Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Discussion Topic Part 1

[Dyjamster]

Anyways, I like the longer teasers music. Sounds Zimmer inspired with the D minor sort of epic feel. The first teaser I don't like so much, it has the inception brroooong sound with little else but, as said they are too short to extensively comment on. The quiet music at the end of both trailers seems likely that it may be a repeated idea for the game which could be interesting...

The OST is being mastered which could be a sign the game is close to release! hopefully

What is a D minor sort of epic feel anyway, as far as I know every key sounds the same if you do the right scales. Then again I only have relative pitch hearing and not perfect pitch hearing (which shouldn't make a difference).

There are slight differences

With bach and some baroque tuning works on the principle of well temperament. For instance if you tune the piano so the C, and G are a fifth apart mathematically (3/2) and go from there, music in other keys will be out of tune. Piano tuners thus tune everything roughly by ear. In modern music equal temperament is used and each semitone is the twelfth root of 2 (an approximate) apart. It doesn't sound as nice sometimes, well temperament can sound interesting. It's quite complicated to explain but some videos do it quite well. Keys on the piano and other instruments have different amounts of overtones because of this approximation and as such sound ever so slightly different. This is my people in the period who used well temperament may have confessed to liking specific keys.

I wasn't saying the piece was good because it was in D minor, I was just referencing Zimmer's constant use of the D minor piece. For some perfect pitched people key does matter, some can't stand if a piece of music is played in a different key then usual.

Interestingly, songs like 'Hey Jude' are almost always sung in the right key by non musicians when asked to with no reference, and in China, where the pitch of syllables matter for there language, there is a much higher rate of pitch perfect people.

To be honest most people including me can't really tell much differences between keys, like the spinal tap reference above!

Some more interesting stuff here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament