Check Out JD Harding’s Remixed Ultima 7 and Ultima Online Music

I may have already reported on JD Hardin’s remixed version of the Ultima 7: The Black Gate soundtrack; I can’t find his name in any search results, but I also can’t see how I’d have missed reporting on something like that.

Be that as it may, he revealed his remixes of The Black Gate’s music in late 2013. As of last month, he has now added a few songs from the Serpent Isle soundtrack to the mix. You can find the complete list of his remixed Ultima 7 songs on his Bandcamp profile.

And yes, the songs can be added into Exult to replace the default music:

<< Instructions to use this album in the "Exult" game engine >>

01. Download the album or individual songs as OGG files.

02. Look at the song titles here. Notice they have “01bg” in front of each song title.

03. Rename each of the files in the album you downloaded so only the “01bg.ogg” part of the filename remains.

Alongside the Serpent Isle music, the good Mr. Harding also created remixes of a few songs from the Ultima Online soundtrack. These too can be heard and obtained via his Bandcamp profile.

Note that his Ultima Online tracks are not available for free; there is a $1.50 charge to download them. There is no listed price for the Ultima 7 music, however…there is only a note instructing you to name your own price for it.

2 Responses

  1. AvatarAcid says:

    Nice, that is excellent work! I’ve Tried to do a few of these myself so I could enjoy U7 Exult a bit better too 🙂 Both with a different skew and some with more of an update rather than changing things around. Didn’t post them many places, don’t know the ins and outs of the law on it, since these were not written or composed by me, since I can’t write or compose music 🙂

    Some orig style remix:
    https://soundcloud.com/avataracid/ultima-vii-remix-chamber-music
    https://soundcloud.com/avataracid/ultima-vii-remix-passion-play
    https://soundcloud.com/avataracid/ultima-vii-remix-gwenno
    https://soundcloud.com/avataracid/ultima-vii-wing-commander-ii-remix-kilrathi-theme

    Some drastic changes remix:
    https://soundcloud.com/avataracid/ultima-vii-remix-fellowship
    https://soundcloud.com/avataracid/ultima-vii-part-ii-serpent
    https://soundcloud.com/avataracid/ultima-vii-remix-wilderness
    https://soundcloud.com/avataracid/ultima-vii-remix-remix-dead

  2. kobrakai says:

    Thanks for sharing your work AvatarAcid! It’s excellent! As far as I’m aware, there’s almost nothing to worry about remixes. They’ represent your work based on something else. This situation is similar to your band playing famous songs in a pub.

    Regarding JD Harding’s remixes, just one comment: superb!