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This is part of a daily upload challenge I am putting myself up to for 2024. I am currently a self-taught composer of two years, starting my journey of music theory in January 2022, and I am looking to show what I've learned since then by uploading one track a day for the whole year. I originally started off pursuing this as a means to compose music for gaming projects, especially inspired off the works of indie developers such as Toby Fox or ConcernedApe, however, realistically, I am looking into pursuing it more as a hobby - perhaps looking to pursue composition in a more serious capacity in the future.

That said, I am open to critique of my work.

The DAW that I learned to compose with is LMMS, which I picked entirely because it's free. I have considered options such as FL Studio, Reaper, and GarageBand down the line, though for my purposes at the moment this works fine for what I'm doing.

My music is entirely built off soundfonts which I have shamelessly grabbed from Musical Artifacts. The primary ones I'm working with are the Pablemo 2022, Roland SC-88, and the Arachno soundfonts, which can be downloaded from their website and used in your DAW if it supports .sf2 files - to my understanding, most DAWs should support them.

Took a small break... getting back into the swing of things.

This started off from listening to Final Fantasy Tactics OST - in particular, Algus' theme had a pizzicato pulse that remained throughout the piece, so I wanted to try and emulate that.

Well, that didn't turn out as expected after the first iteration. I kept the pizzicato for the most part, but after adding in strings, I thought a shaker and a bass would be more appropriate for what I had set up, enforcing a Son Clave rhythm.

At this point, I ended up creating a track in D Dorian with an ABC format - I settled on two different Pan Flute samples to play the main melody throughout the piece.

This changed the overall mood from the beginning of the process, so I thought to just let it ride out to what it is now. While Algus' theme seemed more contemplative, this seemed more like there was more action being done - while not so much an intense action scene, it felt to me more that it was something about actively looking for answers to a mystery.