K.A.V.A. – Tales of a Morphling

The whole soundtrack is arranged in the FL Studio playlist. Each colored block is a pattern, and the track grows layer by layer: dream bell, swell, grand piano and FM flute come in one after another, so the music builds up slowly instead of starting at full power.

The track opens with a quiet piano. In the piano roll you can see the first notes: a few long, calm chords in the low range and single high notes on top. I kept it sparse on purpose, so the piece starts gently and leaves room for the other instruments.

All sounds were adjusted by me. Reverb gives every instrument space, and the Parametric EQ shapes its frequencies, so nothing covers anything else. The screenshot shows the Fruity Parametric EQ 2 and the Fruity Reverb 2 next to the mixer, where every instrument has its own channel.

For the mastering I used Maximus on the master channel, starting with the Clear Master preset and adjusting it myself to get the best possible sound. A Parametric EQ 2 on the master cuts everything below 20 Hz and above 18 kHz.

After finishing the sounds in FL Studio, I imported them into Unreal Engine and sorted them into one SFX folder. Events in the game trigger each sound at the right moment.

The state machine of the alien switches between three states: idle/walking, jumping and falling. Transitions fire when the character’s movement changes, so the right animation always plays.

The event graph runs every frame. It reads the speed of the character and whether it is jumping or falling, and passes these values to the state machine.

The cat uses the same setup in its own animation blueprint, so both characters react to movement in the same way.