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This post hurts my brain. I think what you're asking, is the legality of adding vocal samples to your music. Electronic music has done this since the earliest days, but if you haven't licensed said audio clips, then it is technically copyright infringement. As to whether or not it "sounds good", that completely depends on the song and clips used. In general, most EDM doesn't have much in the way of melody so the vocal cuts add something to it to break up the monotony of beats and basslines. Case in point.

your bnet id should have a # and some numbers in it.

You guys were a little late to the name game

Wow, I'm just so happy now. I just. Read. And I'm just so happy @aubreyhodges I spent so much time listening to the MIDI QFGIV soundtrack... so fantastic. Thank you SO much !!! And likewise @midiman369 I really love your site and how it has so many just fun anecdotes (in addition of course to like... 5 versions of the music ) Ahh, I'm just so happy Er. I do actually know words besides "so" but I guess I'm blanking on them presently! Please feel free to substitute in positive superlatives of your choice!

No problem and you didn't cause confusion. I've just had a MUCH busier couple of weeks than I was expecting. I have a lot more time next week, so I'll be ready!

Voting is already open, here:

Rock. Welcome, @aubreyhodges! Like Gario said, we always love game composers being involved in the community, giving feedback to arrangements of their music, or submitting their own interpretive arrangements. Since you're here, I'll just extend the callout window another 6 weeks to give people a fair chance to take advantage of you checking in on this. You can host/link anything you like from your work on the Quest for Glory series or PM me what materials you'd like us to host, and we could take care of that!

Hi all, This is Andrew from midimusicadventures.com / The QuestStudios Archive. I would have loved to try my hand at making a proper remix to send in for this callout, maybe I'll submit something in the future. Unfortunately, I also only found out about this the other day. I do however have an ancient crappy 'cover' of Erana's Peace I once made a long time ago (early 2004). At the time, I was only first tinkering with and learning to use FruityLoops 3.0 (Which then updated to 4.0 and they changed the name to FL Studio) in an effort to see if I would like it more than an ancient (even then) version of Cakewalk I was using for MIDI compositions/remixes up until that point. I don't think it's up to the standards to be submitted to OCREMIX so, with some trepidation, I have linked it above just for fun. Aubrey's new official soundtrack is much better, we should all listen to that instead. It really is great! I'm glad to see that QuestStudios is still a valued resource for DOS Era adventure game soundtracks. To try and make a long story shorter: The original QuestStudios was an amazing resource for Sierra game soundtracks and MIDI's among many other things. Not terribly long ago that site was hacked, and the backups were also corrupted. The original site owners' Tom and his wife Dianne had decided to retire from the site at that point for a multitude of reasons. I offered to rebuild "The QuestStudios Archive" from my own downloads from the original site and accumulated libraries in an effort to keep that great content, and in my possibly biased opinion, a part of PC Game Music and Internet history, online. With the helpful submissions of some other former QuestStudios site message board members, things are coming along nicely. Though a bit slower than I'd like due mostly to my other life responsibilities. Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks for linking my little site. Also, if anyone has a need for the complete MIDI file soundtracks for QFG1-4 they can been downloaded here. I look forward to seeing what people come up with here! Personally, I love hearing the remixes on the site here where a song's melody is taken to a completely different music genre than the original. ~Andrew

Hi everyone...this is Aubrey Hodges and I am the original composer for several Quest for Glory titles as well as many others over the last 3 decades. I have recently released the soundtrack for Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness http://aubreyhodges.bandcamp.com/album/quest-for-glory-shadows-of-darkness-official-soundtrack and thought it may be of interest to this site. I would be willing to provide a few of the newly recorded and arranged versions if that is something you would appreciate. I am not really sure if the original composers are supposed to be involved in the site or the remixes as I am new to ocremix. (I found out from a fan who sent me a link to the forum). Almost all of the new versions of the songs included are played with live instruments and are now what I had envisioned when I composed them originally. I do plan to release 3 more of my Sierra titles as well: Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist, Shadows of Yserbius (working on currently), and Robin Hood: Conquests of the Longbow. I have also release a 20th Anniversary Edition of my Doom Playstation Soundtrack that includes a ton of new material, longer tracks with new arrangements and 8 brand new bonus tracks. http://aubreyhodges.bandcamp.com/album/doom-playstation-official-soundtrack-20th-anniversary-extended-edition I sent a message to one of the staff but have not heard back yet. With the deadline approaching so quickly I thought I should post here to try and get an idea of whether or not I should provide a few tracks for this and if so, how exactly to provide them. Thanks for your help and thanks so much for your appreciate and support of game composers! -Aubrey Hodges aubreyhodges.com (info, blog etc.) http://www.aubreyhodges.bandcamp.com (album streaming, sales)

Fixed that for you