(All) Hegemony music: Nick Wylie composer for Hegemony series.
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Momaw
Knight
Hmm.
"Rise of the Successor"s opening is beautiful. Overall it captures the right feeling for an intro: something epic is about to happen. It sounds like a prophecy.
"The Field of Honor" has the assymetric heavy beat and varied percussion needed for this kind of piece, but it feels too much like the song is trying to tell a story. It has a dawn, a skirmish, a moral-laden briefing, and a frenzy. It would work better for a "dumb" music player like M&B if it was made to loop and to maintain the combat pacing throughout. As is, this is a piece of music that needs a cue driven dynamic mixer to really work properly.
The intro is completely appropriate, but for the combat music I can't help but think that it needs a tighter focus and looping. For now I'm gonna stick to my Mechwarrior 2/Spelforce soundtracks for combat themes.
"Rise of the Successor"s opening is beautiful. Overall it captures the right feeling for an intro: something epic is about to happen. It sounds like a prophecy.
"The Field of Honor" has the assymetric heavy beat and varied percussion needed for this kind of piece, but it feels too much like the song is trying to tell a story. It has a dawn, a skirmish, a moral-laden briefing, and a frenzy. It would work better for a "dumb" music player like M&B if it was made to loop and to maintain the combat pacing throughout. As is, this is a piece of music that needs a cue driven dynamic mixer to really work properly.
The intro is completely appropriate, but for the combat music I can't help but think that it needs a tighter focus and looping. For now I'm gonna stick to my Mechwarrior 2/Spelforce soundtracks for combat themes.
It has been decided that few of the remaining songs will be previewed in order to keep a sense of suprise. Nick has been rather active behind the scenes composing for Hegemony, and to keep up with his latest for the mod, make sure and check out his Myspace http://www.myspace.com/nickwylie . There you will find the latest for the mod "The Barbarian Horde" as well as other featured previews and some of his other work.
Inukshuk
Sergeant at Arms
Hi there. I've just listened to some of your work, and I have to say, it is truly amazing.
I have similar interest here - I'm halfway through my GCSE Music course at school, and have found the composition work very interesting. However, I'm stuck with a very bad midi engine, and the only option I really have is to play my compositions back in Sibelius (the program I use), with the violins all sounding like kazoos etc. This is fine when I'm doing the actual composing (checking to make sure things are harmonising nicely and whatnot), but I hate hearing my compositions played back in class this way. I'd like to ask you, how do you get your music sounding so real if you don't use a full orchestra? Do you use a program like Cubase or something? Or do you just have a better sound card and midi engine than me?
Once again, hugely inspiring work. Well done!
Inukshuk
I have similar interest here - I'm halfway through my GCSE Music course at school, and have found the composition work very interesting. However, I'm stuck with a very bad midi engine, and the only option I really have is to play my compositions back in Sibelius (the program I use), with the violins all sounding like kazoos etc. This is fine when I'm doing the actual composing (checking to make sure things are harmonising nicely and whatnot), but I hate hearing my compositions played back in class this way. I'd like to ask you, how do you get your music sounding so real if you don't use a full orchestra? Do you use a program like Cubase or something? Or do you just have a better sound card and midi engine than me
?Once again, hugely inspiring work. Well done!
Inukshuk
nickw
Recruit
Inukshuk said:Hi there. I've just listened to some of your work, and I have to say, it is truly amazing.
I have similar interest here - I'm halfway through my GCSE Music course at school, and have found the composition work very interesting. However, I'm stuck with a very bad midi engine, and the only option I really have is to play my compositions back in Sibelius (the program I use), with the violins all sounding like kazoos etc. This is fine when I'm doing the actual composing (checking to make sure things are harmonising nicely and whatnot), but I hate hearing my compositions played back in class this way. I'd like to ask you, how do you get your music sounding so real if you don't use a full orchestra? Do you use a program like Cubase or something? Or do you just have a better sound card and midi engine than me
Once again, hugely inspiring work. Well done!
Inukshuk
Hey Inukshuk,
Thanks for the comments; I just sent you a PM. Let me know if you have any questions!
-Nick
Phalanx_15
Veteran
Awesome music! It really made me relax and it got me pumped up at times.
Great work here
Great work here
nickw
Recruit
Phalanx_15 said:Awesome music! It really made me relax and it got me pumped up at times.
Great work here
Glad you're enjoying it! If anyone wants to hear my full track list done for the mod, feel free to visit www.nickwylie.com . I am also on Myspace and Facebook if anyone wants to add me or hear more tracks
-Nick
Phalanx_15
Veteran
I think I speak for the community that your music is just....epic. It really sounds like a real orchestra
nickw
Recruit
Phalanx_15 said:I think I speak for the community that your music is just....epic. It really sounds like a real orchestra
Thanks a bunch
I had a blast doing it, though sad to say I don't have a PC to play the game along with everyone. So if anyone has any videos of gameplay with the music on youtube or in another location, do post them! If it's a good one, I will even post it on my homepage and other sites.-Nick
kajotuga
Sergeant
wow nice job
One of the things that i love in the roman war games and movies its the music that they produce with it.
it gives to the player (or viewer if its a movie) a huge sense of adrenaline.
without a good music with it its definatly not the same thing.
and your work is just fenomenal. i love the work of Bill Brown but yours is also really good.
Thank you so much for composing such good music for this war game.
your good friend
kajotuga
One of the things that i love in the roman war games and movies its the music that they produce with it.
it gives to the player (or viewer if its a movie) a huge sense of adrenaline.
without a good music with it its definatly not the same thing.
and your work is just fenomenal. i love the work of Bill Brown but yours is also really good.
Thank you so much for composing such good music for this war game.
your good friend
kajotuga
Boomie
Knight at Arms
ealabor said:Boomie said:Try searching "Hegemony Mod" on YouTube, there are surprisingly a lot of search results for a mod like this, apparently it's loved by the whole Mount&Blade community.
I'm pretty sure what he means to say is one featuring his music.
Well the video Moff Taka made is good, though some grammar needs tweaking.
