As many of you know I've been writing IndieRetroNews for over 20 years, featuring a huge range of games from a wide range systems. But in all that time I've always wanted to create remixes of classic games in the style I've wanted. To be honest my skills were mainly limited to using old software like Dance Ejay back in the 90's. I really love the classic tunes, the secret of monkey island, hero quest and the like but nobody really pushed it into a hardcore/rave it was always too soft to me. So I went through AI. Now it's not a case of here's a tune do it, you have to get the right prompts right at least a paragraph of prompts. Then you've got to get the right tempo, and then comes combining etc
Sure it's not to everyone's taste and sure to those that hate it, it's AI SLOP but to me I love it. It gives me something to enjoy away from all the hospital trips and dosed up on strong pain meds. I'm doing something for myself, it makes ME HAPPY. And all my tunes have full credit to the original authors. So if you like it please pop on over and check them all out (HERE). For those that hate it, well don't worry you can ignore it and yes I'll still be writing daily on IndieRetroNews as I have done for all these years.
Peace out friends! Retro love n hugs!
Very well done!! I love them!! I'll keep an eye for other remixes!!
ReplyDeleteAww thanks! :)
DeleteWow... Dance Ejay! There's a name I've not heard in a long time...
ReplyDeleteI'm in your same boat, although I'm not a fan of rave music... my jam is classical and instrumental soundtracks. Not judging, though, or diminishing the merits of rave music at all; it's not a comment meant as a comparative grievance, just a mere statement. My grandad was a studio musician specializing in brass instruments. I love composing symphonic music, but up until now I didn't have the means to realize and flesh out my compositions fully to make them sound practically 1:1 like they do in my head when I'm imagining them—yet now I do. It truly saddens me when people call the output AI slop. Every note is mine, every instrumental and stylistic choice as well. If the rendition isn't 100% what was intended, I DAW it and tweak the last bits to make sure it is. I compare it to designing a house. You don't say the Casa Batlló isn't Gaudi's just because he didn't lay every brick and piece of masonry, right? But he did decide where each of them went. And nobody disputes that. It's got next to nothing to do to open a prompt box and write, "Give me a piece of classical music in the style of Vaughan Williams. Sure you can do that, and you'll get slop. But that's a completely different thing.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I digress. I didn't know you were sick. I hope you get better, and I wish you the best. Keep up the good work and do whatever makes you happy as long as you don't hurt anyone—which you don't, on the contrary.
Sounds fair man! thank you for that well thought out reply too :) - Yep, been sick for awhile man mainly bouts of extreme pain, strong pain meds and a number of urgent hospital trips and tests :( *retro hugs*
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