Will Roget

@wilbertroget.bsky.social

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[He/him] Music Composer - Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance, Star Wars: Outlaws, Helldivers 2, Pacific Drive, Mortal Kombat 1 & 11, Call of Duty: WWII, Star Wars: Vader Immortal

Screenshot of Melodyne 5 preferences --> Shortcuts window. This tip seems random but it seriously saved me half an hour of clicks in just one night!!
Pacific Drive was nominated in the 2025 BAFTA Games Awards for the Best Debut Game category
90% = Moog SubPhatty. Great for bass drones, sub bass 65% = Arturia Minibrute 2S. Great for bass sequences, sequences, some perc loops too 40% = Arturia Microfreak. Bit of a shocker, but when I thought about it, I realized there's patches I've designed here that are indispensable and live rent-free in my imagination; I think of them as part of my palette just the same as I'd think of a trombone or oboe. Specifically, a synth low strings patch and a few blip arps 30% = Korg Minilogue. Artificially low % because this is the FIRST synth I always turn on when I want anything. It might even be my favorite really - but because I use it so much, the % is lower and the "time risk" is high. Still, this places it evenly with software synths in time risk and versatility. Amazing for arps and pads; not so great for bass stuff though, IMO 15% = Korg MS-20mini. Uh oh!! Hopefully not too offensive a score, but basically it's the biggest gamble of all. Aggressive, unruly, and inherently a bit "low fi" sound, but it's got more vibe and life than anything... Just ridiculously hard to predict or control. But when it hits, it WILL be a signature sound. Great for bass, drones, FX, and ultra vibey arps
Behold the Screenshot Of Shame, where I use the / character in so many tracks
PAX West 2024 concert photo, me playing bass flute with the Triforce Quartet
Clip of piano roll vid for The Illuminate Cult (Helldivers 2). Full video on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm6bEp17aM0&lc=Ugy7wUicEmUzXqJts-d4AaABAg
screenshot of an EQ, I've highlighted the frequency and entered it in numerically. took all my self control not to enter a meme number
Video demo of the Gasworks Park Percussion sample library in Kontakt.
Clip from the 2nd half of "The Right Side of History", from Helldivers 2 original soundtrack. The use of 7ths and bright orchestral textures was an intentional reference to Hitoshi Sakimoto's Final Fantasy Tactics score, particularly tracks like "Apoplexy" and "Desert Land".
Kontakt Screenshot, but here's a more detailed tutorial: (you will need the FULL version of Kontakt for this, not the free ones) 1) Go to Group Editor, hold down a note, and figure out what groups are actually triggering when you PLAY a note; often there's Release-triggered groups for when you let go of a note... you don't wanna touch those 2) In the Expert tab at the left of the Kontakt UI, you can select the groups you want. There'll be a speaker icon next to whatever's making sound 3) Now set these groups to Sampler in the Source section. This allows Kontakt to seek later within the sample when triggering notes 4) Add a Constant modulator within that Source section, and set it to Sample Start. You'll probably want a fairly low % value in the slider for orchestral libraries, like 3% or lower 5) You might have to adjust the Attack time to be *higher* now, down in the Modulation section in the Volume envelope, in order to compensate (in case this causes sound to just pop in). Try setting the Curve to a positive number for a legato attack 6) Lastly, you can get a bit fancy with this via extra modulations! For instance, in addition to the Constant modulator on SampleStart, you can try adding a Velocity modulator instead, so that the harder you press a note, the further in the sample starts (ie. bypassing more attack time). You can even add a Velocity modulator to the Volume envelope down in the Modulation section, and invert it so that there's less attack time the harder you press! 7) MAJOR CAVEAT: Several sample libraries these days have complex scripts that defeat Kontakt's internal velocity, controller, and note mapping, making it impossible to edit certain things. Unfortunately you'll just have to experiment to see which libraries let you do what. Always save backups / never overwrite the default patches - you never know what slight adjustments might royally screw up a patch unexpectedly. :-(
Screenshot of the free Sonic Anomaly "Transpire" Transient Processor VST, turning down the attack (transient) and increasing sustain
Kontakt 6 logo. Specifically chosen bc my answers will use K6 exclusively (I don't use 7 or 8)
Star Wars: Outlaws "From Symphony to Scoundrel, Adaptive Music in Star Wars: Outlaws" - Wednesday 9am, Moscone West 3018 GDC Developers Concert - Wednesday 12:30pm, Moscone West Main Stage Helldivers 2 "Scoring Satire with Sincerity" - Thursday 11am, Moscone West 3018
Wild volume automation on a synth recording from my Pacific Drive main theme, with abrupt silences to make the sound poke out randomly. I also labelled it with the synth it was recorded from (MS20-mini), the guitar pedals it was run through (Geiger Counter and Moog MF Drive), and special effect plugin (Output Thermal)
Reaper snap/grid settings menu. Looks weird cuz this is a measure of 6/8, so the quintuplet crosses an 8th note boundary
Screenshot of reaper piano roll view with grid set to 1/20, ie., quintuplets (multiply whatever you want your tuplet to be by 4) Note that it has built-in triplets and swing too, so for instance you can set to 1/8 or 1/16 and set triplet/swing in the dropdown.... or if for some reason you want quintuplet-triplets, you can do that with 1/20 I guess? :-P
Not-particularly-related screenshot of Reaper, but including a hardware synth pad I recorded and then immediately turned down like -9dB. Also, it's fun to just make a track with a trancegate effect and run synth pads through it! Kilohearts has a free VST one if you wanna check it out. https://kilohearts.com/products/trance_gate (it's so damn spacious in these ALT Text regions! I better shut up and get back to work though :-P)
Screenshot of Transpire Transient Designer, increasing attacks (transients) and decreasing sustains
Screenshot of my Tremolator patch that I use for this purpose. Note the depthmod/ratemod/accent are set to 0, rate is tempo-synch'd ("MIDI"), rhythm set to 16ths, and shape is a simple custom curve. I have a tiny bit of Width added just to sound a bit more natural, but it's not necessary at all.
it's Mighty Max!
Screenshot of the ZebraHZ "Sad Strings" patch, showing the sustain set low and with a lengthy decay
Video showing Kontakt patch with randomized tuning and samplestart, as well as modwheel --> lowpass filter and EQ for dynamics
Video showing my Reaper DAW session, first showing the attack layer (a Pipa plucked string melody), then the sustain layer (a synth lead), then the two combined and lastly the final mix in context
Found a copy of Helldivers 2 in an electronics store in Tokyo!