Left Aground

Full recording made for  #OSTCompJam. Decided to keep all tracks together.

Made in protools. I mixed analogue and digital to create that realistic yet fantasy theme. I recorded voices, SFX, guitars and pianos so I have a bit more control over how they sounds. The rest is MIDI, using Kontakt Factory library.  

I use the old reliable Scarlet 2i2 to record single (distorted guitar) or dual tracks (x-y electro acoustic guitar). Midi tracks are not written by hand. I play them on a Yamaha p125 to simulate a bit of realism, though it is far from what I really envisioned.

TIMELINE:

00:00-00:42 - Prologue: Short introduction to the story. I pictured a lone warrior looking for something valuable he lost. Supposedly he is far away from home and cannot go back (another world/different dimension)

00:42-2:00 - Jakkrs valley (desolate winter paradise): Setting up the scene with the second track. Here I present the motive of the whole song. Imagine a frozen valley. Giant, windy, EPIC (makes you feel small)...Voicing is always going downwards to simulate the journey the hero goes through. 

2:00-3:40 - Artifacts power (there will be a loop of this soon): The motive changes to a minor scale (theoretically Locrian scale, not minor). The discovery of an artifact that gives immense power (the object he looked for in question, that holds the soul of someone dear to him). I pictured a fierce battle forcing the character to give his all. I find it "anime" like.

3:40-4:27 - Closure: Decided to go for a typical happy ending, going back to the motive in the second track. After the battle ends, the hero is reunited with the one he was looking for.