Game Audio Implementation

12Advanced: Music

Summary: Musical stingers, melodic pickups, generative and sequenced approaches for variation, algorithmic / procedural music

Project:DemoCh12AdMusic01 Level:MusicPlatformer01

Introduction

In this section we’ll be looking at some more advanced approaches to music that treat it in more of a granular way, rather than working with relatively long prerendered waves.

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Harmonically and Rhythmically Aware Stingers

Harmonically Appropriate Stingers

We’ve looked at stingers before in both Chapter 03 and Chapter 04. On these occasions we were writing our stingers to fit with ...