A discussion on restoring EQ's music once and for all

[Adramelk]

Originally Posted by binibren [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There may be an easier solution. If you can find someone with old hardware and an AWE32 -- I just tossed mine about 6 months ago [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] -- you can run all of the midis through winamp and output them to mp3 files. You can then replace the sound files in Titanium. It's been a while since I've messed around with the Titanium client but I *think* it supports both mp3 and midi.

For those who were not so lucky as to have played EQ with an AWE32 here is what Kelethin sounded like with that magical sound card:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atHxsHPt7Fc

Here is Kelethin with "normal" sound card:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO4_8A9Uiwg

It's worth noting that while I agree with everything in this thread and would LOVE to hear the old epic EQ music the way it was originally intended, that I'm unsure these are actually the same midi file -- if you'll notice, at the very least they are in different keys (listen carefully!).

(If they are, and the different midi interpretation also changes the key, my apologies. Still, GOD does the first one ever sound wonderful.)

[Simplistik]

I'm not too keen on what your looking for but I have an old P2 system that has an old Sound blaster in it ,model ct4170 isa slot system still works too!
Could this be used to convert over the old midi's into mp3's?

[km2783]

Originally Posted by Adramelk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's worth noting that while I agree with everything in this thread and would LOVE to hear the old epic EQ music the way it was originally intended, that I'm unsure these are actually the same midi file -- if you'll notice, at the very least they are in different keys (listen carefully!).

(If they are, and the different midi interpretation also changes the key, my apologies. Still, GOD does the first one ever sound wonderful.)

I stated earlier that they are actually kelethin.mid and kelethinfull.mid respectively. So yes, two different songs. They're indeed in different keys, though [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Also, a little OT but a little on-topic, too:

http://midisheetmusic.sourceforge.net/

You can open MIDI files with it to look at the sheet music for the sheet musically inclined [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Ceridain]

Just read through this whole thread and really excited! Would love to have the old midis singing through my headphones again, so good luck on the conversion. They were part of what made EQ so magical back in the day. Tons of fantastic whimsical tunes, no doubt.

Anyone remember the ducking/Qeynos catacombs music? My fav [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[hyzon]

This thread has me super excited. I'm just hoping it happens instead of reaches an un crossable roadblock.

[ShadowWulf]

SB16, AWE32, gravis something or others (3 of them, ISA cards!) all sitting in my box of doom. Im pretty sure they all work, or at least they DDI when i scrapped them as mementos. Might be fun to try and get a SB16 to work on a modern PC eh? I play alot of other classic games that might benefit (Ultima series being tops, and Magic Carpet/Dungeon Keeper)

[hyzon]

I think this translates to "Get to work ShadowWulf!". <3

[doacleric]

If the EQ client doesn't detect a soundblaster AWE or Live! Card, it will default to the software driven directx DLS soundfont, which sounds no where as good. Trying to do this with anything but one of those two cards would be pointless.

[ShadowWulf]

http://www.google.com/products?hl=en...ed=0CDEQrQQwAg

You can pickup SB Live! now for around $5 if you look a bit.

[rikustrength]

Again, I would like some clarity on the situation (and in game if that's possible, but we'll talk about that later).

Is the current goal to find a way to accurately play the old midis in their HQ version, and record it as new easily playable mp3's? And if that is the goal, how then will our current client read them if the current files in place are all .xmi? Won't it not read a like-named file if it's extension is different?

On that note, would the SB Live! previously mentioned do the trick? Or is that something that's most likely going to only work on older computers... Just looking for an answer, I wouldn't mind shelling out a few dollars for those rad tunes.