Rayman 2: The Great Escape OST - REMASTERED / Ultra High Quality 360 Audio w/ Matching Gameplay

[@GEMGaming_yt]

If you see this, reply with your favorite songs!

[@AlecFortescue]

Precipe.

[@Silent_Patchouli]

A couple of them. Freeing Ly, Axel/Foutch fight, Final Boss Theme, and the middle part of Beneath the Sanctuary of Rock&Lava. These are the first ones that come to my mind

[@AWaBfantasy]

Extreme Heat always brings back many memories!

[@CrashMcCloudX29]

A Small Skirmish slaps

[@ChudBogdanoff]

the bayou

[@seasonembrace3624]

Rayman 2 certainly has an atmospheric and dark mood to it along with a magical bounce here and there.

[@GEMGaming_yt]

And that's exactly why I love it so much!

[@electronstudios1411]

that's what made it one of the best in the series along with rayman 3.

[@seasonembrace3624]

@@GEMGaming_yt Also the Tomb of the Ancients music and level it self reminds me so much of the 80s flick (Secret of Nimh).

[@GEMGaming_yt]

Just a note: The soundtrack that I remastered is from the Revolution version of the game, but the footage is from the PC version of the game. The Revolution version is an enhanced PS2 port of the base game with an added hub world and a few new scenarios. This means that some tracks don't have accompanying footage, so I just let the previous footage continue playing. :) Also, I'm very sorry if this video contains ads. KZbin once again, INCORRECTLY marked part of this as copyrighted by some band I've never heard of and who has no affiliation with this content. Rather than have that small section of the video deleted, I'm just going to leave it as is. 😠

[@pk.002]

Outstanding work!!! Rayman 2's soundtrack has always been one of my favorites alongside Jet Force Gemini and you did a phenomenal job remastering it.

[@GEMGaming_yt]

Thank you so much! At 117 tracks, it's the largest OST I've remastered so far. I definitely need to choose something smaller next time!

[@pk.002]

@@GEMGaming_yt That's a massive undertaking (not to mention all of the capture work to accompany each track), but your effort shows and it's a solid choice for a remaster. It's one of those soundtracks where there's nothing quite like it- it stuck with me for many years after first playing it on N64 as a kid.

[@Kami-w7d]

@@pk.002 Same here! It's super nostalgic in so many ways.

[@arkaradiat7227]

Instant sub, you literally restored one of best OSTs ever, at this point I can't wait for more.

[@GEMGaming_yt]

Thank you! I totally agree. I get these songs stuck in my head all the time.

[@UndineSoundworks]

And I was JUST listening to this OST for nostalgia's sake. How wonderful to stumble on a remastering of it! Fantastic work. There were a LOT of songs to go through.

[@Gshepgf]

What an incredible and well thought out tribute to one of the most underrated games of all time

[@ivmanitas3786]

Bro this is amazing! I've listened to 2 soundtracks so far and its been quite a trip back in time! I wish you the very best with your work!

[@GEMGaming_yt]

Thank you! It's been a lot slower the past 6 months or so. It was easier to work on videos during quarantine.

[@nathanielreynolds893]

Awesome compilation of an amazing OST that brings me back to my childhood. One of my favorite things about the Rayman 2 OST is how it remixes its main theme into many of the level themes in creative ways. For example, it is featured very centrally in Hit It!, The Precipice and The Prison Ship, but if you listen very carefully you can hear the main riff in Whale Bay and The Ancient Lava Temple tracks as well. There are probably other examples too, those are just the ones I could find.

[@GEMGaming_yt]

I love it when OSTs do this. Have you played Death's Door? That game does the same thing with it's amazing soundtrack. So much good music built around the same melody. Death's Door is also simply a great game. I really recommend playing through it!

[@DoomedVikingMedievalCeltism]

In The Sanctuary of Water & Ice I loved how the level started silent and when the robopirate appeared the music started ❤️

[@Frilleon]

It’s insane how good you are at this

[@GEMGaming_yt]

OMG thank you so much!

[@TheScemoo]

Why i instantanely start to cry when the music begin? 😢 miss those old days with my dad and N64 and no problems… miss Rayman, come back please!

[@leomartz33]

Fun Fact: We just saw the whole game Great job btw 👏👏

[@GreyWolfLeaderTW]

First time listening to this whole soundtrack (never played the game as a kid) and I gotta say, loving Eric Chevalier's Danny Elfman style score.

[@haythemmaatouk47]

This is not a remaster. This is a masterpiece.

