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[solved] Prologue music from Restored Textscreen Music


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#1 K4thos

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Posted 07 July 2015 - 05:40 AM

I'm looking for a music used in Restored Textscreen Music mod for Candlekeep prologue speech (but obviously without speech). I'd like to create a smaller version of this mod that would merge Prologue, Chapter and Dream music with speech files extracted directly from the game, on the fly, during installation, via sox tool. I see that RTM doesn't support music during Chapters textscreens at all and including it would bloat language packages even more and would require access to 8 different versions of the game to even get these files. The mod itself doesn't support BG:EE and Ascension64 is missing in action, so I think it's worth to release something new.

The problem is I can't find CDAY1 music (used in Candlekeep prologue) without ambient sounds merged in. Even official OST seems to have them. In BG1 the same music is played without ambients and few seconds delay before music starts. Not sure how it does this magic. If anyone know where/how to get this ACM / WAV file please let me know.

 

edit: BG1 has this file without ambients, so all is good now. Somehow I've missed it. Thanks for help.


Edited by K4thos, 22 July 2015 - 05:54 AM.


#2 Bill Bisco

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Posted 07 July 2015 - 03:05 PM

I never even noticed that.  Funny how BGEE just ignored the backround music entirely.



#3 K4thos

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Posted 07 July 2015 - 05:18 PM

huh, I've just started new BG:EE game, turned up volume, and it looks like there is a background music (at least in intro, not sure about chapters and dreams). But for some reason the music volume is very low compared to vanilla BG1, so I didn't even notice it last time I played it. Unlike BG1 and Restored Textscreen Music mod the music hardcoded in BG:EE is standard CDAY1 with ambient sounds, so the request is still valid.



#4 Bill Bisco

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Posted 07 July 2015 - 06:11 PM

Perhaps having two files.  One the Music with the Ambient Sounds and another one with the Ambient Sounds Only.  Try using Audacity and using the invert feature on the music file with just the ambient sounds.  Then combine that with the file with Ambient Sounds and Music.  You should be able to cancel out the ambient sounds:  This tutorial is along that vein: http://www.howtogeek...using-audacity/