Your favorite adventure game soundtracks

I admit it´s like 5 years ago that I played it and I don´t remember much of it. But things like that I wouldn´t have noticed anyway.

I watched Schindlers List for the first time in the undubbed original version a while ago and must say that the german dubbed version is a lot better. Ralph Finnes is dubbed with a scary sounding austrian voice (yes under certain circumstances austrian can sound really scary) which fits as the guy he plays was an austrian but in the original version he himself just does Petter Sellers doing Dr. Strangelove with was unintentionally funny.

The instrumentation/orchestration was awesome.
Hammond/electric organ, strings and harpsichord <3 <3 <3

Talking about the game Paradigm, in another thread, made me remember of a few crazy songs of its soundtrack that I liked very much.

The game is full of surreal and nonsense comedy and its soundtrack is extremely coherent with this direction. :grin:

Babe I love you, but I’m a T-Rex

Internet Love Machine

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Jared Emerson-Johnson is a freaking genius.

Well… Yes and no…

  1. There are also combined waveforms square+triangle, triangle+noise, … since each waveform has its own bit (:warning: not all combinations work on all revisions of the SID).
  2. The square wave has a pulse width attribute, which changes the sound from full to thin.
  3. Each of the 3 voices can have any of those waveforms (the soundchip of the NES for example had 5 channels, but with fixed waveforms (2 pulse wave, one triangle wave, one noise and one DPCM (sample) channel))
  4. Because of 3. it’s also possible to create wavetables to generate more complex waveforms/instruments.
  5. It’s also possible to link two voices via ring modulator giving additional sound possibilities.
  6. There is a filter (low, band, high pass or notch filter)

Just saying… :wink:

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Very Wagnerian feel.

If you like this style, I suggest to listen to Parsifal.

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This one is also worth listening:

Loom theme in another version:

Equipment used: Soundfont in an X-Fi, recorded with OBS.

Just for fun, here’s music from swan lake the complete loom soundtrack, you’re welcome :smiley:
When I first listened to it “apart” from the game, it felt kinda strange, especially considering the different context of the ballet’s story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoJ3NKYrCJQ&index=11&list=PL438A3D6BF1F773A8 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCfUD-cT6BM&list=PL438A3D6BF1F773A8&index=16 (overture, big-impact “open” spells)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypoNmTtLwPg&index=5&list=PL438A3D6BF1F773A8 (intro, cleric’s guild)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gApOfm4qd0 (glassmaker’s guild)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypoNmTtLwPg&index=5&list=PL438A3D6BF1F773A8&t=378s (smith’s guild)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ5fcOlyHN4&index=7&list=PL438A3D6BF1F773A8 (scaring the shepherds / getting caught by the dragon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI7AsZGnyi4 (Finale before the loom)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgszKwLvrr8&index=30&list=PL438A3D6BF1F773A8 the ending/ credits / the elders.

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Is it possible to purchase the official soundtrack of “The Secret of Monkey Island” (either the original PC one or the remastered version)?

There are a lot of sites from which you can download it but I would like to understand if it has been published in an official way and if you can buy it.

Ending credits say:

“Soundtrack not available on Cassette or LP, book also not available” changing that would be like paying more than 20 bucks for a computer game.

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I can’t find anything official, but did find this piano version that looks interesting https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bhyxgnymipolxlckef5okrtbjay

There is some tunes on the soundtrack that would sound great on an old timey harpsichord.

Thanks, I already have this one. It’s nice but I wonder if an official one does exist or ever existed.

Does that credit line appear in the Special Edition as well?

Didn´t check. The SE has this really long cinematic rolling credits, I don´t know how many jokes of the original pink credits they preserved.

I don’t think so, but I like this live orchestra version of the title song: https://www.amazon.com/Level-3-Video-Games-Live/dp/B00IDPTKZ0 (Track 7).

Found it on Spotify as well - a new item for my instrumental playlist!

Thanks, I’ve added it to my Google Music playlist. :slight_smile:

By the way, those who have access to Google Play Music can listen to my playlist of PnC adventure games soundtracks.

I got excited then, but it seems to want me to subscribe in order to listen, boooo.

Yes, unfortunately that subscription is what I was referring to when I wrote “those who have access to Google Play Music”. :confused:

Not as an official soundtrack. But the VGA-CD version of “The Secret of Monkey Island” could be used as a music CD: Each music track you hear in the game is on the CD as a single track. So if you ignore the (first) data track, you have a soundtrack CD of Monkey Island.

Some of the Monkey Island tracks were on the official “The Best Of LucasArts Original Soundtracks”. (Hint: search for it on YouTube.) But AFIAR the songs were from Monkey Island 3 and 4.

The Amiga version of the Monkey Island theme was part of “Power Game Hits” (sold in germany).

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