New Contest: Tenno Tunes Vol 2!

[ProjectDAN]

On 19/01/2017 at 7:06 PM, LcieKJ said:

Well here is my song... For all of you who keep getting ENDO at the end of sorties.

 

 

This is all ive been waiting for

[Givensu]

I'm gonna get started...

[Monybags33]

My contest entry! Took me over 10 hours to make so I hope DE enjoys it!

 

Edited January 22, 2017 by Monybags33

[Vicieuxx]

Here's my submission!

https://soundcloud.com/carsonalexanderlewis/warframe-of-mind-tenno-tunes-vol-2-contest-entry

For those of you interested in my process for creating this, keep on reading! Otherwise, thank you for listening!

 

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The very first thing I did was go through the fankit provided by Digital Extremes, and download all the audio files in the various 'ringtone' folders. I put every file in one folder and just listened. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but the sounds started to give me inspiration. I put all of the ability sounds in another folder for easy access later on:

(Abilities)

Then, I got to sketching! This was all about letting ideas come to me. I let myself be messy, and just tried to get ideas down on paper. Eventually, I had the basic layout of a song:

 

I knew I wanted this to be a combined acoustic/electronic piece, something that started off small and pretty, and developed into something epic and fast. Inspired by Bach's famous Prelude from his Cello Suite No. 1 in G, I figured a solo cello and piano would work well to start of with. I started sketching out harmonies and chose F major because when I reached the end of the chord progression with a V chord, I would get a nice chunky 'C', the lowest note on a cello.

(I RAN OUT OF SHEET MUSIC PAPER SO ALL MY SKETCHES ARE SUPER MESSY SORRY)

I knew I would have to feel out the piano part, so I opened up Sibelius and imputed the cello harmony. I then looped it, and improvised a piano part on my midi keyboard until I found something nice. I then worked to input it into Sibelius, and it all turned out like this:

NOTE: What you see in Sibelius might be slightly different than the sketches, as I listen to what I have and change things to figure out what works.

That took care of the pretty intro, but now I needed the middle section, some big epic orchestral arrangement! For that, I needed some french horns, and I sketched the harmony for them. To change the vibe, I made this harmony in D Minor, the relative minor of F Major. It has all the same notes, but a different feel that I felt was more appropriate for the large sound.

 

Into Sibelius! The Cello and Double Bass are doing the bassline:

My voice leading can definitely be improved, but I didn't worry about it too much, especially since I wasn't having real horn players read it.

It sounded good, but I felt I could use a nice driving violin line to really make it feel big. I jumped back on my keyboard and improvised until I came up with a good line. I put that in Sibelius and also added a few timpani hits.

OK! Since this was going to be a combined acoustic/electronic piece, I needed to bring all this info over to Ableton, my Digital Audio Workstation of choice (Except for recording, I use Pro Tools for that). I exported the midi file and dumped it all in Ableton in separate tracks. Now, for the instrument sounds, I used East West's Composer Cloud Suite. They make great products and have a student version where you can pick 7 packs, for $15 a month. I used packs like:

 

Hollywood Strings:

 

Quantum Leap Pianos

 

Their Symphonic Choirs pack even has a word builder that let me make bass singers sing 'Tenno'.

 

So now, all the work I had done so far was in Ableton and was sounding good. I was then able to play around with the position of the Warframe audio samples. I wanted them to tell a story to help drive the track forward.

 

With some samples in place, I got to work on some Drum 'n' Bass drums. Nothing too fancy, a simple beat with cutup and filtered loops to fill it out:

So far, the track has been in a 6/8 meter, and I tried to be sneaky with my meter change to 4/4, which I do at 1'31". 

A cool effect I did during the DnB section is the cut up Lotus sample which you can hear clearly at 1'52". I created that by chopping up and switching the phonemes from all the Lotus samples we got. A phoneme is one of the units of sound that distinguish one word from another in a particular language. Here is a list of all 44 phonemes in the English language. By chopping them up, you get something that SOUNDS like talking, but it's nonsensical.

