Creating music for Imphenzia Soundtrack is great fun as it offers such a variety from my normal Imphenzia trance music. I’ve put together a new Youtube video to showcase the different styles:

The music still targets independent game developers (indiegames) with very competitive pricing and it’s royalty free ofcourse.

Today marked a new milestone in Imphenzia Soundtrack as the first orchestral tack was released. Due to its character it was named “Emperor Victorious” as it portrays a glorious, somewhat epic (although that word is very much overly used) and powerful mood. The track received nice and encouraging feedback in the Indegamer development forums.

Coming from making electronic music this new orchestral style had a fair share of challenges involved. The first step was to identify what instruments actually play in a track. Once I achieved this, I had to go through the building blocks of cinematic style music – and boy is it complex or what? Not only do you have to pay close attention to the architecture of instruments and melodies – but also how the individual notes are played dynamically in terms of velocity and emphasis.

Next step for me is to upgrade my sample library to the huge sample collection “East West Samples Complete Composers Collection – Play Edition“, probably with the Platinum upgrade for 24bit orchestral samples each recorded from three different microphone positions. I can hardly wait for this library and I am convinced it will lead to a great deal of new cinematic style tracks!

In order to boost the probability of people finding my new sound effects page I have created a script that automatically generats static HTML-files for every sound effect in the library. The script also creates a simple main index page for containing links to all the individual HTML-files so that the engine crawlers can find the individual pages correctly. It will be interesintg to see if this generates any additional traffic.

Here is what the index page looks like: http://www.imphenzia.com/soundtrack/soundeffects.html (click on a sound effect to see the generated indivudual pages too).

I created a few explosion sounds for the upcoming game intense Xbox 360 2D Shooter Duality: ZF (which also features an Imphenzia soundtrack). In order to help out other indie game developers I have made these explosions and other sound effects available at the new section http://soundtrack.imphenzia.com. All sound effects are 320 kbps stereo MP3-files, freely available.