Stephan Vankov, the music remixer attached to the Spyro Reignited Trilogy, knew he had a challenge ahead of him when developer Toys for Bob signed on to remaster the series. Recapturing the magic of a classic bears plenty of weight, especially when placed against the original soundtrack of Stewart Copeland. But Vankov assures that the original soundtrack will be implemented in the Reignited Trilogy with both care and respect, giving players a fresh new way to experience the original trilogy?s beloved themes:
To create the ?reignited? music, we reconstructed all 120+ themes from the original trilogy, transcribing each piece note-by-note. This gave us the flexibility to update some of the instrumentation and also gave us access to individual instrument parts for use in our dynamic music system, which allowed us to add a whole new dimension to the music experience. Vankov even met with Stewart Copeland on several occasions to share some of their progress, which managed to ?trick his ears? on a few tracks. Vankov expressed plenty of joy in getting to collaborate with the series? original composer, whose energy and enthusiasm apparently never wavered since his work all those years ago:
He was appreciative of how we were handling his music and it gave us a lot of wind-in-the-sails to know that we had his support behind us. We also showed him what we were doing with dynamic music and were happy to find out that there were discussions about having dynamic music in the original gam...