I have a space shooter game I just built with jQuery (a JavaScript library), and I would like to add a beautiful symphony track to the beginging of my new game on the intro page. My idea is to either find a way to create custom syphony sounds or find custom syphony sounds that I can download from the web and put together into one melody track through Audacity. Does anyone have any recomendations how I can go about this?
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I’d look for some free music released [u]Creative Commons[/u] which is “open source” for music (or other creative work).
Although the copyright for most classical music has expired, the copyright on the recording or performance generally has not. So you can use Beethoven if you create the “performance” yourself (or if you can find a creative commons release) but you can’t copy it from a CD. If you don’t plan on distributing your game, nobody is going to come after you if you violate a copyright for personal use…
My idea is to either find a way to create custom syphony sounds or find custom syphony sounds…
You can’t do that with Audacity, but you can do it with a [u]DAW[/u] (such as [u]REAPER[/u] ) along with [u]MIDI[/u] and [u]virtual instruments[/u]. But, that’s a lot of work (and a ton of learning if you’ve never done it before). In the professional game development world it’s done by a musician/music specialist, not by the game programmers/developers. You may be able to find some MIDI music released under the creative commons, that you can use & manipulate with a DAW rather than creating/composing music from scratch.
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Thanks again!