Aural Frontiers - immersive ambient and exploration music revamp

AURAL FRONTIERS

Original ambient music replacer for Starfield.

So, basically, there is nothing wrong with the vanilla ambient music. It simply gets stale after a while and is somewhat stereotypical. After finishing the main game and transitioning to NG+ I tried several of the fantastic ambient sound replacement mods for Starfield. These fascinated me and, having some humble experience with music production myself, motivated me to create music for an ambient music replacement mod myself.

Big shoutout to DaVinciWorks and his mod PopcornTime - Cinematic Ambient Music Overhaul which i used as a template and learning guide for this.

Also, DinDisco with his mod Faded Memories - A Combat and Exploration Music Replacer has been a fantastic source of knowledge and inspiration for me. You Guys are my modding heroes.

What to expect

All the music used in this mod is original. I have used a creation process I intend to share as an article. It incorporates classical digital music production via Apple Logic Pro as a DAW, as well as AI-Tools and whatnot.

All music is produced digitally, and I tried to work along creative guidelines for immersion and consistency:

• []Akila City

  and Freestar collective for example are western inspired SCIFI scenarios. I tried to do things with Banjos, country style song structures and incorporated some synth weave there.ORolOumNyUM[]Euphorika Bar

  has a loungey atmosphere with some reminiscences to adult amusement establishments which inspired a slow, club like rather silky soundscape, sprinkled with some electronica.GsvL3qi3yU0[]Cydonia

  is a harsh ex-mining underground colony that has fallen to despair somewhat, so it has a gritty, grungy soundscape with audio that tries to convey dust, metal etc. z24yifDTvNs...basically all 93 tracks are developed along these lines.

Installation

Use Vortex or download manually, all files go into Data/Sound/SoundBanks folder.

Work ongoing

• []during testing, I have realized, that there are some tracks that still default back to the vanilla music. I will work on expanding this mod with time and cover more and more of what is still missing today.

  []I have realized, that some of the vanilla SFX, for example when a new location is discovered, does not mesh well with some of the music this mod provides. I Will work on replaces for some of these too.

  Kudos

  I simply love the things  KryoZet does. I can wholeheartedly recommend all his mods, which never fail to amaze me.

  * Also Kudos to DefenderVex for his amazi