Tf Music Upgrade Machine

This file is included in the gamefiles of Team Fortress 2, but not presently used in the game.

Here, I've looped it, but each time around I slow it down by one half-step, until it's one octave lower (50% speed), at which point each round starts going faster again until it's back up to full speed.

Probably not everyone's cup of tea, but for whatever reason I've been enjoying listening to this.

tf_music_upgrade_machine gradually slower then faster again

Starting at 1000 Hz and spaced 100Hz apart, 26 separate morse code messages, all overlaid on top of each other. Why? Reasons.

26 separate morse code messages, simultaneously

TV Theme song, 20x stretched

Ice Cream Truck. Oh god, WHY does this ice cream truck exist!?

The Univeral theme (the "correct" version, not the new one they got completely wrong) repeated, pitched down one half step each time.

Universalx12

SebastianPurring

I created the raw waveform by just writing out all the 20 bit binary numbers from 0 to 262,144, in big-endian (MSB first) format, and drew the sound waveform such that zeros were low and ones were high.

Then I played those samples at 1,280 samples per second so that one second of sound is an even power of 2, and thus one of the "beats" of the sound winds up lined up with an even 60 beats per minute.

The final sound was then upsampled and eq filtered a bit just to suit my taste. Oh, and to make a nice "stereo" sound, I reversed the track for the right channel. Since the pattern is somewhat symmetrical, the tracks still line up most of the way, and whatever differences there are make it sound spatially diverse.

Counting to 262,144, 20 bits at a time

I forget the exact details of how many bits per word, etc, but this is basically the same kind of binary counting of my previous upload, but sampled and EQed differently so it's much higher pitched and faster-sounding.

Peter Jerde

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