 

Now I needed harmony for the drum and bass section. Back to sketching!

 

Into Sibelius it goes!

 

And from there, I put it in Ableton.

 

The Drum 'n' Bass section felt lacking with just the acoustic instruments, so I built a few patches in Native Instrument's Massive synthesiser. I built a gritty lead, a subbass, and a supersaw. This is the supersaw:

It's a pretty bland supersaw that wouldn't be able to stand on it's own, but as a complement to the horns? It was perfect.

From there, it was all all about making sure all the effects sounded good and were in the right place. I added more instruments and gave them simple lines if I felt a part was lacking frequency-wise. I added a simple flute and bassoon part into the middle bit because it didn't have enough high or low-mid end.

 

Finally, I thought I'd end the piece with a callback to the beginning. I got out my favourite reverb Native Instrument's RC 24:

It's built to be similar to the legendary Lexicon 224, and it sounds great! UAD also makes a fantastic replication.

I put a load of reverb on Frost's snow globe sound and slowly brought in the cello pattern from the beginning EXCEPT it's actually in D Minor this time, giving it a more forlorn feeling.

 

When I finished the mix, I exported the bounce into a new project and mastered it with iZotope's Ozone 7, a wonderful piece of software

 

OK! Here's what the final project file for the mix looks like - It's separated into three sections:

Drums:

 

Instruments:

 

FX:

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Thank you very much if you read all of that! I always find it fascinating to learn how others produce music. I tend to pick up lots of tips and tricks, and get ideas I never thought to try.

I hope you were able to get something from my breakdown, and all the best to rest of you composers!

-C

Edited January 22, 2017 by Vicieuxx
Added non-embedded Soundcloud link

[TacticalNukeMusic]

50 minutes ago, Vicieuxx said:

Here's my submission!

 

As a music theory major in college, I appreciate the breakdown.

[Vicieuxx]

2 minutes ago, TacticalNukeMusic said:

As a music theory major in college, I appreciate the breakdown.

Happy to hear that! I'm a music composition and technology major myself. 

[gothsprey]

1 hour ago, Vicieuxx said:

Here's my submission!

For those of you interested in my process for creating this, keep on reading! Otherwise, thank you for listening!

--------------------------------------

The very first thing I did was go through the fankit provided by Digital Extremes, and download all the audio files in the various 'ringtone' folders. I put every file in one folder and just listened. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but the sounds started to give me inspiration. I put all of the ability sounds in another folder for easy access later on:

(Abilities)

Then, I got to sketching! This was all about letting ideas come to me. I let myself be messy, and just tried to get ideas down on paper. Eventually, I had the basic layout of a song:

 

I knew I wanted this to be a combined acoustic/electronic piece, something that started off small and pretty, and developed into something epic and fast. Inspired by Bach's famous Prelude from his Cello Suite No. 1 in G, I figured a solo cello and piano would work well to start of with. I started sketching out harmonies and chose F major because when I reached the end of the chord progression with a V chord, I would get a nice chunky 'C', the lowest note on a cello.

(I RAN OUT OF SHEET MUSIC PAPER SO ALL MY SKETCHES ARE SUPER MESSY SORRY)

I knew I would have to feel out the piano part, so I opened up Sibelius and imputed the cello harmony. I then looped it, and improvised a piano part on my midi keyboard until I found something nice. I then worked to input it into Sibelius, and it all turned out like this:

NOTE: What you see in Sibelius might be slightly different than the sketches, as I listen to what I have and change things to figure out what works.

That took care of the pretty intro, but now I needed the middle section, some big epic orchestral arrangement! For that, I needed some french horns, and I sketched the harmony for them. To change the vibe, I made this harmony in D Minor, the relative minor of F Major. It has all the same notes, but a different feel that I felt was more appropriate for the large sound.

