Omnimaga
General Discussion => Music Talk and Showcase => Music Showcase => Topic started by: Jonius7 on December 25, 2013, 05:52:07 am
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Hi everyone,
I have attempted several times to create some music using MTV Music Generator (because that's what DJ Omnimaga uses!). Sure I have my piano and instrumental compositions I made in Finale, but a few weeks ago I wanted to try something different.
The result is this (which I completed on December 16):
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/3pq873cddk4euuc/Through%20The%20Mix.mp3
Most of it is made up of pre-made riffs so there is some clashing in melodies. As I got further through the song, I modified some of the riffs, even though I don't understand half the numbers and buttons in the Riff editor. The song, called Through The Mix ended up being nearly 6 mins long :D
Hope you enjoy, and have a Merry Christmas!
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Quite nice and Merry Christmas to you!
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Not bad for a first attempt. :)
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Thanks guys, I hope in the future I can make better melodies, just that the riff editor is confusing.
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Yep, not bad for a first attempt.
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Not bad indeed as first song, and it has quite a good structure so far compared to my first song (where the entire song would change about three times, when in your case, the whole idea remains intact until the end). By the way, my first 3 songs used mostly pre-made riffs and even now I sometimes take pre-made riffs as reference then modify them, although I have pretty much completely eliminated any pre-made riffs from my melodies since late 2003. The last two notable cases where I did use modified pre-made melody/bass riffs were the blip sound in the background of The Summer Trance and the acid sound in Epic Journey Through the Galaxy somewhere after the first parts. New Beginning 2012 also uses a pre-made riff, but that's kinda inevitable considering it's a remix of my 2002 song New Beginning.
And yeah the riff editor can be annoying at first. First of all, you must backup often (or at least save your progress every 20 minute or so) because this software freezes often when running low on memory and it's better with the instruction manual. It pays off after getting used to it, though, since when using pre-made riffs, the memory gets cluttered fast.
Good luck in your MTVMG projects!
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Yup, not bad at all for a first song! :D
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Thanks for the replies, everyone! :) I haven't really got any performance issues with MTVMG, other than some annoying flickering of the whole screen occasionally, and disabling Aero on Windows 7.
It's trying to do some things without much idea on how to do them.
Here's an example with the riff editor open on one of the drum riffs.
The colours from blue to green/turquoise mean octaves, I get that. I added in '12's at octave 4 for the drum riff on layer 3. But as part of the pre made riff there are '13's and '10's as well. But whatever I try to click I get '12's no matter what layer I choose. I think the numbers indicate like different samples of the drums (cymbals, drums etc.), but I'm not sure how to change them. That is still something I am experimenting with. :)