Following my plan to make the soundtrack based off of the references I have been given and found myself, I have made three versions of the more hopeful side of the soundtrack.
My intention was to make the tracks not only hopeful but full of adventure and curiosity. I wanted the tracks to mirror the playful nature of the game as it has been described to me. I used the plugin ‘Labs’ and just used presets that I occasionally tweaked, as Labs has a great range of soft and authentic instrument sounds like pianos and strings. The music I was referencing was consistently quite organic and had cinematic auras that relied heavily on subtle build ups of instruments. For this reason I limited myself to using piano and string sounds, as well as light synth sounds to add ambience and a sense of space.
My personal favourite is number 2 but I am interested to hear what the group has to say about them. Making ‘happy’ tracks is something I am not usually concerned about, so this provided me with a different challenged that felt quite liberating. I played most of the melodies in myself and then would edit the patterns after, which was a nice and fluid way of working.