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Some time ago I downloaded the song "Dragons Legend" of MyVoice (Jukke
Sundqvist). Koto made the original.
I'm an old fan of Koto and discovered this song was based on the "Siegfried's
Mix" version. It did not contain the voice samples, but considering the
overall quality, MyVoice did a really good job with this one. Sounds great!

The reason why I decided to remix his song after such a long time is simple.
I recently ran into some good voice samples from the game "Dragons Lair", the
same source Koto used for the song "Dragon's Legend".
You find a lot of this stuff on YouTube today, but always with voices and
music mixed together. So the samples you make always contain the background
music. However, in one case the voice samples were recorded on a separate
audio track. Perfect for sampling....
With this samples I had a good change to make the song complete.

Some of these samples had static flutter (not strange with a game from 1983),
so I used Audacity to filter that out. I also discovered that Koto pitched
them one note higher for use in "Dragons Legend". (Pitching up makes the
samples also a bit shorter.)

The "Siegfried's Mix" uses only half of the original voice samples. Koto did
use an extra two samples from the game intro in the "Maxi Mix" of "Dragons
Legend" (together with some more nice adaptions), but added also the samples
with Japanese talking.

I made a remix of this song with MilkyTracker and included the game samples
Koto used (Daphne's hint, game intro samples, oooh-sound, and the background
effects from the anvil attack scene). Also I mixed in some of the instrument
changes, drums and stereo effects of the Maxi Mix, together with two drum
sequences of my own.
The "Mysterious caverns" instrumental break was taken from the intro of
"Minoan War", another Koto song. It's a kind of instrumental battle in which
the knight has to fight his way through the caverns.

At last I added extra info in the instrument list, together with the lyrics.

The result is a very nice combination of these two versions of "Dragons
Legend", which comes very close to the overall dynamic atmosphere of the
original Koto song. This without making to many changes in the original song,
which is to my opinion already good. Most of the changes I made are inspired
by the changes Koto made in the Maxi Mix. It got a staggering length of
8 minutes, but doesn't get boring for a single moment.

It really was a lot of fun making it.
Jukke Sundqvist, if you are reading, this one is for you.
Enjoy!!

The Samplifier

• https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=179618

1. MyVoice presents:
3. DRAGON'S LEGEND
4. The Maxi Voice Mix
5. (revision 4)
7. original version
8. by Koto
10. made in Finland
11. 28.1.1997
13. most samples ripped
14. (forgive me)
16. ----------------------
18. The rearrangements
19. for the Maxi Voice Mix
20. were made in Holland
21. 06.05.2015
22. by The Samplifier
24. Mixed and added the
25. original voice samples
26. from the 1983 game
27. "Dragons Lair".
28. (The same Koto used.)
29. Using MilkyTracker,
30. OpenMPT and Audacity.
32. ------- Lyrics -------
34. Please save me!
35. The cave is locked
36. with a key.
37. The dragon keeps it
38. around his neck.
39. To seige the dragon
40. here's the magic sword
42. Dragons Lair:
43. The fantasy adventure
44. where you become
45. a valiant knight
46. on a quest to resque
47. the fair princes from
48. the clutches of an
49. evil dragon.
51. You control the
52. actions of a daring
53. adventurer finding his
54. way through the castle
55. of a dark wizard.
56. Who has enchanted it
57. with treacherous
58. monsters and obstacles
60. In the mysterious
61. caverns below the
62. castle - your odyssey
63. continues against the
64. awesome forces that
65. oppose your efforts to
66. reach the Dragons Lair
68. Lead on adventurer...
70. Your quest awaits!