Hey all. I recently recorded the music from Splatoon's Squid Beatz mini game and figured I'd share it here. Just to clear up any confusion, I figure I should explain what it is, and what it isn't.

What it is:

This is a direct line-out recording of all the music currently available in the Squid Beatz mini game, unlocked by completing the squid amiibo's challenges. Said mini game allows you to listen to select tracks from the game on their own, or activate visual cues to play along with the beat by pressing the D-pad or face buttons on the Gamepad (the music is played through the TV while percussive sounds are played through the Gamepad when buttons are pressed). This provides clean, sound effect free playback of the available tracks.

What it is not:

A complete soundtrack for the game. There are several tracks that are not included in this mini game including the tutorial stage music, the Inkopolis hub world music, the final checkpoint music for the singleplayer campaign, and many variations of the tracks that have multiple audio layers such as the boss theme, the various store themes, Octo Valley as you clear each section, and some singleplayer tracks as you approach enemies. At this time, it is also not a complete rip of Squid Beatz, since tracks 20 through 22 are currently grayed out and won't play.

Download:

MP3 (VBR) and FLAC downloads are available at https://mega.co.nz/#F!PU5lzCBY!asjTV8G71bLP_7Fa_iImvA

How it was recorded:

I don't know if anyone would be interested in these details, but I figure I'll include them anyway. Audio was recorded by directly connecting the audio cables from my Wii U to the line-in jack on my Sound Blaster X-Fi via 1/8" to RCA stereo cable and a pair of RCA female couplers. Initial recording was performed in Audacity with each track playing about two and a half times, unless they don't loop (Last Minute and Credits). Tracks were then amplified uniformly to keep their volume levels the same relative to each other, while increasing the overall volume. Recordings were exported as WAV and imported into FL Studio to trim excess audio and add fades (15 seconds for most tracks, 10 seconds for shorter tracks like Victory and Defeat). No additional processing was done. Faded out tracks were brought back to Audacity to export as FLAC and MP3.

And that's it! It may not be the game's entire soundtrack, but I hope people enjoy it for what it is.

EDIT: If you're looking for the full soundtrack, there's a direct conversion of the game's music files at Thread 190541

Sounds neat. Defenetly Good enough until We get some Rips from the game files. Which may take a while depending how much audio layering they did.

That sound very good like it :D

Thank You ! I was searching for the OST of this game. I absolutely love it :) It's not the subject, but i've done some pictures of my Splatoon Amiibo here, so if you love Splatoon, take a look at this ! : D�couverte : Les Amiibo Splatoon Fille, Gar�on et Squid ! (http://otakugame.fr/decouvertes-les-amiibo-splatoon-fille-garcon-et-squid/)

This is neat but like you already said, it lacks the best tracks.

I totally hope they will make some SQUID SISTERS merchandise, like single, whole album and stuff, I would buy them without blinkin' an eye. They have so much potential - Nintendo's own Hatsune Miku :D

The recordings sounds nice and also a good job.

Awesome! Thanks for all the effort!

This is definitely the best quality release available for Splatoon at the moment, even if it is missing some tracks. They will be released eventually though, so I'm not worried. Just having tunes like the final boss theme and end credits in higher-than-192kbps quality is incredible. Good job!

Do we know what the three unavailable tracks are going to be? Or is it just guesses at the moment? The tutorial theme would be really nice.

Also, no-one has attempted any album art for this? For shame.

Oh, I read it incorrectly. It HAS the best themes after all. Good job, nice job!

Thanks a lot for recording and uploading this, man! I love the music in this game, it's so much fun.

Great work. Splatoon has some really great music and it's honestly some of the most original VGM I've heard in a while. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks all, I'm glad you're enjoying it!

GlassButterflies - Thanks for the props on the quality! That was my main goal with this rip since other rips, while more complete, still had sound effects during the introductions to the multiplayer tracks, during the boss music, etc. As for the three missing tracks, everything I've heard says they'll be for the Splatfest event, first starting on June 20th.

Lefance - I was starting to wonder which tracks you felt were the best if they weren't included in here! I'm glad you found the ones you like, though.

This is amazing. My daughter and my girlfriend both love the soundtrack as much as I do, which is crazy because my girlfriend usually thinks video game soundtracks are for weird people, lol.

Any news of the new tracks from Splatfest?

They're still grayed out in Squid Beatz, and probably will be until the event on the 4th.

In the meantime, they managed to extract the music files from the game, so you can probably find them in there - Thread 190541

I like your rips better so I will wait for your update to this thread.

Assuming tracks 20-22 are Splatfest tracks, it looks like we'll have to wait a bit more before I can record them. I didn't have time to get in and play during Splatfest, and tracks 20-22 are still grayed out on my game.

No rush! (:

Thank you so much for these! Squid Beats is great!