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Hi guys. I'm still alive and well. My father is in hospice with advanced stages of emphysema and that's really soaking up all my time currently. But on a good note I will be back to writing music again very soon, as like in a couple weeks. I'd like to apologize for not letting anyone know sooner and just appearing like I dropped off the face of the earth. It was just that things happened rather quickly.

Thanks!

I messed up again though. LOL

Man I'm having a hell of a time with this. I uploaded the wrong version I wanted everyone to hear, the version I really intended to upload... I just uploaded.

Sheesh... 

https://myspace.com/godless_reactor/music/songs

Ok, I tried to fix it from my work laptop as I'm away for work deployment till tomorrow evening. Give it a try now and let me know if you can click the link. Again, my apologies.

Oh... well now that's embarrassing.

Maybe i didn't set it up right. I just created the account last night. When I get home saturday night I'll see if I can fix it. I'm really about this sorry guys. 

[VERY EARLY]

Ok, so to give an idea of where I'm going so far. This is something that is very short and very barebones. It's mainly an idea.

In this tiny bit we have thunder drums,cinematic toms, the double basses, a mandolin, french horns & trombones in this little tidbit only. A lot more instrumentation of course will be added and paired up where needed.

So remember, its a VERY EARLY work in progress.

We Battle Ever On - Take #1
https://myspace.com/godless_reactor/music/albums

PS. Let me know if you guys can hear it.

Thanks guys! Right now I'm gathering material, and deciding on what kind of palette of sounds I plan on working with.

First thing is to create an overall theme for the main menu. I'd like it to be something that can be easily repeated through other musical pieces/cues for other factions. This way, just by listening to the music of certain songs you know it came from a RTR game.

The music planner I'm building is very similar to the score setup I had with RTR:VII, that the campaign map music will not have any percussion, except for maybe a few smaller percussion items, and will consist of a variety of stringed and woodwind instruments befitting the region the music is written for. Like, no Pharoah Dumbek's in Roman pieces, or Irish Low Whistle in an Eastern factions music for example. In regards to the percussion, I'm sticking with the way I wrote for VII and that is no snares for any factions other than the Romans. I feel that the snares add a newness to the new rising power of the Med., one that cuts through the other music pieces to give the impression that the Romans are coming to make change, their way!

My main focus at first is as stated previously, the main menu/theme. Then after I have that established and finished, I'll start off with the Roman faction and then move onto the Greeks.

Hopefully in the coming week(s) I'll have something for you guys to listen to.

This is where I'll jot down my ideas, and post works in progress. The time it takes to write a score, depending on what I'm writing can some take a week or more. So if I seem inactive I'm not, I'm busy writing and rewriting. 

Hi guys, hollowfaith here. I'm glad to help you guys out with your mod in the lull for RTR2. A little background about myself... I hail from Buffalo, NY here in the U.S.,  I've composed music for RTR:VII (my first cinematic orchestral score I've ever written), a Warhammer 40K mod for Fallout 3 called WARP, another untitled Warhammer 40K project, I also created the Drum & Fife Mod for Empire: Total War, won an award for best music mini mod at TWcenter for that one, and I am composing music for an upcoming webcast animated show that will be debuting on youtube soon! I'm glad to be here.

I also can texture somewhat, and I am learning 3D Modeling in Blender. I also know how to mess around in the text files so I can hopefully help out more than just adding music.