Longships - A Norse Saga Music Pack - 44 Tracks

Longships is a 44 track Norse saga score for RPGs: the longhall and the whale road, the barrow and the ice, a battle set, the jarl, the sea serpent and Ragnarok. Every track stands on its tonic drone, the way a hurdy-gurdy or a bowed lyre holds one note under a Nordic folk tune.

The drone, checked on the shipped MIDI. In every one of the 44 tracks the lowest sounding note is the tonic for 100% of the time the track is sounding. The drone is its own track in every .mid, named drone, played by a cello, a double bass or a bassoon depending on the track, re-sounded twice a bar and swelling from the opening into the main section. Mute it and the other four parts still sound in every track: the lead, the pad and the bass, plus a counter line (24 tracks) or a colour line (20 tracks).

What is in it. 35 full pieces and 9 short cues, 52:01 of music. The title theme: The Cold Coast. At sea: The Whale Road, Oars Out, The Grey Swell, Past the Skerries, The Gale and Landfall. At home: The Longhall and The Longhall by Firelight, The Steading, The Skald's Bench, The Amber Trader, The Smith's Fire, The Mead Feast, The Thing at Midsummer. On land and under it: The Heath Road, The Birchwood and The Birchwood After Dark, The High Fell, The Ice Pass, The Ice Cave, The Barrow, The Draugr's Deep, The Rune Stones. The sacred: The World Ash, The Seeress. The fight: Shieldwall, The Raid, Berserk, The Jarl's Champion, The Sea Serpent, Ragnarok. After: The Pyre, The Long Way Home, Valhalla. Cues: Spoils, Fallen, A Name in the Saga, Hacksilver, A Rune Read, New Shores, The Hearth, The Horn, Sails on the Horizon.

What you get. 44 OGG files, 35 of them with sample accurate LOOPSTART and LOOPLENGTH tags, which is what RPG Maker MV and MZ read. 44 editable .mid sources. A Readme with per engine import notes, both proof reports, and a royalty free commercial licence.

One family of 5 cells. Oar, Hall, Saga, Frost, Gods. Oar is the stroke and the recovery of an oar, twice; Hall is Oar upside down, for everything under the longhall roof; Saga is Oar with its leaps pulled in to steps; Frost falls three steps before it catches, for the ice and the dead; Gods opens out a fourth and falls back to its own first note. 1084 statements and fragments of those cells across the album, counted by the harness in the finished MIDI.

Gate results. 782 theory checks and 501 audio checks, 0 failed, and both reports ship inside the download. They say the music is correctly written, rendered and tagged. They are not a claim about taste, which is what the two free tracks are for.

Two full tracks are free on this page, with their MIDI: The Cold Coast, the title theme, and The Sea Serpent, the boss. The drone at rest and under load.

The renders are a General MIDI reference render through a conventional soundfont. The composition system is AI written code and no generative audio model is used anywhere.

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