Hearts of iron 4 music series#

Hi guys! If you donвЂ™t know IвЂ™m Metal King aka The Audio Director here at Paradox. I tried to orchestrate it in style of German composers that comes to mind from that era. The Tenor and later Bass TromboneвЂ™s are playing the theme and snuck in there is also a chromatic passage that references the violins. It is used quite a few times in the soundtrack, especially for Axis music. The chromatic violin line is my way of trying to give that german-panzer-on-tracks-going-forward feeling. I was supervising it from the studio so I could hear everything more clearly, and I would tell the orchestra through the conductor if something was not how I wanted it. ItвЂ™s not the Main Theme for HOI IV mind you.ДЄnd no that is not me conducting the orchestra, that is the brilliant Bernt Ruf. This video is a recording from a sample of one the Axis tracks. I guess вЂњdonвЂ™t mention the warвЂќ still holds true in some parts of Germany? We were doing Axis, Allied and Comintern inspired music so I do however think the orchestra knew exactly what was going on. not tell the players what the music was for. When I came to the music hall, the orchestra leader told me to maybe. I am an orchestral composer so being able to write for a large orchestra was the first thing I requested for HoI4.ДЇunny story though, I went down to record with Brandenburg State Orchestra which is a German orchestra. I have tried to build on that and sometimes reprised a few of the themes from those earlier HoIвЂ™s to get the feeling that this is the same game. Fred was kind enough to take me in for HoI2 and let me do the music even though I was still in university with only a few short-films and orchestration jobs under my belt and the rest I guess is history for meвЂ¦ well until I did Stellaris to be fair.ДЄnyway, As I said, we had some ground laid out music wise from the past games in the series. It was the first game I had scored.Д«ack when HoI2 was being developed, Fred Wester handled the music (among a lot of other things I presume, as we were not as many people at paradox back then).

Hearts of iron 4 music series#

However, Hearts of Iron series is the one that is very close to my heart indeed. Now, I have done a few Hearts of IronвЂ™s by now (HoI2 and HoI3) so letвЂ™s just say that I didnвЂ™t need to research Second World War as much this time around. Hi, my name is Andreas вЂњJazzholeвЂќ Waldetoft and I am the music composer at Paradox. Welcome the 51th DD and for this week we will talk (mostly) about the music and sound design: