Help with music?

I’m having trouble with making music. Before when I used to make music, it was easy, as I didn’t know much about good music and as long as it sounded fine I was okay with it. Now, I’m getting myself braindead trying to make up music with my OCD kicking in. Whenever I even make a small beat, I can never make up anything good to go with it, as LMMS doesn’t have much to offer. So, I move to Anvil Studio. It made some of my FAVORITE music (Including in An Untitled Story and Generic Man) so I decided to give it a try. It has lots of very good high-quality instruments, and is very versatile. A couple problems though:

1) I have no idea how to import my own instruments

2) The process of making music in it is very long and neck-aching.

I have tried FL Studio, but the free version had little to no to offer, and I’m trying to stay on a budget of, well, 0.00$.

I look at Famitracker, and it can make some very nice making music! (One of my favorites being Rushjet) But it is really confusing to make different sounds that I want, and in the period of a month I can’t cram in learning the 8-bit sound system whilst making a game and trying to get done school!

I would just make the game first and use that as inspiration for the music, but I’ve tried that 2-3 times already, and I just couldn’t make the right tune for the game! I don’t want a mining game with puzzle music!

I feel like all my ideas are drained, and it’s hard for me to make even videos now!

Does anyone have any tips on what I should do?

Comments

06. Oct 2014 · 09:30 UTC
I usually go to the modarchive.org and listen to 30-40 tunes to get inspiration and also extract some samples (instruments). You can also import your own just by converting from .wav format Since I’m using Linux, I prefer MilkyTracker.