Lost_Hawk

Lost_Hawk

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Hi everyone,

My name is Ulli (Lost_Hawk), I'm 45 years old and I'm writing to you from Germany. I’ve been a huge fan of the Wing Commander universe for a long time. Aside from the “Privateer” games, I've played and loved all the “Wing Commander” games, so that recently, I decided to start a personal passion project.

I am a hobbyist/amateur composer who creates music on the PC, working within the limits of my home setup in my free time. For this project, my goal was to take the freely available original MIDI files from Wing Commander 1 and rearrange them.
I tried to stay as true to the original soundtrack as possible while giving it a modern, rich orchestral sound with a little room of personal interpretation.

I have just finished the first two videos, combining the rearranged audio with the corresponding in-game scenes:

Part 1: Fanfare & Intro Cinematic

Part 2: On Board Business

Part 3: The First Mission Attempt

Part 4: First Mission

Note: The videos are currently set to "Unlisted" on YouTube as I wanted to share them with this amazing community first.

Since I do this purely as a hobby, I just wanted to share this with you all for some pure nostalgia and to celebrate the classic atmosphere of the Tiger's Claw. As the project progresses, I am also planning to make the individual end extended audio tracks available as free music downloads for everyone.

Looking forward to chatting with you all.

Best regards,
Ulli

EDIT: Aug. 11, 2026
As promised, releases so far.
Wing Commander 1 Soundtrack (rearranged)

Feel free to download 😆

EDIT: Sept. 22, 2026

Wing Commander 1 tracks:
Origin Fanfare
Main Theme
Simulator
Bar Music
Barracks
Mission Briefing
Scramble
Mission Flight 1
Mission Flight 2
Mission Flight 3
Mission Flight 4
Enemy Closing in
Situations
Winning / Loosing
Mission Failure / Success
Landing
Ship Status
Debriefing
Commander's Office
Award Ceremony
Funeral
Combat 1
Combat 2 + Variation
 
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Wow. Thanks for your kind words.
As soon as I make more progress on the project, I'll post links to the individual songs here in this post.
 
These are really good. I can hear your changes beyond instrumentation, and they are interesting changes.

When I first played Wing Commander I, the barracks music sometimes made me pause and wonder if I was going to make it back from the next mission. (It took me a while to "get good," so back then I often didn't.) The plaintive tone of the instruments you have chosen there ("On Board Business," about 2:31) really bring back that feeling.

It does make the transition into the briefing music a bit jarring. The game did sound like that, but it had to start the briefing music what the play clicked on the briefing. Do you plan to add any transitions between the pieces, or will that make it too hard to synchronise with video of playing the game?

Do you have a plan for how to work with the spaceflight sequences and all the short musical clips those use?
 
Sure thing. Right now, the transitions are tailored to the gameplay scenes and, as you correctly noted, are very abrupt.

I haven’t planned any proper transitions between songs yet, but I think it’s an exciting idea.

At the moment, I’m in the process of arranging and rewriting the individual short music pieces for the space battles from the MIDI files.
I can’t transfer a lot of the notation from the MIDI files one-to-one; instead, it has to be edited and, if necessary, rewritten for different instrument groups.
My plan is to play through one or two missions and add musical accompaniment so that I can incorporate all the tracks from the original soundtrack. Playing through the entire game would be awesome but is beyond the scope of this project, i think.

Finally, I’d love to post all the finished songs and the extended versions, such as the song from the barracks, which is actually waaaay longer.

However, I’ll be happy to keep you updated here and post more videos as they’re ready :-)

Best regards
 
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These are awesome. I'm not 100% sure about the (extra?) syncopation in the bar music, but the orchestration is great, and some (barracks) are how I always imagine the music.
 
Hi everyone,

Just wanted to drop a quick sign of life. I am currently busy rearranging all 41 MIDI tracks from the original Wing Commander 1 soundtrack. Unfortunately, this takes some time, which is why I'm giving you this quick status report: I have finished almost all of them and am currently integrating into a few game scenes. After that, I will put the remaining tracks online so that everyone can download them.

Until then, i added a link to all my releases so far in the initial post or below:
Wing Commander 1 Soundtrack (rearranged)

Best regards,
Ulli
 
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Lost_Hawk said:
Hi everyone,

My name is Ulli (Lost_Hawk), I'm 45 years old and I'm writing to you from Germany. I’ve been a huge fan of the Wing Commander universe for a long time. Aside from the “Privateer” games, I've played and loved all the “Wing Commander” games, so that recently, I decided to start a personal passion project.

I am a hobbyist/amateur composer who creates music on the PC, working within the limits of my home setup in my free time. For this project, my goal was to take the freely available original MIDI files from Wing Commander 1 and rearrange them.
I tried to stay as true to the original soundtrack as possible while giving it a modern, rich orchestral sound with a little room of personal interpretation.

I have just finished the first two videos, combining the rearranged audio with the corresponding in-game scenes:

Part 1: Fanfare & Intro Cinematic

Part 2: On Board Business

Part 3: The First Mission Attempt

Part 4: First Mission

Note: The videos are currently set to "Unlisted" on YouTube as I wanted to share them with this amazing community first.

Since I do this purely as a hobby, I just wanted to share this with you all for some pure nostalgia and to celebrate the classic atmosphere of the Tiger's Claw. As the project progresses, I am also planning to make the individual end extended audio tracks available as free music downloads for everyone.

Looking forward to chatting with you all.

Best regards,
Ulli

EDIT: Aug. 11 , 2026
As promised, releases so far.
Wing Commander 1 Soundtrack (rearranged)

Feel free to download 😆
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ohhhh I'm looking forward to the end of my workday, then I'll listen to music *grin* and greetings back within Germany, komme auch von da Ulli. Mein Name ist Matthias ;)
 
Well, I finally had some time again to make another video.

However, I think this will be the last one about Wing Commander 1.

Here it is:
Part 5: 2nd Mission

Finally, to make it easier for you to find them, I've put together a list of all the tracks here.

Wing Commander 1 tracks:
Origin Fanfare
Main Theme
Simulator
Bar Music
Barracks
Mission Briefing
Scramble
Mission Flight 1
Mission Flight 2
Mission Flight 3
Mission Flight 4
Enemy Closing in
Situations
Winning / Loosing
Mission Failure / Success
Landing
Ship Status
Debriefing
Commander's Office
Award Ceremony
Funeral
Combat 1
Combat 2 + Variation

Feel free to download and share them.

I'm also setting all the videos from “unlisted” to “public.”
I hope you have just as much fun listening to it as I did making it. :-)

Best regards
(und viele liebe Grüße 😆)

PS: And as a big thank you for your kind words an additional track that i made several years ago
Wing Commander 3 - Strike
 
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