Here’s how to create your own background music, for videos, events, short films, music video, and video games.
If you are thinking of picking up recording software and equipment for creating music, you may want to go through this post that teaches how to create music. This is for those who want to make music for videos and games, but have no formal training in music theory and music recording.
Setting Up a Home Studio for Music Creation
You can now create your own music, sitting at home. Setting up home studio is easier than ever before.
The computer is perhaps the most important part of any home recording setup. And it needs to have good configuration (fast processor and loads of RAM). Besides the computer you need several equipment (hardware as well as software) that will help you capture notes into the computer, edit/process the notes, and finally output the music.
However, keep in mind that just getting the necessary equipment will not help you create great music. You need to learn how to use them, learn from others, and over time you will get better at it.
Read: Music recording concepts and equipment explained
PC vs Mac for Music Production
There’re already a lot of discussion threads on this topic. You can read more here on PC vs Mac.
Each system has its advantages and disadvantages, and is also more of a personal choice, and not necessarily about which system is better.
Creating Music for Video Games
Most gaming laptops are designed for high-end PC gaming experiences, they have better configurations and can easily handle all of the tasks of music production.
In the early days of video games, sound chips had limitations which meant composers could not create complex arrangements. The good thing is that they all came up with some amazing melodies that were super easy to hum and were usually accompanied by very simple chords (the fact is, these are the ingredients of most popular songs).
Over the years, video game music underwent lot of changes, many games now use music that sounds like the soundtrack for a cinema, probably because the level of graphics and the complexity of the games themselves have increased.
Game music is more adaptive, instead of endlessly looping like before, in some cases its more bombastic, and composers are also experimenting with real instruments as against computer-based sounds.
While electronic music has always been used to create some amazing video game music soundtracks, of late composers are using piano music to create gaming soundtracks.
If you have been playing the piano for a couple of years, and have learnt to play songs like the ‘Entertainer’, may be you should try learning to play the soundtrack of MONACO (by Austin Wintory) on the piano.
Video game accessories, peripherals, and hardware company Razer is marketing its gaming laptops to music producers and artists, as well as those aspiring to enter that business.
Their laptops will now come bundled with a popular music production software – FL Studio, used by professional music producers and artists to make music across various genres.
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