Title | Composers/Arrangers | Year | Download (RMF) | Download (FLAC) |
Headspace RMF Vol. 1: Mellow | Paul Sebastien, Brian Salter, Thomas Dolby | 1997 | Download (https://archive.org/download/headspace-rmf-collections/rmf-mellow.zip/) | Not available yet |
Headspace RMF Vol. 2: Upbeat | Brian Salter, Paul Sebastien, Jim B-Reay | 1997 | Download (https://archive.org/download/headspace-rmf-collections/rmf-upbeat.zip/) | Not available yet |
Headspace RMF Vol. 3: Stingers | Brian Salter, Paul Sebastien | 1997 | Download (https://archive.org/download/headspace-rmf-collections/rmf-stingers.zip/) | Download (https://mega.nz/file/RboxAYbC#7zmB3KxVze47McgPjHKp9lB5382hCHJ9e-0daglNhY4) |
Headspace RMF Vol. 4: Ambient | Paul Sebastien, Blake Leyh, Kim Cascone | 1997 | Download (https://archive.org/download/headspace-rmf-collections/rmf-ambient.zip/) | Download (https://mega.nz/file/1agTlAyQ#8nwN9UKLlus58AKK9e8ypUMEQOnPx1XHl5ol8-YA0s4) |
Headspace RMF Vol. 5: Classical | Brian Salter, Kean Freitas | 1997 | Download (https://archive.org/download/headspace-rmf-collections/rmf-classical.zip/) | Not available yet |
Headspace RMF Vol. 6: Sonic Icons | Kim Cascone, Paul Sebastien, Blake Leyh | 1997 | Download (https://archive.org/download/headspace-rmf-collections/rmf-sonic-icons.zip/) | Download (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HyZFtnQjiu5alIie8Dryjy-prRxw4-zX) |
Headspace RMF Vol. 7: Underground | Brian Salter, Paul Sebastien, Blake Leyh, Kim Cascone | 1997 | Download (https://archive.org/download/headspace-rmf-collections/rmf-underground.zip/) | Download (https://mega.nz/file/ZKwFzSIK#nMU_43cE7ebSQiPfVYasEM9kK1E2y0ZPHE4WYeGHrW4) |
Headspace RMF Vol. 8: Moods | Brian Salter, Paul Sebastien, Blake Leyh | 1997 | Download (https://archive.org/download/headspace-rmf-collections/rmf-moods.zip/) | Download (https://mega.nz/file/QP50SCiC#UYzqOUmcxfajfLk9LAeHaliTvDgTYTiKpdnJnrKnikU) |
Headspace RMF Vol. 9: Atmospheres | Blake Leyh, Brian Salter, Paul Sebastien, Kim Cascone | 1997 | Download (https://archive.org/download/headspace-rmf-collections/rmf-atmospheres.zip/) | Not available yet |
Headspace RMF Vol. 10: Holiday | Brian Salter, Brown Bros. | 1997 | Download (https://archive.org/download/headspace-rmf-collections/rmf-holiday.zip/) | Download (https://mega.nz/file/gfZVSIYY#48UY5mTW1ZRmKTRLCUqLbgwpVAzG7YTpzUWZ3HaqGRk) |
Headspace RMF Holiday Sound Effects | Kim Cascone | 1997 | Download (https://archive.org/download/headspace-rmf-collections/rmf-holiday-sfx.zip/) | Download (https://mega.nz/file/FKZVkYbQ#GhMcl0aIf0tuAEyYNL7uXghiiGL0dyRr8udCu423Cc4) |
Headspace RMF Vol. 11: Sonic Icons II | Kim Cascone, Brian Salter | 1998 | Download (https://archive.org/download/headspace-rmf-collections/rmf-sonic-icons2.zip/) | Download (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XqqbpqTN075SUZBdLFgvmph4-G3Mg3vY) |
Headspace RMF Vol. 12: Travel | Thomas Dolby, Mitchel Forman, Dan & Free, Brian Salter, Kean Freitas, Iki Levy | 1998 | Download (https://archive.org/download/headspace-rmf-collections/rmf-travel.zip/) | Download (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ou_dpVrAEKMHoGeG4KajdEMgxn7U8lL6) |
Headspace RMF Vol. 13: Electronica | Gianluigi Di Costanzo, Tony Hoffer, Brian Salter | 1998 | Download (https://archive.org/download/headspace-rmf-collections/rmf-electronica.zip/) | Download (https://mega.nz/file/hPJzUQgA#EiFQDX0qedUgjQSTI2C3INz1hre0mU7fGqTpIEPdBx8) |
Title | Composers | Year | Download (RMF) | Download (FLAC) |
Green Dinosaur Collection | Thomas Dolby, Jim B-Reay, Paul Sebastien | 1996 | Download (https://mega.nz/folder/nGhTEL6D#Swje-DrTgr-17gtiPAFbsg/folder/DGwlWbxY) | Not available yet |
WebTV Classic | Michael Pukish, Brian Salter, Thomas Dolby, Michael Walthius, Peter Drescher | 1996 | Download (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cPuR7YIaZ-oXas9MQ0CqIVPb2JHle-5h) | Download (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NrvtA3N48aGeRnSwov9rLyl5HuK_-tg1) |
Headspace RMF Sampler / Beatnik Demo | Brian Salter, Paul Sebastien, Kean Freitas, Thomas Dolby | 1997 | Download (https://mega.nz/folder/nGhTEL6D#Swje-DrTgr-17gtiPAFbsg/folder/afgXzIKK) | Download (https://drive.google.com/file/d/13EhvD_r_FYFAhrk8DmnDE1buDe2XgRPG) |
