Comments on: If you find it hard to make music, read this.

By: Unity3d + 2dToolkit: Super Flag Bros. | Devpoga

Unity3d + 2dToolkit: Super Flag Bros. | Devpoga — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:55:04 +0000

[...] 比較特別的是，這次的音樂是用autotracker-bu來產生的，這是一個會自動產生音樂的python script，聽起來意外的有趣 XD [...]

By: Spritely | Games By Angelina

Spritely | Games By Angelina — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:15:42 +0000

[...] developers if they want something simple to generate sprites. Developers already use such tools for generating music and sound effects, mostly for placeholders in games, or during game jams where time is of the [...]

By: scoots

scoots — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:35:23 +0000

It took me while to figure out how to use it.. After some debugging I figured out that for some reason it wasn’t outputting then file when given a local path (I’m on Win 8, but I don’t think that should have much bearing). I put in a full path on the last line and now it works awesomely well. Sweet work!

By: Jeremy Sayers « Ludum Dare #24

Jeremy Sayers « Ludum Dare #24 — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:21:11 +0000

[...] Music: bu-AutoTracker (Creates randomized 30ish seconds songs, once again perfect) [...]

By: DrPetter

DrPetter — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:17:32 +0000

Though, to be honest I was never fond of the FM discipline and never came into contact with Adlib cards in my youth… It might just be that I wish something else would come out of the generator. Probably I would be delighted to have the same degree of variety with crunchier C64-like waveforms

I know for instance kohina.com has “way too many” arcade and pc/adlib tunes that I want to skip past but evidently many others love, so it’s somewhat a matter of taste.

Definitely worth considering a choice of audio profile though, if you can come up with algorithms for other types of sound. I guess however it might compromise on consistency, and that could degrade the perceived quality or open up for more chaos as people choose wildly different songs for different parts of their game?

By: DrPetter

DrPetter — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:06:42 +0000

Neat. Could use more instrument variety though. Even just a (randomized per run) selection of 4-5 significantly different presets for the lead instrument to give clear separation between tracks so you could use them for different environments/scenes without instantly recognizing the sound. I guess they are slightly varied already, but all based on the same kind of FM synthesis. Should be easy enough to replace instruments for anyone who can bother to load it up in a manual tracker, of course.

By: GreaseMonkey

GreaseMonkey — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:19:14 +0000

The files it produces are under whatever licence you like.

By: Helco

Helco — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:41:09 +0000

The source says the application stands under GPL, but which license do the music files generated with this application have?

I didn’t saw the new version of this, so sorry for double post in the old thread…

By: Ludum Dare e a Experiência de tentar fazer um jogo em 48 horas | GAMESFODA

Ludum Dare e a Experiência de tentar fazer um jogo em 48 horas | GAMESFODA — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:53:23 +0000

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By: huhwhozat

huhwhozat — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:26:27 +0000

Thanks for this tool; this is hands-down the (technically) best procedurally generated music I have heard! I just have to get midi output though so I can mess with the generated files in FLStudio. Ty for the tip about OpenMPT, RadicalEd.

By: RadicalEd

RadicalEd — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:12:01 +0000

Man, this is so great! Thx! BTW OpenMPT is a great tool for converting generated music to WAV or MIDI

By: Impossible

Impossible — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:12:13 +0000

This is pretty sweet.

By: zachstronaut

zachstronaut — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:49:37 +0000

Wowza… thanks so much for this post!!!!

By: cobhc6

cobhc6 — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:45:45 +0000

By: Zer0Kelvin

Zer0Kelvin — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:39:38 +0000

Let me be about the tenth person to say Wow! What a great little tool. I am surprised by the variety of different tunes I got after running it a few times. This is great for prototyping! I would love to see an interface to dial in what you have in mind, kinda like SFXR. Anyway, thanks for this

By: Sheep

Sheep — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:36:02 +0000

Awesome!

By: mtrc

mtrc — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:54:11 +0000

Hey there!

This is a really interesting tool. When I’m not failing to enter game jams, I’m working on a tool that automatically designs games. One aspect I’m interested in expanding/building is the music generation. There’s a lot of AI-based composition out there, as well as just purely generative stuff, but I have little or no music knowledge.

I know others have asked the same, but is there an overview or a description of the underlying algorithm anywhere? I really like some of the pieces the code generates.

Mike

mike @ gamesbyangelina.org

By: SergioAwoke

SergioAwoke — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:44:45 +0000

Sounds very good!
You saved me and my game.

By: cornedor

cornedor — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:38:22 +0000

Wow, its great Thanks

By: SFBTom

SFBTom — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:11:38 +0000

I only just heard of Audiotracker! I’m the guy who built as3sfxr, so I smell a new weekend project coming on…