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[rpg] Free high quality epic tracks for use!

Hello!

I used to be a huge RPG Maker 2k/2k3 developer several years ago. The memories and friends I had made from this program are ones I will cherish forever and it brings me great joy to see a vibrant community for this engine is still up and around. Though I have long laid down my hand at RPG Maker I have started and still to this day from many years ago, producing music for games. Sadly I don't have much time to make songs on a whim anymore *i'm booked solid for the next 3 months :/* I wanted to give this community complete and free access to my entire database of audio findable over at www.maestrorage.newgrounds.com/audio

Every song you hear there, I give free use for all non-commercial domain projects. If you wanted to use a song for a commercial project we can talk by sending me an email at selcukbor[at]gmail[dot]com

My intention here is to give people a little extra spice to their projects with these tracks that have been developed and used in many professional grade games for free. I will entail which ones loop which ones don't etc to make searching easier, as well as only highlight a few good ones up here. Since RPG Maker users will likely be interested more in looping tracks I will put those first.

These songs are also of course, fully free to download and listen to as well.

Loops

War/Dark/Anger/Epic oriented
- Day of War (3:14) | 320kbs. A savage and empowering theme with a driving brass and string section. A troubled and ethereal tenor voice glides over the instruments.
- World at War  (1:13) | 320kbs. A rough and driving epic flair as thousands of brave troops run towards each other a shrill and sharp sense of nobility and honor pounding the earth with every foot forward.
- Dying Heroes in the Sea (1:13) | 320kbs. A story of a submarine that got hit one too many times and begins to crumble under the oceans unforgiving and cold waters. A frantic and panicked strings and vocals tided over by a confident, proud but sad tenor voices. The 2 tenors here was my own interpretation of the captain and his first mate accepting their fate, calmly and grimly shouldering the guilt of losing hundreds of souls because of their command.
- A Dark Cut A dark and frantic energy with a malice filled brass and terrified strings.

Strength/Gentle/Courage oriented
- Solemn Spirits (0:54) | 320kbs. A town and collective people work together to prepare their village for an impending war. A sense of pride and courage instilled in them all as they go about preparing for hard days ahead.

Peaceful/Sad/Sorrow/Slow oriented
- Dawning Rays (1:24) | 96kbs. A gentle and soothing string ensemble with gliding woodwinds tainted with ever slight traces of sadness and hope.

Soothing/Happy/Zen oriented
- Everlasting Times (2:15) | 128kbs. A rainforest soundscape with lots of meditative and melodic elements. Relaxing, ideal for forest/ocean scenes.

Full Length Tracks
useful for intros/cut scenes, controlled environments where the player has no say on how long the scene lasts
- Corrupting Rain (3:20) | 320kbs. A metal oriented track about a child spirit that finds a city of darkness and is trapped in it, slowly corrupted by these savage entities until at last, the song builds up and up and finally breaks down alongside her purity.
- Midnight Oil (0:56) | 320kbs. A very simple ambient loop ideal for dungeons or puzzle screens/maps where the developer may not want their player to grow tired of the music, rather allow them to let it fade out in the back of their minds.
- Mighty Hails A very sad and sorrow filled story of a viking group who travels across the lands, fights a war with fellow tribes, wins it and returns. It is a day of great happiness until their war chief raises his hand and demands silence. "This is a story..." he begins "of the death of our bravest, as well as our youngest soldier, whose honor will be upheld for all time..."

These are just a couple of the 100 tracks available there, and adding more material every week!

I wish everybody the best and best of luck with their projects. Remember every project that fails is just another step towards one that won't. Have fun. Once again more tracks for free use can be found over at www.maestrorage.newgrounds.com/audio

Take care,

~ Selcuk
 

Anonymous

Guest

he used an imagetag you fucking nazi fsdaewddwf

i edited it in though
 
Wow! Amazing stuff  :thumb: ! If you don't mind me asking, what program do you use to make these? I've been looking for a music program to start with. Again, if you don't mind me asking, what would you recommend?
 
These are very good. I just listened to a few of these on NewGrounds.

Your "epic" pieces tend to stand out a bit more because of how dramatic they are - you seem to be good at bringing that part out in your compositions. Your softer pieces are also quite good, though simpler as far as instrumentation goes. Your slower songs allow me to enjoy the skillful harmonization of your instruments, so I enjoy those a bit better, though sometimes lower-quality sounds don't escape notice when there isn't as much going on.

Something seems off though, in your pieces - perhaps a level of mastering that is somewhat lacking. I don't think it's that noticeable, but it sometimes is the difference between a skillfully-created piece and a masterful piece. In general, I really like your compositions. You ought to post some on Sakari Infinity; they'd love your pieces there.

Awesome work, and kudos for sharing freely like this. I may finally be inspired to write some more music. :)
 
@ xgamexfreakx 

Good to know you're feeling the musical bug! I lose my own creativity and inspiration from time to time, but it never leaves for good. As for what program i'm using, I use Fruity Studios 8 XL edition (gonna upgrade to XXL soon) but the sounds you are hearing are not at all related to Fruity Studios. Fruity Studios is just my sequencer, I put down my notes and apply my mastering/mixing through it.

My sounds and instruments are from various third party suppliers, my primary being East West/Quantum Leap right now. I use the following libraries as my focal points (have a few more, but they're used only on and off)

EW Orchestra Gold PRO XP
EW RA
EW Symphonic Choirs
EW Voices of the Apocalypse
EW Ministry of Rock
EW Boesendorf 290 (piano)

Best Service Ethno World 3

a bunch of PrecisionSounds packages (not that impressive)

@ illustrationism.
I do admit i've had much more experience in the "epic" department then most. You see I work as a freelance composer and many of my early, and to this date still, commissions are for flash games. Flash games are not allowed to be big, about 5 megs is your ideal size (even that is considered large), and at the end of the day i'll only have about 1.5 megs of space for music. That's about 2 minutes of audio at 96kbs, which is just crap quality.

So songs are always centered around key points of the game, which is always action. Developers don't want to use space for slow sad songs, only driving orchestration for that battle screen etc.

I long for the day I get to score for a project entirely of slow, melodic, invoking songs :'{

Thanks for taking time out of your day to listen!

Also Sakaria Infinity looks like an incredible place. I will be dropping by there as well! Thanks for the heads up!
 
Good job! These songs are all very good, non midis and very epic indeed! I just wanted to say that I think these are all great and I would love to hear these songs in people's work.
 
Oh, I remember your music. I ran by it a few times while looking for audio on new grounds. Your music does sound pretty "epic" and its seriously good.
 
Waouw,I'm a big fan of your work.
I found your musics on NewGround a year ago and I directly love them.
I dowload most of them and put them on my lector mp3.

Continue like this, your musics are so great.
 

RnLGG

Member

I love these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :biggrin: I am using epic/nice sounding music for my game instead of the crappy midi files. Could I use this music and put you in the credits?!?! :angel: :angel:
 

Fen

Member

These songs are really nice ^^ I like how most of them (such as World at War and Solemn Spirits) have stories associated with them, and that makes them even more powerful.

I'll definately be using some (and crediting, don't worry) in my game :)
 
Do you have or can you easily make a ultimate pack? Like a zip file containing ALL your music files, and then just update it as more come out?
 

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