First post, by 2Mourty
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I frequently browse the forums at queststudios.com. Queststudios.com is a website that archives music from old sierra adventure games. It is quite a treasure of a website.
I am a choir teacher and seem to have hit upon 2 rather time consuming hobbies that take my mind off of work. I love playing old computer games and I love messing with Cubase. I have Cubase 5 because I sequence soundtracks for musicals and such; Nice hobby, it even pays sometimes! Though I would be the first to admit that I am a rookie at this sort of work.
Anyways I got the wonderful idea to import some of the midi files from queststudios.com into cubase and start messing around with the instruments in the tracks to try and make the music sound more acoustic. I have a large database of commerical and free soundbanks that I use in my soundtrack sequencing to mess around with.
I posted the links to my first 3 experiments over a queststudios for people to listen to. I am going to also post the links at this forum for people to listen to. I would enjoy CONSTRUCTIVE criticism, I am the first to admit that I am a rookie in this sort of thing.
This is the Adventurer's Guild Theme from Quest for Glory 4. Once I become more finessed with my equipment (and start taking cubase classes at the University while I am studying for my Masters Degree) I might start actually arranging the music, but for now I am content to make the midi files sound a tad more realistic. Here is the link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?mhywnjfj5in
The next piece is Erana's Garden from Quest for Glory 1. I am uploading two versions. Tell me which one you like more and why. One track has a nylon sting guitar strumming the arpeggio in the background and the other has a jazz guitar playing the arpeggio that I slightly tweaked to make it sound more airy:
Nylon String Guitar Link
http://www.mediafire.com/?gzt5kz3mjzj
Jazz Sting Guitar Link
http://www.mediafire.com/?lynxgw4uznt
Make sure you listen all the way through. Mark Seibert is a really good composer. He lets the music build over almost 4 minutes. 2 minutes and 40 seconds is where the piece hits the climatic passage.
The Next two pieces I am going to work on are Fatima's Dance from Conquests of Camelot and Wattling Street from Conquests of the Longbow. 😀