Maidens of the Kaleidoscope

~Hakurei Shrine~ => Alice's Art Atelier => Topic started by: Ragathol on January 07, 2014, 02:19:03 AM

Title: [Music] Raga fools around with Ableton
Post by: Ragathol on January 07, 2014, 02:19:03 AM

Yes, like that. I've been wanting to make music for a long time, but haven't really gotten my ass in gear and found a program I liked. Now I'm using Ableton Live 9, which is rather pleasant.
I'm a total novice, but I'm practicing by making Touhou arranges, which of course is really damn hard when you're on "baa baa black sheep" level. So far, I've mostly done a bunch or intros.
It's mostly trance-like. I'm still figuring out how stuff works.

I have one finished song, an arrange on Orin's stage melody. I think it turned out pretty nice, with a little help from a friend:
https://soundcloud.com/ragathol/lullaby-of-the-abandoned-hell (https://soundcloud.com/ragathol/lullaby-of-the-abandoned-hell)

Some other starts/practices:
https://soundcloud.com/ragathol/lullaby-wip4 (https://soundcloud.com/ragathol/lullaby-wip4) Earlier WIP of Orin
https://soundcloud.com/ragathol/unowen-wip2 (https://soundcloud.com/ragathol/unowen-wip2) U.N. Owen was her? I dunno.
https://soundcloud.com/ragathol/bridge-wip1 (https://soundcloud.com/ragathol/bridge-wip1) That bridge no one longer crosses... sort of
https://soundcloud.com/ragathol/bamboo-forest-wip1 (https://soundcloud.com/ragathol/bamboo-forest-wip1) It kind of is the bass line from DDC stage 3
https://soundcloud.com/ragathol/love-magic-wip2 (https://soundcloud.com/ragathol/love-magic-wip2) This should be recognizable

You can see a bunch of other little bass lines and earlier WIPs if you poke around there, too.
Will update when I have something more, if anyone's interested.

Title: Re: [Music] Raga fools around with Ableton
Post by: SilentYukiro on January 07, 2014, 11:26:17 PM

The melody of Orin's theme is just *WOW*


SO WOW!!


You did a great job on the arrange, I hope this keeps up! :D


*Following you on SoundCloud now to show my support* :3

Title: Re: [Music] Raga fools around with Ableton
Post by: Drake on January 08, 2014, 03:42:06 AM

You should have varied the harmony throughout the song, as it is it's pretty much one chord the entire way. You could easily use the wave at 3:44 earlier as well and use that to vary it up.

The snappy percussion added at 1:52 is really nice with the ambient feel, I like it.

Title: Re: [Music] Raga fools around with Ableton
Post by: Ragathol on January 08, 2014, 01:25:02 PM

Yukiro: Thanks! Cool that you like it.

Drake: Yes, I basically have no idea what I'm doing. I agree it's a bit repetitive, I'm working on learning some new tricks.