 

Into Sibelius! The Cello and Double Bass are doing the bassline:

My voice leading can definitely be improved, but I didn't worry about it too much, especially since I wasn't having real horn players read it.

It sounded good, but I felt I could use a nice driving violin line to really make it feel big. I jumped back on my keyboard and improvised until I came up with a good line. I put that in Sibelius and also added a few timpani hits.

OK! Since this was going to be a combined acoustic/electronic piece, I needed to bring all this info over to Ableton, my Digital Audio Workstation of choice (Except for recording, I use Pro Tools for that). I exported the midi file and dumped it all in Ableton in separate tracks. Now, for the instrument sounds, I used East West's Composer Cloud Suite. They make great products and have a student version where you can pick 7 packs, for $15 a month. I used packs like:

 

Hollywood Strings:

 

Quantum Leap Pianos

 

Their Symphonic Choirs pack even has a word builder that let me make bass singers sing 'Tenno'.

 

So now, all the work I had done so far was in Ableton and was sounding good. I was then able to play around with the position of the Warframe audio samples. I wanted them to tell a story to help drive the track forward.

 

With some samples in place, I got to work on some Drum 'n' Bass drums. Nothing too fancy, a simple beat with cutup and filtered loops to fill it out:

So far, the track has been in a 6/8 meter, and I tried to be sneaky with my meter change to 4/4, which I do at 1'31". 

A cool effect I did during the DnB section is the cut up Lotus sample which you can hear clearly at 1'52". I created that by chopping up and switching the phonemes from all the Lotus samples we got. A phoneme is one of the units of sound that distinguish one word from another in a particular language. Here is a list of all 44 phonemes in the English language. By chopping them up, you get something that SOUNDS like talking, but it's nonsensical.

 

Now I needed harmony for the drum and bass section. Back to sketching!

 

Into Sibelius it goes!

 

And from there, I put it in Ableton.

 

The Drum 'n' Bass section felt lacking with just the acoustic instruments, so I built a few patches in Native Instrument's Massive synthesiser. I built a gritty lead, a subbass, and a supersaw. This is the supersaw:

It's a pretty bland supersaw that wouldn't be able to stand on it's own, but as a complement to the horns? It was perfect.

From there, it was all all about making sure all the effects sounded good and were in the right place. I added more instruments and gave them simple lines if I felt a part was lacking frequency-wise. I added a simple flute and bassoon part into the middle bit because it didn't have enough high or low-mid end.

 

Finally, I thought I'd end the piece with a callback to the beginning. I got out my favourite reverb Native Instrument's RC 24:

It's built to be similar to the legendary Lexicon 224, and it sounds great! UAD also makes a fantastic replication.

I put a load of reverb on Frost's snow globe sound and slowly brought in the cello pattern from the beginning EXCEPT it's actually in D Minor this time, giving it a more forlorn feeling.

 

When I finished the mix, I exported the bounce into a new project and mastered it with iZotope's Ozone 7, a wonderful piece of software

 

OK! Here's what the final project file for the mix looks like - It's separated into three sections:

Drums:

 

Instruments:

 

FX:

-----------------------------------------

Thank you very much if you read all of that! I always find it fascinating to learn how others produce music. I tend to pick up lots of tips and tricks, and get ideas I never thought to try.

I hope you were able to get something from my breakdown, and all the best to rest of you composers!

-C

Sounds really awesome! I made a dnb submission as well, we should collab some time :p

[WinnTheProducer]

4 hours ago, Vicieuxx said:

Here's my submission!

 

 

That's a lot of work you put in. I too was a music comp major in college, until I dropped out to learn to produce rather than write classically. I still learned all of that notation 😷😷 still gives me a headache just to look at haha! But kudos on the final product. Great integration classically and electronically.

[(PSN)RAZORNEON]

18 hours ago, (Xbox One)lui84 said:

i´ve used Cubase and an electric guitar. The drums lines were written click by click in a midi-map in the midi instrument section(EZDrummer). All you can hear are guitars, except warframe´s sounds.

