everythinghiveswap:

jamesroachmusic:

I talked about this briefly on twitter but a handful of the characters in friendsim have “canon” music that we don’t use because it doesn’t fit the mood of the route. A great example is Konyll’s music. 

In Hiveswap Act 2 there is a significant interaction with her that I won’t spoil, but it involves Azdaja as well. When you overlap their two songs, it becomes a full melody. (kind of like their trollcall card, two sides of one coin etc)

With characters like Remele, who have tracks made for them for Friendsim, it follows what I’ve been referring to as the established “Musical Canon” in that the instrumentation choices are largely based on blood caste. Homestuck has a tradition of doing this whether it wanted to or not a lot of the time and I spent a great deal of time reverse engineering the existing canon to make hiveswap feel like it fit. A good example of this is something like Tagora’s and other tealbloods tracks being the only ones allowed to use harpsichord. “But what about Tri-” shh!

anyway the established musical canon in hiveswap is something like:
Burgundy: Synths/Percussion
Brown: Trumpet/Horns/Brass
Yellow: Chiptune
???: ????
Olive: Mallets
Jade: Harps/Bells + Airy/Ethereal Sounds
Teal: Harpsichord
Cerulean: they just… steal other castes instruments so its complicated to explain.
Indigo: Overwrought and Orchestral
Purple: Honks lmao
Violet: At this point they are so individual that each one has its own musical motif
Fuchsia: Whatever they want.

none of these are hard rules so those of you out there doing fantroll stuff can just do whatever you want, this is just what we came up with.

July 7, 2018