Quote Originally Posted by Hax View Post
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.