Semi-Official Banjo Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64 & Banjo Tooie Soundtracks

You might have read about the complete Banjo Kazooie soundtrack being released by Grant Kirkhope at the end of last year (http://www.reddit.com/r/n64/comments/2ictbb/banjokazooie_everything_and_the_kitchen_sink/). The bad news is that unfortunately, it has since been taken down and at the time of this post it’s no longer available due to him surpassing his free download limit. This also stopped the release of the other two. This is subject to change however. The good news is that I was the person who compiled that soundtrack for Grant. I posted news about them being upcoming a few months prior here (Thread 174258) and later updated that post with download links. It only occured to me now however, that because originally the thread was an announcement about the upcoming release, there hasn’t been a proper download thread.

Either way, today I bring you the full soundtracks for Banjo Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64 & Banjo Tooie. Grab yourself a copy here or look at the track-lists below:

Banjo-Kazooie, 164 tracks, 520mb: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/x4d4msevn2neblh/AACvuM-j03hSPECxuK2v50Joa?dl=0
Banjo-Tooie, 139 tracks, 618mb: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ad20q2gogh21qyl/AABebBy_Hr_ChdDxgtddKJl0a?dl=0
Donkey Kong 64, 159 tracks, 489mb: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rz5p7eokqfe7j1x/AAALBaP7EA2epygI22lvuK7ua?dl=0

Wow…. this is a truly great surprise! Thank you so much for sharing this! 🙂

Is this just a rip from the USF files? The DK64 ones have serious problems (pitch is slightly lower than it should be, and some of the tracks have the beginning attack cut off)

Thanks for sharing! 😀 😀

Thanks a lot!

Is this Banjo-Kazooie soundtrack the same as "Banjo-Kazooie: Everything and the Kitchen Sink!", being that both have the same number of tracks and tracklisting? Also, thank you for the job of collecting all of this. Could you explain a bit more on the process of collecting all the files, have you used the usf sets or some other technique I’m not aware of. Because the usf sets are known to have artifacts…

Would you consider also adding a flac download option please? I would absolutely be thankful for that. Have a nice day!

Did Grant seriously decide to release a full soundtrack of Donkey Kong 64 like Everything and the Kitchen Sink? That would’ve been awesome! Why pass up on that? It’d been just as important

Gaiden, I think this rip was made with the USF rip, as the Donkey Kong 64 tracks are so slightly slower than the original and the pitch is shifted a little bit. It is still a very nice collection, don’t get me wrong! It just the OCD part of myself dreams of a 100% bit to bit identical to the ingame source. And so far I’m not successful in this endeavour.

You’re half right. No, this is not the USF rip you’ll find everywhere else. Both Banjo Tooie and DK64 had severe problems in the USF files, mainly, the first few milliseconds were cut off (as evident in the K. Rool fight from Donkey Kong 64. I think the entire first note is cut off in the USF).

I painstakingly got individual samples out of the rom file and recreated the tracks bit by bit in a DAW. In some cases I was able to get sequences for reference (through a tool I made similar to VGMTrans), the N64 is not the easiest system to work with and it was uncommon. Often I’d have to use the USF tracks for reference as to instrument pitch and placement, which is probably where the issues you’re mentioning come in. I could work on fixing this though, I’m a perfectionist too and now that it’s been brought to my attention I’d be happy to put the extra work in. I also used the USF track names for both Donkey Kong 64 and Banjo Kazooie, as the only game I recall having a jukebox was Banjo Tooie, so I’d have to make up or guess names for 100+ tracks in those cases.

The Banjo Kazooie is exactly the same release as the "Everything and the Kitchen Sink" version, these were the files I sent to Grant prior to it’s release.

Edit: The only reason I didn’t do this in FLAC (I considered this) is that I’m from Australia. The internet here is awful, especially when you’re talking about upload speeds – it’s a nightmare. The samples themselves were compressed heavily in the rom though, so there’s not much more you’ll get in the quality department. I’d love to release FLACs in the future though.

