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Dark Kitsunes Blood Legends-Abomination-MTV Music Generator by @XxTheCreativeKitsunexX (XxTheCreativeKitsunexX)

Third track

This track was my first attempt in horror music where a creature in the game has been tailing the party of players without ever showing itself until they try to escape the sewers beneath an old castle. It is then upon revealing itself that the players get a good look at this grotesque creature who was at one time a man but due to corrupt magic had become something far more hideous. As stated by one the NPCs traveling with the group

"Behold the inner image of man, for none is more ugly then one who has become corrupt by power"

Blood Legends is the name of a game I created as paper pencil RPG that expanded into using Hero Quest boards and pewter figurines as well as a complex battle system. The game originally used the soundtrack for Kull The Conqueror for the music but at the time I was being goaded into making the game marketable. In the very end the choice was made to make my own music for the game and man did I ever start of with NOTHING. I used a Roland U20 keyboard hooked up to an old stereo via a 6.3mm jack and a tap recorder, the music was mainly just strings at first and some tracks only had percussion. The reason why was at the time I was not able to afford a computer and a midi setup so I had no sequencer to be able to record multiple instruments.

Then 1999 it all changed, I discovered on a demo disc a game called the MTV Music Generator, it was more software then game but it caught my attention and I promptly pre ordered it and fully paid for it from my local Radio Shack. The town I lived in was very small and games were few and far between so if you wanted something particular you had to be good friends with the store owner or his son and paid up front. Within a few weeks I had the program in my hand and thus my musical journey started...making music for my now defunct paper pencil RPG.

This is the result, the following tracks are in their original state and recorded DIRECTLY from a Sony Playstation 2 and are in their original untouched format. Don't expect sweeping orchestral scores or super long recordings as back then I had very little experience and almost no patience.

As stated before tracks will be uploaded daily until all tracks are fully uploaded. The tracks are arranged from the oldest to the newest 1999 being the oldest to 2001 being the newest. Please enjoy this major piece of history from the musical kitsune's personal past and see how this music grew into what you know today.

As a Bonus to commemorate this historical event certain tracks are going to get a modern remake when all the tracks are fully uploaded and shared so you can see how much more adept I have become in composing.

Music is ©1999 J.Delorey Productions
MTV Music Generator is © and ™ MTV and Jester Interactive
All Rights on the music Reserved. 

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Posted: Saturday, 15 June, 2024 @ 03:56 PM

I can see where you were going with this one. Definitely a good start. Would love to have seen it go longer.

Posted: Saturday, 15 June, 2024 @ 05:59 PM

@BadKarma: Lack of patience and one other flaw...the MTV Music generator had a memory bank that would fill up the higher the khz the sample you used was so if you used 22khz samples that memory bank would fill up real quick with only 6 instruments loaded so you could also go 11khz but it cause your sample to be SUPER compressed and low quality making it sound like it was muffled and had a low pass filter on it.  This caused many tracks to only go so long cause I was literally limited by the software limitation for the memory bank.   I thought the more powerful the system was the less memory I would use but I have the game also emulated on my PC which initially was the plan for getting my tracks recorded...but no even with a PC with 32 gigs of memory on it the game still has a VERY limited memory bank just like the PS1 version.  I think the PC version has no memory limit like the PS1 does but never used it so I cannot be sure.

Either way my youth I had NO patience and just rushed things out to get them done and also cause that weekend I was doing a game session for Blood Legends and was rushing to get music done for the game that following weekend.  I rushed it and made it as quick as I could and didn't care about how long it was cause I just looped the sample through tape recorder once the track was completed and recorded. 

Posted: Saturday, 15 June, 2024 @ 08:16 PM

@XxTheCreativeKitsunexX: Ah, those halcyon days of stitching together mini-clips to work around hard-coded memory caps. :B I don't know much about console specs other than their hardware limitations; I guess that's why they marketed this as a game rather than an editor.

Posted: Saturday, 15 June, 2024 @ 08:11 PM

"Behold the inner image of man, for none is more ugly then one who has become corrupt by power"

OH NO
He became...
POLITICIAN!

[laugh track]

Speaking seriously, I don't know if it's by design or a consequence of software limitations, but the way the strings cut out sharply really spikes the discordant atmosphere. It's surprising how few horror projects build discomfort right into the sound design.

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