Beatnik patches bank Groovoids | Blake Leyh, Brian Salter, Paul Sebastien, Thomas Dolby, Kim Cascone | 1997 | Download (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jFh9OVcwzAzLfGwMG8ZWX62_m2H15Mpe) | Download (https://drive.google.com/file/d/13EhvD_r_FYFAhrk8DmnDE1buDe2XgRPG) |
Headspace Music Library Vol. 2: Twilight Visitor (RMF ver.) | Brian Salter | 1999 | Download (https://drive.google.com/file/d/165CBLzae-TVNw1Ui6HIm_EI6xj0tome3) | Download (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KsIbO9HtIZU9s1HU5FxxTENuCt-MfzBx) |
AOLTV | Thomas Dolby, Brian Salter, Paul Sebastien, Blake Leyh | 2000 | Download (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OM3nYjqF90aIQkWjAEWRYtFl0qmwvCEf) | Download (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sgD_CB_uFJBecjIm8BryWK1_0lEMtH9) |
Beatnik Player for PocketPC sample tracks | Steven Clark, Brian Salter, Steve Horner | 2001 | Download (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U598PZPKrwqoYU_aNS4CwqZdA_EJRp-c) | Download (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fLVwlKILpHjqGTLIHdNZYW21cJLH7dD2) |
This is for sure an absolute niche find you have posted here and an absolute rarity in terms of "execution". But here also comes my personal problem. I'd like to dive into this, but just like with regular MIDI, the sound is vastly different per soundbank (or hardware synthesizer if you still have one. I have a SoundBlaster Z but they got rid of their HW synths ages ago in their consumer PC hardware lines I guess). So I checked the soundbanks/patches that come with the program and - how do really know which sound is supposed to be the right one? I remember very well the arguments which SF2 file would play the best for each thing, so "if you want to litsen to DooM MIDIs, use XX soundfont but if you want nice strings, use that soundfont". Currenly I use a 950 MByte soundfont for MIDI playback where some commentors shiver because "It sounds off" to their ears. And that is MIDI problematic in a nutshell.patches111 is the preferred bank for the Headspace RMF tracks, and what I used for these recordings, as it sounds the best. It is 1.1 MB and was the default bank of the Beatnik Player plugin. There's also a lower quality version called patches, which is the default bank in Beatnik Editor sessions. WebTV Plus devices also have a variant of the bank with even further degraded quality. There's also patchesp, which was the default bank of Beatnik Player Pro, and replaces some of the instruments with different higher quality samples. And then there's a bunch of mobile banks which are not at all ideal for playing these RMFs.
What do you, fusoxide, think about that whole matter?
Thank you very much for sharing these. I have no idea how to listen to the RMF files but the flacs are awesome, thank youThere's BXPlayerGUI (https://mega.nz/file/KWBWTL4B#zY6Js0UFCQLXzHa57VAP3fAii8nxTC-3dVDpjgQwgzM), which is a GUI program that is a wrapper for BAE. Select the "Beatnik Standard" bank for the intended sound. There's also playBAE (https://mega.nz/file/aXR2mYCB#nD33wwzSPlCoR_9ccX9qiuzwDpSl1NaSGznbKMvSpco), a command line tool that can play these.
Do you have Jim B-Reay's RMF stuff or just those MP3s?Jim did not do any RMFs; that format was not released until 1997, and he was only involved in 1994-96, when it was MIDIs. The MP3s are the original versions made for the Hip Clip Library. Unfortunately those CD-ROMs are lost and I don't have any dumps of the files, nor any info on specific volumes and what tracks were part of which one. Maybe I could ask Jim for WAV/FLAC versions though. I also changed the title of the thread to cover Headspace's pre-RMF libraries.
Team leader/director of Power of Seven, Inc.'s successful 'Hip Clip Music' and 'Hip Midi Trax' cd-rom series (1994). Managed a team of composers and technicians from product inception to completion.Although it seems it was just Jim doing the music; I think he just wanted to make those libraries sound like bigger projects than they actually were. It seems he didn't do his own music for Headspace until around 1996, since before that he wanted to save his ideas for Psykosonik.