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Full Songbringer update
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What changed
- Gameplay
At long last, Songbringer's soundtrack has been released. The game's glitchy, somewhat-procedural bass music has been codified into the form of an album for the pleasure of your ear drums. This is a gapless album. One song flows into the next to create a seamless, coherent whole. As such, it plays best start to finish rather than being shuffled. Did you know the game actually has all music in procedural form? The rhythms remain constant yet the melody can change slightly depending on your world seed and dungeon number. For example, world seed PEANUT might have a dungeon 1 in the key of A while world seed YELLOW might have it in the key of C#. Additionally, the game's music is adaptive, so when there are more enemies on screen the music gets more intense by adding layers. In a way, this soundtrack is like a snapshot of Songbringer's procedural music content. It starts with the first song in the key of F# then using harmonic mixing takes steps of five to arrive at the next song in the key of C#. Thus the circle of fifths is used to lend the soundtrack a sense of cohesion and continuity. Note that some of the original songs have been split into multiple tracks. 23 tracks, 50 minutes. Track list: 01 - Zephyr Perspective - F# - 73.5 bpm 02 - An Old Ship - F# - 73.5 bpm 03 - Ekzera - C# - 65.94 bpm 04 - Sindraphon - G# - 69.54 bpm 05 - Radruiel - D# - 69.54 bpm 06 - Metatron - A# - 109.99 bpm 07 - Murmuroth - F - 94 bpm 08 - Puriel - C - 92 bpm 09 - Lassaurium - G - 151 bpm 10 - Eiael - D - 88.8 to 120.97 bpm 11 - Deep Along Orion - A - 65.94 bpm 12 - Nearby Bellatrix - A - 65.94 bpm 13 - We Laid Anchor - A - 65.94 bpm 14 - A Planet Named - A - 65.94 bpm 15 - After the Great War - A - 65.94 bpm 16 - Kiel - E - 91 bpm 17 - A Hidden Stone - B - 69.54 bpm 18 - Velle - F# - 69.54 bpm 19 - Bath Kol - C# - 110.76 bpm 20 - Hemisphere - G# - 120 bpm 21 - Victorious - D# - 65.94 bpm 22 - Zero - A# - 69.54 bpm 23 - The Helix - F - 42.66 bpm This album is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike 3.0 license. Feel free to remix, mash-up, tweak and share this album non-commercially as long as you provide credit and license your work under identical terms. Cheers, Wizard_fu
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