can i specialize in for example pixel boss fights?

Well put. The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry is a book that kind of goes along with your mention of 40+ hour weeks

Dude, this is gold! Thank you for providing this valuable information.

Great work Steven, It flows nicely - I would add rock guitar to it, and make main part go faster - but Im metal fan.

thanks for video! wondering if anyone has some tips on how to get just your in ear click track and not to livestream audience? I know how to do this for live shows at venues but can't seem to route it thru OBS properly

On my flight from central Europe to New Jersey and watching another of your live streams. One by one, soon I'll catch up! :D I hope there is more coming - apart from the great music you also have an amazing presence and lovely personality! Cheers

Hi Steven! I've got a question on the x:00 x:30 track duration constraint. Do you also apply that to loops, or is it just on "regular" tracks? I've been having a hard time achieving this round durations for certain loops. This also leads me to another question: in a VGM pack, do you provide every track in several versions i.e. loop, loop with tail, loop loop with intro, etc? This remains a bit of a mystery to me. Thanks for the useful tips, I regularly come back to your book for this or that piece of info :)

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So greatful for this! How did you get the zoom to have such a good audio quality 😮

what a nice tune

Hope this isn't too off topic but when are you opening up membership for video game alliance? Been wanting to level up as a composer. Thanks for the content!

This truly is EPIC! I'm gonna have to start listening to trailer music now! Big thanks for sharing these videos! I feel like I've been able to do so much more after seeing your work flow!

Open it upppp please

4 is my favorite

Hi Steven, good rescoring, I just wonder if there's a way to buy the 16-bit Toolkit Bundle monster sanctuary toolkit and Beard Blade Toolkit ?

Cool!

8 is my fav game + soundtrack... i smiled ear to ear when it finally played ❤

36:10 Having absolutely no experience with any of this and literally 10 minutes ago downloaded FMOD just to have a look at it, it seems it can do unlimited subfolders. Not sure if that's the equivalent to what he's talking about, but you can at least make a typical organized tree structure of all your events

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So awesome! Thanks for sharing!

Amazing!

This is so good, Peter really knows what he is doing. Will have to watch a few more times to get it all!

Thank you for this vid! Big fan of you and Austin! Dreamteam! Edit: and of Dallas of course!

Jordan! 😍🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🔥

Do you like cabbage

You're so talented at playing. The fact you can go from playing single notes to something that sounds instinctively like music is so impressive to me

I just released my first Video Game Music Pack thanks to you! You've been an inspiration to me for 3 years and I've learned so much from you! Thank you so much! ❤

WOW !👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

So easy to understand and interesting, great work thank you

If there are videos I always come back to, this is one of them (and the one I'm interested the most!). Thank you a lot, Steven! 🙌🏼

Reaper is the number one for flexible, but i like Digital Performer Out Warm Sound. Reaper need to work the ouput sound better.

The only thing holding me back from wanting to throw myself into becoming a composer is money and time. I REALLY want to do music composition for video games for a living (preferably, horror games) but I feel like it will take me some time to build the client base necessary to start getting paid enough to pay my bills. I try my hardest to find time to work on my music comp stuff after my 9-5 (currently working on a music pack which should be out by the end of the year) but it is taking me sooooo much longer to make progress than I would like so that I can turn this dream into a reality. Does anyone have any tips on how to juggle a 9-5 so that I can survive in this economy while also making meaningful progress towards becoming a VGM composer?

My childhood... I would keep my game boy on beside my pillow at a low volume and fall asleep to this song, this took me back to that comforting feeling ❤

Nice live as usual. What I don't understand is: am I the only one having loss of everything when I make a Stem: Level, Stereo image, Dynamic... Making it sound better on the original project. It's a thing I battle with in general : all what I create sounds better in my Daw Project than exported, no matter my settings. On internet people said "it's not normal, you should have the exact same rendered". When I import a file in a new comp, everything sounds so low... Thanks for all you're doing it so interimesting

I just wanna point out that the advice in step one is a bit paradoxical, where a game dev wants a range or styles, but only for one game genre. Also marketing yourself for one genre can be kind of a gamble and isn't as sure-fire as you make it out to be. For example: Hideki Naganuma makes music for Jet Set Radio styled games but games like that only get released once every like 5 years.... You won't be seeing much work for that let alone will the market size be good. If you want to assess risk, approach it like the stock market. Have a diverse portfolio. However Steven is right about honing in on one style/genre the best, but you should remain flexible. Being a specialist and master of one in music is a recipe for disaster. Otherwise most musicians/artists wouldn't have 12 different streams of income lol

Seems like finally I have some light into darkness... but so much things ahead... Need to watch in one more time... but it is brilliant.

it’s crazy cuz just watching this you can understand a lot of choices in the FFXIV collective soundtracks. seems they all got similar ideas/notes from nobuo’s work haha. that song he writes at the end sounds straight out of XIV

Oh wow, that's real cool! 80 min of music is crazy. These stories are really inspiring.🔥 It's nice to see others making something out of one of their passions in life.

Wow! Congratz

Do you have the video where you composed mystical workshop ost ? it's my fav

thats awesome !

Real nice success story. Good luck to him for his future.🫡

This was quite a journey to sit through. Inspired me to fix up my own low brass instrument racks

Finally caught up with the stream, these things are always a masterclass and a condensed education. Thanks, Steven!

Beautiful

I hate that I can't make it in real-time, but I always love coming to watch the replays. For the type of music that I'm writing right now, I get so much out of watching you go through the process of creating your work! I hope to be able to save up money in time to join VGM so I could get into the nitty-gritty and really grow as a composer! Sending my appreciation from the land of the rising sun!

Thats pretty sick man.

I’ve always heard it described as the “flat six major seven” but this approach makes a lot of sense as well.