An introduction to the music and sound producers White Wolf Productions

Introduction to Whitewolf

We at Whitewolf saw everyone introducing themselves explaining where they were up to and thought it would be a good idea, to get ourselves a blog spot on here updating the internet on where we are at with the OST.

Being a very productive team we work with deft fingers and efficient brains to get the soundtrack, which will for some be the most engaging part of the game, to come to life. Drawing heavily from musical aspects used in other RPG games, such as Final Fantasy, Summoner, Devil May Cry, Zelda etc we have begun creating a soundtrack which will encompass a great deal of musical ideas.

This soundtrack will take on a life of its own; the music we hope will strike deep down at the core of the gamer to fully engross them within the game.

The Writing Process

We feel it is important to explain our writing process, as it is the key element in how all these lovely pieces of music find their way to your ears.

Let’s start with the average writing session layout:

• The purchase of stimulation drinks – A very, perhaps most, vital part of the routine is this without this we are simply like Cloud with no Buster Sword, or Zidane with his brass balls. Put simply we cannot function without being high as kite on caffeine.
• The prep – The prep sounds like it is some kind of workout, and well in a certain respect it is. We sit down and we begin playing online YouTube videos. *for inspiration* for example this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gugBiEkLwUthis source of great inspiration reminds us our music can never be as shit these movies are.
• Boot-up – We then boot up the software to compose on, bet it Reason, Sibelius, Logic, Cubase etc etc. And then we ignore that for a while.
• Management – Then we get on with some other things non related to the music but instead linked to the other side of the business, the event management.
• Secondary purchase of stimulation drinks – by this point we don’t even know the day of the week, this is good let’s begin!!!
• Composing – so we’ll select various patches and instruments, start with a basic loop of a bass line or melody line and then start building up from there.
• Expanding – Once an idea takes over we begin letting it grow to its full size, this could be that the music needs to be just 1 and a half minutes long, at other times the piece could last for 10-12 minutes for example – The Fire of the Forsaken – piece which is used in the Basatha OST.
• Mixing – We probably do this, we just can’t really remember doing this.
• Mastering – See above.
• Uploading – We do this, uploading our music onto soundcloud for all you lovely people to listen to.
• The Crash – Then the crash comes, and we usually turn to the internet at this point for some inspiration.
• The Arguments – We then argue the toss about something which would to the outsider seemingly be pointless, yet, to us, is THE, and I can’t stress this enough, is THE MOST important thing… EVER!

Then we go home to our respective lairs and hibernate until the next session.

So yeah that is the basic layout of one of our sessions, we will at some point get round to showing you a video diary or this.

-White Wolf