Does anybody have information on the original StarCraft soundtrack? It's my favourite vidya soundtrack and I can't actually find that much about it. So if any anons have facts or tidbits about it let me know.
Also I guess StarCraft memories thread.
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>>319987757
God, SC1 was so much better than 2 in all "non-essential" aspects - music, art, lore.
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>>319987757
What would you like to know? To my knowledge, it was written by Blizzard's standard sound team at the time. Glenn Stafford, veteran Warcraft composer was on it. I believe it was the debut of Jason Hayes working at Blizzard, and he'd go on to be the cinematic composer for Warcraft III, and then lead Composer for WoW's launch soundtrack (he'd leave the company soon after, and was replaced with Russell Brower, who's been in charge since).
Fun fact, Hayes would later return to Blizzard around 2012, and his music can be heard in recent material for WoW and Legacy of the Void. So it's kind of full circle for him.
>>319989278
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/music/sc.html
Blizzard's store lists Derek Duke, Glenn Stafford, Neal Acree & Russell Brower as on the project, but that's weird and wrong on the last two unless they were involved with some remastering process. Acree didn't join Blizzard until around 2007 when he scored the cinematic for TBC. He was working as an assistant and additional composer for Joel Goldsmith on the TV series Stargate before that, and Brower couldn't have been with the company any sooner than 2004, I'd be more comfortable to say 2005.
>>319989278
Honestly I'd love to know the recording process. What they used, how they did it, software, hardware, any real instruments etc. but there isn't much info online.
>>319989751
Yeah, I'm not too well versed on that. I know the original soundtrack is mostly synth stuff with I believe some individual solo instruments (I think the electric guitar is live, at least partially).
Probably not what you want, but Starcraft II and its expansions were mostly scored with a live orchestra, particularly the in-house one at Skywalker ranch. That one's mostly used to score a lot of the secondary Star Wars material, like games and TV shows, so I guess it's kind of fitting that Starcraft used that.
http://vgmdb.net/album/4648
This and the discussion board about it should cover some info. Main composers were Glenn Stafford, who did the Terran tracks, Derek Duke provided the Zerg stuff, and Jason Hayes wrote the music for the Protoss. Matt Uelman, who people might known for his stuff on Diablo, didn't write music, but did a little bit of sound design stuff.
>>319989751
Korg synthesizers were really popular back in the late 90's early 2000's. Too bad most people don't find korg synth instruments pleasing.
>>319990887
Damn, I love all the Terran tracks
>>319991181
To my knowledge, Stafford still works at Blizzard, he was there as early as Warcraft II, if not Warcraft I, and actual writing credits as late as Reaper of Souls. He's credited on Legacy of the Void, but I'm pretty sure that's just them arranging some of his Starcraft I stuff.
