Kaleid on 28/4/2007 at 20:03
Splendido.
ejbrosius on 29/4/2007 at 10:51
Hi, this is Eric Brosius. Wow, this is cool...a blast from the past.
I want to correct something though: Josh Randall and Ramin Djawadi wrote most of the music for SS2. I did a bunch of editing and remixing and such, but those two fine fellows were the real SS2 composers.
Josh Randall, aka Robotkid and all-around good guy, wrote the cool techo-flavored pieces. We work together now at Harmonix Music.
Ramin Djawadi wrote most of the more moody orchestral-style pieces. Shortly after his stint at LG, he moved to Hollywood and is making a name for himself as a TV & film composer.
Thanks very much, and I'm glad to see that TTLG is still going strong after so many years.
Cheers,
Eric
dvwjr on 29/4/2007 at 13:36
Eric Brosius!
At the risk of being a real bother, I just have to ask about your music in SYSTEM SHOCK...
Feel free to ignore me if this is too much, or you don't remember. :cheeky:
1.) Did you use the Roland Sound Canvas SC-55 or SC-55mkII for composing your General MIDI music?
2.) Was any work ever done using a (pre-General MIDI) Roland MT-32 during your music portion of the game development?
3.) The Gravis Ultrasound 'Classic' sound-card was supported in the floppy version, but Ultrasound support was dropped in the enhanced CD-ROM version shipped in late-December 1994 because the MILES Gravis Ultrasound drivers were not finished before the game shipped. Give that you went to the trouble to create 14 custom SYSTEM SHOCK Ultrasound patches (which were shipped with but never used on the CD-ROM release) , did you like the way your MIDI compositions sounded on the Ultrasound - say better than a Sound Blaster but not as good as a Roland Sound canvas? Heck, I cannot even figure out if the MIDI numbers for SSKICK2.PAT should be 35 and SSKICK1.PAT should be 36 (or vice-versa)...
4.) In the leaked BETA of the floppy version of SYSTEM SHOCK in August 1994 there were two music files for both General MIDI and Sound Blaster that never made it into the commercial release. They were the THM8.XMI and THM9.XMI files. When the original floppy release game shipped in mid-September 1994 the music files were THM0.XMI thru THM7.XMI and THM10.XMI, skipping the leaked BETA THM8.XMI and THM9.XMI files. Were these important in anyway you might remember? It looked as if there were to be a THM?.XMI file for each level???
Too many questions, I know - but I had to ask. :thumb:
Thank you for your time,
dvwjr
ZylonBane on 29/4/2007 at 16:02
Quote Posted by dvwjr
4.) In the leaked BETA of the floppy version of SYSTEM SHOCK in August 1994 there were two music files for both General MIDI and Sound Blaster that never made it into the commercial release. They were the THM8.XMI and THM9.XMI files. When the original floppy release game shipped in mid-September 1994 the music files were THM0.XMI thru THM7.XMI and THM10.XMI, skipping the leaked BETA THM8.XMI and THM9.XMI files. Were these important in anyway you might remember? It looked as if there were to be a THM?.XMI file for each level???
A wizard did it.
Aircraftkiller on 29/4/2007 at 16:18
Post those, I want to hear :)
dvwjr on 30/4/2007 at 02:38
Quote Posted by "ZylonBane"
A wizard did it.
Pardon me, is your name Eric Brosius? :tsktsk: I realize that you are the resident smart-ass with a reputation to maintain - but I was hoping for a possible answer from the guy who actually did the creative work. :cheeky:
The comments from the TTLG peanut gallery are amusing...
dvwjr
Bjossi on 30/4/2007 at 02:53
Quote Posted by ejbrosius
Josh Randall, aka Robotkid and all-around good guy, wrote the cool techo-flavored pieces. We work together now at Harmonix Music.
So he wrote the Ops 2 music piece? That one is my favorite of them all, though MedSci 1 comes close.
CasinoGhost on 30/4/2007 at 16:18
Does there happen to be an officially mixed soundtrack to Thief: Gold / Thief 2: The Metal Age lying around in your collection? Haha.
CasinoGhost on 30/4/2007 at 16:20
Quote Posted by Bjossi
So he wrote the Ops 2 music piece? That one is my favorite of them all, though MedSci 1 comes close.
Command 2 is taken from "d-Tox" by robotkid. You can get it on his website.
Muzman on 30/4/2007 at 16:54
I never really liked the faster themes in the game (except maybe the engineering corridoors). They're good as tunes by themselves but I don't think they really suited the game and I turned them down whenever a level had one.
My favourite 'atmosphere' seems to be made of parts of Ops3 with this synthesised voice loop that occurs only in the game itself.