So many people have different ways of creating these songs and it is amazing! I have heard almost all of the songs and i think everyone is doing a great job! 

I wish all tenno the best of luck!

P.S:Is the platinum won in the comp tradeable?

[Csoki-Fudzsi]

So I made this orchestral track, the first half of it, is sorta battle music-ish, while the second part is really sad. Hope you guys will like it.

[WinnTheProducer]

On 1/19/2017 at 4:20 PM, myrbear said:

TennoTune

This is my go

"A", for effort.  Hopefully there are consolation prizes.

Edited January 21, 2017 by JusticeWinns69
Comedy

[Cryone]

11 minutes ago, JusticeWinns69 said:

Tenno Legend 

Another L ahh user, as all we are:
 

Spoiler

 

Edited January 21, 2017 by Cryone

[WinnTheProducer]

3 hours ago, Cryone said:

Another L ahh user, as all we are:
 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

Huh?

[NeroAugustine]

11 hours ago, Vicieuxx said:

Here's my submission!

For those of you interested in my process for creating this, keep on reading! Otherwise, thank you for listening!

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As someone who isn't a music major at all, I still appreciate the breakdown. Though, my computer hates sound-cloud links. Could you send me a non-embed link? I'm really interested in hearing this after seeing it.

[myrbear]

Yes I heard that there could only be one song per person but are we aloud to edit songs.

Edited February 2, 2017 by myrbear

[sheephardy]

I guess i have to post my entry here, so... Good luck to everyone :)

[(XBOX)Kid Concerto]

Hey everyone! I composed this song to be the theme song for Atlas Prime. I hope you all enjoy!

 

[WinnTheProducer]

2 hours ago, (Xbox One)Kid Concerto said:

Hey everyone! I composed this song to be the theme song for Atlas Prime. I hope you all enjoy!

 

If you're DeVante Winn, and if I'm Justice Winn, and we both produce, does that make us brothers? ;) Keep up the good work.

[BETAOPTICS]

On 1/15/2017 at 1:14 PM, Aftalyfe said:

I suppose it wouldn't hurt to participate since I am getting wonderful feedback on this one. Get modded Tenno!

Warframe Song - "Get Modded" by Aftalyfe

 

This is really talented man. Well done. Bravo! Excellent.

[Zenny_the_Spoon]

So much good electronic music, how something different for a change, like Medieval Metal.

I hope you like bagpipes. This is my entry for the Tennos Tunes Vol.2, a haunting piece about the superb Sands of Inaros quest.

 

Edited January 21, 2017 by Zenny_the_Spoon

[(PSN)Alb-next_gen]

Spoiler

 

 

This was created in 6 hours nonStop with FL studio for Warframe Tenno Tunes Vol. 2 Contest Entry.

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Thank you.
Enjoy!

 

 

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Edited January 22, 2017 by (PS4)Alb-next_gen

[myrbear]

Good luck users :D

Edited February 2, 2017 by myrbear

[Vicieuxx]

12 hours ago, NeroAugustine said:

As someone who isn't a music major at all, I still appreciate the breakdown. Though, my computer hates sound-cloud links. Could you send me a non-embed link? I'm really interested in hearing this after seeing it.

Sure! Here you are: https://soundcloud.com/carsonalexanderlewis/warframe-of-mind-tenno-tunes-vol-2-contest-entry

 

[NeroAugustine]

10 minutes ago, Vicieuxx said:

Sure! Here you are: https://soundcloud.com/carsonalexanderlewis/warframe-of-mind-tenno-tunes-vol-2-contest-entry

 

Very nice.
It's funny. We both did a classical-esque We also used a few of the same sound clips.This is a really cool competition.

[BPositiv3]

I feel like I don't have a chance... But I'll post my song soon anyway. Had been working a lot, hopefully people will at least like it.
I'm working on a psytrance/techno type song.

Edited January 24, 2017 by BPositiv3
removed -wip-