The tradition in BL2 so far is to provide music for slaughter arenas that highlight action and tempo of combat and so we try to put in something that is a departure from the rest of the style of the game and purely activity driven. So I was sort of going for a modernized 80's hero's theme as the combat music since it's basically a giant training simulator for badasses on Pandora.

Borderands 2 DLC: Digistruct Peak

Started writing some dusty ambient orchestral on my spare time. Had nothing particular in mind when I started this one and just let myself wander into the idea. I'd say it's a strange mix of wonder and melancholy?

Photo: Caitlin Chinn

Ambient LOFI - Haze

Begins with a brimstone character, the forge or formation of something new and then progresses into a mysterious journey and drift.

Ambient 2 - Formation And Drift

As tradition follows, here is the music from the xmas themed head hunter DLC that was just released for Borderlands 2!

Mercenary Day Winter Ambience

A few tracks that I wrote for the soundtrack to Borderlands. 

Borderlands DLC 2 - Bring Out The Badasses

Borderlands DLC 2 - Welcome to the Arena Suckers

The straight in-game version of the captain haunt boss fight. I do plan on creating an extended mix of just Phase 02!

Borderlands 3 - BloodyHarvest - Captain Haunt

Digby Vermouth's Universe Hit - Supernova Dreamsicle. 

Gettin you in the mood.

Featuring Julian Peterson on Sax. Julian is one of our audio coders and is also a composer in our audio department at Gearbox.

Borderlands 3 - Digby Vermouth - Supernova Dreamsicle

My arrangement of the ambient music for the Tazendeer Ruins in Borderlands 3. This is largely different from the in-game material that was designed to shuffle all 7 layers at random. In fact, all 3 tiers of intensity in music for this map are built that way.

Borderlands 3 - The Machine Crypt

This mix contains 3 of the 7 "suites" I wrote that cycle inside Desolation's Edge. Most of the synth work in this are custom Serum patches. 

There's a short bit of new material connecting the sections and an alternate "sparse" mix of what I call the "lullaby" of Nekrotefeyo at the front of the piece, this is a kind of representation of how this can break down to sparser arrangements in-game.

Borderlands 3 - A Forgotten Place

This is an arrangement of the high combat clips used in-game for the most intense combat section in Tazendeer Ruins.

Borderlands 3 - The Family Wants The Machine

The light combat section of music from Desolation's Edge arranged for soundtrack.

Borderlands 3 - The Arrival... Intensifies

Borderlands 3  - Action At The Machine

Soundtrack mix of the General Traunt fight in Desolation's Edge.

Borderlands 3 - In Case It Wasn't Clear... TRAUNT!

Heavy Combat arrangement for desolation's edge systemic music.

Borderlands 3 - Maliwan Is Here

2 of 7 "suites" of ambient themes for Desolation's Edge.

Borderlands 3 - The Arrival

An extended mix of the menu theme replacement that is unique to the bloody harvest free DLC event. Another almost pure Serum demo of custom patches.

Borderlands 3 - Bloody Harvest - Menu Theme (Extended)

An arrangement of the layers and clips that comprised the combat music for the bloody harvest seasonal DLC event.

Borderlands 3 - Bloody Harvest - Maliwan Rises

A track for the boss fight with Captain Haunt that mixes influences from Sebastien, Peturbator, Wolfgang Gartner, Benny Benassi and a little Justice au jus.

Borderlands 3 - Bloody Harvest - Captain Haunt Phase 02

A small mission track that was used in Borderlands 3 DLC 2 as a musical reward for completing the Darkest Mix quest in Guns, Love and Tentacles DLC.

DLC2 - The Dark Mix

A quick patch showing an acid wavetable with a long envelope mode LFO simulating filter automation you would do in a real project. Also demonstrates using Serum's LFO as a step sequencer.

SequencingLFO

Example of the same exact patch as Prog2Step just played singly and at a lower tempo. No changes in the patch itself.

Prog2StepDark

An example of a slightly embellished progressive pluck inspired sound. This patch demos using an envelope on the reverb decay rate to get pitch movement on your reverb, but not you're base oscillators.

Prog2Step

GrainHorns

Demonstrating serum as a sound design tool. Basically just brutalizing a wimpy sound with the Zero-Square distortion. Originally started as a LFO sequenced bass patch but turned into this. Also shows how pitch effects patches performed higher and can result in completely different character.

EsperimentalSquelch

A patch full of very slow moving LFOs. Also built to demonstrate automating an aux input on a routing assignment so that you can fade the beating element in and out over time. Helps give a sense of independent movement from all your sources.

Chaos+Drift

This track accompanies the first circle of slaughter challenge you encounter in BL2. I went with a dance direction to keep the energy level high and give the player a fun track to slaughter to. It's also a bit of a nod to the music style for our 2nd DLC pack for the original Borderlands "Moxxi's Underdome"

Borderlands 2 Finks House Of Slaughter

This track provides the ambient backing to a massive blighted landscape corrupted by one of the powerful substances in Borderlands 2 called "slag." It was a bit of a post apocalyptic landscape with lots of purple ooze and lava.

Borderlands 2 The Blight

Wurmwater waste was a giant, cracked, salt flats desert environment. It was the large hub to all the areas in this DLC so the music was intended to provide a nice groove and setting to do a lot of exploration to.

Borderlands 2 DLC1 Wurmwater Wastes

The accompanying combat track to the wurmwater waste. Trentemoeller and Royksopp have definitely been big influences for me and a little bit of that comes through in this track. 

Borderlands 2 DLC1 Fighting In Wurmwater

Sneaking into Magny's lighthouse, some of the first half of this piece was influenced by Air. The second half provided a subtle link back to the wurmwater music. 

Borderlands 2 DLC1 Infiltrating The Lighthouse

The combat track that is paired with the ambient piece for Magnys Lighthouse. I pulled in a few sounds and stylistic elements that brought about a slight dubstep vibe to the heaviest part, but I didn't want to go all the way over to that genre.

Borderlands 2 DLC1 The Battle At The Lighthouse

Amidst the desert, we had this beautiful water and crystal cave hidden away and I tried to capture some of that heavily blue accented environment and echoing and watery caverns while still retaining some hallmarks of experimental electronica.

Borderlands 2 DLC1 The Watery Caves

A lighter side for a change! This track was inspired by some patches I made to run a serum tutorial for the Obsidian audio department. 

I thought it would be fun to do something a little different and upbeat and this was the end result. 

This track also spawned a new EP I'm working on that will be pretty different form this, but is a House/LoFi themed EP inspired by the process of making this one.

Break Me Out and Pull Me In

This is something I did as an exercise for fun testing some new sample libraires at home. I love the 40K and fantasy warhammer universes and thought I would try my hand at mixing some of that universe with some inspiration from Hans Zimmer's work on movies like inception and man of steel, etc...  Just kinda threw things together until it felt like I had something close to that idea!

Ended up sounding kinda cool, so I figured I'd post it. 

Brass: Cineamples Cinebrass Core/Exp
Strings: 8dio Adagio Bundle
Woodwinds: Orchestral Tools Berlin Woodwinds
Synth: Virus Ti Snow

Warhammer 40K Inspired

My part of the score for the 4th campaign DLC released today for Borderlands 2. Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep. Borderlands humor and high fantasy had a baby and it's mother is TIny Tina... Need I say more?

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