Make EQ's music (MIDI) sound Significantly Better.

[Vormotus]

as an FYI under Linux Qsynth, a frontend for fluidsynth works flawlessly.

I can hear Cobalt Scar , Qeynos, KFC and other specific midi music for areas perfectly.

I use the AWE 32 soundfont and with Qsynth you can literally add any kind of effect to the music to enhance it.

I highly recommend it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[AbstractVision]

Same issue here, I installed it, and it worked the first time I loaded up P99 after install. Then it quit working, and I just noticed I no longer have any music at all in game. No combat music, city music, nothing...

[Knuckle]

Sorry not sorry to bump this thread. Any configuration tweaks recommended for the basic omnimidi approach? I just dumped in maestrobobs soundfont to omnimidi and set omnimidi each restart.

1.) Anyone found some good configuration tweaks to get more out of omnimidi, such as any settings to instruments, etc.?

2.) Anyone found something they believe to be vastly superior with no downsides? I'm quite happy with it but still get annoyed by sour notes from time to time.

[Eloora]

I also have followed the last few pages of this thread and grabbed Maestrobob's soundfont file, loaded it into OmniMidi etc. I couldn't really tell if the underwater music is supposed to be fixed/play with this file or not - is it?

[Maestrobob]

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

I couldn't really tell if the underwater music is supposed to be fixed/play with this file or not - is it?

Unlike zone music, which is triggered by the zone emitter files, the triggers to play the underwater music, sneak music, bard instruments, and cycling through the 3 combat songs from the global XMI were broken a long time ago. When the PoP client came out and introduced a MP3 soundtrack, the existing MIDI playback engine was butchered in the process and was never fixed.

There's currently no way to get those songs working in the Titanium client. The soundfont I created serves only to make what songs do work sound like they originally did on AWE32/64 hardware back in the day. Even then, there are still major problems with Titanium's MIDI playback that a soundfont can't circumvent.

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

2.) Anyone found something they believe to be vastly superior with no downsides? I'm quite happy with it but still get annoyed by sour notes from time to time.

Unfortunately, the only way to avoid out of tune notes is to work around Titanium's MIDI engine entirely by going the route of changing the .emt files to use MP3's instead.

[Eloora]

Thanks for the reply, Maestrobob! Shame about those midi files being borked beyond reasonable repair [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. I listened to a sample of the sneak music (I'd never heard it before) and loved it - so mischievous!

[Eloora]

Is there a way to replace the main EQ theme music with a silent file? I enjoy having the periodic zone music enabled but the theme that plays on repeat when sitting at character select has worn on me, and prevents me from being able to just camp out and walk away from my PC if I need to.

[Deathrydar]

Does anyone have a fix for the midis now? The link no longer works in the original post.

[IzHaN80]

Just download this program instead, is more modern and lets you change MIDI in real-time:

https://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth

For the soundfonts use this link https://archive.org/download/soundfonts_201910:

I highly recommend the ChoriumRevA.sf2 and if you feel nostalgic and wanna listen to the game just as you would have done back in 1999 with an Soundblaster AWE 32/64 download the AWEROMGM.sf2

A lot of nice sf2 out there, but i vote for those 2 as the best from that list.

[f4k3n4m3]

Actually 1mgm, synthus2 and synthus were the best combination on Qsynth on linux. Synthusr-samplefix might combine them, but it does not sound the same.