#Terraria ost help

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ashen veldt
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Im looking for someone who can teach me how to make terraria osts

inland tapir
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this is quite a large question you're asking. this is the equivelent of asking how to make mona lisa paintings

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you should probably learn the software first, and doing basic functions in the software

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best i can tell you is, learn the synthesized sounds that some of the songs use, some of the effects you hear, and follow some of the arrangement patterns it uses

jagged venture
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I also wouldn't suggest trying to dive head-first into making songs that sound in the same style as other artist's stuff. You may end up spending absurd amount of time trying to mimic exact tones and notes without actually understanding why they sound that way in the first place. Instead, just try playing around with FL Studio and just building something from there without intention in your inspiration. Later when you know more about the tools you're using and composition in general, you'll be far more prepared to make songs in the style of other artists

ashen veldt
ashen veldt
ashen veldt
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theres no tutorials

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theres only 2 reddit posts

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and thats it

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i cant find anyone that can show me an example

inland tapir
ashen veldt
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i do that

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and i cant

inland tapir
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You should practice your sound design more then

ashen veldt
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how?

inland tapir
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Make music, open up a synth and make stuff

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Learn how the synth works, learn what basic waveforms sound like

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Do you know how synths work?

ashen veldt
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kinda

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some things i dont know how to make and i cant figure out how

inland tapir
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you should ask how to make those specific things, rather than an extremely broad question like this

ashen veldt
inland tapir
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here

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well, not like, here in this thread but like, in #❔◾questions #1019884693786734682 or #🥣◾sound-design

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people ask sound design questions all the time

mint canyon
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Terraria is one of my favorite games, I did a sound redesign of some gameplay in this video here

inland tapir
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what a guy / gal

mint canyon
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I'm happy to answer any questions about the video or give my 2 cents on Terraria music, if you'd like

ashen veldt
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I mean the ost doesn't really have the same synths as the og

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Like i want to learn how to make something sound like vanilla terraria

inland tapir
ashen veldt
inland tapir
# ashen veldt I guess the underground ost, main menu and boss 1

underground: the literal first instrument you hear is a synth lol, then the bitcrushed square waves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-OttnZEXZo

main menu: has some sort of square wave with high resonance, the strings sound like they're layered with a synth, hard to say, but i'm confident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFmnZ6VMd_4

boss 1: pretty much every sound you hear is a synth, apart from possibly the brass hit, the string fill. main bass and lead are synths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp_rl-1rYpQ

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i mis read your comment unfortunately but yeah, that's what i hear in these songs

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your best course of action would be to pick a synth, and then study and learn it

ashen veldt
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Uhhh

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Hiw though

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I don't even know how they made it sound like that

inland tapir
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your goal right now shouldn't be to completely replicate the sounds being used, it's just to get familiar how synths work, what the controls do, how they sound, etc

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you're trying to run a marathon, before you've learned how to walk

ashen veldt
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I know thar

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That

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I know how to use 3x osc

inland tapir
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so, when you hear some of these sounds, you need to piece together what you know from experience on what certain sounds, sound like, and draw a conclusion from it

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on what it could be, then you try it, and you'll get a sound, it's probably and most likely not going to be the sound you're trying to replicate, but you made something anyway, and it's up to you whether you want to keep it

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again, it's more beneficial to ask about specific sounds if you're struggling to identify what these sounds are

jagged venture
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Also Terraria's music is a lot more complex than some other pieces of music. You're gonna have a harder time trying to replicate Terraria's music because of how the composer designed them. Like as an example in Underground, that synth's waveform isn't immediately recognizeable. For the second synth that comes in, it's just a saw/triangle wave, but it's played with really short notes so it's hard to discern exactly what it sounds like.
But I want to ask you @ashen veldt, what do you think is going on with the first synth? You do claim to have some knowledge of synths, but we can't give any reasonably useful advice that is fit for your current skill level without knowing how much you know.