Drum and Fife Mod

[Caligula]

It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that I will no longer be updating or adding to this mod. It was a very tough and difficult decision that was not made on a whim.

After reviewing several other Battlefield music mods and the advances they have taken in presenting the real marches played by real drum and fifers, it made my mod and all my future endeavors obsolete, as I feel nothing can compete with real instrumentation vs. synthesized. The offerings of Rsty Bloodnok, and La-De-Da-Gnr-Graham are excellent and a big thank you to them for their great mods and making the Drum and Fife of the era a reality!

It was a great run on this mod. This is one amazing community and I say thank you to everyone who has supported me and my mod over the last 2 to 3 months. Take care everyone! I might return in the future when I have more time to work on this.

Megapack - I hope this finished uploading because my puters browser decided it was time for me to get off the net and crashed. So any problems let me know! This mega pack includes everything I have released for the mod and I included the Hohenfriedberger Marsch in its original Stereo Format as I wrote and recorded it. The process to include music into empire requires you to convert down to Mono, which kind of kills the tracks and makes them seem flat. Enjoy!

Link 2 Megapack: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8K8IOGE7

***Also as a thank you I will finish up the Preobrazhensky March and will post it here for download when it is completed.***


*NEW 5/28* - Very tiny Sample of the Preobrazhensky March - (Please note this is a small sample of a work in progress. It is of a few seconds of the actual march. I have to go through note by note and convert the march to a drum and fife style. It may take a while, hopefully the results will be worth it.)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JRUMIGON

[Mailman653]

Awesome, look forward to giving it a try

[Caligula]

Ok here is the British Marching Pack. Again, I'm new so if somethings wrong, cut me some slack!
Comments always welcome!

Link to Great Britain's Pack
(Sorry for the file size I'm working on reducing.)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GFXAGH9O

[Caligula]

Ok last one for a few days till I can finish working on all the other packs for release. This one is generic and should fit ALL factions, it has no fife, just drums so your digital soldiers have something better to march to than that weak drumroll that came with the game. Enjoy

Drum and Fife Mod_Generic - Link
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WXVBQDVZ

[Caligula]

Ok last one for now I promise! This is one for the Prussians, although it could fit any faction that you would like to use it for. It was written, played, recorded and produced by me in my studio. I hope you enjoy it as much as I had making it. Comments and critics are most welcome and appreciated!

Drum and Fife Mod_Prussian Link
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J6PXCGD6

[0rly?]

can we get some of this in there?....this is a brilliant idea!!! i was hoping you could recruit marching bands in game for this

[0rly?]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDKn3nl9FeY

stupid 1st post link thing!!! SWINES!!

[Megas Methuselah]

NICE!!!

[Caligula]

@orly!

That youtube link with the audio I found the grenadiers song and it is already in the British Pack. If that is what your asking! More Songs to follow, I'm @ work right now so it wont be till later tonight. Hope you guys enjoy the music in battle!

[Caligula]

Ok heres an update on the prussian pack. I re-did the song and made it an alternate. This is one of the songs I've been working on for a while and decided to just finish it today in my studio. I feel this fits a little better with the Prussians than my last offering (which was an original). Again (to Toot my own horn) I wrote, performed, recorded and produced this track.So without further adu...

Drum and Fife Mod_Prussian Alternate Link
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=125LC14D

Also you could use this virtually with any faction!
Enjoy!!

[therifleman]

Sorry for my ignorance, buy where would I go about putting the RAR file once I have saved it to my desktop?

[Caligula]

Ok this one is for Necropasha - THANK YOU! He found an excellent drum and fife song by Barry Lyndon called Lilliburlero. I used the source he gave me and fixed it so it would play with no fade outs. So without further ado...

Heres the Drum and Fife Mod_Lilliburlero Music Pack -> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NZSRXVB2

Enjoy!


@therifleman - you need to open the rar/zip up with Winrar. Unzip it / Unrar it, then look for the installation text file in the folders of the mod you unzip/unrared- it explains what you need to do in order to install the field music. BE WARNED.. Please make a backup of your sounds pack that is going to be modified. That way you can revert back in case you mess something up. Enjoy!

