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Originally posted by oO_ShadowFox_Oo:
Hey NextSG,

Always nice to meet another Abelton 7 user

First off, I think both tracks (and the rest of the tracks in your player) sound fantastic and are extremely well produced. You have a definite style that I think could really suit the Splinter Cell series, but I'd like to hear a few more ideas of what you've got planned.

The "Mission Escape" track is very good and I think really captures a part of the Splinter Cell feel. I think you know this already so I won't comment on it.

Splinter Cell soundtracks have always been very percussion based, but have also been quiet gritty and uncomfortable. The first track in your player "Is that my way to go" is (in my Splinter Cell opinion) too synth based. It relies too much on the synth to carry it through until the strings (which I really do like) arrive. I think the strings do create a very American sense of national and military pride that suit the game, and they help in forming an image of Washington in my head (for whatever reason). I could see them being used in a scene which sweeps over the city scape before arriving on Sam, but I just find that the synth you're using is far too light and doesn't have enough substance or texture for in game play. It doesn't sound "serious" enough to me. The piece actually puts me at ease the whole time that I'm listening to it, which I think a Splinter Cell track should rarely do.

They should always have second guessing what's coming next and questioning what is actually happening at this moment in time! Twisted sampling is your friend and is, in my opinion, why Amon Tobin's soundtrack worked so well for Chaos Theory!

Also I think each track needs alot more percussive elements that can come to life. It's always been a staple of each game's soundtrack that the tracks can at any time explode into a manic assault of instruments that are supposed to re create that SHOCK feeling your nerves get when you've been caught. Although, based on the limited knowledge we have of the game it seems that Sam will be noticed alot so I wouldn't make the shift as drastic as Amon Tobin did.

Also, creating a sense of paranoia and lonlieness in each tune is something that you should aim for, but also have a strong ultimate drive to the soundtrack as that's what Sam has always been about! The two previous soundtracks that stand out in my mind are the ones from the Original and Chaos Theory. Both were very electronic and edgy and were exteremly effective. Anyone who says that the soundtrack to Splinter cell shouldn't be electronic is wrong (IMO), because they have always been very technologicaly advanced games, though you're in the first position where the high end technology has been removed from the game so you do have a chance to do whatever you please!

But I hope you use a nice mixture of both.

Hope this helps and really looking forward to hearing what else you have in the works!!

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Guy #1: Whats that? I heard something. Guy #2: You are always hearing things.
Guy #1: This time im pretty sure. Sam: I guess this time he was right.

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Originally posted by NextSG:
hi i didn't say, that the track is on original soundtrack (did You read my ps?). i just wanted to get a feedback about it, because I thought to present this track to UBISoft and ask, if they would need it for a game!


PS: the original Soundtrack will be composed by the "Superman Returns-Trailer" composers: Michael Nielsen and Kaveh Cohen

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Originally posted by NextSG:
@capteenix one more time:

these composers are official but not the final decision of UBIsoft, so just let me believe in my thing .

@LaurenIsSoMosh:

I'll upload the whole soundtrack in 2 weeks on rapidshare. So I'll put the latest work on myspace and whole soundtrack at the end on rapidshare, I'll update You every time about the new things. If You want, I could upload for You the tracks, that i already have - just send me private message.

a-chill

NxSG

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Originally posted by NextSG:
Update: New track online "NxSG - Last Chance To Stay Alive".
Enjoy it!