9/10 for the LCE package. Nice!
Read the article here.
Also, I came across an article in which Soundelux Design Music Group finally get their props – usually they were never mentioned in a review of the game. Oscar nominee Alan Rankin and his team did some brilliant work and helped create Alan Wake’s ominous atmosphere. Head [...]
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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Jun 30
Square Enix Music reviews AW score
Jun 28
Wow, just… wow
Speechless am I now.
Originalsoundversion.com’s Gideon Dabi has reviewed Alan Wake OST, read the whole article here.
Kind words out of the blue feel really, really good. Thank you.
If some of my comments and “thank yous” seem overwhelming, it is just due to the natural fact that I know I’ve chosen quite a strange way to decorate [...]
Jun 25
Alan Wake article published
I wrote a lengthy post-mortem article for Square Enix Music Online, which is now online. It’s principally written about the scoring itself, with a slightly different point of view, I’d say.
One should think that as my box of mental tools, wide open. Also included is a healthy dose of criticism towards the catalogue music [...]
Jun 24
Yamaha D-85 add-ons
Before I’ve looped all the necessary Custom Voices and Special Presets, I thought it would be wise to deliver another coffee breakers: D-85 Arpeggiator and Bass Pedal.
If you’re too curious to find out what the D-85 does with its arpeggio engine, just click the lower left picture, scanned from the nicely written, child friendly [...]
Jun 23
Yamaha D-85 drum machine
Even though my trusty old Yamaha Electone D-85 electronic organ is one damn noisy bastard, I decided to create a few Kontakt3/4 sample sets, containing all samples and basic rhythms of its built-in drum machine. I didn’t raise my finger to remove the hiss from the samples, instead I just let them be as is. [...]
Jun 05
Dumplo coffee breaker
Yet another tiny set of two instruments, made of plastic building bricks manufactured by a Danish toy company for 1-5 year old kids (the larger bricks, hence the name “Dumplo”). A brilliant source of higher middle frequency percussion. Recorded with a Zoom H4n and OKM mics, no processing in the middle.
Dumplo_sml has only four [...]
Jun 03
Another coffee break instrument
Asprine. Misspelled by purpose. One might use that for headaches, this one was for rhythm. It came in a form of cola-orange flavored granule sachet packages, a tiny pocket-size cardboard box with 10 headache granule sachets inside. The box and the sachet bags were shaken and tapped with fingers, recorded with OKM ortophonic microphones and [...]
Jun 02
Kind words, yet again
WhenSpamAttacks.com reviews the game with some kind words on the soundtrack: “This game has a GREAT soundtrack. Props to Petri Alanko, the soundtrack composer, for providing some of the best music in a game since Fallout 3.” Thanks, anonymous, for the link.
By the way, Fallout 3 is among the very few games that I’ve ever [...]
Jun 01
Pebbles – a coffee break instrument
Even though those two limestone pebbles may look like two potatoes, believe you me, they’re the real thing. I wanted to test a Zoom H4n for field recording, then create a Native Instruments Kontakt 4 instrument out of what I’d recorded, just to prove myself I really don’t need a portable 8-tracker worth 4500 [...]