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?

[Caligula]

Your Steamapp folder is a subfolder in Steam which should be in your programs folder. I have WinXP and it is located in my Programs (x86) folder on my C:\ drive.

[Mailman653]

Any possiblity of having an all fife mod as well? For instance light infantry don't have drummers but they do have a fife player.

[Caligula]

@Mailman653 - That is a complete possiblilty. I will look into doing a few songs with just the Fife! ;)

[Caligula]

This is a new post for my mod as the other thread was filled with a ton of posts and my links were getting lost and required people to sift through pages of text. Here below are the links to my current mod files. I will be changing some of the songs to reflect the improvement in the sound of the audio and I will let you know which file was updated.

***PLEASE MAKE A BACK UP OF YOUR "SOUNDS_MUSIC.PACK" BEFORE DOING ANYTHING!***

Also these sounds will play for all factions! Until someone can figure out how to make the field music faction specific that is the one limitation for the mod!image

*You'll need this excellent program -> http://www.twcenter.net/f.../showthread.php?t=234546

Installation guide is in the RAR/ZIP's

*NEW* 3/15 - Hohenfriedberger Marsch Pack - (Finished this one early. This one has my new Fife sound I've been working on. Let me know what you think! I wrote and performed this recreation of this Prussian march done in Drum & Fife style! Enjoy! image)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GGOO8HZ7

*NEW* 3/15 - Vid of the new Hohenfriedberger Pack in action! -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF_y-6hWMrQ

Prussian_Alternate Pack - (Removed the original, this is the alternate which I wrote and performed and is much better. I will be updating the fife sound on this one in the coming days. This is a remake of the Hanover Hornpipes.)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=125LC14D

French Pack - (An audio clip taken from the Le Vielle Garde, a march from the Waterloo movie with Rod Steiger.)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AW5A90WR

British Pack - (Audio clip taken from the British Grenadiers by Barry Lyndon.) <- A forum favorite image
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GFXAGH9O

Generic Pack - (Audio taken from a practice session of reenactors, this has NO Fife just the drums. )
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WXVBQDVZ

Lilliburlero Music Pack - (Fixed the audio clip taken from a Barry Lyndon CD Sample to not include the fadeouts) <- Done by request ( Necropasha - Thank you again for finding this gem!)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NZSRXVB2

A small poor quality clip of my sound mod in action!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XapFNCYvNGQ

Forum link to my thread at totalwar.org
http://forums.totalwar.or.../showthread.php?t=114364


Thanks for downloading my mod files, I hope you enjoy them as much as I have making them! image

[0rly?]

Brilliant, great work!! you sir, are both a gentleman and a scholar

[Melvish]

*You'll need this excellent program -> http://www.twcenter.net/f.../showthread.php?t=234546

broken link

link to the right place : http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=234546

[Caligula]

Sneak Preview Movie of the Ottomans Field Music Pack. The song is almost finished, I have a few more things that need to be done to it but at least this gives you an idea. Enjoy! image
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2fKIgnBzCQ

@Melv - Thanks for the new link mate!

[Caligula]

Also I have figured out how to make patch pack files so it will make my mods easier to install. Converting the packs to those in a few days or so!

[Mailman653]

I really enjoy the Ottomans music, but that will over write the marching tune for all over factions correct? Or do Eastern units have their own set of sound effects?

[Caligula]

@Mailman653 - Thanks! It is almost finished. I need to record a few extra drum variations and it should be done!
"that will over write the marching tune for all over factions correct?"
Correct, until we can figure out how to make music faction specific it plays for all factions.

[Mailman653]

Don't forget the fife only mod

[Caligula]

@Mailman - I won't mate!

[Megas Methuselah]

As for the fife-only mod, and in case you guys didn't notice, there's this little fifer on the ships. No music in-game, though.

[anweRU]

Sneak Preview Movie of the Ottomans Field Music Pack. The song is almost finished, I have a few more things that need to be done to it but at least this gives you an idea. Enjoy! image
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2fKIgnBzCQ

@Melv - Thanks for the new link mate!

That's great! One correction though, the name of the march is "Ceddin Deden", not "Cedden" as you have it in the video.

[Mailman653]

As for the fife-only mod, and in case you guys didn't notice, there's this little fifer on the ships. No music in-game, though.

I think they should of made him into drummer. Who is going to hear a flute if your sleeping in your cot, two decks below?

[Caligula]

@AnweRU - NNNnoooooooo!!! I mis-spelled it on everything!! LMAO!!

@Megas - Wow now that is cool, never noticed him before! Now if we can only get his animation and fife model onto the field with a soldier graphic we'd be in business!!

@Mailman - LOL, I get seasick so if I was the fife player I'd puke into and it shoot out of the fife holes while trying to play!

[Megas Methuselah]

I think they should of made him into drummer. Who is going to hear a flute if your sleeping in your cot, two decks below?

You can't go around a moving ship banging a drum. That's nigh-impossible. No, it is a much better idea to model and skin a rapper onto the ships. He can yell loud, and doesn't need steady ground to go about shouting his rhymes, making funny hand gestures, and showing off his gold teeth.