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Re: Context-Sensitive Music?
Posted By: Butcher <cbutcher@cs.otago.ac.nz>	Date: 1/8/00 12:50 p.m.
In Response To: Re: Context-Sensitive Music? (h'biki) > This will definetely not be the route Bungie/Total Audio will > take. Total Audio hate MIDI as it is entirely inappropriate for > creating orchestral music; it sounds utterly horribly fake. I think that MIDI-type storage representations would probably work very well for general background music that just plays all the time at a low setting. But for emotional or action music, it's quite likely that they might segue into something that's actually stored as a binary recorded composition. ::shrug:: > Personally, I'm not sure I want Halo to have in-game music. If > they want immersion, it ain't going to work. We don't hear music > IRL coming out of nowhere to enhance the moment we're living :) > Unless you're in a cyrogensis tube, reliving your past, while an > all-string version of a piece from a musical is playing outside > your tube and you hear it in your dream ;-) No way. I don't know if you've played Half-Life, but the music comes up at places where the player walks into particularly awe-inspiring architecture or into an intense fire-fight. It is extremely cool and an excellent addition to what is, really, an action game. - Butcher

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