Thank you so much!!!!! Very, very good work

If you read Oddblog's interview with Michael Bross, you will see that that is incorrect. A little birdy has told me that Michael is working on the second album.

The bigger issue is that the mixes that he releases are going to be of a much higher quality than what is on the game disc. I think you should probably not waste your time with SW.

Actually, I had emailed him a while back, but this was before the release of the first volume, so that's a bit of an update. If he does indeed release a second volume, I'd like to be sure that no material is missing. Naturally, I shouldn't waste my time working on it if everything is released, but I feel compelled to make a complete extraction of SW (which is already done, it only needs to be arranged) should he decide to omit anything. I guess time will tell. Thanks for the heads-up Nate, appreciated.

Hello Everybody,

Iam realy happy that Killy had do all this work to rip the music from the games. Thank you very much. For everyone who want to burn the soundtracks I tried to make a CD Cover for Abe's Oddysee but I'm not a profi.

Cover-Inlay
Back
CD

If you like it would be nice when you can give me a comment what can be improve or anything else. =)

I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade here - Never Sleeper, you've done an awesome job and it's really nice of you to share this with us - but the rips are in dire need of an upgrade, so I'd advise people to check back and get them when they're done.

This cover will however, more than suffice in the meantime. :)

Never Sleeper; Vielen dank für deinen bescheidener Beitrag. Es sieht gut aus, aber einige Sachen kannst du noch besser tun - z.B. Grafik mit hoher Auflösung für die CD und vielleicht auch eine andere Farbe als gelb und kleinere Grösse und Schnittart für den Text nutzen. :) Trotzdem hast du einen guten Job als ein Anfänger gemacht. Viel Glück!

I love the AO and AE music rips :) You did an awesome job Killy.
An upgrade? What's the matter with them?

The AO rip was one of my earliest projects, and in hindsight, due to more experience and knowledge in sound engineering, I can clearly notice several flaws in the rip. I'm alot better at mixing samples now and an upgrade will only make it better, in my opinion.

As for AE - I just noticed one of the samples is in monoaural sound, which is simply not acceptable. So, I have no choice but to suspect that other samples are in mono too. This was nothing but a silly mistake, probably due to lack of sleep and me disconnecting the cables at some point between recording sessions. Note that these rips are some 2-3,5 years old - there's plenty of room for improvement.

Furthermore, with recent encoding technology, I'll be able to release these rips in lossless formats - this'll be very useful for the sake of safekeeping and archiving.

And thanks for your kind words, I'm glad you enjoy the music. My hope is that the upgrades will only make it better and easier for all of you to enjoy it even more.

I want those music rips to be on CD.

Soooo... burn them onto a CD.

That would be less official.

You're welcome. :) I'll be sure to burn the upgraded ones onto a CD too.
I also liked the "Fuzzle Testing" I didn't really know there was music in MO.

You probably played it on a 360 then.

No I've never played it before. I've just seen some videos.

Do you know any rip that's official?

I said it would be less official, not nonofficial.

You can't get these music tracks on official CD. Not anymore I don't think anyway.
That's why Killy has done us the huge favour of ripping them! :D Thanks.

You can still buy the official ones on Ebay if you're lucky.

It wouldn't be official at all. It would be unoffical. The rips are unofficial, and the burnt CDs are unofficial, so why you're wittering over whether something's official or not, I cannot understand.

I think that it would be more official if the maker burns it on a CD.

You can’t take something completely unofficial and give it any kind of official status without the original creators stepping in and saying so, which they never will. As far as game rips go, they are not publically released on CDs, so this is not a regular (‘official’) distribution tactic used by rippers.

It would be more official if the maker burned them on CDs in my opinion. That's just my opinion.

Your opinion sucks at this point, because you're actively trolling this thread.

It's unofficial, 100%, all the way. No rip will ever, ever be official, whether I burn 100 copies of it or 1.

Killy, I've been a bit of a dick to you (LOL A BIT), but the fact that you ripped this music is a significant achievement, AWESOME job.

hey , this thread is old.
but killy gave my some samples from his mo xbox rips.
but he won't be around the next few weeks for college.
anyway i am planning on ripping using line-in and an mp3 but I don't know which program killy used to edit them.
i do have goldwave but i don't think it can reduce the soundeffects from the chasing and fighting except if the program read them as vocals so i can reduce em.

Hold on, I don't recall asking you to speak for me? This is sort of rude and you're being very impatient - I can't instantly reply to every single one of your MSN messages, I hope you realise that. You could've just sent me a PM and I would've gladly helped you out.