[@LUCKYRiCK]

How do i only find this now? This is freaking awesome!

[@raptormaverick4774]

The celestial slide, and all of the sanctuary of stone and fire will always be my favorites!

[@GEMGaming_yt]

Those are really great tracks!

[@GoodSmile3]

Thanks a lot for such quality! I also liked the gameplay in the background. The ancient lava temple, hot stream, top of the world, prison ship and boss fights are my favourite tracks!

[@truefrozehehehe]

Psycho Spider and Boss fight battle soundtrack has to be one of my favorite soundtrack 🔥🔥🔥

[@Mykinius]

Absolutely incredible; thank you so much. I beelined for The Hall of Doors and Guardian of the Mask.

[@GEMGaming_yt]

Hall of Doors is one of my favorites too! It's that big bassy boom that I love so much and how it's so mysterious sounding.

[@DigitalMasterpieces]

Thank you very much for this! This sounds ridiculously good. Further reasserts the fact that we really need this soundtrack on a quadruple vinyl 😁

[@ExtremelyVideos]

That's a whole lot of time and effort. Sincere thanks!

[@GEMGaming_yt]

Yeah, but it was all for a game I love.

[@thecraftinatorx]

This is WONDERFUL!! Thank you very much!!!

[@KosmosUnity]

It's one of the best games that ever existed!

[@jimmybobfred696]

I have never played a Rayman game (except for one that was ported onto GBA that I never finished, no idea which one it is, though) but this is really pretty! The sound is very crisp, too. Nice job! I like the footage, provides really nice context for the track that's playing, which is really handy for someone like me who doesn't know anything about the ray man. :P

[@GEMGaming_yt]

Awe, I love that. I guess I never thought about how people who have never played the game would appreciate the footage.

[@xxsusmasterxx5491]

@@GEMGaming_yt Have you played Rayman 2 yet? It's one of the best games ever made in my opinion!

[@Zefa2213]

Watching the video really surprises me with all the stuff I haven’t seen before since I played on the ps1 and yet you’re telling me there’s a ps2 version with more new stuff?! I need a way :)

[@GEMGaming_yt]

Yeah! I've never played the PS2 version either. I remember seeing it at sores as a kid and just thinking it was a totally different game because it was called Rayman Revolution. No insinuation that it was Rayman 2 on the front of the box. I may have to try and emulate it sometime soon. Or watch a playthrough at the very least.

[@genkotone7979]

Although Rayman Revolution has a longer loading screen times, I would recommend the game! It was my very first Rayman game experience as a child, and is now a part of my core memories. This franchise will always have a part of my heart. That being said, this game adds a lot of things while still being closely faithful to the other Rayman 2 games. If it weren't for the loading times, I would consider this as the ultimate Rayman 2 game. But, for now, the Sega Dreamcast version of this game is the ultimate R2 game.

[@jackcatlin]

Thank you for uploading this!

[@TukoIsCool]

Someone should definitely release a N64 version of the OST. It’s got a bit more of a chill vibe than the high quality one due to the less layers and warmer samples. I find it calming.

[@Maturas]

At first, I thought that you barely did any remastering at all, as the Prologue track didn't sound that much different. But then, after hearing The Hall of Doors and The Marshes of Awakening, I've realised how wrong I was.

[@napakamu9670]

Love this game's music so much

[@salacious_creature]

you deserve more attention for work this quality rly

[@briochebananabread]

i got rayman 3D and it was supridingly good i didnt know it was a remake though

[@GEMGaming_yt]

Rayman 2 has been released on something like 9 different platforms over the years.

[@briochebananabread]

@@GEMGaming_yt up untill i was like 11 I've only heard of rayman origins (my first rayman game) rayman legends, and that one Wii game with the rabbids

[@Ermite_des_songes]

This is insaine... You .. damn man so much work and so perfect

[@MrAwkwarDmusic]

I'm crying right now, thank you

[@nadavshemesh1231]

Wow thanks! i enjoyed it tremendously :)

[@ladySnape1]

What a great soundtrack ❤❤❤❤ thanks for the work

[@auradiazgranados1973]

36:57 WOOOOO!!!!!!

[@MrLine]

Amazing work my guy!

[@electronstudios1411]

thanks so much for not including the got damn annoying dialog!

[@Z59b2r]

Rayman 3's ost would be greatly appreciated as well

[@GEMGaming_yt]

Maybe someday!

[@NandoMormile]

18:44 LET'S MOVE!