Oh I see! I’d love to know more about your method, as it’s obvious you worked a lot on this! I’d love to help you if I could, but you know way more about this stuff than I do.

I’m mostly just a musician with an OCD for classifying music and particularly video game soundtracks.

As for the samples themselves, you’ve been in contact with Grant Kirkhope, haven’t you? He said once what was his sythesizer at the time, maybe you could get a better version of the samples to put on those sequences! That would be the best thing to happen to those files! 😀

Also, I’m all for the flac release, the reason I asked other than I like my flacs is that when I downloaded "Everything and the Kitchen Sink" there was a wav and flac option. So I didn’t know these were not truly lossless flacs…

I’d love to help anyway I can though! 😀

Edit: Could the Official CD from Donkey Kong 64 (from which the album art is taken) and Kazooie/Tooie be used as benchmark for adjusting the pitch? Also if all the corresponding songs have the same pitch alteration, could a good heuristic be used by considering every song to have the same difference?

Or, is your DAW able to show you how many cents you are from the note? Or is the sequence you extracted able to tell you the corresponding note for an input like "A4"?
Also, how have you been able to apply all the modifiers to the pitch exactly like the N64 does at runtime? Because all the soundfonts I’ve seen have the sample but no loop points or reverb adjustments and such saved with them… Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. 😉 Once again, good job, all of that is very impressive!

Do you have a link to that article at all? I’ve been in contact with him, but it was of a limited amount and just for this project (I noticed him mention he didn’t have the master soundtracks at one point and I offered my services). I’ll shoot him a message and see if he’ll let me know though, he’s actually so friendly and polite. They say don’t meet your idols but if anything I just think even more highly of him after this.

A FLAC copy with the original samples would be a dream come true for me. I’m in a similar perspective to you, I’m a musician and I’m really picky about all these things. Maybe if I manage to sort this out I’ll document how I do the first track in the hopes that you or others can help me complete the soundtrack quicker. 100 tracks split over 4-5 people would be so much easier than doing them all individually. Or if I end up doing it all myself I could mail a hard copy for you to upload, save this tedious upload speed. Though at the moment this is just a pipe dream, it’s not an easy task and I’m not sure if I still have the project files or if I’d have to re-create this.

Dropbox only accepts lossless files for uploading, so I think they’d have to have been converted first.

I’ll just avoid to clutter this forum as I’m bordering out of subject, as this is a thank you thread for your work. I’m writing you a PM for the technical details. 😀

Wonderful work, thank you!

Nice. Appreciated!

Try my version of DK64. Pitch is correct. https://mega.co.nz/#!t81jSTZL!QSAIZbUu8oa1lDymPHnrCtnb4NwzW-u4ztmRm61cla0

Hi MTRougeau, could you expand on your process to acquire the tracks and correct pitch? Thank you! (Are you french by any means? Es-tu fran�ais?) 😀

Hi MTRougeau, could you expand on your process to acquire the tracks and correct pitch? Thank you! (Are you french by any means? Es-tu fran�ais?) 😀

Haha, I’m American, but my ancestors were French!

I used one of the existing USF rips and then foobar plus the plugin found on USF Central (http://hcs64.com/usf/) to play/convert the tracks. I previously used the USF plugin found on foobar’s official site (foobar2000: Components Repository – USF Decoder (http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_input_usf)) but discovered that playback for DK64 was at a lower pitch. When I found the new plugin, the pitch played perfectly!

Cool! I love Grant Kirkhope’s music. It’s simply amazing!

Thanks dude! Been meaning to download these soundtracks for a while now… that I’ve even had folders set up since 2016 lmao CHEERS!

To be quite honest it’s not actually EVERYTHING and the kitchen sink, at least in the case of Banjo-Kazooie. There’s only one version of the main Gruntilda’s Lair theme in this collection! You probably assumed you had it covered since you have all the variations themed after specific worlds and the underwater one, but there are actually multiple versions of the "vanilla" song as well as you proceed through the lair – notice how there’s a music box segment in some of them, for instance, but not in others. Just wanted to point that out for perfectionism.