| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
I don't know if this is the right category for this post, but here goes:
Back one year ago, Paizo announced a partnership with Michael Ghelfi to make original scores for the APs
There was a mention that they'd be available here, which never happened. Though the Seven Dooms and Wardens OSTs did release on Michael's bandcamp.
At the same time, Ghelfi posted a youtube video announcing the partnership that in the comments of said video he announced that as part of this, they were working on a Rise of the Runelords OST. Exciting stuff!
But it's been a year, and while I actually haven't gotten a foundry module for APs after Wardens, the lack of OST releases tells me that Curtain Call and later doesn't have their own original music. Is anyone able to confirm?
Question is: If yes, why isn't there releases of these? And if not, well...what happened? This was a pretty exciting project
Digital Products Lead
|
| 9 people marked this as a favorite. |
I don't know if this is the right category for this post, but here goes:
Back one year ago, Paizo announced a partnership with Michael Ghelfi to make original scores for the APs
There was a mention that they'd be available here, which never happened. Though the Seven Dooms and Wardens OSTs did release on Michael's bandcamp.
At the same time, Ghelfi posted a youtube video announcing the partnership that in the comments of said video he announced that as part of this, they were working on a Rise of the Runelords OST. Exciting stuff!
But it's been a year, and while I actually haven't gotten a foundry module for APs after Wardens, the lack of OST releases tells me that Curtain Call and later doesn't have their own original music. Is anyone able to confirm?
Question is: If yes, why isn't there releases of these? And if not, well...what happened? This was a pretty exciting project
First of all, glad to hear you were excited to hear about this project! I am too, so I'm happy to be able to tell you that it is still in the works, although our original plan to release a soundtrack for every Adventure Path from late 2023 forward has hit a few snags that are forcing us to re-think the best way to approach it. Basically, two things happened:
1) We ran into some unfortunate and unforeseen technical limitations that prevented us from being able to sell the downloadable digital music files on our webstore as originally planned. There's hope that we can get these issues resolved at some point in the future, but in the meantime, the inability to sell albums on paizo.com makes it a lot harder for both us and Michael Ghelfi Studios to meet the sales numbers we need to justify continuous back-to-back production, especially at the pace we'd need to be doing it to match our current cadence of quarterly Adventure Path releases. (If you know any 18th-century Austrian noblemen interested in becoming patrons of the arts who are also big Pathfinder fans, please let us know.)
2) Speaking of that pace: it turns out that, even for the insanely talented and optimistic composers at Michael Ghelfi Studios, composing and arranging a full-length musical score every three months is a pretty daunting task. In the interest of ensuring that they have the time to give their work the time and attention it deserves, and also, you know, can sleep once in a while, we're looking into finding a way to set more achievable goals while still making it easy for you to integrate the music into our other digital releases that may have already come out by the time it's complete.
In other words, rest assured that the project definitely hasn't been abandoned or forgotten; we're just investigating new ways to make it work so that it can be as cool as we want it to be. As you mentioned, the Seven Dooms for Sandpoint and Wardens of Wildwood soundtracks are already available on Bandcamp, the Season of Ghosts soundtrack has been well underway for a while, and we also have a number of smaller individual projects in the works that we hope to be able to tell you about soon. Once we've got all of those issues sorted out, though, it is absolutely our intention to begin bringing you full Adventure Path soundtracks again, in a way that makes them easy to use in both your online and in-person games.
|
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
I'll be honest, I'm not surprised that the scope was too big. And I'm also not surprised that once again, the old website's limitations created problems too. I was wondering if it would support it without big changes. xD
But I'm happy that the project is still being worked on, even if it's in a more limited, but reasonable capacity.
I wish good luck on everyones working on it.
To note, I've been listening to the Wildwood and Seven Doom soundtrack on Spotify from time to time. Very good work. :3
|
Community & Social Media Specialist
|
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
In other words, rest assured that the project definitely hasn't been abandoned or forgotten; we're just investigating new ways to make it work so that it can be as cool as we want it to be.
As someone with a film composition background, I AM STOKED FOR THIS!!!!
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
I don't know if this is the right category for this post, but here goes:
Back one year ago, Paizo announced a partnership with Michael Ghelfi to make original scores for the APs
There was a mention that they'd be available here, which never happened. Though the Seven Dooms and Wardens OSTs did release on Michael's bandcamp.
At the same time, Ghelfi posted a youtube video announcing the partnership that in the comments of said video he announced that as part of this, they were working on a Rise of the Runelords OST. Exciting stuff!
But it's been a year, and while I actually haven't gotten a foundry module for APs after Wardens, the lack of OST releases tells me that Curtain Call and later doesn't have their own original music. Is anyone able to confirm?
Question is: If yes, why isn't there releases of these? And if not, well...what happened? This was a pretty exciting project
First of all, glad to hear you were excited to hear about this project! I am too, so I'm happy to be able to tell you that it is still in the works, although our original plan to release a soundtrack for every Adventure Path from late 2023 forward has hit a few snags that are forcing us to re-think the best way to approach it. Basically, two things happened:
1) We ran into some unfortunate and unforeseen technical limitations that prevented us from being able to sell the downloadable digital music files on our webstore as originally planned. There's hope that we can get these issues resolved at some point in the future, but in the meantime, the inability to sell albums on paizo.com makes it a lot harder for both us and Michael Ghelfi Studios to meet the sales numbers we need to justify continuous back-to-back production, especially at the pace we'd need to be doing it to match our current cadence of quarterly Adventure Path releases. (If you know any 18th-century Austrian noblemen...
Thank you for taking the time to answer, Andrew, I didn't see! I'm very happy to hear that this is happening still! Both soundtracks produced are excellent, I make sure to use them in my games as much as I can even outside of those APs. I am looking forward to whatever shape this project takes, even with a smaller scope or skipping some APs now and then
|
Community & Social Media Specialist
|
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Thank you for taking the time to answer, Andrew, I didn't see! I'm very happy to hear that this is happening still! Both soundtracks produced are excellent, I make sure to use them in my games as much as I can even outside of those APs. I am looking forward to whatever shape this project takes, even with a smaller scope or skipping some APs now and then
I made sure to get your question to the team, Arita!!! We'll keep you updated as well as things move along!