[@GEMGaming_yt]

I clicked on your time stamp and was immediately reminded, wow, this OST is so good!

[@NandoMormile]

@@GEMGaming_yt great ost!!!!

[@weslspretzels4900]

Pretty legendary man thank you for this!

[@GEMGaming_yt]

Thank you for listening!

[@Vykad]

That's amazing! Thank you for the time and effort you put into this! I now listen to this soundtrack when I work and I greatly appreciate it! I know you have a long list of game you would like to remaster, but do you plan on working on the Rayman 3 soundtrack (or at least partially)? This one's my favorite Rayman of all time and I would really love to hear some of his beautiful musics reworked to meet today's standards. Oh, by the way, I was thinking of replacing the musics of my Rayman 2 game's installation with yours (if it is possible) and I was wondering: would you be interested in a patch that would automatically download and replace music files? I give no guarantee I will have the time to do it, but I think it would be a nice feature to have. Tell me what you think about it.

[@GEMGaming_yt]

Thank you so much! Rayman 3 is on the list, but like you said, it's a very long list. Lol. So someday it'll happen, but not for a while. And actually, I have a Patreon tier of $5 and you can download all of the remastered music files in wav format. I don't know anything about replacing music in game, but you're very welcome to use those and give it a shot.

[@Vykad]

​@@GEMGaming_yt I made some researches to see if it is possible to change the music files, and it is! But the game will resample them to 22050Hz with 16-bit format anyway. I have no knowledge on this topic, do you think it would still be worth it? If so, is there a simpler way to contact you in case I have other similar questions? If you have time and you wish to of course.

[@GEMGaming_yt]

@@Vykad Probably the best way is to message me on Twitter. @GEM_Gaming_yt

[@Iceman_V4LOR]

This is my favorite better than the 3rd but you should do a remaster of that soundtrack as well.

[@skylorbullard6683]

why don;t we do this with the best sneaking music of all time? 21:35

[@metalmadness5851]

It's a shame future Rayman titles wouldn't continue this style.

[@GEMGaming_yt]

I would be really happy with even a remaster of Rayman 2. But not the Revolution version. I didn't like that one.

[@metalmadness5851]

@@GEMGaming_yt Fair enough

[@humbertodemelo1444]

Thank you! Can I download It separate? Where? Thank you

[@GEMGaming_yt]

Yeah, you can download the remastered tracks though my Patreon. www.patreon.com/gemgaming

[@magicnumber2310]

We need a remastered or a hd port for ps5 and Xbox series x

[@GEMGaming_yt]

Just wait, it will come!

[@MilesKromno]

love this game!!

[@MilesKromno]

I actually want to share a story of me playing this game as a kid. I actually rented this game at a local blockbuster when they rented out cartridges. way back when i was young. it was funny though because one time when I actually had the game after buying it, I was visiting my dad in another state and his brother would purposefully drop clothes on my n64 which made the game freeze and I had to restart a couple times after making it halfway into the game xD. but i beat this game without without losing my health bar all the way and recorded it from start to finish in 2021. it's a fun recording.

[@alicejansen1332]

Are you planning any other remasters of rayman for the future like Rayman 3?

[@GEMGaming_yt]

I'm not sure. Rayman 3 didn't have as much of an impact on me. i typically do remasters of games that I love from my childhood or even from more recently. If I did, I probably go to the trouble to match it with gameplay.

[@Thomas-uy4vn]

How do you do transform the tracks ? I'm curious. Are you able to extract the differents layers of already existing tracks and alter them ? You remake them from scratch from what you listen ? I don't get it. As far as I understand all these reprise tracks are brand new. I've never heard them before

[@genkotone7979]

It's most likely from the Rayman Revolution soundtrack. I swear I've heard some of these reprises before.

[@Thomas-uy4vn]

​@@genkotone7979So how is this remastered in any way ? I don't get it

[@genkotone7979]

@@Thomas-uy4vn Just like the musical term used, the soundtrack is overall remastered. Meaning the quality just got better and refined based on the samples I've heard. There also seems to be minor changes to some songs, but not sure if that's the case or if the PS2 audio back then made me not hear it. Each individual track was either redone or processed to have a more cleaner and crispier sound that should meet today's standards compared to back then. The soundtrack is still faithful to the original, it's not a remake. It's just a remaster.

[@Peppino-P-rankMaster]

This is my favorite 1:46:40

[@f5203]

I wonder how you remastered it and what it means to "remaster a soundtrack". Made a similar song from scratch? or somehow tuned the original? Also, I doubt youtube is the best place for Ultra High Quality 360 Audio . But I digress.

