The MIDIs

Deathrydar · #1 09-30-2019, 09:27 AM

I just found a new Original EQ soundtrack released by Daybreak games and THIS is how I remember them sounding. What is it that makes it so we cannot get them to sound like this in game?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-9-...uexPSBJ-ZVExvM

Mblake81 · #2 09-30-2019, 09:38 AM

Memory isn't slipping, they didn't sound that way. We are talking about 1999 era MIDI music. What makes it so? those are a cleaned up version, perhaps some form of remaster.

Desert of Ro for sure has been altered.

Faydwers Dusk, remastered version Vs. Kelethin Remastered on Roland SD-50

Vormotus · #3 10-01-2019, 05:41 PM

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Kelethin Remastered on Roland SD-50

Hearing that Roland version makes me ... want to cry ? a deep seated emotion of loss and grief wow.

For real [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Izmael · #4 09-30-2019, 09:42 AM

They sounded a lot "worse" back then. We mostly had Soundblaster sound cards then, with some lucky ones having something like a Gravis (I was one! Still have it and keep it religiously).

None of those cards provided anywhere near the MIDI quality heard on the Youtube tracks you posted.

Nice find, regardless!

Deathrydar · #5 09-30-2019, 09:44 AM

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They sounded a lot "worse" back then. We mostly had Soundblaster sound cards then, with some lucky ones having something like a Gravis (I was one! Still have it and keep it religiously).

None of those cards provided anywhere near the MIDI quality heard on the Youtube tracks you posted.

Nice find, regardless!

Okay, so its the fact that things have become so much more "advanced" as the reason why we cannot hear them in game they way we should be?

Izmael · #6 09-30-2019, 09:51 AM

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Okay, so its the fact that things have become so much more "advanced" as the reason why we cannot hear them in game they way we should be?

That, I have no idea.

I don't think I ever had music turned on while playing P99 at all.

Deathrydar · #7 09-30-2019, 10:00 AM

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That, I have no idea.

I don't think I ever had music turned on while playing P99 at all.

How dare you!....

Vormotus · #8 10-01-2019, 05:49 PM

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That, I have no idea.

I don't think I ever had music turned on while playing P99 at all.

I am the kind of guy that dedicated a Qsynth session on my Lubuntu Installation just to be able to hear the banking/trading MIDIs using a classical soundfont ... P99 comes alive with music!

But then again I know the sound debate is a complex one, some people prefer a quiet game play but for me without sound P99 or EQ at all is not eq.[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Deathrydar · #9 10-01-2019, 05:56 PM

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without sound P99 or EQ at all is not eq.[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

^^

Mblake81 · #10 09-30-2019, 09:53 AM

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Okay, so its the fact that things have become so much more "advanced" as the reason why we cannot hear them in game they way we should be?

Could be many factors to consider. Period hardware/software is one of them.