Exit level music?

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Exit level music?

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Does anybody have sheet music (or better yet a midi file) of the little jingle that plays every time Keen exits and/or enters a level? I want to write my own rendition for a little something I'm working on :)
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For which game? Isn't it different for each?
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I think keens 4-6 is a remastered version of keens 1-3. I could be wrong though. In case I am, keens 4-6 is preferred :dopefish
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I just listened again... Keen 4 and 6 are the same tune, but with different sounds, Keen 5 is different. Keens 1-3 have the same sound, but still different from 4-6.
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I don't know about midi, but the HQPack of CloneKeenPlus has it as .ogg
The one who made the file must have the midi I guess.
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Post by Levellass »

It's not a jingle, but an exit sound. I have the raw data, but as yet, no way to convert it to wave files.
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I know I'm a little late in responding to this, but I do have the level enter and exit midi jingles (yes, they have musical notes to them) from Keen6, and I can get you the ones from Keen4 and 5 if you like!

I took a look at the midi I have for the keen 6 enter sound. It's really hard to draw music notes in here, especially when the data I captured doesn't even fall on any beats (they fall in between 32/64ths of a beat!) so I guess I'll describe it instead:

4 32nd notes on D5
4 32nd notes on A4
4 8th notes played: D5, A4, D5, G5

Vary the note length and spacing a bit until it sounds right.


For the level exit:
Theyre all 16th notes from what I can see, and again, hard to tell from the way I captured the data. I figured getting the notes was the hardest part and I could guess the note length.

6 16th notes:
F#4, A#4, C5, D5, D#5, F5,

3 16th notes:
G4, G4, G4

Play both of these around 110-115 BPM

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