[@GEMGaming_yt]

I've been contemplating taking "Remastered" out of the title in favor of leaving the ultra high quality part. People seem to get confused about what a remaster is, and people could have multiple definitions I suppose. What I mean by the term is taking the original audio and making it better. Think of it like a graphics person taking a scratched up old photo and making it look new again. That's what I'm doing. I'm not reorchestrating anything, I'm not a musician, all I am is someone who loves music from my favorite video games with tools at my disposal to make it sound better. And listening to that music with visuals accompanied is something that I would want to see, so that's what I do. And you're right, KZbin is not the place to hear impeccable audio quality. That's why I offer the original files through Patreon. I do charge a one time $5 fee to access the files, but you have to understand that this is A LOT of work. One video could take me months of work in my free time to finish. I do really appreciate you watching my content. It makes me want to make more. But videos are coming out slower and slower as I realize more and more that I really enjoy my free time and I have SO MANY games to check off my backlog.

[@RobHood-ec1tq]

Good Job nice 💪

[@---pp7tq]

What stereo imager plugin you use if it's not a secret?

[@GEMGaming_yt]

I use the Stereo Expander effect in Adobe Premier. No, it's not super high tech, but it gives a result that works really well. When I'm processing the music, I can't just process every song the same way, so I use this effect because I can adjust the expansion. That's just one of a few steps. Granted, this only works with music that is in stereo to begin with.

[@---pp7tq]

@@GEMGaming_yt Interesting! Can you share with any other important plugins in the process?

[@GEMGaming_yt]

I do all of the processing within Adobe Audition (I said Premiere above but it was a mistake, lol. I'm working in Premiere at the moment and it slipped out). But I do them in a particular order and I take care to check each track through at every step so I don't mess with the sound. Basically, I widen the audio, then adjust the levels to bring out the low and high ends, then master it. All done within Audition. I have to be really careful at each step because it's too easy to blow out the audio over the volume threshold, resulting is lost audio information and it will sound terrible. So, I have to check each song every step of the way.

[@---pp7tq]

@@GEMGaming_yt I'm very interested in hearing out what would be your feelings about using Spleeter and its stem/tracks separation tool. It allows to manipulate e.g. drum track separately, but it cuts everything to 16kHz in Spek (32kHz in total) in one of the model variants. It might be useful to achieve even better results. Theoretically it os not any loss when 22kHz files are being processed. Well, if your interested hearing some feedback about your work. I really like how your masters are loud, bass vivid, though too boomy (e.g. lower bass in Lava flying segments), and scene wide like an airport, but sometimes the stereo enhancer or reverb/echo (you did use those as well?) is all over of some samples and it makes the sound very strange and unnatural. Simply, some instruments have detestable echo. But still, some tracks and/or fragments sound decent. Another problem in your recordings is audible artifacts after using some EQ/exciter/harmonics enhancer. I think there might be something a bit wrong with your monitors/headphones that you cannot hear it (or you leave it as it is on purpose). I don't know whether Audition stock plugins will be enough in this matter, but there are a lot of plugins serving for filtering out various types of noise audible in these recordings. I mean various types of deesers, decklicker/decrackler, dehisser, denoiser, declipper, sometimes gate. When you use some of these plugins, you naturally lowering amount of higher tones in your recordings, but in the end, you compensate it with more aggressive exciter or EQ settings, so in the end the sound is less harsh. The problem has nothing to do with YT compression. Whenever you saturate low sample rate signal, the artifacts show in various tracks with varying intensity. The overall sound might be too harsh after good saturation and also after applying stereo enhancer, which also make the things worse in this matter. If you can't really hear what I mean, or you don't have serious class equipment, just try even putting on your headphones, use some decent EQ, and/or some common sound enhancer like e.g. Dolby, tweak them all to the level when your favourite music sounds good enough, and then play your own tracks. Now you should hear it. Whenever your music is worse in some aspects from popular music made by professional engineers, it becomes your fault. Though working on such sh* quality music is difficult task, it forces you to commit less mistakes because of possible outcomes of the final effect - remastering difficult sources of the music, which is very challenging, but rewarding task. In the very end, I'd encourage you to look for more VSTs - saturators/harmonics enhancers/crystallizers, exciters, multi band EQs. Some of them even for free. I'm sure that you could achieve even better results with such better plugins. And they'll become handy when you start filtering out a noise more aggressively. Another thing, is possibly upgrading something in your sound system. Most probably it has not enough bass, not enough higher tones, but great feeling of proper and modern soundstage representation. Whenever you turn on EQ when listening to music, be aware that it changes the soundstage representation, even completely flattering it in some cases. In general, you've stepped in some deep sh*, but I really wish you luck and good progress. After some years you'll be proud of yourself hearing, it all got better. Cheers

