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The cave of time

by Saga Musix

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AlbumOriginalName: saga_musix_-_cave_of_time.it Imported: 2025-12-05 (TERN-dec2025-01).
Tracker TypeImpulsetracker
Duration03:58
Total plays42
Added2025-12-06 01:42:34
Track ID#15407
Integrity
MD5
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SHA-1
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SHA-256
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SHA-384
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  • 🕘 2026-10-02 22:15:20
  • 🕘 2026-09-22 02:43:40
  • 🕘 2026-09-14 10:23:08

About the artist Saga Musix  View all tracks ›

★★★★★ (3 votes)

Saga Musix creates electronic music which can be downloaded on sagamusix.de for free. The music is composed using the freeware tracker OpenMPT and is available in FLAC, Ogg Vorbis and module format.

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Additional data from ModArchive

Title on ModArchive The Cave Of Time
Credited on ModArchive Saga Musix
Module format IT
File size 7.11MB
Added to ModArchive Mon 28th Jul 2025
ModArchive rating 9 / 10

Sample & instrument names

SynthBass3
Millennium Files
Pygmalion NanoVerb Distor
WarmVoxPiano 060
Amby Plucked 060
RealGamlon 072
Arabesque 072
NanoVerb Chorus Feedback
04
08
12
13
14
28
38
43
44
Arabesque 072
PR-G-086-Stream Bell
L043_Cuica_Mute_1
Good & Bad
Reverse Cymbal
House 01_C0
JB_Downlift_10
JB_Uplift_06
Eternal
WarmVoxPiano 060
Linn LM2 mid tom
G56 Orch Hit
SynthBass3 030
SynthBass3 042
Millennium Files
Pygmalion NanoVerb Distor
WarmVoxPiano 060
Amby Plucked 060
RealGamlon 072
Arabesque 072
NanoVerb Chorus Feedback
04
08
12
13
14
28
38
43
44
Stream Bell 066
Stream Bell 072
Stream Bell 078
Stream Bell 084
Stream Bell 090
L043_Cuica_Mute_1
Good & Bad
CSHD2
House 01_C0
JB_Downlift_10
JB_Uplift_06
Eternal 072
Eternal 084
Linn LM2 mid tom
G56 Orch Hit

Comments on ModArchive

____________________________________________________________________
 |                                                                    |
 |  Saga Musix presents: Cave Of Time (4:03)                          |
 |____________________________________________________________________|

This is my entry for the streaming music compo at Nordlicht 2025, and it is
based on two One Hour Compo Tracks from 2020 and 2025. Both tracks used the
same sample pack, which may be the reason why both compo entires went in a
rather similar direction. This gave me the idea to merge them into a single
track, and it worked quite well.
Originally this was meant to be my tracked music entry, but in the end the
other track I was working on (Eating Your Heart) came out much stronger in
my opinion, so I decided to swap them around.

 -Saga Musix, 28th of July 2025

___________________________________________________________________________

Greetings fly out to all the fine people I met at Revision 2025, in
particular:
arvenius, bodo, darya, Devilock, Deyta, Drees, Gasman,   gregg,   Harekiet,
Harvey, havoc, henne, insane, jh0ker, juvi, kb, KeyJ, Kimmi, Krill,  Losso,
Luisa, Medo, messy, MissCtrl, mocoo, mop2, nodepond, OhLi, Oni,   PoroCYon,
RaccoonViolet, Ramses, RbR, Riku55, Roly, sentcool, SiR, skomp,   SunSpire,
superogue,  SvOlli,  teadrinker, titus,  TMA, Topy44, v3nom,  Virgill, _Ook
and everyone I forgot!

___________________________________________________________________________

This work is (c) 2025 by Saga Musix and is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Track information:
- Based on a #modulez One Hour Compo entry from 2020-04-19 (ranked 2nd) and
  from 2025-03-30 (ranked 2nd).
- Finished for the Nordlicht 2025 streaming music compo on the 25th of July
  (ranked 3rd)
- Module version released on the 28th of July 2025

Please use OpenMPT 1.32+ to play this track.

___________________________________________________________________________

You can contact me via e-mail at info_sagamusix.de.
If you want to chat with me...
- Jabber: sagamusix_s3m.it
- Libera.Chat: #openmpt (Nick = Saga_Musix)
- EsperNet: #modarchive, #modplug, #mod_shrine, #modulez
  (Nick = Saga_Musix or Saga)
- IRCNet: #deadline, #demozoo, #evoke, #revision, #nordlicht
  (Nick = Saga_Musix)

Feel free to visit my websites as well:
- https://sagamusix.de/ - Here you can download all my music, free
  samples and other stuff. (German and English)
- https://sagagames.de/ - Website featuring my (mostly German-only) free
  games and applications and other stuff.
- https://openmpt.org/ - Home of Open ModPlug Tracker :)

___________________________________________________________________________

Sample credits:

The sample sources are indicated in the filename of each sample slot.
- X5DR: From my Korg X5DR
- Triton: From my Korg Triton-Rack
- XV-5080: From my Roland XV-5080
- NanoVerb: Created using a feedback loop with an Alesis Nanoverb 2 to
  produce interesting artefacts...
- kb6: From the kb6 drum samples collection
- M1: Sampled from Korg M1 VSTi
- Kick2: Sampled from the Kick2 VSTi
- JayB: From JayB's trance sample collection
- AN1x: From my Yamaha AN1x

Take care!

Data from modarchive.org, last checked 2026-08-25 17:07:50.

Mp3 file details

Waveform of The cave of time by Saga Musix, left channel above, right channel below: level in dB against time, 4:03 long. Open the waveform at full size (opens in a new tab)
Waveform A picture of the whole recording from start to end. The taller the shape, the louder that moment; the left channel is on top and the right channel below it. The scale up the side is the level in dB, the one along the bottom is the time. Select the picture to open it at full size.
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4:03
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−16.1 LUFS
typical for streaming and podcasts
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4.5 LU
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DR 10
9.8 dB · moderately dynamic
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average (RMS) over the whole file
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0.32 dB
balanced
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−6.5 dB
ordinary stereo
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OriginalName: saga_musix_-_cave_of_time.it Imported: 2025-12-05 (TERN-dec2025-01).
title The name of the recording, as it is written inside the file.
The Cave Of Time
date The year, or date, the file says the recording is from.
2025-07-28T22:15:36Z
comment A free note somebody left inside the file.
____________________________________________________________________ | | | Saga Musix presents: Cave Of Time (4:03) | |____________________________________________________________________| This is my entry for the streaming music compo at Nordlicht 2025, and it is based on two One Hour Compo Tracks from 2020 and 2025. Both tracks used the same sample pack, which may be the reason why both compo entir [...]
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'it' tracked music file, made with 'OpenMPT 1.32.03.00', rendered with 'openmpt123 0.6.6 (libopenmpt 0.6.6+r17953, OpenMPT 1.30.07.00 https://source.openmpt.org/svn/openmpt/tags/libopenmpt-0.6.6@17953 (2022-09-25T14:18:16Z) clean)'
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Trackerartist
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Lavf62.19.101

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