Awesome... Very skillfully done and a damn good median for the two styles they wanted.

PLEASE tell me that's for a remake of Sun Tzu's Art of War... I'd love to play that game again. (I mean, not on a PC that moves the AI so fast it blurs onscreen...)

Oh, and damn you're good, Podunk. Like, really, really good. I keep forgetting how good you are until I hear something new of yours. Wow.

I likes me some Asian music, and this puts me in an options-selectin' mood.

I'd actually really like to find someone who produces this kind of music consistantly (and by kind of music I mean Asian-style orchestral since I know you routinely produce music of this quality). Maybe with a little techno thrown in.

Great work. Firaxis needs to hire you to do the music for Civ 5!

Excellent tune! It has this awesome Otogi flava to it!! Makes me wanna pwn some demons amidst the falling cherry blossoms!

Cherry blossoms underfoot
Slick with foul bile
Demon pnwage time!

Jesus Sh*tkickin' Lawds, Podunk. You probably pee vintage claret too, don't you? Honestly? If you're not already doing Big Things you should be.

That's very cool, Podunk. If you don't mind me asking, how much of that is live, recorded instrumentation? And what sort of studio setup do you use for that sort of project?

I've been poking around musicmaking lately, trying to get a feel for what I could accomplish with, say Ableton Live, some decent speakers, a snazzy midi keyboard/controller, and some judicious sampling.

edit: Not that I aspire to compose on your level. But I'm curious as to how much music gets made from inside computers nowadays.

Loaded into Audiosurf while synching a client desktop. Thanks for the awesome ammo!

Wow, thanks dudes.

It's all samples, though I recorded it all in real time on a keyboard controller. If I'd had more of a budget I would have loved to at least get a couple of live string players in the studio, but as it was it pretty much had to be a one man show.

I'm running a PC with a Presonus Firepod audio interface, Edirol UM-880 MIDI interface, and a pair of Edirol digital monitors. I have a bunch of other hardware--some hardware synths, some outboard processors and a decent mic preamp--but none of it was used in this particular project. As far as software goes, the project was recorded in Cubase, and mastered in Wavelab. Within Cubase I used Native Instruments Kontakt, a few instruments from the factory library, and a number of EastWest/Quantum Leap libraries, specifically Symphonic Orchestra Platinum, Stormdrum and RA.

Salad sufficiently tossed, Podunk?

Absolutely astounding. Please tell us when the game gets released on XBLA so we can hear it in context.

I've got a few things cooking - the personal project which you mentioned, and a game title for which I'm doing all the music. That wont be released for some time though...and it hasn't been announced, so that's the end of that for now.

I've got Voices of Passion, which uses PLAY. The engine is actually quite slick. My biggest gripe is that it is one more proprietary engine to load up. I was getting used to simply loading up a ton of samples within Kontakt - which was really easy on CPU and memory vs. multiple instances of arbitrary engines. Even so - it is a pretty groovy system. I'll be posting a review of that on CreateDigitalMusic soon...

I'm late to the show, but that's fantastic. Thanks for sharing.

I could listen to this all day.

Statement: Podunk is more talented than you.
Target: World.

It's interesting, I listened to the track before reading your original post, and as I listened, I immediately began thinking of it as a strategy game. I see I was right. I don't know what that means, but I think it means you rock, Podunk. I'd listen to that in a game, hell yeah.