[@GEMGaming_yt]

@@---pp7tq Thank you for this feedback. It really sounds like you have a better grasp on this stuff than I do. But I’m learning! I will admit that this isn’t my best work. I did notice that some of the music, especially in the first half of the video, have some real issues with the low end. (And I also just realized while working on my current project, that I may have processed every single track here with the exciter turned up too high and didn’t notice.) I think some of the blame could go on the sheer scale of this video. I was willing to let some of the issues go since there were so many tracks to process. I’m taking greater care now to try and catch these issues and really listen for them. The source material could be a cause for concern as well. In the current project, I’m noticing some sounds I’ve never noticed before that really come through after processing and they don’t sound very good. However, they ARE present in the source material and it’s not my place to remove them. So I have to make decisions wether to leave them or purposefully not process that aspect as much. Although my process could be better, and it’a always getting better as I learn more, I do this out of love. :) Again, thanks for this very informative feedback. I’ll look into the items you mentioned. Cheers.

[@eddy3960]

01:49:28. The best!!

[@iLikeTheUDK]

Could you redo some of this with the PS1 version's music? it's CD quality

[@GEMGaming_yt]

The music here is from the PS2 version of the soundtrack.

[@kevinfelten9059]

RAYMAN 2 THE GREAT ESCAPE ALL EXTENDED V2 "5 2023) 😀😀

[@bog6106]

J Salad was here

[@ZombieGuyDevelopment]

2:23:48

[@_BorkBorkBork]

My right ear feels lonely. Why are all the louder instruments and sounds played through left headphone and all the quieter stuff on the right? It's very disorienting and I can't listen to it because of this. Listened to another track and now it's my left ear that feels lonely. Guess I can't listen to 360. It stays on one side for way way too long. Like the Psycho Spider track has all the bass on the left side only and the high pitched stuff also only on the left side with some occasional sounds on the right.

[@GEMGaming_yt]

I'm not entirely sure what you're hearing..... What you're describing sounds like it's an issue with your sound equipment. Not sure if you're listening with a phone or computer, wired headphones or bluetooth. Check your hardware and listen again. I just listed to Psycho Spider and it sounds pretty balanced to me. Lows and highs in both ears. Sometimes an instrument is on one side and not the other, but that's because the music is composed that way. But it all sounds great, not remotely is one ear "lonely". The 360 mentioned in the title really only means that the music is more stereo. And in that regard, I don't actually do anything to the audio to make it more in one ear than the other. The audio is already like that. I just make it more apparent.

[@_BorkBorkBork]

@@GEMGaming_yt "Sometimes an instrument is on one side and not the other, but that's because the music is composed that way." Yeah I guess that's it, it's just when said instrument is louder than the other instruments it's offputting to me, I guess it's a me problem. Also, do you think you could do the N64 "Vs Axel" theme? Personally it's my fav song.

[@Mr.Maravilla]

How do you did this?

[@aaronhernandez1894]

Download ost bro?

[@josedavidelinteligenteprac4296]

2:26:03

[@drifter402]

So you say they're remastered. What did you actually do?

[@stereoplayerdx2308]

69 views ? Damn, I missed the 64th

[@mrtesticlease4638]

NOOOOOOOOO WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE THIS VERSION OF THE SOUNDTRACK NOOOOOO N64 VERSION SLAPS SO MUCH HARDER :(

[@GEMGaming_yt]

This version and the N64 version are basically identical though...

[@mrtesticlease4638]

@@GEMGaming_yt the n64 version was more punchy while the other versions were not. (except the ds version which is pretty much just the n64 version but with a bit less reverb)

[@exmodule6323]

Is this the Dreamcast version? The N64 is the best

[@robfr5740]

Horrible audio quality. I'm sorry, but this is an insult to the composer's work. What's the deal with "Ultra High Quality 360 Vip full 4k 16000D Audio" ? It's not even what we can call a remaster anyway, that's just an edited version... If i was Chevalier, i'd be ashamed to know people are distorting my work this way.

[@josedavidelinteligenteprac4296]

2:22:16