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    His Celtic and Folk collection sounds really promising - I could easily imagine Thatched Villagers, Folk Round, Duet Musette and Achaidh Cheide being played the background in a TDM inn.

     

    Yeah, it could work, though after listening to it for a bit I'm beginning to grow tired of it's "midi" sound. I mean, not only it is sampled, but also midi-sequenced, not performed, with no manual adjustments to dynamics and expression...

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    In fact cant we just grab some music from the various T1/2 mission's with the authors permission..?

    Of course it could be a nice and easy way to go, if the authors would provide their permission. But considering that we are not allowed to use any trademarked material from the original game, even the characters' names, I doubt such a permission can be granted.

     

    Maybe I'll try to record select pieces with my keyboard and samples for the original instruments. Cannot promise any useful outcome though, as I am quite an amateur as a performer, and this multipart thing is quite challenging. Also sampled instruments may or may not sound natural, hard to tell in advance.

  3. He says he's not a professional guitar player, but he's pretty darned talented. I thought it had been MIDI-sequenced on a computer at first :blush: .

    I agree, one wouldn't tell from his recordings that by his main profession this guy is actually a programmer, working for IBM (as his page states).

    As one who tried this, I can tell it is unusually hard to record a multipart piece one part at a time, so that it'd stay at sync and sound good.

    And he's done tens of pieces like this set for everything from 2-part to maybe 5-part.

  4. Ok, from your feedback I figure you like dynamic dance-like multi-part instrumental pieces. I must admit I agree with OrbWeaver, the best way to satisfy all these requirements is to either purchase license or produce the tunes in a professional studio.

    However, if you are willing to consider the non-perfect options, I think there is some chance to find something appropriate on the net.

    Personally I was very glad when I found Jon Sayles' site, because it features so many completely royalty free recordings in a close-to-professional recording and performing. I think some pieces from there could fit the game and give that "background feel" that you seek. That is, if having guitar playing parts of different instruments is acceptable. In any case, they are certainly better than no pieces at all.

    So, here is another list I've made of Jon Sayles' recordings involving dynamic dances:

     

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    http://www.jsayles.com/music/mylady.mp3

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    http://www.jsayles.com/music/schaerfertanz.mp3

  5. Hi, I've been looking for some early music for the game, so I'll be sharing here if/when I find anything.

    Of course I'm looking for royalty-free music only.

     

    So here, for the starters, comes the site of Jon Sayles. He recorded great many early music on guitar (most of it is mixed multi-part recordings).

    His site:

    http://www.jsayles.com/familypages/EarlyMusic.htm

     

    Some tunes I liked and found suitable (didn't have time to go through all his repertoire yet):

    http://www.jsayles.com/music/drummer.mp3

    http://www.jsayles.com/music/whatchild.mp3 [adaptation of Green Sleeves]

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