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It has been a staple of music composition, be it in your favorite video game, DJ setlist, movie score, or pop artist; MIDI can be found everywhere electronic music is. It might not be a surprise that Koreographer Pro leans on MIDI for its most professional, expedited workflow. As we’ve covered before, Koreographer uses embedded musical data to stream information back to game systems in time with the music. If Koreographer isn’t a tool for music composition, then why use MIDI?
Music games are a dime a dozen in app stores and go all the way back to the first Parappa or Beatmania. There have been dozens of iterations on how to do the genre justice with gem smashers in Rock Band to obstacle courses in Vib Ribbon to omnidirectional commands in Guitaroo Man. They all have something in common; the method to get those punchy note placements to land right on beat. What you might not know is the process to make that happen.
New consoles arrive every four to seven years. If you compare a console's games to its last, you will see a spectrum of innovations. Rendering techniques become more efficient and realistic; designers find new ways to explore interaction and storytelling; game developers push the state of the art forward a little at a time. We at Sonic Bloom would like to take a moment to reflect on the outgoing 8th generation to highlight the games we think most exemplified important changes to the medium.
Learn how to create music rhythm-based animations for your game. In this tutorial, we go over how to use Unity 3D’s Bolt to script easy animations that “dance” along to music.
Have you ever wanted to get your game animations to animate to the music? Have you ever wanted really close synchronization that makes it look like your game objects are reacting to or dancing with the music? It’s not an easy problem. With a couple of assets from the Unity Asset Store, you can get some pretty great animation effects with little effort.
In this tutorial, you’ll see how Unity 3D and Koreorapher can work together to get a simple, but really effective animation. It won’t take much, but it will make your game way more “juicy.”
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