Having already sold over 10 million copies in previous critically acclaimed outings,
Rayman has a heritage to be proud of. Rayman M proves he's going from strength to strength.

After "Cosmic Family" and "Pod2" i had the chance to compose and play
the music score for Ubisoft "Rayman M", the follow up of Rayman 2. It's
a completely new and innovative multiplayer version that will be
released November 2001 primarly for the Sony PS2. Those of you
interested in composing for video games will soon find the intro on-line
on my pages and a lot of infos and tips concerning the "making-off". It
was a good opportinity for me to use all my toys and an opportunity to
mix live playing and computer based sequencing, low tech and high tech,
hardware and software. The soundtrack features various styles, World,
Pop as well as Rock and Techno and it was fun to do.


CRITICS :

GAMESDOMAIN (uk 2002)
coupling the feast of the eyes is a soundtrack that
is reminiscent of some of the extravagant delights heard in
Squaresoft's legendary Chrono Trigger on the SNES.
there are one or two tunes in Rayman M which
sound like they could have been loosely related, such is their quality.

FUTUREGAMEZ
superb graphics, wonderful orchestral music and, most importantly, totally
addicitve and enjoyable gameplay combined to make it the best platform game on any system in year.
It's a true "must have" game on the Playstation 2.

VIDEOGAMEREVIEW
Rayman has the sweetest sound and plays some sad, cool, funky, groovy, hip, kind, sweet, happy music.
Always the levels fit to their music, and the sounds perfectly match to Rayman's moves.

PLAY Magazine :
"Rayman Arena is impossible to put down, especially multiplayer"

Nintendo Power :
"UbiSoft's limbless hero will soon strong-arm the competition..."

BPM Magazine :
"Move over Mario : Rayman is hitting the arena!"

GameSpy.com :
"The pumping techno soundtrack seems designed to further increase the adrenaline level,
and occasionally resembles "Garbage" -- the band ...".

Sound Credits :
Project management : Arnaud Carette, Riccardo Lenzi
Lead sound designers : Gregoire Spillmann, Davide Pensato
Sound designers : Nicolas Vermot, Gianni Ricciardi
Sound producer : Sylvain Brunet
Creative manager : Manu Bachet
Sound Fx : Talkover
Voices director : Eddie Crew
Sound production organisation : Marine Lelievre
Music composed, arranged and performed by Claude Samard
Additional arrangements ; B.H. Levitte
Mixed by : Martin Dutasta

Equipment used for the original soundtrack of "Pod2 On-line"

Synths Korg Electribe EA-1 Korg Electribe ES-1 Korg Electribe ER-1 Korg Kaoss Pad Rave-O-Lution 309 Juno 106 Prophet 600 Access Virus Roland GrooveBox MC-505 MiniMoog Dx7II E-MU sampler E4-XT SampleCell Akai S1000 Guitars Paul Reed Smith Silvertone 2 lipsticks P/U Fender Telecaster Amps and Pedals Pod Pro rack Marshall Boss GP8 Vox Cry baby Electro Harmonix Micro synth Electro Harmonix Small Stone Electro Harmonix Big Muff Software Digital Performer ReCycle ReBirth Sample CD's for Fx Distorted reality Diffusion of useful noise Recording System Mac 9500 + updgraded G3 Motu 2408 MTP AV Mackie 32-8 Joe Meek VC1 pre amp

POD 2 ON-LINE Real Audio "with the permission of Ubisoft entertainment"

CD ROM & DVD COSMIC FAMILY
(interactive cartoon)

Additional tracks CD ROM GUITAR HITS #1 CD ROM GUITAR HITS #2 SONGS BY LENNON & Mac CARTNEY CD ROM GUITAR HITS #3 CD ROM PIANO HITS		© Ubisoft Entertainment Real Video

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Credits :
Game producer : Valerie Beaufils-Radellet
Sound producer : Sylvain Brunet
Music composed, arranged and performed by : Claude Samard
Sound FX : Big Wheels