Ecthelion II's Song Collection

Well, I guess it's time to give you guys a heads-up of what's going on, as much of the stuff in my previous post has become rather irrelevant.

I know that in my previous post I said I had finished We Are All Wanderers, but that's no longer the case. I have gotten a lot of knowledge in the past month and have decided to go back and drastically improve all the songs on the album. I'll also add more songs as I go, so expect more minutes of music!

However, a side effect of me learning a bunch of music stuff is that I realize how bad it was when I didn't. It is for this reason that I took Fourteen Years Per Second and A Walk through the Void off of my bandcamp. The quality of those albums were pretty terrible, so I decided that it was in my best interest to remove them.

The redone version of We Are All Wanderers will be out in a few months, hopefully before Halloween, maybe? We'll see. I'm not quite sure yet, as I don't exactly know how much work I'm going to need to put into it. But I will try to upload any new music to my Youtube channel as I go. I've already started work on improving three of my old songs (Ignotia, Kryos & Aquius) and have begun one (or maybe two) new songs.

(woah, I just realized you can resize the quick reply box by clicking and dragging the two grey lines in the bottom right corner! Awesome! )

So, I thought I'd fill you in on what's going on, and be sure to tell me what you think of my music.

Thanks guys!

[Softkey3]

You are awesome

Thanks!

[unfaithful p1nkbr0]

Yay!

Well, I'm (sort of) back, I suppose!

New music is up - I've completely abandoned all my old music (except Aquius) and started "We Are All Wanderers" from scratch. Decided to take a more ambient route.

Listen to my two new songs, Aquius and Aquia:

https://soundcloud.com/vo1dwalk3r

Right now I'm working on "Aquium". Don't worry, it will be the end of that...

So... keep your eyes out for more music and follow that soundcloud please!

Welcome back
I like auquius.
Why is it in a different account?

I wanted all my random stuff in one and my "official" music in another. Also, soundcloud limits you to 2hrs which it's very much.

But thanks! I'm glad you like it.

So I have to buy the music to get more time?

No - the limit is on uploading time. So I can only upload 2hrs worth of music, unless I buy a pro account (which I likely won't).

[unfaithful p1nkbr0]

very cool!

do you make all of your synths? like from scratch with saw/sin/square/etc waves?

[Chris]

Dude, I LOVE this type of work ^^
Might even consider using it in one of my drawing videos

95% of the time, yes, I do make my synth sounds from scratch. Sometimes I use saws, triangles, FM, PWM, wavetables, it all depends on what I want. Although occasionally I'll pull up a preset and it will be what I wanted - maybe after a bit of tweaking. I do use presets a lot more on effects, like delay, reverb, etc.

How did you guys like Aquia?

[Chris]

I Love 'em both ^^

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed them. Keep your eyes out for the next one!

[unfaithful p1nkbr0]

95% of the time, yes, I do make my synth sounds from scratch. Sometimes I use saws, triangles, FM, PWM, wavetables, it all depends on what I want. Although occasionally I'll pull up a preset and it will be what I wanted - maybe after a bit of tweaking. I do use presets a lot more on effects, like delay, reverb, etc.

How did you guys like Aquia?

aha! I try not to use too many samples. The only samples i really use are for cymbals and snares. I'm learning how to synthesize snares, and it sounds half decent. Especially for the hard dance genre i'm trying to mimic.

i never really understood FM synthesis. It definitely does create interesting sounds, but i just like to push knobs around (or sliders, as it is in SunVox) and see what happens. I'm not quite in-tune as to what each controller does, like i (sorta) am with normal synth type stuff.

The only thing i really want out of SunVox is the ability to manipulate pitch envelopes. I can't quite make a nice punchy kick without it, so i may have to resort to some samples, or just use my favorite built-in kick with the drumsynth.

oh! aquia was really cool, by the way. I wish i knew how to make those choir sounding synths.