Hi Everyone!
This is something I've been wanting to post for a while and really just wanted to get in touch with the developers... but quite frankly didn't know how.
I can vouch for pretty much everyone that Planet Coaster is a nearly perfect theme park simulator game, but as a carousel enthusiast as well as a band organ enthusiast - synthesized music just doesn't cut it for me.
As a composer/arranger, I'm actually familiar with the Kontakt (A virtual instrument software) instrument that plays the music composed specifically for the game... But that's really not what 'carousel music' is.
Real carousel music is provided by a live instrument called a band organ, or in Europe: a fairground organ. These are real antique acoustic instruments which can be compared to a self-playing pipe organ and are still present and played on carousels all across the world. They are generally controlled by paper music rolls like a player piano or folded perforated cardboard 'books'. The oldest instruments were operated by a pinned barrel, and newer or 'updated' instruments can be controlled by Midi. Drums, bells, and other percussive instruments are also generally present and play in time with the organ. All of this is accomplished by clever use of mechanics, wind pressure and vacuum to control the instrument, the technology being over a century old!
It's impossible to explain all of this through words alone though - take a look, and of course, a listen!
[video=youtube;Fv86mfaIw64]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv86mfaIw64[/video]
There's no speakers, no computer, no man playing a keyboard... This is fully automated and over 100 years old.
Why I post this is that I'm willing to give the developers high-quality, public domain music recorded from a REAL instrument nearly identical to the one shown in the above video. I'm one of a few people in the world still making new music rolls/books for these so it is technically possible to have a real instrument play music specifically written for the game... But I think the public domain music would both A. Be as authentic as it gets and B. Be much, much more practical. I made this same offer to the developers of Parkitect, they accepted and the people love it! There would be a different instrument used for this game though... It would probably be best to have different sounding 'carousel music' between the two games.
In short, I'd like to provide a world-class theme park game with real, authentic music... And slightly off topic but... A single deck antique-style carousel? Please? Why hasn't any theme park simulator EVER had one?
If interested in the instruments themselves, feel free to check out my website: http://www.mechanicalmusic.org
This is something I've been wanting to post for a while and really just wanted to get in touch with the developers... but quite frankly didn't know how.
I can vouch for pretty much everyone that Planet Coaster is a nearly perfect theme park simulator game, but as a carousel enthusiast as well as a band organ enthusiast - synthesized music just doesn't cut it for me.
As a composer/arranger, I'm actually familiar with the Kontakt (A virtual instrument software) instrument that plays the music composed specifically for the game... But that's really not what 'carousel music' is.
Real carousel music is provided by a live instrument called a band organ, or in Europe: a fairground organ. These are real antique acoustic instruments which can be compared to a self-playing pipe organ and are still present and played on carousels all across the world. They are generally controlled by paper music rolls like a player piano or folded perforated cardboard 'books'. The oldest instruments were operated by a pinned barrel, and newer or 'updated' instruments can be controlled by Midi. Drums, bells, and other percussive instruments are also generally present and play in time with the organ. All of this is accomplished by clever use of mechanics, wind pressure and vacuum to control the instrument, the technology being over a century old!
It's impossible to explain all of this through words alone though - take a look, and of course, a listen!
[video=youtube;Fv86mfaIw64]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv86mfaIw64[/video]
There's no speakers, no computer, no man playing a keyboard... This is fully automated and over 100 years old.
Why I post this is that I'm willing to give the developers high-quality, public domain music recorded from a REAL instrument nearly identical to the one shown in the above video. I'm one of a few people in the world still making new music rolls/books for these so it is technically possible to have a real instrument play music specifically written for the game... But I think the public domain music would both A. Be as authentic as it gets and B. Be much, much more practical. I made this same offer to the developers of Parkitect, they accepted and the people love it! There would be a different instrument used for this game though... It would probably be best to have different sounding 'carousel music' between the two games.
In short, I'd like to provide a world-class theme park game with real, authentic music... And slightly off topic but... A single deck antique-style carousel? Please? Why hasn't any theme park simulator EVER had one?
If interested in the instruments themselves, feel free to check out my website: http://www.mechanicalmusic.org
