Author: John

Phantasy Star Universe (360)

Been stuck at the mid-level boss fight with Butthead, Elvis, and Barf, for about six months – not because it’s especially difficult, but because I hadn’t levelled sufficiently before entering the mission. Once in there, of course, it’s win or game over. No backing out. Anyway, I worked out a technique this afternoon, that enabled

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Fallout 3 (360) & Final Fantasy (iPhone)

I haven’t done a game diary post in aaaaaaages – mostly because I’ve been so busy doing five-minutely status updates via facebook and twitter that there’s been little point. Well, hell – I do still play the occasional game, so I’m gonna make a point of putting the occasional update here, if only to justify

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‘Everything Burns’ prototype

So one of the songs off the album I’m working on is called “Everything Burns.” The melody and structure for it came to me in the middle of the night and kept me awake for hours and then tried to do a runner in the morning, so I did a quick rough of the verse/chorus

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OMG

So I needed to make a synthetic bell sound for a project I’m working on and thought I’d do a little ditty just to let you hear what I’m talking about when I say ‘synthetic bell’. But as I started playing I realised, with no small amount of horror, that what I was dredging up

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Private Lessons

So I’ve modified my usual synth patch to not reset the attack envelope on keychances and added a little bit of portamento to give a rather nice sliding effect. Here’s a little tune to demonstrate what I’m talking about. The chord progression is based on a song called Private Lessons by Kevin O’Neill, Peter Ward

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Adminy Stuff

Ok, so Mr Daniels pointed out that there was no obvious way to login, register, or anything like that. So I’ve re-added the meta widget. It’s over there, on the right, at the top of the sidebar.

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The Shipping Forecast

There’s a strangely beautiful poetry in the BBC’s shipping forecast. I reckoned it needed some music. There’s two versions here – the first has some electronic treatment on the voice and some listeners have found it doesn’t sound quite right. The second version has a simple reverb applied. See which you prefer. John Dow –

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Morphine in C

Ok, so driven in from the garden by a plethora of wasps and one annoying neighbour, I was planning to stick my head in a book, but sadly my synth got a hold of me. So, without further ado, I present Morphine in C – the music I image would be played in a psychiatric

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Tig Tag

So, I’ve finally got around to adding some tags to the first couple of dozen articles and adding a tag cloud (it’s down there on the right hand side). It occurred to me that, with near enough 2,000 posts, Nelefa.org is kinda outgrowing categories and standard searching, so I thought I might as well get

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Dresden Amen

Anyone familiar with Wagner’s Parsifal will know this one. It’s a short 24 second snippet of exquisite loveliness, using my nice warbly theremin sound. John Dow – Dresden Amen

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