Music

[Che Roriniho]

I really like the music in the Saka intro, those heavy drums realy fire the blood.

Yeh, was thinking that. Nice vid as well.

[merkava]

Ok I've found it, didn't think it would be so easy, some of the music of Shogun was in a wierd format.

Having a blast with this music, I agree with the Saka, theres something very charming about it, its almost as if those guys had pleasure in fighting and reminds me of Shogun-warlord edition, the Mongol music.

Like the roman sounds too, I guess they don't sound too imperial and that feels great, just common people, common romans.
In gerenal the music is great and the voice efects too.

Great work guys
Thank you

[The Persian Cataphract]

Thanks. People mostly know of my work behind the authentic Eastern and Nomadic pieces, but I also composed the tracks of the intro videos. I wouldn't say they are the highest of quality (I have improved since then) but the feedback is appreciated, thank you.

[Hax]

Wow, TPC. I didn't know you were a composer. What instruments did you use in the pieces? I thought I heard something that sounded like a bagpipe chanter in the Moving Fist theme.

[The Persian Cataphract]

Wow, TPC. I didn't know you were a composer. What instruments did you use in the pieces? I thought I heard something that sounded like a bagpipe chanter in the Moving Fist theme.

I'm going to be saying it yet again, I'm not a musician by training. This is mostly the result of software sequencing.

As for the instruments, I was going to save all that info for a preview on the Eastern and Nomadic authentic tracks, but needless to say I use a range of drums ranging from the dap/daf and tympanon frame-drums, proper kettle-drums (Of wood... Unfortunately we did not have resources to burn clay let alone install furnaces for the purpose), tabor/davul, horse-shoes and finger-clamps. The wood-winds are a wide range of horns, and the "bag-pipe" like sound comes from an Iranian wood-wind instrument called Zûrnêy which means "strong flute". Needless to say, there is a native Iranian-style bag-pipe which is largely made of lamb's skin, called "Nêy-Ambân". I use unison vocals a lot too, and these are both samples or soundfonts and generated sounds. That should paraphrase the description of the battle/mobilization pieces.

The Pahlava and Saka introductions rely entirely upon modern techniques in score-crafting, and even at that they are simple and of relatively low technical quality. Considering that I am far more experienced with electronica as a genre, and then haphazardly ventured into film soundtracks for just a few weeks back then, I am confident that if I made another shot at remaking those tracks, I'd end up with significant improvement.