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In the Mind of a Game Musician
by Marcus Knudsen

What the listener hears isn't always what the composer heard while he/she composed the music! Most of the listeners use ordinary PC-speakers while the composer usually uses speakers with a much wider frequency-range.

Example:
Frequencies used in song: 30Hz-18Khz

The musician's speakers handle 20Hz-20Khz
He/she heard all sounds

The listeners PC-speakers handle 50Hz-15Khz
Some sounds comes outside the frequency-range of the speakers and the listener doesn't hear everything.

To make sure it sounds correct with ordinary PC-speakers is very important since it's what 8 out of 10 listeners use! It's impossible to make the music sound right on all speakers, but the listener has no idea of how the music is supposed to sound so the only one who really can tell the difference is the composer. ;)

Music Formats

Contents

	Introduction
	New Project
	Getting Started
	The Two "C"s
	Composing Steps
	Test Your Music
	Music Formats
	Final Words

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