SS2 Vaxquis Vintage Song Remake v1.0 (music)
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09. August 2014, 17:01:14
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SS2 Vintage Song Remake v1.0
SS2 Songs as they were meant to be - HQ CD-quality tracks sticking as close to the original SS2 soundtrack as possible.
* SS2 VSR v1.0 - why another Music Update Mod?
After listening to SHMUP, I got really disappointed... not only did Shatten forget about dynamics matching, resulting in much louder soundtrack with unequalized volume between songs, and with much dynamic lost due to acoustic compression with too high gain ratio on some songs (well, that one thing is not exactly his fault, as it's just how the EB tracks used by him as the source were produced); the main problem is that ADPCM 4-bit compression with 22kHz sampling gave most of the upbeat tracks a distinct, crispy EQ, which the "studio" soundtrack doesn't have (many oldschool DnB DJs downsample songs just to make them feel more vinyl-y). Also, changes made to some songs (Eng1, Command 1) seem just bad to me. Still, all ambient tracks gained much with hiss removal and, usually, no clipping occurring (there was mild clipping in original songs).
I remade those ambients (namely 02-07 & Eng2), fixing the gain factors, for everybody to have a playing experience most consistent with original one - and with developer's intentions too - as far as my e-mail correspondence with Robotkid and analysis of the samples in the tracks goes.
* who should use this?
a) vanilla players, expecting in-game soundtrack matching the original one perfectly, albeit with less noise and higher fidelity,
b) veteran players, ditto.
* who shouldn't use this?
people who can't hear any difference between original SS2 songs and SHMUP.
* what changes can I expect here?
All tracks are raw 44.100 kHz, 16-bit PCM WAVE data.
Basically:
tracks 02-07 & Eng2 are based on EB soundtrack, with RMS volume level matched vs original tracks. Basically the same as Schatten's, but about 4dB less louder.
tracks 08-13 & Eng1 are based on SS2 soundtrack, with lo-fi digital resampling from 22.050 kHz/4-bit ADPCM, resulting in lo-fi equalization similar to the original soundtrack, albeit with a little more "air" than original samples. As to the "feel", it's slightly "clearer" than original, but still with much lower high-frequency content & distortive resonance than EB soundtrack. Also, they are *exactly* the same cuts as in the original game, so they're quite different from Schatten's. Biggest differences are for Eng1 & Command 1, obviously. e1beet1 was also resampled by analog, not digital, means, to preserve the most of the "groove" - namely bass, hats & extreme low/high-frequency content. See samples in the 7z to check *how* the versions differ (vanilla vs VSR vs Schatten's).
* credits
RobotKid & Eric Brosius - for the original soundtrack
Schatten - for the idea
Vaxquis Poponuro ( vaxquis at gmail dot com ) - the author (yup, that's me)
* as a bonus, a link to the
https://soundcloud.com/sparm-ove/engineering-1-robotkid-vs-poponuro
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side note: since this is the first release, I would kindly ask everybody interested in testing the soundtrack, both out-of-game and in-game, for possible bugs & omissions.
Acknowledged by 2 members: TheSarcasticCanadian, Pedruh47
09. August 2014, 17:27:26
PS some samples, showing clearly *why* I made VSR.#1
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09. August 2014, 17:37:28
Very interesting. Judging from your examples, SHMUP is missing some of the music cues? I didn't know that.#2
Acknowledged by: Vaxquis
09. August 2014, 18:16:02
#3
Quote by Vaxquis:
Nice tunes.
Each to each: enjoyed this one, though perhaps took a touch too long to progress and the looping vocals were waaay overused.
Engineering 2: Quite liked. I love the original engineering 2 but I'm not a huge fan of the industrialized amen break. It's badass and fits the theme but could have been chopped a little better I believe. Your version? Well you threw dubstep in, instant -1 rating penalty. However, I enjoyed certain segments/styles very much, especially the one around 08:30.
Red Aura: I recognise this one from a Bukem set or something, wasn't fond of the remix.
Lol @ Jingling Jazz. Not even touching the dubstep one.
Anyway, liked each to each, would pirate
...just kidding.Acknowledged by: Vaxquis
09. August 2014, 18:41:42
#4
Quote by Marvin:
Very interesting. Judging from your examples, SHMUP is missing some of the music cues? I didn't know that.
He (Schatten) states that explicitly in the readme.txt in the mod zip, covering every single track compatibility with original bits.
AFAIR, the "0th version" was the master tracks Robotkid provided; they were made very early. EB compilation soundtrack was the "1st version" made by JR and EB collectively before the game was actually made - later it was cut & edited to fit the game content, mainly by Eric, so some things were removed/unused, while some new cuts appeared (let's call it "2nd version"). Thus, I think that an actual CD-quality recreation of game music should take that fact into account and try to match "2nd version" more than "1st version", whenever possible - and that's exactly what I did.
@Join usss!
those tunes are some random odds-and-ends I've had as WIP for some time. I've already changed E2E a bit, although I'm obviously too lazy to re-record it and reupload it... And yeah, it got a bit more rapid progression and steeper drops, since I found it too lazily going too.
RA was a 2-minute demo of a 10-minute megamix of DJ Rap's Spiritual Aura (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9uLmF_RARs). Later, it got cut in a drastic way, and now it goes in completely different direction, being instead a mix of Rihanna's Rude Boy (sic!).
As for Eng2 - about the dubstep-y part:
is a direct quote about it from Josh Randal (it's not about the 9:00 downtempo, since it wasn't ready yet when I asked for his opinion) *chuckle chuckle* de gustibus, and all that..."I really like the slowed-down part - that rules."
I haven't actually made a lot of tunes for the last couple of years, for those so-called "real-life reasons" (playing live instruments and creating analog synthesizers from scratch being some of them, alongside with divorce, Masters degree in Physics etc); still, I'm very glad for your feedback.
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