Tracks by Fred

[Fred]

I'll just add my stuff in here as it comes by. Finishing touches are yet to be made.

Fred

[Fred]

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KWIRTBZY

[Jochen Stier]

Wow! These are some awesome tunes... Did you compose this yourself? I now wish that I had already made a galaxy... This will be great when flying through space. As soon as I am done with the GUI stuff I will add sound!

[Jochen Stier]

I am just in the process of adding sound via the OpenAL libray, but I am having a problem with your wave file. I can only open it with the VLC player. The windows media player won't open it and I cannot properly load it with OpenAL either. Is this actually a .wav file. Can you run it on your media player ?

In any case, tonight Geist3D will play its first sounds. It just won't be your song

[StormGnu]

So, did you play some nice tunes in game last night?

[Jochen Stier]

Oh ja, the sounds are working like a charm. I am using the OpenAL library, which gives you 3D sounds, including a number of effects such as Doppler effects, echoes, attenuations... I now going to build a gui for the editor so that the artist can then import their own sounds. So, if you are making an engine for example, you would add a light source and a sounds as well as your 3D model.

Now all we need is a library of sounds:) I found some free stuff on the web for now.

Does anyone know the advantages / disadvantages of .wav vs. .ogg file formats?

[Destroyed]

I dont know alot but i do know .Wav files, are a hell of alot bigger, but they have much better quality, wheras a .ogg file is much smaller due to compression, but that causes it to loss some quality through the compression. These are the only things i know off xD glad to see we've got sound though

[zachzab]

Here's one whole page for each 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ogg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.wav

[Fred]

The file format is .wav, yes. I can convert it to mp3, if that'll help!

As for running it in my own windows media player, I cannot tell since I don't have one. It runs fine in winamp, though!

Probably best to leave the music out, until there is enough tracks to avoid making it repetitive, anyway

[Fred]

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1F1F4240

Ambience 1
mp3

Fred

[StormGnu]

Nice sound but hard to relate to.

I played a little in the planet viewer with Ambience 1 in the background and I think that the basic elemets, the background base sound of the track, works well as an ambiance track. The other effects in the track, though, makes one expect something to happend, like a cut in a movie, if you know what i mean.

Therefore i closed my eyes and listened only to the song. I usually do this when i want to see what kind of scene / game i expect to see when i open my eyes based _only_ on the sound or music. And what i saw was the in game menu with some in game movies running in the background. Close your eyes and see if you know what i mean, I'm very curious!

Details:
I don't like the effect at 00:17 - 00:20, feels out of place.
Really cool effect around 00:39, really feels like you just passed a huge asteroid or something!

Hope you appreciate the feedback

[Fred]

I know what you mean! The whole idea of an ambiance track is to set the mood and background, and whenever the track does anything more than that, it fails as an ambiance track, in my opinion. So I'm glad for your honest feedback, because I was really on the fence with some of the effects in this track, even after listening to some rather prominent ambient tracks.

Btw, your main menu-vision, is spot on. I may be biased by reading your post, but that is exactly what I pictured when "blind testing" the track just now!

[StormGnu]

Cool, we're on the same frequency then!

I think that music can add a 4th dimension to any visual experience. That is why it's so important