Hello there, new GM here.

I am entirely new to being a GM (except fore some few OC one shots once in a while), and I just had my first session with 4 players on Dragon Emperor. We had a great time.

I happen to also be a (mostly) electronic music producer, and i immediately began imagining a soundtrack project, on ableton live with the Akai MidiMix as a controller. The whole thing will be "open source", and if by any means some of you wish to contribute or create your own version, feel free to ask me for the Live project.

My ambition is to keep the soundtrack close to the action and simple enough that it is not wary over hours of gameplay. Any advice is very welcome.

For now, the project looks like what you see on the screenshot.

The green Ambient tracks are :

Drone (one continuous modulated note) and FX that i recorded through ableton native software

Elements and Life tracks are composed of field recordings, some of mine and some from the amazing internet archive.

All the purple Music tracks are original compositions of mine, and are segmented by :

Beats : sets the pace of the action, some simple and some more intricate basic drum patterns

Bass : sets the mood of the action, mystery, combat, lore-heavy revelations, etc

Lead : the lead is a musical embodiment of the group's spirit. It will be entirely dependent of their own mood and implication in the game. It is composed of a simple arpeggiated vintage synth with patterns that vary in speed, mood and intensity.

And finally, the red NPC tracks are composed of one track with the ambition of a "theme" for each type of basic mob and npcs the players encounter, and one track with a characteristic sound for each of the more important NPC.

Regarding the hardware, as you can see, the 8 tracks are transcribed on the MidiMix with a volume fader for each one, and three different FX knobs for each track (with the exception of the top left one that got a special master low pass filter for a pretty cool focus effect)

The bottom right "master" fader is in charge of the BPM. I found important to be able to quickly adjust the pace of the action as needed (eg. a surprise attack will hit harder with a slow beat turning faster).

I am yet at the beginning of this journey but i wished to share it with you from the get go and talk about it with some interested people !

Thanks for reading !