November news, part 1 (Patreon)

Hey everyone!

Lots of things to share this month. As explained in our newsletter, the hard work of the past 6 to 8 months comes to fruition, all at the same time (hence the delay for october releases). Here's part 1 of the news.

The team grows!

You maybe saw the news on Discord or on our newsletter, but if it's not the case yet :

We are incredibly happy to officially welcome Lyre RPG Music in our team! These fantastic people will work with MGS for the years to come. Who are they ? Read their words.

Lyre RPG is a German trio of selftaught TTRPG-content creators, formed by Isaac (composer), Olav (composer) and Sebastian (graphics and animation). In 2021, they started producing RPG-music with a focus on immersive and atmospheric soundtracks that enhance gameplay during RPG sessions. The mixture of self-recorded and digital instruments define Lyre’s sound. Typically, Olav composes the drum-heavy combat tracks and the acoustical tavern music, while Isaac is responsible for the atmospherical tracks, with frequent collaborations on songs.

If you’d like to know more, they are presented here https://michaelghelfistudios.com/who-we-are/

I contacted them some months ago when I was looking to expand the team. I must admit, finding good composers in the TTRPG scene, with professional quality sound and a real deep understanding of what’s expected for TTRPG music, is incredibly hard. There are thousands of aspirants, but few meet our conditions. When we first heard Lyre RPG music though, we knew we had to work together. I contacted them and two weeks later, we had a call on Zoom, which lasted for hours. Filip joined in another call some weeks later and it all felt like a group of friends having a drink together. I had the same feeling as when I met Filip for the first time: the relationship felt “obvious”, unavoidable. It makes me deeply happy.

What will they do ?

They aren’t full time composers, so you can expect from them about a soundtrack per year, or two years. Quality takes time and they always compose tracks following an official campaign scenario, they never “just write music”. Currently, they are working on an official album for a partnership deal we just signed and that I will announce on the 13th of November. Hint: they are by far among the largest TTRPG publishers. Can you guess ?

Lyre RPG will not compose for Patreon, only Chosen+ patrons will get their albums as free download, as per usual.

For the moment, Lyre RPG Music composed a whole album inspired by another company’s starting set campaign (see image below).

You can get the album here: https://michaelghelfistudios.bandcamp.com/

Chosen+ Patrons will get it for free on the 26th of April. It shall soon be on Spotify as well in about two weeks :)

New albums

Next month, we'll release another album, and yet another in January, both music.

I'm also well engaged in the composition process of RPG Essentials Volume 9 (currently 33 songs on 50) and Modern Ambiences Vol. 2 (about 35/50). For once, I'd like to release them full and not as I always did for ambiences : partial releases and free downloads of updates.

So far, 2024 looks promising. It's at least 8 albums in many different styles and by at least 3 different composers that are planned. Exciting times!

But hey, let's not speak too much about 2024. I barely processed 2023 already.

More soon, thanks for your attention!

Michael & Team