Medieval Music Essentials

Music Collection Overview

Build immersive medieval soundscapes with Medieval Music Essentials, a curated collection of 60 instrumental tracks designed for Unreal Engine projects.

This versatile music library is organized into four thematic categories: Battle, Melodic, General Ambience, and Dark Mythic. Each track is crafted to enhance a wide range of gameplay contexts, from cinematic moments and exploration to intense combat and eerie rituals. Featuring authentic medieval instruments like lute, harp, wooden flute, hurdy-gurdy, psaltery, frame drums, and bowed strings, this collection offers both tonal variety and stylistic consistency.

Perfect for RPGs, survival games, or any fantasy world, these tracks provide a professional and immersive audio experience without the need for looping, ensuring seamless integration into your game.

Marketplace Community

Included Categories

⚔️ Battle (15 Tracks)

Intense, rhythmic, and martial tracks designed for combat, sieges, or confrontations.

Driving war drums, hurdy-gurdy, and horn textures
Ideal for boss battles, duels, raids, or large-scale warfare

🎵 Melodic (15 Tracks)

Light, sacred, or emotional compositions with expressive instrumentation.

Features harp, wooden flute, and psaltery
Suitable for dialogue scenes, royal courts, shrines, or peaceful zones

🏰 General Ambience (15 Tracks)

Everyday medieval atmospheres to enhance exploration and downtime.

Includes village music, market day themes, and quiet lute pieces
Ideal for towns, fields, inns, crafting menus, or travel screens

🌑 Dark & Mythic (15 Tracks)

Atmospheric and ritualistic tracks for cursed forests, ancient ruins, and shadowy encounters.

Ritual drums, ambient drones, bowed psaltery, and eerie flute work
Designed for night scenes, haunted woods, barrow mounds, or eldritch ruins

Installation

Option 1: Marketplace

Purchase the music collection from the Unreal Engine Marketplace .
Open the Epic Games Launcher and navigate to the Unreal Engine tab.
Click on the Library panel and find the Medieval Music Essentials collection.
Click the Install button to add it to your engine installation.
Launch your project and import the assets from the Content Browser.

Option 2: Manual Installation

Download the music collection package from the provided link after purchase.
Unzip the package to your project's Content folder (create one if it doesn't exist).
The final path should look like: YourProject/Content/MedievalMusicEssentials/
Launch your project and import the assets from the Content Browser.

Using the Music Collection

The Medieval Music Essentials collection provides 60 high-quality WAV files and 60 corresponding Sound Cues, ready to use in your Unreal Engine project.

Implementation Steps:

Import the music assets into your Unreal Engine project via the Content Browser.
Use the provided Sound Cues to play tracks in your levels, menus, or gameplay systems.
Assign tracks to specific scenes or triggers (e.g., combat, exploration, or cinematic sequences) using Blueprints or C++.
Customize playback with Unreal Engine’s audio components, such as attenuation or volume controls.

🧠 Best Practices

Use Sound Cues for dynamic audio control, such as fading or layering tracks.
Test audio in different game contexts to ensure tracks match the intended mood.
Consider using Unreal Engine’s Sound Mixes to adjust volume levels based on gameplay states.

Technical Details

Features

60 instrumental music tracks across four categories: Battle, Melodic, General Ambience, Dark Mythic
High-quality WAV files: 44.1 kHz, 16-bit, Stereo
60 pre-configured Sound Cues for easy integration in Unreal Engine
Non-looping tracks designed for cinematic and gameplay moments
Authentic medieval instruments: lute, harp, wooden flute, hurdy-gurdy, psaltery, frame drums, bowed strings
Suitable for all platforms, tested on macOS

Specifications

Format: WAV Stereo, 44.1 kHz, 16-bit
Number of Music Tracks: 60
Number of Audio Tracks: 0
Number of SFX: 0
Sound Cues: 60
Does Music Loop: No

Supported Platforms

All Platforms (Tested on macOS) ✅

Engine Compatibility

Compatible with Unreal Engine Versions:

5.6 ✅

5.5 ✅

5.4 ✅

5.3 ✅

5.2 ✅

5.1 ✅

5.0 ✅

4.27 ✅

Last Update: April 18, 2025

Distribution Method: Asset Pack