Re: [DL] Potential Product Question (To The Group)

[Dane Oliveira <citharadgh1@yahoo.com>]

Hola!

I have to admit that I was one of the few who didn't like WW.  Its
repetitive nature (even at low volumes) drove my players insane.  I
think it was the nature of the electronic instruments used, but that's
me.

Anyhew.  I've utilized Outlaws -- more of this is what I'd like to
hear.  Perhaps have some songs that are longer, but production quality
is what makes it a winner.  Use quality samples, if not the real
instruments themselves.  I've used the Ambient Music Vol. I that was
produced by Aphex Twin a few years ago.

I guess I would like more tunes that revolved around good combat
themes, creepy themes, and the such.

Good luck!

D.

--- Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com> wrote:
<delevi>
> The best non-Weird Wailings CD I've found has been the additional
> music 
> tracks on the old 3-D shooter game called Outlaws, followed by some 
> singular songs from various soundtracks (opening and closing credits
> to 
> Quick and the Dead, Manifest Destiny from Ravenous, etc).
> 
> The trick to creating a mood music CD for use during a game is it
> shouldn't 
> disrupt the game itself.   The tracks should be long, fairly
> repetitive, 
> and most importantly, not vary too much in volume.  The Marshal
> shouldn't 
> have to keep jumping back and forth to the music to keep the volume
> at a 
> non-disruptive level.
> 
> That's where Weird Wailin's delivers in full.  If the posse is on a
> train, 
> the Marshal can start playing Ghost Train on repeat.  Having that
> baseline 
> steam engine sound at a barely audible level in the background really
> helps 
> set the mood.  And the music is repetitive enough that it doesn't
> pull 
> attention away from the game, but it's varied enough to not be
> monotonous.
> The same with The Haunted Saloon for a saloon scene, and The Weird
> West for 
> a riding from town to town scene.  etc.
> 
> What makes for good gaming music does not make for good listening
> music. A 
> game store in town tried shuffling Weird Wailings into it's store
> music 
> selection and it drove everyone nuts, because the songs were long and
> 
> repetitive and were played too loud.
> 
> What I would like to see is more atmosphere pieces - a tune that had
> a 
> theme of picks hitting rock for scene in a mine, or a piece that
> evokes the 
> frozen wastes of the North, or one that evokes the hot and dry winds
> in the 
> southwest.
> 
> Here's a good one - In much the same way that Haunted Saloon combines
> a 
> tinny piano, conversation and clinking glasses to evoke a saloon,
> Deadlands 
> style, I'd like to see a 10 minute piece that, also without
> overpowering 
> the game, evokes the feeling of Gettysburg or other major battles.
> 
> -------------------
> Allan Seyberth
> darious@darious.com
> 
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