Re: good gaming music CD


"Werebat" wrote:
Brother Long wrote:
On Mar 5, 7:00 am, vince garcia wrote:

Someone recently was asking about a good music CD for gaming background
music. I just got in what turns out to be a good one: BEST OF INUYASHA
vol III. Features a lot of great fantasy instrumental cuts I can't say I
recognize from the show. It's from Japan so you'd have to get it thru
ebay.


I've actually found the Official D&D soundtrack wasn't bad. For more
of a Gothic horror feel, you can try "Midnight Syndicate". Also, I'm a
big fan of movie soundtracks--"Conan" is a good one.

An artist I use pretty heavily is David Arkenstone.

I have a rather extensive collection of gaming music that I keep on my
iPod (a couple of the regulars here have had the opportunity to peruse
it). Some of my stuff is ripped from video games, and some more of it is
stitched together by yours truly using ripped/sampled sounds and an
editor.

For a while now I've considered figuring out how to set up a website where
people could download this stuff. I imagine I could get in legal trouble
for posting actual unedited game music and sounds from games like BGII,
NWN, etc. -- but what about tracks that I make on my own by combining
samples of ripped music and sounds? For example, I have a "Droaam Tavern"
track of about 9 minutes featuring background barroom babble sprinkled
with many Orcish and Goblinoid exclamations and conversations as well as
background musicians playing music from Planescape:Torment and Masters of
Orion II (the Bulrathi track in particular sounds Goblinoid to me). Could
I get in trouble for making something like this available to download?

I'm no lawyer, and this isn't legal advice, it's just my opinion:

Yes, on that last question. Big Trouble When you play your music for
yourself, it's one thing, the moment you start broadcasting it on the radio,
giving away copies of your music, or transferring copies via the internet
it's another.

Create and record the music for yourself though, from scratch, or from
previously written *** music where the copyright has expired, or license
the existing music to re-sell, and you would be good to go.

Re,
Dirk


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