[therifleman]

Thanks, could you tell me where to find the SteamApps folder?

[Yun Dog]

Caligular,

my compliments on your work.

I am a bit confused so if someone can help me with a few basics.

These are not a replacement for the battle music? These are for the units moving?

If its for the units I noticed that each file used to contain 4 music files with the same tune... does this relate to sets of units or just the replay of the tune for any unit?

I was thinking of making a compliation of say the french, english etc so that you had changing music playing through the battle - but this was when I thought it was replacing the battlemusic and before they changed format into packs.

Or could you have different music for different units like cav, inf, art?

have you thought about making a battlemusic pack?

how does the pack file setup work and can I still mix it up so to speak?

Thanks again - love your music

[Caligula]

@Lord Yunson - Your very welcome my friend! Now to answer some of your questions...

These are not a replacement for the battle music? These are for the units moving?
If its for the units I noticed that each file used to contain 4 music files with the same tune... does this relate to sets of units or just the replay of the tune for any unit?
This will replace the drumroll that your units normally play while moving. In the actual game folder the title of the mp3 is "emp_cus_snare_march_01_v1.00_gme". Now there are four of them in the original pack file that the game installed. I modded those four with my patch packs with marches that I made. Unfortunately they will play for units that contain a drummer only and do not include the trumpet players for your militia or cavalry etc.., and they will play at random on 4 units out of your entire army that has those drummers. Now there is a slight issue because of the recent patches by CA that causes the sound to be very intermittent and some what unreliable in playback. Till this issue is resolved, you can use a quick fix. When you order your units forward and they begin to move, there is a small radial dial thingy with arrows on it to the lower right of your UI. Click the move forward arrow till you see the green markers move jsut a bit and I find that this usually makes the units play the music. Sometime you might have to do this a couple of times for it to work.

If your going to combine some songs from the packs be aware that they will play randomly on 4 units and it does create at times a terrible mishmash of sound. That is why I release my packs as seperate downloads with all of the same songs. It is not to difficult to swap the various song packs in and out of the data directory before play.

Or could you have different music for different units like cav, inf, art?
You can make seperate music for the units that contain a musician (i.e. Drummer, Bugler etc..) Which would be cavalry and some light units. Arty I don't think you could unless you overwrote one of their sfx.

have you thought about making a battlemusic pack?
Sure have. I was going to make a campaign music pack as well but since there are a few that are excellent, that are already out, I decided my time would be better spent creating new SFX and field marches.


how does the pack file setup work and can I still mix it up so to speak
I used the excellent Pack File Manager program which can be found somewhere on these forums to create the patch packs. You can mix anything you want in there! But again there are limitations with the game right now.

Hope some of this helps you!

[Yun Dog]

Caligula,

Thanks for the rapid reply and for answering all my questions, that was very enlightening.




cheers

PS

have you thought about making a battlemusic pack?
Sure have. I was going to make a campaign music pack as well but since there are a few that are excellent, that are already out, I decided my time would be better spent creating new SFX and field marches.

any recommendations?

[Caligula]

No problem Lord Yunson, glad I could help you!

Heres a link to my recommendation, he has a very nice selection of period music for the campaign music!
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=240727

[Caligula]

oops posted in wrong forum :(

[Didz]

The link for the Ottoman Music Pack doesn't seem to be working anymore, can you post the new one?

[Mailman653]

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=237918

[Didz]

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=237918

Thanks , but thats just a link to a forum thread. It does mention the Ottoman music mod but there is no link to it.

[Mailman653]

Have you tried d/l the mega pack? The link is on the forum thread, first page.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8K8IOGE7

I haven't d/l to see if it has what your looking for but its big at 200+ MB.

[Didz]

Have you tried d/l the mega pack? The link is on the forum thread, first page.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8K8IOGE7

I haven't d/l to see if it has what your looking for but its big at 200+ MB.

Yep! thats the whole point, I tried the link quoted e.g. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2J2HH826 but the mod isn't there.

Just get a message saying 'Unfortunately, the link you have clicked is not available.'