Check out the new song (to the left). I'm still not done tweaking it--but as the name suggests, this is the music that will play in the massive interior known as the High Tower of Iriaebor. The female vocals that come in toward the end are courtesy of my roommate. The other vocals are me pretending to be two different dudes.
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It sounds great maerduin, and very much in line with what we heard in H&C. I think I posted a fairly expansive post on it at the Vault, but I always feel that stuff tone and pacing are overlooked elements of games. It's great if this will be carried over to Bron's Daughter.
The "someone playing across a great hall" sound works really nicely with the banjo, and gives it a rather dreamy feel.
Great stuff!
It sounds pretty good already.
Also, this reminds me that I wanted to send you an email because of the songs.
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Apropos the songs: Could you put up losslessly compressed versions (e.g. FLACs) as well? Would be much appreciated. :)
Thanks guys--I'll post the final version if it substantially changes this one. Starwars: Yes, the banjo is surprisingly versatile! I hope to have a few more music tracks in BD, as well as the music from H&C.
Anoncoward: I would do what you suggest but I have no idea what you are talking about! :)
Well, I mean, when you create and edit your songs, you surely don't write directly to MP3, do you? (each time you'd load the file and save it again, it would decrease the sound quality, since MP3 is a lossy compression). You probably save WAV files, or something native to the audio application you use.
What I ask you is basically putting up the WAV files for downloading, so we audiophiles can enjoy your music without the awful MP3 compression. Although your 256kps MP3s are adequate (I myself don't hear a difference there), I for one would still like to have "the source" to encode into q8 Ogg Vorbis.
Of course, the raw WAV is awfully big, but there's FLAC, the free lossless audio codec, which manages to shrink the files by around 50%. On the download page, you'll find binaries with which you can convert WAV files to FLAC.
Love the medieval-meets-downtown-hipster vibe of it all.
Great material. Kind of raw, but very elaborate at the same time. Your vocals especially blow me away each time - however I must admit I wish the song didn't feature your roommate, as she unfortunately doesn't match your singing skills (to put it bluntly).
On the FLAC subject, depending on the software you use to convert to MP3, chances are it also does FLAC. I for one use Audacity as a tag-and-convert-to-mostly-anything toolbox. Which is a bit of a shame, as it can do much, much more.
It is nice indeed to hear more custom music, maerduin! I did like your tunes in H&C, and this one does have a floaty, airy feel to it.
harp and chrysanthemum more like banjo and chrysanthemum hehehehe eh...
I have to agree, the girl-vocals sound out of place in what is otherwise a remarkably well put-together production.
Glad you guys like the song. Tough crowd re: the roomie, but she herself wasn't entirely happy with the vox. I'll fiddle with her part some more.
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