Second day of this glorious month. I think it would be cool to focus on modern bandcamp releases, kinda want to go through that.
ancientborealforest.bandcamp.com
Dungeon Synth December /dsd/
Jeremiah Gutierrez
Other urls found in this thread:
voldsomtapes.bandcamp.com
hedgewizard.bandcamp.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
elvesanddwarves.bandcamp.com
clyp.it
youtube.com
pagodamast.bandcamp.com
dl.dropboxusercontent.com
soundcloud.com
youtube.com
m.soundcloud.com
rabor.bandcamp.com
flickr.com
isaedor.bandcamp.com
twitter.com
Robert Brooks
Something about modern releases doesn't seem genuine to me. I don't know why, but very rarely does a bandcamp dungeon synth release really invoke the same feelings I get from old 90's obscure tapes.
Til Det Bergens Skyggene is one of my favorite modern day Dungeon Synth artists, he really captures the atmosphere and charm that the first wave had.
Caleb Wilson
I think I see what you mean, but it's not a universal law. A lot of modern ds, especially from Russia, feels sterile and the synths too clean. But if you look you'll find a lot of stuff that, while maybe clean by first wave standards, doesn't feel pidgeon holed into a certain sound. First wave is indeed better though, but I wanted to get out of that circlejerk for this thread.
Angel Mitchell
what's the trick to making authentic-sounding DS?
Aiden Young
are there any dungeon synth charts like there were for /nbbmn/?
Jaxson Taylor
hedgewizard.bandcamp.com
listened to this?
Kayden Baker
As in like the charts everyone was making, or just general essential charts? There are definitely essential charts, though I don't think any of them are that great aside from literally just getting into the genre.
Grayson Harris
thanks user - i just meant charts for beginners. i only got into bm this past month and love it, just wanted to see if there were any essentials.
What do people think of Lord Lovidicus? Just come across him on Youtube:
youtube.com
Beautiful.
Dylan Foster
Aside from OSRS what are good games to play with your dungeon synth?
Nathan Thomas
I'm playing Skyrim right now with it on
Tyler Murphy
Amazing album, he has good shit, nice discovery user!
Nolan Anderson
Listened to this last night for the first time, pretty good.
Oliver James
This is the best essential chart I've seen, but it's still missing a few classics like Temple Forest or Middle Ages.
It might just be because I'm a dweeb, but something about being able to just google an album and download it on bandcamp makes it less mysterious and charming. Something about listening to poorly made synths that some loser made in his room inspired by fantasies is so much more interesting and authentic to me. By biggest grip with modern DS is that it's too clean and unoriginal. But then again, I'm obviously going in with a bias when listening to the new stuff, so maybe I just loosen up and stop taking it so seriously.
Josiah Scott
Forgot pic woops.
Nicholas Price
I think a lot of people making modern stuff have forsaken using an actual keyboard for just messing with flstudio which is kind of lame to me. I know you can do anything with a computer these days, but nothing sounds more comfy than setting up a cheap casio, lighting a candle, and drinking while trying to make something cool.
Anthony Lewis
Olgerd is fucking amazing, check out the rest of their stuff.
Benjamin Lewis
Plan on it. Finally got around to browsing the Asmodian Coven blogspot and he's had a pretty solid selection of ds stuff there.
Logan Davis
Xavier White
About to dive into this
Samuel Robinson
hey, whoever recommended the trolltjern ep, thanks, this is great.
Jackson Walker
well that General MIDI unit I bought is really paying off
Benjamin Reed
nice dubs also I love that album. I'm debating buying the tape and storybook
I'm getting a controller later this month so right now I'm just goobering around using my qwerty keyboard as a controller
Christian Smith
I'm hoping to have a 15 minute demo out later tonight, heads up
Joshua Young
the tape sold out, hopefully they'll do a second run of it like their bandcamp suggests
Kevin Phillips
youtube.com
>tfw this album
dungeon synth that was recorded much in the 80s, weird as fuck actually
Wyatt Perry
What's some more dark/winter ambient?
Die Festung is incredible and creates a beautiful atmosphere.
Brayden Cox
Lunar Womb - The Astral Grief
Solanum - Spheres of Time
Kayden Hughes
pagodamast.bandcamp.com
Okay here it is, my DS demo. The first two tracks aren't great but I'm sort of pleased with the others. I'm working on getting the right synth tone.
