Where can I get music?

[Will]

Hi all,

I am writing a small game. I would like to add some music, and I want to use a looped wav tune. I have started looking into writing my own tune but I haven't done much music composing  before so
a: it's going to take some time
and
b: it's going to be rubbish :-P

What I was wondering is, does anybody know where I can get some good, lengthy (maybe 30 secs, something like that) ROYALTY FREE wav files that loop.

Thanks
William
www.nextgen-developments.info

[Wilse]

@Will:

What I was wondering is, does anybody know where I can get some good, lengthy (maybe 30 secs, something like that) ROYALTY FREE wav files that loop.

What type of thing did you have in mind?
I *might* be able to help.

[Blomberg]

If you need anything downtempo (triphop/lounge etc.) give me a shout  :-)

I *do* want royalties, though, if you plan to go commercial  :-D

[Helgis75]

Try to look within your soul. There you find a lot of music. Get yourself into rhythm. Sing and dance. Get on the dancefloor and do the moonwalk-thing..

Music surrenders us whereever we go..Whereever we are..Music is life..Music is everywhere...

Come on, get on the dancefloor and get bogging:-)

 :-)  :-)  :-)  :-D  :-D  :-D

[Mike_Amiga]

I always imagined my tune (Mikes First MIDI Tune) in a computer game, the piano strings and wibbly organ loop might be just what your looking for.

If not feel free to download and use any loop you fancy from the rest of my cheezy choons.

PS: I'll even chop it to an approximate size and e-mail it to you.

[Paul_Gadd]

@Will

Watch out for copyrighted music though, i had 2 games axed from Amiga Format for copyrighted James Bond music  :lol:

[uncharted]

Paul_Gadd wrote:
@Will

Watch out for copyrighted music though, i had 2 games axed from Amiga Format for copyrighted James Bond music  :lol:

Are you the guy who did You Only Live Twice?

[Paul_Gadd]

Are you the guy who did You Only Live Twice?

No, i did 007 with backbone and Goldfinger with SEUCK and both contained copyrighted sound samples and music from the films.

I wish i would have sent them to CU as they never did apply censorship to readers files.

Those days are long gone now and i would never use BB or SEUCK ever again  :-)

[Darth_X]

I wrote tons of OctaMED MMD's (music modules), so I have a bit of songs kicking around, but unfortunately they are on a SCSI JAZ drive cartridge sitting packed away in an Amiga A1200T waiting to be heard again....

In fact, I loved OctaMED so much I nearly bought the company! Shame my financial backing fell through at the time  :-(  (and I feel really bad about this too)

So should I try to get financial backing again, acquire the company & IP and really push forward with a new version of OctaMED or not? Would there be enough sales to cover the cost of buying the IP *and* development work? :-D

[Wilse]

@DarthX:

In fact, I loved OctaMED so much I nearly bought the company!

I love OctaMED too. I still use it every week.

So should I try to get financial backing again, acquire the company & IP and really push forward with a new version of OctaMED or not? Would there be enough sales to cover the cost of buying the IP *and* development work?

My heart says yes but my brain says maybe.  :-D
I would certainly buy a new version - I've been waiting on one for years.

[Rudei]

I`d buy ANY new version of OctaMED - cool package!

[marcus256]

IMO, OctaMED is way too limited. Combine MadTracker 2.x and Buzz and you are getting closer to what I want. Perhaps MadTracker 3 will be just that. Why not help porting MadTracker 3 to AmigaOS? (I reccon MadTracker 2 is a lost cause - too much x86 assembly and windows stuff going on)

[Karlos]

Wilse wrote:
I love OctaMED too. I still use it every week.

Here, here. Me too :-)

What you style/feel are you looking for?  I want royalties on any commercial release too though! :-)  My work can be used freely for any opensource stuff of course.

[Will]

Thanks for the response guys,

I am developing a couple of small games for fun at the moment. If they are any good, I intend to release them but I don't know if I will release them as freeware or shareware, I am still developing just for the fun of it at the moment. That is why I was after some loops that noone was too worried about, simply so that I don't have to worry about what I decide to do with the games that includes them, whether freeware, shareware or not release at all. Of course, if someone just wants the glory, I have no problem with putting their name in the credits, as long as they don't hold me to actually releasing something :-)

re: Octamed
I thought there was quite a bit of news recently on Amiga.org about a new version of Med for Amiga being dropped, then taken up by someone else. med site

BW
William