I don't mean to be an ass or anything, I'm just saying - you're talking about me like I'm not even here or as if I don't give a damn.

Goldwave works fine, but you should try SoundForge or Audition, they have more and better filters for multitracking and editing. Also, I thoroughly explained the procedure to you, but you insist on asking me this. Sound effects are not vocals. In fact, if they were vocals and you'd filter them out, you'd degrade the sample beyond recognition. You need to record clean samples, which ultimately means playing through the same sequence over and over again until you have enough clean samples so that you can mix them together to form the track in its entirety.

there is a problem my dowloading is so slow! after about 3 minuites its at a amazing...17% i need to restart my computer


hope they sound cool :D

Ouch, my screen.

Oh it didn't work...must be my mediaplayer

@Crashpunk: Yeah they said you still need the winamp media player to listen the rips. ; )

Okay after the nice critic by Killy I tried to make some points differend by the soundtrack cover. The font in the inlay is now the "odd"-font and gets a new colour and I set down the colour differences in the CD-layout because the quality is too poor. I hope you like the work. =)

http://i28.tinypic.com/af7q09_th.pnghttp://i30.tinypic.com/11ca7hx_th.pnghttp://i26.tinypic.com/2nsyhdl_th.png

It would be nice if you got some critik or something else. =P

Never Sleeper

Those are really cool Never Sleeper!
I like them. :D

sorry , killy didn't mean it and i don't want u to reply instantly.
thanks for the info anyway so what u mean is that i get a clean part from a record and leave the screaming and fighting and then make a loop of it?

Great job with the Oddworld Music.
Those MP3s are the best.

Thanks so much! You just made another fan happy here!

Thanks, can't wait to listen to the Monsaic Lines theme. Not once I've started the game and loaded a Monsaic Lines savegame just to hear the beautiful music.

Now that I'm listening to it, I can say that it's definitely more of a song. And the version is different though; on the PC the theme sounds more lo-fi and also the flute section sounds... electronic. Whether the PC version is truly electronic or it is just a result of the reduced quality, I don't know. Anyway, thanks very much!

As far as the flute section is concerned, I sampled and rearranged it myself. Because I felt that it's a central piece in the composition of the tune as a whole I decided to rearrange it a little bit. It took me quite a while to finish the arrangement of Monsaic Lines before I was satisfied.

Seeing as the rip is now over 3,5 years old (and the arrangement too) and I'm currently working on rerips of both PSX games, a rearrangement is long overdue. I'm hoping it'll sound even better when I'm finished with it a second time around. The only thing that I'm worried about is "over-production" and maybe straying a bit too far away from the Oddworld sound, so if you (or anyone else for that matter) have any suggestions on what I need to change or fix, let me know - I'd really appreciate it.

Yeah there were two parts Killy ; )

At first I miss a part in Rupture Farms and that is the Slig-Theme in Abe's Oddyssee. You can listen that the first Slig-Theme is at the Stocky Yards.

Secound if you hardy listen to the Slig-Theme of the Paramonia temple there you can recognise a slog. I think you record the music of the first Slig in this environment. If you continue the game some parts in the temple you will discover a level by the different doors where are two Sligs without any disruption.

Thats my comment to your otherwise awesome detailed work. ; )

Never Sleeper

This is excellent piece of advice, thanks alot Never Sleeper!
*bookmarks*

Also, regarding the Slig-Theme in Rupture Farms, I'm pretty sure I recorded the first one, though I can't recall. I did indeed miss alot of tracks from the first game, seeing as I had far less experience when dealing with recordings and hearing the different tracks, so you're probably right. The Paramonia temple slig-theme is going to be dealt with accordingly, thanks alot for your help.

Thank you so much! i really love the Soundtrack of Odd Abe's Oddysee :D:D

Great packets

Nice Work
 

This saves me the time of doing all the others scince I had started ripping them myself. DEFINATELY hard work but it's worth the glory in the end... scince the work is now done for me (Thanks to you) I can now start ripping sounds instead... Hardest part would be trying to get certain sounds like a slig saying help cause the music is gonna get crazy and some other sounds would most likely be going around too... >_< anyway, Thanks!!!

I've got a solution to those of you (Me) That want these soundtracks but it won't work... Whoever it worked for attaches the .MP3 with an Oddworld picture in Win Movie Maker and posts all of these songs as videos on YouTube. Therefore WE (I) Could go to videocodezone and convert the video to .MP3 and be happy. You'll be the only one with full Oddworld OST's and possibly get views from it too. What do you say?