Josiah Collins
>pagodamast.bandcamp.com
hmmmm.... Idunno, what are you using to make your music? Are you recording yourself playing a keyboard, or recording your computer? Either way one of the biggest aspects that makes dungeon synth great is how comfy it is, and your synth tones are pretty damn abrasive. You also don't really have melody or song structure going on from what I hear. I'd keep working at it.
Gavin Hall
Well I did make it deliberately noisy to sort of recreate the rawness of classic releases. Also Tracks three onward have very distinct melody and I did write and somewhat structure all of them, although whether or not that's evident is I guess debatable. But thanks for checking it out, yeah. You may want to go back and just listen to the 1 minute outro before you dismiss it entirely since I'm I guess the most pleased with that. But yeah definitely working on a different synth tone
Dominic Barnes
My background in harsh noise probably affects what I do to some extent haha
Isaac Roberts
I want to hear stuff y'all made
Logan Evans
dl.dropboxusercontent.com
this isn't really intended for release, it's just something i made for fun.
Chase Gonzalez
I"m making the intro do a demo right now, will post when ready.
Jason Barnes
This is fucking amazing, put this shit into a demo right the fuck now.
Jaxson Ortiz
This is the most recent I've made:
soundcloud.com
This is an album I made 3 years ago, not especially proud of it though.
youtube.com
Aiden Hall
You really think so? this is the only song I've made like this.
Blake Kelly
this would be one of the best modern winter synth albums I've heard, so yeah. You have talent. What did you make it in?
James Adams
Made this a while ago when I was trying out cassette tape looping
Hunter Johnson
I used Ableton. A custom made Tension instrument and one of the shitty preset pads. I'll work on some more stuff like this. I kinda just made it and left it in a folder but on second listen it's better than I remember it being.
Dylan Nelson
Damn, this is really good user
Elijah Barnes
Thanks man, I really appreciate that.
Elijah Stewart
I have to agree with everyone, this is good stuff.
Thomas Young
I'll try picking it up again and put out a little EP hopefully before the end of the year.Thanks for the encouragement guys.
Elijah Green
>this
Hunter Collins
Nice dubs! Also I think anyone can make a decent DS album in a month. Everyone should do it! I'm going to make another, better one
Liam Bailey
rabor.bandcamp.com
god damn this is ridiculously fucking good
Lincoln Sanchez
fire up the runescape boys
Noah Green
is runescape actually fun? i haven't played it for like a decade.
Christopher Evans
I think its just because there are much more numerous releases since anyone could make an album these days. Give it time and the good stuff will start appearing
Jason Ross
I was just playing daggerfall mostly to just to the soundtrack
Ethan Hill
It can be. I couldn't get into it again but if you are willing to put in time or whatever its a unique experience. I assume he is talking about oldschool runescape as well
Liam Ross
just make some throwaway bandcamp or something. You've got the right sound for DS ambient
Juan Cooper
thousands of great public domain pictures. you have to dig around a bit to find more medieval themes pictures but its worth it
Michael Ward
I'm surprised Dungeon Synth was large enough to be a scene in the 90s. How did the musicians find out about it?
Ayden Lee
Advise on making dungeon synth? I have one of those cheesy sounding yamaha keyboards. How do I make it sound lo fi?
Elijah Thompson
I don't know exactly but I saw my buddy put some stuff through audacity to sound like some old am radio shit. But I know you can use YouTube to figure out how to lo-fi.
Dominic Martinez
What sort of scales and modes should I use? Should I actually look up medieval theory?
Austin Sullivan
The Dorian mode
Oliver Nelson
d-d on the white keys on a piano is D Dorian.
Ethan Miller
You should just analyse what DS artists do I guess. Adding real medieval theory might give you an edge but I think the original artists are most closer to just ambient with medieval scales and instruments
Camden Morris
listening to it right now, pretty damn good, thanks for the rec
Cameron Turner
just listened to the whole song of a long forgotten ghost
Ian Jones
Mortiis? Varg? is that you
Jeremiah Nguyen
Bandcamp dungeon synth is quality dungeon synth.
isaedor.bandcamp.com
Angel Ward
Yeah I agree that theory isn't your priority right now. Just bang away on the keyboard until something sounds right. I think that's a more fun way of doing it