Background Sounds (Music)

[benjamin]

I've got an amazing CD with sounds from caverns, called Deep Into the Earth - Sounds of the Earth. It's one of those new age CDs with natural sounds.

Dripping water, wind in caverns, and so forth - totally astounding!


I've got a couple of others too, with surf, forest, howling wolves, but the cavern sounds are outstanding and is the one I use most.

It's sadly out of print, and goes for truly horrifying prices at Amazon! Over £50!

Can you tell us what it's called...?!?!?!



Sounds cool!

Ben

 

[chronoplasm]

I use a lot of movie soundtracks with instrumental and ambient scores.
Ennio Morricone is my favorite.

I also like to use a lot of electronic music by artists like Jay Tholen (you can download all of his albums from his website for free.)

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

I don't know many video games with long tracks, but Samurai Warriors / Dynasty Warriors may fit the bill at least for combat. Those seem to run for a while, though I've never checked exactly how lengthy, and certainly nowhere near an hour!

I'll have to check out this syrinscape, never heard of it before.

Also check out early material by Delerium (Bill Leeb/Rhys Fulber of Front Line Assembly)...especially Spiritual Archives. Later stuff is good too, but usually has more vocal than instrumental stuff.

Seconded.

The early CDs are hard to find (some more than others), so you may just want to get Delerium Archives vol. 1 & 2, for a fair sampling of their early work.

 

[dragonlordofpoondari]

Can you tell us what it's called...?!?!?!



Sounds cool!

Ben

Deep Into the Earth is what it's called, like Henrix said in his post. I think I can help you find a copy. I just shot you an email to that effect. BTW, I've been playing around with your program and I really like it. I'm sorting through my Jeremy Soule/Black Isle collection with a mind to eventually make my own soundsets. If you haven't yet collected all of Soule's work, it is well worth the price for use at the table! He is the genius behind Oblivion, Guild Wars, and many other OST's.

I'm considering donating to your site for the extra VIP content. How does one do that after registering?

By the way, does anyone know how to convert RPG soundmixer's free downloadable sound collections out of the .sol format, like those found here ... RPG-SoundMixer - The new PnP RPG Experience ???

 

[Chainsaw]

Thanks for all the great replies! As usual, the ENWorld community delivers when it comes to meaningful and useful advice and ideas. Double special thanks to benjamin for developing syrinscape - I'll join as a VIP member.

 

[Wombat]

So, I went over to Syrinscape ... and I am trying to figure out how to use it. Obviously I have not signed up for VIP membership, as I just want to testdrive it before I go further.

I downloaded a couple of files (not the latest -- well I did, but the file couldn't be opened by my computer, which is pretty darn current; I assume there was some step I have missed). From the bit that I have found there is sounds as if I have to have the computer set up at my gaming table in order to use it, rather than something that I could, say, dump over to a cd and play in the background.

Overall, I find the presence of a computer at a table to be very distracting -- the players and GM tend to pay attention to their screens rather than the story and each other, it becomes a series of individual games rather than a group experience.

As such, I think I will simply go back to loop cds made from various sound effects

 

[The Little Raven]

From the bit that I have found there is sounds as if I have to have the computer set up at my gaming table in order to use it, rather than something that I could, say, dump over to a cd and play in the background.

Yes, you have to have your computer present to use it.

Overall, I find the presence of a computer at a table to be very distracting -- the players and GM tend to pay attention to their screens rather than the story and each other, it becomes a series of individual games rather than a group experience.

The way to overcome this is to have the computer for sound purposes only. I use my laptop at games, set up my sounds as I want them, then turn back to it only when I need to change the music/sounds.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

What is the file extension of the songs from syrinscape? Some newer music players will read mp3. And if not, I used to use WinAmp to convert mp3 songs into .wav files, which would play on any cd player I ever tried them on. I'm hardly an expert on this, but there should be a way to make cds out of the songs. Just, if you use .wav, you can only fit about 70-80 min. on a cd (like you'd expect from one you bought from an artist), so if you're putting hour-long songs on them...

 

[OchreJelly]

You can never go wrong with the Conan the Barbarian soundtrack!

 

[Mark]

This link might be helpful - http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/174448-game-related-music-threads-links.html