Stw Music Archive

About this music archive

I have been working with the free software sequencer/sythesizer BEAST for a while now, and while I often produce some interesing snippets of music, I much more seldomly do a whole song. Since other users may want to see or hear what can be done with BEAST, I decided to publish the things on my hard disc, even if they are in different shape.

If you want to reuse parts of the material here, you need to check the license conditions in the BSE files with BEAST. Usually, you can reuse instuments/songs I created under the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license, but sometimes other authors have rights, too.

The music

TitleDescriptionFilesStatus
FC Chords A short loop, with a friendly lead instrument.
fc_chords2.bse
ogg peview
mp3 peview
public
Pyro Monster Might be a base for a longer song, sounds somewhat aggressive, though.
pyromonster5.bse
ogg peview
mp3 peview
public
Y Instrument Song A loop that I created during instrument design.
yinstrsong4.bse
ogg peview
mp3 peview
public
Pixel Ice Short loop with similar instruments like "FC Chords", could be merged later on.
pixel_ice2.bse
ogg peview
mp3 peview
public
Mit Peter Loop arranged with a friend of mine, Peter.
mitpeter6.bse
ogg peview
mp3 peview
public
E Guitar Song Loop which provides a fairly good E Guitar; listen to the two tracks "solo" in the mixer. A part of the main theme is from an old aRts demo song, and fairly nice in its BEAST realization, too. Right now, a bit arrangement would be needed.

This uses the CAPS LADSPA plugins, which you need to have installed correctly if you want to listen to this.

Note: I found that the CAPS plugins destabilize BEAST on my machine (it tends to consume much more CPU than it should in some situations), but I haven't debugged that yet.

eguitarsong9.bse
ogg peview
mp3 peview
public
Power Bass Testsong While playing a bit with a bass instrument, I made this little loop.
pbass_testsong.bse
ogg peview
mp3 peview
public
Guitar This song contains guitar samples from a real acoustic guitar, mapped into a bse multisample. However, the recording quality is poor, so its more a proof of concept thing.
guitar7.bse
ogg peview
mp3 peview
experimental
Triplet Fun I made this to explore the need for 3/4 tacts, and for different quantization patterns.
tripletfun2.bse
ogg peview
mp3 peview
experimental
Blue Beach Another small drum loop that illustrates the need for splitting 1/4 into triplets.
blue_beach.bse
ogg peview
mp3 peview
experimental
Second Reality by Purple Motion I am trying to convert the classic "Second Reality" (PC demo from 1993) sound track to BEAST. However, stock BEAST is currently missing portamento support. Browse bug 353137 for more info, and the required module to play this song properly.
2nd_pm11.bse
ogg peview
mp3 peview
experimental
Second Reality by Purple Motion (portamento free) Here is a portamento free version of the above, which sounds worse, obviously.
NP2nd_pm11.bse
ogg peview
mp3 peview
experimental
Sci Fi Hum Song Test song for a Sci Fi Hum instrument.
scifihsong2.bse
ogg peview
mp3 peview
experimental
Fine Tune Test This is a test for the fine tune xinfo. Details can be found in bug 450490.
finetunetest.bse
ogg peview
mp3 peview
experimental
Drumsim Drum Test Experimental base drum generated via Physical Modelling.
dsdrumtest2.bse
ogg peview
mp3 peview
experimental
Growl Bass Test Small test song made for KF Growl Bass
growlbasstest.bse
ogg peview
mp3 peview
experimental
Fresh Water Test Small test song made for KF Fresh Water Bass
freshwatertest.bse
ogg peview
mp3 peview
experimental
Small Water Drops Small loop.
small_water_drops.bse
ogg peview
mp3 peview
experimental

If you're looking for stuff that sounds nice, try the files which are marked as public, not experimental. Note that the mp3 and ogg previews don't loop, so ideally you play the files with BEAST itself.

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