Yes please! Certainly better than leaving everything I say unanswered...

What is your sound setup if you care telling?
I am primarily on a rather upper-class 5.1 speaker setup, provided with full dolby digital signal from my soundcard, processed by my A/V receiver.
On this setup one difference is really obvious between the three versions: That "master tape remaster" is the only version wich finally provides proper low frequency signals to actually give my subwoofer something to do. Oblivion and Skyrim mastering has very rich bass and low-mid frequencies wich both official MW soundtracks seriously lack - I compared them rather excessive and came to the conclusion that this MW remaster integrates pretty well with the Oblivion & Skyrim style of mixing.

"strained the string instruments through a tin can" - I have to say that the mids can give a rather metal can(ish) feeling on headphones and PC speaker without proper low frequency performance. The thing is tho, that this effect is a side effect of much clearer and differenciated hights and mids! I certainly hear details in these areas, wich I never heard before. That metal-can-feeling is pretty much gone when you have good low-frequency speakers as the rich bass-base goes just great together with the ramped-up hights and mids.

I guess it comes down to personal preferences and audio equipment. One thing I cant argue with is the increased noise in some parts, but as someone who loves the sound of vinyls, I dont have a huge problem with that.

I have much more to say about this, but I need to learn better enlgish first

Thats top-secret stuff you are telling there

Using 7.1 speakers. The string instruments just sound wrong to me. As SWG says also it just sounds too exaggerated. I'd happily swap the extended detail for the original tracks overall warmer, smoother and less brute force style. I like the extra sounds provided by anologue recording. With these digital tracks though and the noise that you mention it makes the tracks feel even more forced and artificial as opposed to adding warmth - like the difference between an Electric Upright Bass and a Wooden Double Bass. I'm generally happy to swap fidelity for atmosphere when it comes to music. The original tracks have a vibe where you could be listening to something that is being played in the world. It draws me in. These remastered tracks though. The sound just that. Remastered, forceful and at odds with the experience. It goes from "That sounds nice, it adds to the atmosphere" to "Yes. I get it. There's music playing. Now where's the damn volume control?" :/

Valid opinion. So you also prefer MW mastering to Oblivion mastering, or is just the hights and mids wich are a bit less well done than in Oblivion, that bother you so much? Sorry for my curiosity but I am working on a related mod, you know


My main reason for using the remastered OST is because I want to use it together with Oblivion and Skyrim music in my game. Regular and Direct Sound OST just dont fit in with that modern style. They seem flat, with almost no bass at all and mids/hights that are quite washed out.


You are the native speaker, but maybe "brutal" is a bit much? We are still talking about MW explore music, just with a little bit more punch.

It is difficult to find the right words to describe it Even for a native speaker. It's more an instinct thing for me. The bass is more pronounced which was missing in the original recordings. The thing that I don't particularly like about the remastered versions is how they go with the game - its intent. If it is listened to on its own as an album then while too loud, at least for my liking - the clarity of the instruments fits. When listened to as part of playing the game it stands out, just not to its advantage. It has a feeling of being forced - fighting for attention with the gameplay, its visuals and sound effects. It ends up being a distracting nuisance that for me quickly gets replaced with the original tracks.

Oblivions music is a bit of a blank spot for me as I found it pretty boring and turned it off.

Best example I can think of is the music for Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It lacks clarity but it is sympathetic to the world that it is played in. Dark, grimy and blended - humming, whirring and hissing. Morrowinds original tracks have the equivalent. They create a mood of the foreign, smooth and mysterious - you have to strain to hear the details or you can simply be swept along in the general atmosphere - just like the base game Stronghold's and Mass Effect 2's music do the same. They work in harmony with the game to improve the atmosphere. For something that has a clarity to the instruments in its music like Katawa Shoujo it makes sense. The player is essentially listening to an album along with reading the story for emotional impact. They are in harmony with each other.

