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Ace, I'll do my best to answer all your questions - here goes. I wanted the piece to be roughly a medley more for my guidance than anything else. When I sit down to write a soundtrack I try to keep certain themes the same throughout. I wanted the piece to contain the themes that I planned...

It sounds very good. I'd very much like to know what his setup for rendering the music is - it sounds very real and is something that I as a composer would like to know to try to make my music sound better without an orchestra playing. I look foward to hearing more music as it becomes...

Yes - that's fine. I know a little bit of the inner workings of a synthesizer, but honestly, I don't know ALL that much about it. I was referring to the use of the word to describe using perviously written material in a composition.

The music was... 'borrowed' from the original MIDIs extracted from the original game. I then cleaned them up, 'fixed' them up (as in reassigned the instruments to what they were supposed to be based on the names of the MIDI tracks and not the patches, because there was a discrepancy there...

The problem is that I still want it to sound Kilrathi - I want it to be something they would produce, and not a "bad guys theme". That's why I'm experimenting. I could write stuff that would sound good for the Kilrathi in the perspective of them being the bad guys, but it might be nice to hear...

Well, its atonal, but there's a sense of melody and structure to it. I basically built a synthetic 7 tone scale (I thought about the Kilrathi physiology in doing this - how would thier hands hold an instrument, and what would they be able to do with it), and I'm using a lot of different...

Well guys, I started experimenting. I came up with a synthethic atonal scale and I've been using that. So far it sounds pretty good - lots of percussion, and I'm using a lot of brass. In my orchestra I'm having the woodwinds play sax rather than their own instruments - its sounding... well...

I changed a few minor things between the UE simulator music and the Standoff mission music, but generally, they're very similar in terms of what I did with the original MIDIs. Piano MIDI patches tend to sound the best - piano was the first synthesizer patch they ever made I believe and the...

I took the original MIDIs, and the first thing I did was arrange them based on the original instrumentation. A lot of things didn't make sense and I think were done because of the poor quality of synthesizers of the time. For example, a lot of times there was a part that was labeled a certain...

Well, its not that I was uninformed about how much... just when exactly they would need it by. I'm just glad I got it all done... people liking it is icing on the cake. I also hope I passed my finals... cause that's what caused the real problem. They tell me they want to release it 3 weeks...

Well, when you think about it, our system of 12 tones is also an academic invention - just the one that happened to prevail in western music on earth. In fact, its actually 'wrong' because of the even tempered scale. A 'seventh' in our system doesn't really exist. The real seventh based on...

Grumble grumble grumble... nights where I was getting 3 hours of sleep for 2 weeks... grumble grumble grumble... making me come up with the music for all 5 cutscenes with about 3 weeks worth of notice... grumble grumble grumble... telling me you needed another peice of music on the 22nd...

I would too... if I could legally buy and drink alcohol (3 more years... 3 more years damnit...). I'll take care of that toast at my next college party tho :D

Yeah - I mean... I could probably write something that would sound "Kiltrathi" in the sense of have the same feel and idea as what all the other WC composers have done for the Kilrathi, but I'm looking for something that the Kilrathi would produce, not something we would produce about them...

Thank you - that was the trick. To be able to contrast it without it seeming too random - make the transitions work out well (especially in the intro where we have the two styles in the same piece of music). I'm glad you approve of it :) In the future episodes, there will probably be a...

Ok - now to take care of responding to you other guys :p Zeke - I can send you the MIDI, however it is copyrighted material. As the composer, I do get a little nervous distrubing things like a MIDI, but I'm willing to do it with one condition - you send me an MP3 of of what it sounds like...

Why thank you :) But just you wait... I think its fair to say you're in for a nice (I hope!) suprise with the prolouge music :D

You guys are all in for a big shock... let me tell you. This is gonna be one great mod with a few... we'll say 'experitmental' things in it :D I'm in for something of a shock too... I've been busting my rear end so hard the past 2 weeks to get the music for the cutscenes done that I've yet...

So much to comment on - lets see... we'll go in order: I can tell you all about what I was thinking ace, but you're a composer too. You know that if we wrote down everything we were thinking about as we were working and what we did it would take up about 10 pages :p That's why I'm more...

All good ideas - thanks. I was thinking about something atonal probably, but then another idea hit me. Would they even have the same tuning system as our western music? I mean... there's no reason to assume that they would have 12 tones in an octave. Perhaps they only have 5 - or 48. My...