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\\\ THE LONELY DETECTIVE ///
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By Sphenx
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The Lonely Detective (Extended Module Version)
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Creation Date : 2009-07-04
Current Version: v2.20 (2022-12-04)
Duration : 4:40
Playback : XMPlay / OpenMPT (because of Stereo Samples)
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This music is part of a serie I have originally done in 2009 for
Retro64's game "Hidden Identity : Chicago Blackout".
This version (remade in 2022) is an attempt to recreate the soundtrack
as a definitive IT module, making it sounding almost like the original.
All original tracks have been composed to be 2-minutes and looping.
I have extended this one to loop 2 times with minor variations for the
second loop.
Samples were made from SoundFonts and VSTi.
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This module should have not existed. I started it because I lost my
final files of the original released tracks after a HDD crash, and I
needed to have a complete version again, but also wanted to see if I was
able to achieve a similar result on module, meaning only with samples.
And I am actually quite satisfied with the final result ! This is very
close to the original. The most challenging part was to reproduce the
global reverb effects that were applied on tracks, and I did a tedious
work to preprocess all necessary samples to get what makes that subtle
touch for this melancholic music.
I also needed to reduce the samples to a more reasonable size without
loosing too much of quality as it was over 67 MB at some point, taking
full benefit of 16-bit stereo samples ... Thus I downsampled some
to 8-bit and/or @ 22 KHz (or less). 9 MB as final size seems quite nice!
In the end, I found back the originals lying deep on an obscure backup
disk (yes!) but still completed this module as it was already well in
progress. However, I don't think I will proceed to convert the other
tracks to modules (I'd better focus on new stuff maybe ?!)
I hope you will enjoy this special one.
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The full "Chicago Blackout" soundtrack contains 10 musics:
- The Lonely Detective
- Chicago Skyscrapers
- Mr. Inspector
- Bathroom
- A Place to Search
- Gamblers of Chicago
- Dark Reflections
- Police Investigation
- Winds of Night
- Nights of Chicago
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CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0, (C) 2009 - 2022, Sphenx
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email: gb_sphenx@hotmail.com
