[Nix]

Browsing through the VP's for the sountrack on FS1 and 2, I noticed that Freespace 1's music is in such low quality.  I was wondering if interplay/volition ever released a higher quality version of the soundtrack.  Anyone know about this?

[Lightspeed]

Ironically FS1's music sounds better than FS2's music tracks. They wouldnt need any 'exta quality' as theyre optimized for what they are.

[SadisticSid]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
Ironically FS1's music sounds better than FS2's music tracks. They wouldnt need any 'exta quality' as theyre optimized for what they are.

I think it's a matter of theming the music. FS1's was creepy and kinda suited the whole battling unknown faceless aliens thing. The majority of FS2's was more themed for the Terran/Vasudan-Terran NTF battles, and seemed occasionally misapplied to the later battles with the Shivans.

I imagine [V] recorded their FS1 music at a higher bitrange and then reduced it to 4-bits.

[Lightspeed]

still, all the ****ty 'singing' in FS2's music simply was annoying.

Oh, no another ship jumps in *weird voice whailing around*

[Slasher]

"wooooooooooaAAAAAAAooooo, EEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOO"

[Nix]

I believe that the file formats in Freespace 1 were 4 or 8 bit recorded at either 22,050 or 11,025 Khz whichever the low and mid ranges are. (it's 3 in the morning, not at my computer to get the khz ranges correct.) and a lot of the music in Freespace 2 is 16 bit 22,050 Khz. ( I think..) The music DOES sound better musically, that's why I was wondering if there were any other hi-res audio files floating around from Freespace 1.  I agree with the "cosmic voices" being annoying, but the file formats are in a higher bitrate in Freespace 2 than in freespace 1.  I'd just like to get ahold of perhaps the original source files that were created before compression, because with my audio setup, I can really tell the difference between a 22K and a 44.1 K file.

One can dream, right?

[DaBrain]

Originally posted by Lightspeed

Oh, no another ship jumps in *weird voice whailing around*

*LOL*
That's how it is.
(Ok, not all music is THAT bad...)

We need better music.
It's odd than no music artist ever crossed the HLP forums...

[Lightspeed]

There are some but they're kept busy by all our MODs

[DaBrain]

I'm not sure, but there could be a way to get rid of those voices.

There are karaoke programms that cut out certain frequencies of audio files. I don't know how good the result would be, but perhaps there is someone with more knowlegde of sound, who could try it.

[Turambar]

well used, the voice can be good.  It just hasn't been well used.

[Mr. Vega]

There's actually a short segment (Exodus part III- Btl_B03) where I thought the synth choir worked wonderfully-very ominous. Otherwise, well, I don't see what's so annoying about it.

[Jiggyhound]

I liked the music in FS2 quite a lot.

[karajorma]

Me too. I tend to listen to it and the FS1 soundtrack while FREDding to put me in the mood

Originally posted by DaBrain
We need better music.
It's odd than no music artist ever crossed the HLP forums...

You haven't played Inferno have you? I love the track called Hidden

(Yeah I know that the music wasn't originally meant to be for Inferno )

[Jiggyhound]

if there anywhere to download the sountracks for FS2 in mp3 format?

[karajorma]

http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/fs2files.php

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by DaBrain
I'm not sure, but there could be a way to get rid of those voices.

There are karaoke programms that cut out certain frequencies of audio files. I don't know how good the result would be, but perhaps there is someone with more knowlegde of sound, who could try it.

Possible, but they usually don't work very well.

[QuantumDelta]

There was a briefing music that absolutely kicked ass.
Mr. Vega may be refering to the piece of ambientish stuff I liked as well.
I didn't think the FS2 music was soul destroying, but, .. I did resort to winamp soooooo much faster with 2 than with 1.

FS1 Has some of the best game music I've heard to date.

[Havock]

definately.

especially the music thingie you hear witht he command briefing when the lucy had tombaugh installation for breakfast.
but fs2 music is far from bad, it's just more "common"battle themes than the dark, threatening theme from part 1.

[Kosh]

To me the music in FS1 sounded more like an arcade game's music than a PC game's music.

[phreak]

if FSO gets midi support i may try something that sounds like doom.