Left 4 Dead 2 music: Dead Center Horde and Germ arrangement

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Yes, I know that many other people have created videos on YouTube sharing their arrangements of the Horde themes in Left 4 Dead 2. And they're arrangements by very nature of how the sounds are stored the game files: They're all in pieces that have to be stitched together either by the Source engine in real time during a game (by the "AI Music Director"), or by a sound editor using software like Audacity. Since I'm not a video game engine, this music was done the second way. And to be different from other people, I made my arrangements of the Horde themes unique by also including each campaign's "Germ" tones as intros and outros. "Germ" plays when a horde attack is incoming, and they have many variations, such as on different instruments pertaining to the theme/setting of the campaign, or a pattern of going up in pitch or down in pitch. The "Germ" musical cues can be found in the /sound/music/mob folder. The "Horde" themes can be found within /sound/music/zombat (here are "snare_horde_01_01a" and "b.wav", as well as "gatesofhell.wav" for when a horde has been defeated). Within the Zombat folder are the folders "danger" (which have folders for the main instruments of each campaign's special horde themes, plus "hordedanger_01.wav" for a generic "incoming horde" sound), "horde" (full of 29 files of just percussion and drums), and "slayer" (which only has two folders, "fiddle" (for Hard Rain) and "lectric". "lectric" only has slayer_01a.wav, a very low-pitched horde sound you might hear in some of my arrangements.)

Dead Center takes place in Savannah, Georgia. The musical instruments featured in its themes include the banjo and accordion. If that's an accordion hitting those high notes, I didn't know they could go that high! These instruments invoke a feeling of the South, specifically Georgia, and of the barren isolation of an empty town, and later, an abandoned shopping mall. The accordion, especially, seems well-suited for the mall, for some reason. The banjo seems to represent Georgia in general.

Dead Center's Horde themes are found in /music/zombat/danger/banjo.

Image sources (all screenshotted by me):
Whitaker's Gun Shop - http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=656323197
Liberty Mall security office - http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=656323252
Liberty Mall atrium - http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=655030343