Wildwood - A Wilderness Exploration Score - 42 Tracks

Forty-two tracks for the country between the towns. Not another combat pack and not an ambience library: this is the journey. The open road, four kinds of forest, three caves, the ford, the fen, the moor, the pass, the snowline, the summit, the cliff road, the ruin in the trees, the hunt, getting lost, the first sight of the valley, rain, storm, making camp, and the watch at night.

It is built on one idea. The party carries a tune out of the last village, and the country bends it. The wood refuses its opening leap and walks the same distance in small steps. The cave turns it upside down and halves its speed. The river rocks its closing pair until it will not settle. The hunt takes its first leap and scrambles after it in sixteenths. The mountain swaps its middle two moves so it peaks and falls, and gets a view.

That is not a description, it is a measurement. The seed cell is stated in all 42 tracks, 334 times, under 6 distinct transformations - counted out of the MIDI by a proof that ships inside the pack.

What is in it

• 42 tracks, 38 of them full pieces (not a stinger pack padded to a number) across 22 slots - title, departure, four field themes, four forest, three cave, two river, two marsh, two moor, three mountain, two coast, two ruin, two hunt, a getting-lost theme, two vistas, two weather, two camp, a night watch, two ambient beds, and four stingers.
• 56:38 of music.
• Editable .mid sources beside every .ogg. Re-orchestrate it, re-tempo it, or pull a single line out for your own arrangement.
• Sample-accurate loop points for all 38 looping tracks, plus per-engine import notes.
• Royalty-free in your game, commercial use included. No attribution required.

Written as a travelling ensemble, not an orchestra

The winds lead almost everywhere, because a wind player is what a party carries: flute, recorder, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, bassoon, pan flute, shakuhachi, ocarina. Strings are the country underneath. The horn is kept for high ground and open water so that it means altitude, and the choir arrives exactly four times - the old grove, the snowline, the ruin and the valley - so that it means older than us. The album lives in dorian and mixolydian, keeps phrygian for underground only, and touches plain major three times so that major means arrival. 19 distinct keys, 48 to 138 bpm, 29 instruments.

The proofs ship inside the pack

You do not have to take any of this on trust. proofs/ contains the full run:

• 756 music-theory checks over the MIDI - key membership, resolving progressions, voice-leading (zero parallel fifths or octaves in the outer voices), instrument range, melodic singability, density curve, and an independent Krumhansl-Schmuckler key inference that has to corroborate the declared key rather than re-read our own claim.
• 492 signal checks over the rendered audio - no clipping, real headroom, duration, loudness spread, and loop-seam continuity measured across the join.
• 0 failed.

What those numbers do not claim: they establish that the music is technically sound - correctly written, correctly rendered, correctly tagged. They are not a claim about taste. No automated check can tell you whether a melody moves you, so four full tracks are free: the title theme, the descent into the cave, the hunt, and the first sight of the valley. That is one tune walking, sinking, running and arriving. Judge that part yourself before you pay for the other thirty-eight.

Drops into your engine

OGG for RPG Maker MV/MZ, GameMaker, Godot and Unity; MIDI for anyone who wants to rebuild it. Loop points are written as LOOPSTART / LOOPLENGTH in samples at 44.1 kHz, which RPG Maker reads directly, and the import notes cover the other engines.