Perhaps better than the word "brutal" would be the idiom "In your face"

I can understand that it qualifies less as background music for you. I also like the kind of diffuse background music in games. I love the quite tracks in MW wich dont have much dynamic and epic orchestral parts. But I personally dont feel that the remastered version makes those tracks "in my face", but that might be related to the manyl high quality sounds in my game. Maybe with vanilla sound and music system your point is more obvious.

Ok, I am out of english words for today ... Its a matter of taste after all

Looking forward to hearing the difference that high quality sounds effects makes to the game

I've observed all the soundtracks visually in Audition as I've edited them all for one reason or another at some point, and I can say Morrowind's soundtrack does certainly have a lot of dynamics. There's a clear difference between the SE remaster and the files that came with the game.

Though I do enjoy talking about mixing and production, I'd ask if you two could continue the conversation via PM, as the thread has gotten a little cluttered and off topic about it.

I'm gonna try to get the dungeon tracks uploaded tonight, I'll post them once they're up.

Okay, so haven't posted here in a while, but today I just uploaded http://www.mediafire.com/?kb9pc7svrsp8lfo. I figure since the mod itself won't get made for a while, I may as well upload it now.

I'll also be reuploading the whole soundtrack on Youtube in the future with the new front cover art (which is included in the download). As for the mod itself, I'm still waiting on PeterBitt and Logitech for MaO's Music plugin to be in a usable/available state. Since It's main plugin will require the use of MaO, I'll probably make two versions of this mod, one with the extra feautures such as leveled battle music queuing, and one that only has the new playlists but runs ingame the same way Morrowind's original music does.

That'll be all for now, I hope you enjoy the soundtrack!

Hello all! It's been over a year since I completed the soundtrack for this, and in the past few months and after trying out PeterBitt and Logitech's mod, I decided there was more I wanted to do with this musically.

That being said, I'm composing some https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHB-M9U4K34 for the different regions in the game that will be played randomly during playlists. I plan to have a few playlists of these, one for dreary regions like the Ashlands, Molag Amur, and Red Mountain, one for regions like the Sheogorad, Azura's Coast, and West Gash, and one for regions like the Ascadian Isles, Bitter Coast, and Grazelands. So far I have only composed the palletes I linked above, but I have a very nice virtual orchestration set up and there are going to be a lot of these palletes to hear. Everything in the COdA Original Soundtrack will also be played ingame, including the "Atmospheres".

But for those who are waiting for the mod itself, don't let my musical efforts discourage you, I have spoken with Logitech and am probably going to create and adapt a plugin with everything I wanted in the mod that only includes the COdA Original Soundtrack. I will try to add some documentation with the mod so people can easily add custom tracks to the playlists if they choose, too. So this should be exactly the alternative to MaO and Better Music System that I've wanted for years.

Anyways, hope you enjoy the music, and hopefully you'll hear it ingame soon enough!

Nice job! I can't wait to hear what you do next.

Its not really an alternative to MAO, it still is MAO if you ask me. Thats the beauty: the relatively easy and powerful customization. Maybe this can be reflected properly (maybe authors should be SWG/Logitech/PeterBitt and a link to MAO would be appreciated). MAO was released under the radar for most people for reasons (only 150 downloads for latest version) so most people would assume that you did everything as they are not aware of the original. I look forward to your custom MAO music plugin and will review it thouroughly, but please dont put your name all over it
Like those music samples, good job!

Is there a customization guide for MAO? I want to change the music a bit and remove the player's voice (it's distracting and doesn't fit with my character's personality).

I more meant that it would be an alternative to MAO's music plugin. Mine will still function very similarly script wise, but it won't have the exact same playlists or queuing as MAO's music plugin, hence- an alternative.

Of course I'll credit you and Logitech! I wouldn't even think of not crediting you unless I had re-wrote the plugin from scratch, something I'm obviously not going to do since I'm not the best at scripting. Heck, in that case I probably would have credited you two anyways, so don't worry.