I'm going to the only University we've got on the island, mysteriously named the University of Malta. Right now all I'm doing is learning programming and making music for games, competitions, etc - I want to take game development as a career but all I've ever learnt is Java and Pascal at basic levels (and never game-dev-related either). That should change because the course I'm taking in University (which starts in October) is Artificial Intelligence, which is the most game-related course the University seems to offer.
Hit me up when you've posted some music to Newgrounds by the way; music is really what I specialise in right now. I'd love to check it out!
Sweet! Yep we're deffo not at the same uni lol but oddly enough I'm also taking AI this coming semester!! I've also just learnt the same two langauges 0.o that's creepy! Dude try Lua with the Corona SDK it's free and you can sell the apps you make. It's specifically for games and apps and if you get your google play licence you can publish and sell on there too. There's forums and all sorts, loads of tutorials. You'll learn lua in no time it's really cool and simple. Try it out! Though it's not as powerful as native coding you'll be able to church things out quicker than you will with only basic knowledge of java and pascal (which you should keep up - at least the java). I'll hit you up as soon as I've got some things recorded, but i'm currently waiting for my new keyboard to arrive from amazon :)
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I'm building a graphics engine and game engine in C++, using Visual Studio, which I happen to be gluing Lua to. Lua is a great language, but not by itself. It's great when you can tie it into an existing engine to take care of the high level logic. I build the LuaJIT runtime into my engine and then build a series of class objects in Lua use metatables and a C-interface.
Agreed! Lua by itself is a little limited when it comes to high level logic! What are you working on?
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At 8/11/13 07:47 AM, Step wrote: Hello and welcome to the Audio Forum. We have exactly the same interests. I'm learning programming at University (and taking it as a career), I enjoy writing (used to write books when I was younger) and I've been composing music for nearly six years.
Be sure to check out the Audio Forum Lounge to get to know the community.
Cool! Always to great to meet like-minded artists! I write short ebooks for the minute, producing apps and things between programming more lengthy projects such as games or larger apps as it makes good use of my time. I'm working on my novel which as you'll probably know is a massive project but if all goes to plan should see the release of various Lore centered Ipad/interactive books alongside it. What are you working on atm? What university are you at? We may be at the same one! Feel free to PM!
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At 8/11/13 06:46 AM, Blackhole12 wrote: I'd recommend FL Studio for cheap, and Cubase for up market.
There are no good free DAWs. There's a few open-source ones, but they are usually for linux and often suck pretty hard. Being a C++ programmer myself, I've investigated potentially working on my own DAW, espiecally if it could take advantage of the new sFFT algorithm for a tenfold improvement in calculating the discrete fourier transform, but haven't really had time to work on it.
FL Studio may be the way for me to go right now then. I'm literally just starting out with C++, I started with LUA using the Corona SDK and I'm starting to see it's limitations as I'm not quite sure how well it does without the freedoms of native coding. Plus the forums there are a mess. What are using C++ for and what is your set-up (if you don't mind me asking).
Some example
Script based off Lua
That's some pretty interesting stuff, cheers :D
At 8/10/13 08:35 PM, theGodspeed wrote:At 8/10/13 09:34 AM, x0M0x wrote:Hey x0M0x! Now I am not a game programmer but am a musician and have been on this NG for a bit.
As far as having a start on NG, you are doing pretty well since crowd sourcing is super easy on this website and beneficial. There are many people working on all sorts of projects, many of which I bet have experience with programming, writing, composing, etc. What I did to get started was personal message some people whose works I enjoyed and were going for something similar to what I wanted to put out and they helped me out immensely. You can also ask people if you can use their music for your game if you want to, but make sure to say what you are using it for and if you would be getting revenue from it.
You can also contract work from anyone with the skills you want, if all else fails.
For getting started outside of NG, I can only offer my knowledge of music and DAWs (Digital Audio Workspaces). A decent computer, i/o, preamp, DAW, some plug-ins and a mic, if you are doing live recording, can go a loooooong way. It also wouldn't hurt to have some accurate headphones or monitors for more precise sound design.
Hope I helped!
Thank you so much for all of that that is an awesome reply! NG seems to be seriously welcoming so I'm stoked I spotted a suggestion for it in ASK.com lol! Contracting sounds awesome (I'm not a great Artist in terms of drawing etc) so may put that to use. I've got some reasonable equipment in terms of hardware though I'll need better software. Thank you so much for your advice!!!! What DAW's do you recommend for the following three categories?:
- Free
- Cheap
- Upmarket
Thanks again!
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I love C++, Python and Perl. But I do PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL and Ruby for trade. Learning some .NET stuff such as C# and VB.NET. If you count scripting as 'programming', Bash and Haskell are all I know, lol.
Nice! What are you working on atm?
At 8/10/13 07:02 PM, Elitistinen wrote: Hey dude, looks like we have similar interests, except the writer part (I do try to write but they are extremely terrible).
Nice to meet you bro!
Nice to meet you too dude :D What programming language do you use?
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At 8/10/13 05:36 PM, GamekrazzyProduction wrote: Nice to meet you xOMOx!
I don't have much advice for you except to get yourself involved with the community. (In which I somewhat fail at btw)
I look forward to hearing some music from you in the future!
Cheers! Will do my best, can't use chat yet as I only signed up today :( Looking forward to putting some stuff up!!!
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At 8/10/13 11:41 AM, kiwi-kiwi wrote:At 8/10/13 10:04 AM, x0M0x wrote: Does anyone on newsground know LUA using the Corona SDK? Or am I the only one? 0.oI know LUA, don't know about Corona though.
Cool, I'm trying to get some help developing a live wallpaper for Android. Any tips or resources?
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Anybody here use LUA with CORONA SDK? I think I might be the only one 0.o
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Does anyone on newsground know LUA using the Corona SDK? Or am I the only one? 0.o
Hi guys,
Just posting to say hello and to ask a couple of questions related to this forum. I'm a programmer working on various games and ebooks (as I'm also a writer). Just moved house and couldn't take my electric piano with me (no space, and it wasn't actually mine) so I've just bought my new keyboard which is on it's way with the postal fairies to me now. I'm no stranger to composing, writing or creating music and would love to get started creating, distributing and chatting to like-minded folks. Would also love some advice from any veterans on getting started, both on newsgrounds and as a whole.
Cheers guys, can't wait to hear from you!
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