Re:Sounds of Knightmare
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Or you could arrange them yourself by sticking together all the bits where there's no speech or sound effects. I've tried this with the suspense music from Series 7, but I'm still missing a few 'clean' samples of segments from the music.
Alternatively, record the Knightmare episode soundtrack onto your computer in stereo (it must be stereo), then use a Vocal Remover program. This basically mutes everything that's dead center in the soundtrack (usually just speech), leaving most of the music!
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The incidental music in the later seasons was better, but the earlier seasons were far scarier and therefore the music didn't need the same effort.
I always found the incidental music in the later seasons patronising (it was almost like it was an instruction saying, "You vill be scared now!") and even a bit of a giveaway, as it frequently let you know when a death was imminent.
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HStorm the whole idea of a score is to guide you through,
Have you tried watching a movie with out a score?
last one i watched was Faust.. it become very difficult to watch, plus it left you asking your self. 'what do i feel? and what should i feel' to a particular scene
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HStorm the whole idea of a score is to guide you through
Mephisto, I'm well aware of what a music score is there for, thank you very much. What I''m saying is that we don't NEED guiding with Knightmare. Whatever else it was, it was hardly a complex series to interpret. The earlier seasons were way scarier than the later ones, and they managed that with hardly used any incidental music at all. As far as I'm concerned the lashings of music added to later seasons were just a superficial attempt to compensate for how easy and undramatic the game was becoming.
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HStorm i wouldn't quite go to that extreme!! For sure the later series weren't as hard (not saying they were easy, just the riddles in 1-3 were probably the biggest part of it, and i for one was happy when the importance went!), but the music didn't make up for this. It merely added to the experience of watching it. I'd probably have prefered the earlier series' to S6 if it had the music and lack of riddles (to this day the team in S3 who died because of getting ONE riddle wrong bugs me).
On a different note, anyone know of a free vocal remover? Failing that the names of any?? I want to make some instrumentals of songs!
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Taking riddles out of Knightmare was a huge mistake as it made the series more linear than ever. With so little to differentiate between teams, especially on Level 1, there was far too much "going through the motions" in the later seasons.
I don't even notice the absence of the music watching the earlier seasons, whereas I DO notice its inclusion in the later ones... when it gets up my nose.
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I understand your comments Stormy, but i think a compromise can be met! hehe - I always thought that riddles should have been included in later quests, so as dungeoneers had to work out the items needed from clue rooms - have for example, food, gold, silver, lantern, etc - about 5 options after food. One item would be relatively straightforward, with a bit of a hint, but the important one based on a riddle, and make them really think - have two connected in one way, but one is right? Also, the music was excellently done in the lower levels later on, but i admit, when you KNEW they would survive it got annoying, like with Sofia/Elita/Skarkill. Also, items became too obvious because of the spyglasses.
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Just wondered if anyone can tell me where to get certain sound samples from Knightmare.
I don't have the equipment to somehow transfer an episode from a recorded tape onto the computer, and also I remember seeing somone say you're not allowed to transfer them over the internet, something to do with Challenge tv not liking it, and monitoring these boards.
Anyway here was what I was after...
Any of the ambience
Goblin horn
Blade saw noise, from the corridor of blades
Teleport sound, from when someone walks through a door, not the whistleing type noise from the earlier series, the one from the later ones.
I was also after echoing footsteps but I managed to make a loop myself.
Well since it's my first post I'll just add a little about me, My favourite series is 7.
Watched some of the episodes from series 8, couldn't remember anything of them, but thought level 1 was horridly boring, and didn't like the food icon at all.
My favourite things are watching Lord Fear banter on about anything, and laughing at Treguards clever sarcasm.
Level 3 had some interesting graphics, almost impressive, and since the time that Knightmare died leaps and bounds were made in computer graphics then on, God only knows what it would look like if it was still around now.
Recently cancelled sky Subscription, so I won't find out if the current team finish level 3, oh well.
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Noted...
Unfortunatley, a processed 'lift' is never going to compete with the original sample.
A lot of the sound effects are Broadsword 'Stock' footage/sound and can be bought at most specialist retailers (even Virgin and HMV have been known to have sound FX cd's, some of which can be quite good).
However, trying to track down 'Signature' sounds, the distinctive goblin horns for example, is going to be a lot more difficult...
Kieran, not wanting to pester the man, can TC help out with these more 'hard-to-find' samples??
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