playing with RuneScape music

[darthoctopus]

Well, I didn't know where this goes, but I suppose this qualifies as art.

 

 

 

Recently, I've been very bored. So bored, in fact, that I decided to play with RuneScape music in GarageBand (which I haven't done for nearly a year). After incessant, obsessive-compulsive tweaking, I finally arrived at something I was happy with (Scape Main), and promptly put it online:

 

 

 

 

 

 

(no, it's not a rickroll.)

 

 

 

If you're interested, the audio can be found at http://www.mediafire.com/file/whjflmt2htj/Scape%20Main%20(GarageBand%20remix).mp3.

 

 

 

I guess some feedback would be nice.

[Georgelemmons]

So what exactly did you do? Take the RS MIDI's and put them into Garageband? Or is there something I'm missing?

 

 

 

 

 

..It does sound better than the real theme, though :

[darthoctopus]

So what exactly did you do? Take the RS MIDI's and put them into Garageband? Or is there something I'm missing?

 

 

 

 

 

..It does sound better than the real theme, though :

 

 

 

Well, I DID heavily modify the timpanis and strings (so that they don't sound blatantly synthesised) and play around with the percussion and vox and balance, but besides that I didn't do much (since I didn't really spend a lot of time doing this)

 

 

 

it WAS fun to do, though. If someone could do this professionally I think it would sound awesome.

[Georgelemmons]

Nice work.

 

 

 

Just wondering... How did you capture the MIDIs?

[darthoctopus]

whoops, double post

[darthoctopus]

A long time ago (when I was a young, impressionable high school student [okay, younger, more impressionable]), Jagex used a very different way of sending music to the game client. In effect, they exploited a quirk of IE to play MIDIs by having one on the HTML page itself, which was directed to a midi file. Since IE was directly accessing the MIDI file, it had to be somewhere (and had to be immediately available in .mid format), and since Jagex doesn't like to link directly to its assets (for a good reason), the game client downloaded the MIDI to a local directory. In effect, this exposed the raw MIDI files to anyone who knew where the directory was.

 

 

 

Of course, this also made audio in general accessible to only Internet Explorer. So when Jagex decided to use more standard methods to get audio out of Java, it meant that the problem of having the MIDIs directly available to anyone who wanted them could be eliminated (which it was).

 

 

 

Fortunately, when I was infatuated with RuneScape way back then, I decided to keep a copy of some of the MIDIs (mostly from F2P areas, like Garden from Varrock, and Scape Original, when it used to be Scape Main, and of course, the new Scape Main when it was first introduced).

 

 

 

I'm not very familiar with how the RuneScape client handles MIDIs now, though.

[Ouchy]

This should really go in General Discussion, as technically it is not digital art. I'll request for it to be moved.

[BlueLancer]

MP3-encoded music is digital art

 

 

 

MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage, as well as a de facto standard encoding for the transfer and playback of music on digital audio players.

[Ouchy]

MP3-encoded music is digital art

 

 

 

MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage, as well as a de facto standard encoding for the transfer and playback of music on digital audio players.

 

 

 

Really? Huh, learn something new everyday :P

 

Sorry for the confusion.

[Georgelemmons]

A long time ago (when I was a young, impressionable high school student [okay, younger, more impressionable]), Jagex used a very different way of sending music to the game client. In effect, they exploited a quirk of IE to play MIDIs by having one on the HTML page itself, which was directed to a midi file. Since IE was directly accessing the MIDI file, it had to be somewhere (and had to be immediately available in .mid format), and since Jagex doesn't like to link directly to its assets (for a good reason), the game client downloaded the MIDI to a local directory. In effect, this exposed the raw MIDI files to anyone who knew where the directory was.

 

 

 

Of course, this also made audio in general accessible to only Internet Explorer. So when Jagex decided to use more standard methods to get audio out of Java, it meant that the problem of having the MIDIs directly available to anyone who wanted them could be eliminated (which it was).

 

 

 

Fortunately, when I was infatuated with RuneScape way back then, I decided to keep a copy of some of the MIDIs (mostly from F2P areas, like Garden from Varrock, and Scape Original, when it used to be Scape Main, and of course, the new Scape Main when it was first introduced).

 

 

 

I'm not very familiar with how the RuneScape client handles MIDIs now, though.

 

 

 

Hmm... I'll do some poking around with IE. I'm bored :)